激发学习动机是提高思想政治课素质教育水平的保证和关键。激发学习动机最重要的是培养学生的学习兴趣,以强化求知欲。同时,激发学习动机是促进学生个性全面和谐发展的根本保证。心理学家认为,兴趣是认识某种事物或爱好某种活动的倾向,这种倾向可以使人们积极地认识事物。很多教育家都认为:教学效果取决于学习兴趣。兴趣是动机的最主要的心理成分,它是推动学生去探求知识的内在动力的重要方面。思想政治课教学,由于其教材本身较抽象乏味(现在的教材较以前好些)及学 Motivating learning motivation is the key to improving the quality of ideological and political education. The most important thing to motivate learning motivation is to cultivate students’ interest in learning in order to strengthen curiosity. At the same time, stimulating learning motivation is the fundamental guarantee for promoting students’ overall and harmonious development. Psychologists believe that interest is a tendency to know something or to like something. This tendency can make people actively understand things. Many educators believe that teaching effectiveness depends on interest in learning. Interest is the most important psychological component of motivation. It is an important aspect of the internal motivation for students to explore knowledge. The teaching of ideological and political classes is relatively boring because the teaching materials themselves are relatively boring (currently better than before) and learning