The aim is to contribute to knowledge about teachers´work with motivation in mathematics teaching in compulsory schools for pupils with intellectual disabilities. This essay investigates what strategies teachers use and how teachers plan and teach to motivate their pupils. Furthermore the authors investigates what factors in education teachers find promote, respectively complicate the students´ ability to find motivation in the subject mathematics. The theoretical foundation consists of Bruner´s motivation theory. In the essay the authors consider the external motivation and the inner motivation from Bruner, to see what motivates the pupils mostly. The external motivation is created from grades and teachers´ credit. The inner motivation is created from curiosity, competence and reciprocity, according to Bruner´s theory. The reason why the essay uses Bruner´s motivation theory is because he has mathematic as example in his studies about motivation in education and several other essays and books refer to his theories (Alexandersson, 2009; Hein, 2012). The starting point of this essay is a qualitative study which contains interviews with ten teachers from eight different municipalities in the middle region of Sweden. The research articles this study is based upon show that teachers motivate pupils by using a variety of methods, differentiated teaching, uses concrete material and graphic organizers. In summary, the result indicates that teachers motivate pupils with a variety of methods and they differentiat the teaching for each pupil, they use concrete material and graphic organizers. In order to motivate the pupils in the subject of mathematics, it is of great importance to maintain good relations, starting by looking at their pupils´ different areas of interest and their own experiences. It is also important to divide the math lesson into smaller parts, so the pupils know what is going to happen and for how long they should work in order to keep up their motivation. The result of this essay indicates that teachers describe that their work in motivating pupils in mathematic teaching, is being sensitivity to the group, but also to the individual. Al of the teachers describe how they always reprioritize and alter their lesson planning in order to preserve and keep their pupils´ motivation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-81103 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Lantto, Tomas, Löfquist, Lena |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier (from 2013) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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