”Om man inte själv vill det då är det ju ingen mening med det alls.” : En studie över vem och vad som styr diskursen om motivation hos gymnasieelever.

The aim of this study is to get to know pupils’ views on motivation, intrinsic motivation , and who owns the right to speak with authority in the motivation discourse . Based on interviews of five upper secondary school pupils and three texts from the Swedish National Agency for Education based on research I have made an approach to discourse analysis . The interviews show that these pupils think of intrinsic motivation as something essential for being a student. Through the analysis I have received a view of how pupils are struggling to keep their intrinsic motivation to live up to the image of a good student, and to cope whith the schools and teatchers structure of time. The motivation of these pupils depends on how schools and teachers are organizing time, test outlays and group divisions. The pupils' understanding of what motivates matches relatively well with texts from the Swedish National Agency for Education, but in terms of who owns the right to speak with authority on the subject, it turns out to be the Swedish National Agency for Education, the researchers and authors who exercise power over discourse