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Motivation is a relevant phenomenon in schoolwork because it affects learning and academic decisions in future. Motivation in schoolwork refers to the level of energy a pupil attaches into schooling and to the willingness of aiming for educational objectives. The purpose of this Bachelor’s Thesis was to regard how motivation manifests itself in schoolwork, what are the factors that affect motivation in schoolwork and how these factors can be utilized in education. Of particular interest was to study how the social setting of classroom work affects pupils’ motivation and this was executed by analyzing the effects of a teacher and peers. This study is a literature review written in the framework of motivational studies. This study is based on literature that examines motivation as a purposive act and regards both person-al and interpersonal dimensions of motivation. There was more precise research regarding this issue in the international field of study and hence foreign research literature was used alongside with Finnish research literature. The personal motivational factors that arose from the research literature were appropriate challenges and their overcoming, the relevance of assignments for a pupil, and the experi-enced feeling of autonomy and belonging. Especially significant was pupils self-efficacy be-lief. The literature that examined the possibilities of utilizing these motivational factors in ed-ucation was contradictory due to the subjectivity of motivation. The social factors that affect motivation and arose from the research literature were pupil’s interaction and relationships with the teacher and peers, the experienced support from a teacher, the nature of feedback gotten from a teacher and the attributions made from others’ behavior. Motivation was also found to be contagious within a peer group. By understanding the personal and interper-sonal factors that affect motivation in schoolwork they can be better taken into account in education. The national curriculum (2014) presents that one aim of primary education is to support pupils to construct a sustainable motivation and also because motivation plays a meaningful part in learning, it is important to acknowledge the factors that affect it.