"Men vad innebär det i praktiken då?" : En fenomenografisk studie om musiklärares erfarande av elevers inflytande och motivation på högstadiet

Sammanfattning: ”But what does it mean in practice?” is a phenomenographic study that aims to examine how music teachers experience inclusion of pupil influence in their teaching and if there is a connection between pupil influence and motivation. The study leans on previous research that has been done in both pupil influence and motivation. The method in this study consists of five semi-structured interviews with active music teachers in different high schools. The results show that most of the music teachers in question use the curriculum as an assurance to include the proper elements to each semester’s work areas. The interviewed teachers’ teams work actively on including pupil influence in their respective schools, but some of them express a desire to talk more about pupil influence and how it may be executed in practice. There are times when the music teachers choose to decrease the pupils’ influence depending on their age. The results additionally show that lack of time is an influential factor for whether music teachers choose to include pupil influence in their teaching or not. Furthermore all of the music teachers agree that there is a connection between pupil influence and keeping the lesson material up to date. This is due to the music teachers seeing a rise of the pupils’ motivation when given influence to choose songs and music genres for the music lessons.