Bildämnet kräver en talang som jag inte har: En undersökning av elevers motivation till bildämnet

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to get insight into the factors that students consider to be important for their motivation to learn in the art subject. In the Swedish curriculum, Lgr11 it emerges that the school should encourage all students' development and a lifelong desire to learn. The questions that the essay intends to answer are if students in Swedish high school grade 9 experience that external factors affect their motivation to learn in the subject, and what they think encourages their desire to learn in the subject. The empirical study consists of a questionnaire survey, where 87 students in grade 9 have answered questions about motivation. The study has a social cognitive basis.

The results show that interesting tasks with a reasonable degree of difficulty, that have clear goals encourage students' motivation. The majority of the students thought it was important to feel satisfied with the tasks and were affected by the feedback they received on their tasks performed. What emerges from the results of the study is well connected to social cognitive theory, which indicates that an interaction between environment, behavior and cognitive and personal factors is what creates motivation.