The motivation for learning in adulthood

Professor, Ph.D., Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Bucharest, holder of Educational Psychology and Psychology learning courses (undergraduate) and psychology career - master level) and promoter of new subjects / courses at different universities master study programs (Advanced educational Psychology, crisis management in the school environment, psychological interventions in crisis situations in schools, and positive Psychology applied to education, health and safety in the school / educational psychology learning - implications for educational and vocational).

Valerie Negovan scientific activity is focused on topics such as academic learning (strategies and style of learning, autonomy and self-regulation), the well (well being) in relation to self-determination in academia; antecedents and consequences of autonomy and self-determination in mental functioning optimal plan children, teenagers and young people.

As a psychologist with a free practice, mainly autonomously with supervision as a professional specialty "educational psychology, school and vocational counseling", accredited by the College of Psychologists of Romania, conducts intervention practices that ensure the empirical and field application scientific research and theoretical synthesis.