Attitudes, beliefs, motivation and identity in mathematics education: an overview of the field and future directions

This book records the state of the art in research on mathematics-related affect.

It discusses the concepts and theories of mathematics-related affect along the lines of three dimensions.

The first dimension identifies three broad categories of affect: motivation, emotions, and beliefs.

The book contains one chapter on motivation, including discussions on how emotions and beliefs relate to motivation.

There are two chapters that focus on beliefs and a chapter on attitude which cross-cuts through all these categories.

The second dimension covers a rapidly fluctuating state to a more stable trait.

All chapters in the book focus on trait-type affect and the chapter on motivation discusses both these dimensions.

The third dimension regards the three main levels of theorizing: physiological (embodied), psychological (individual) and social.

All chapters reflect that mathematics-related affect has mainly been studied using psychological theories.