Na protyazhenii neskol"kikh let problema razvitiya uchebnoy motivatsii u mladshikh shkol"nikov yavlyaetsya predmetom issledovaniya mnogikh pedagogov, psikhologov. Uchebnaya motivatsiya yavlyaetsya vazhneyshim usloviem dlya ucheniya uchashchikhsya, tak kak okazyvaet vliyanie na produktivnost" uchebnogo protsessa i opredelyaet uspeshnost" uchebnoy deyatel"nosti. V protsesse uchebnoy deyatel"nosti u detey formiruetsya opredelennoe otnoshenie k uchebnomu predmetu i osoznaetsya ego tsennostnaya znachimost" dlya lichnostnogo razvitiya, a takzhe cherez motivatsiyu pedagogicheskie tseli bystree prevrashchayutsya v psikhologicheskie tseli obuchaemykh. Otsutstvie motivov ucheniya neizbezhno privodit k snizheniyu uspevaemosti, degradatsii lichnosti, v konechnom schete, v podrostkovom vozraste privodit k pravonarusheniyam.