| Summary: | The purpose of this study is to examine teachers experiences of student’s motivation in dance at Upper Secondary School. Furthermore, the study aims to visualize how teachers feel that they can promote student’s motivation. An additional goal is to create interest and discussions among dance teachers in general about how teachers can promote student ́s motivation. The research questions are: “How do teachers experience that student’s motivation is affected in dance education?” and “What strategies do teachers feel that they can use to promote student ́s motivation in dance?”. The theoretical frameworks of the study are sociocultural perspective on learning, goal theory, McClellands theory about needs and self-determination theory with its understanding of internal and external motivation. The method of the study is to conduct semi-structured interviews and then analyze the material with a qualitative method. The result shows that teachers experience that student’s motivation is affected by goals, experience of dancing and development, social environment, student ́s health and assessment. The study also resulted in strategies which teachers use to promote student’s motivation in dance. Teachers can establish goals together with their students, give students opportunities to make decisions on their own, acknowledge student’s emotions, give feedback, adjust movements according to student’s knowledge and adjust the lessons dramaturgy.
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