Succeeding in school: the effects of conative dimensions in education.

Summary Education is a key issue for the future of a country and schools are often seen as reproducing or reinforcing social inequalities. Conation covers several domains such as motivation, self-esteem as well as planning and decision making. School is a privileged place for the study of the relations between conation and cognition and of the interactions between psychosocial and conative variables, in the context of complex behaviors such as learning. The objective is thus to allow the school institution to better consider the functioning of the subject: to act on the conative to make the cognitive more efficient and, why not, to integrate the notion of well-being in the educational concerns of the school.