What parameters in the classroom education motivate our pupils to engage their brains to study is the topic we are dealing with in this work. The aim is also to address the follow-up question that once we know what parameters the pupils desire, what can we as teachers do for, to the best of our ability, provide an environment in which this parameter can be found. The groups we have investigated are almost 100 pupils at two different Swedish gymnasiekolor (age groups 16-18 years). Our methodology has been to analyze relevant literature and research findings and then combining our findings with the results from our inquiry to our pupils to draw our conclusions.The results from our inquiry shows an overwhelming desire for “an interesting subject or a fun subject” as reasons for the pupils to feel motivated to engage their brains to study. With reasoning derived from our literature studies we conclude this work with proposing that if the pupils can be made to understand why a certain area is important to study it can make the subject interesting and fun which is resulting in a higher degree of motivation. Also if we as teachers could use the grades to motivate certain knowledge and again, why this is important rather than passing judgement we believe too that this would serve as a means to increase the level of motivation felt by the pupils.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-30496 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Nilsson, Caroline, Richeberg, Ulf |
| Publisher | Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), Malmö högskola/Lärande och samhälle |
| 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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