Understanding Low Motivation of Tribal Students in Learning Context:Scope of Cultural-Historical Approach in Psychology

Taking the academic problems of tribal students in India as a case, this review paper attempts to critically evaluate the scope of existing theories of motivation to understand cross-cultural learning context and to join with the new approaches that are developing from the cultural-historical tradition in psychology. Initially, this paper discusses the motivational problems of tribal students as they engage in learning processes and then proceeds to enquire the scope of cultural-historical approach to motivation, and finally it engages these problems from the point of view of the proposed approach.