Social and Cultural Factors and Their Influences on Engagement in the Classroom

Both social and cultural factorsCultural factors can have an enormous impact on students’ engagementStudents’ engagement and learning, and, subsequently, their performance and academic achievement. Numerous social factors affect the nature and the context of students’ engagement and learning. They include such factors as students’ cognitive, social, affective, and psychomotor developments, their age, gender, demographic factors, the learning environment and their relationships with their peers and teachers.