I Sverige råder fortfarande boplikt för landshövdingar, vilken avskaffats i alla andra nordiska länder. Den innebär att landshövdingar är tvungna att bo i de fastigheter som anvisas dem av regeringen, vilket i 20 fall av 21 är länsresidens. En förmån på pappret som kan bli kostsam i praktiken. Svenska länsstyrelser lägger sammanlagt nästan 28 miljoner kronor varje år på hyra för residensen.Regeringen står bakom de villkor som finns gällande landshövdingars tjänstebostäder och har inga planer på att förändra dem för närvarande. Det ansvariga statsrådet Stefan Attefall tycker att landshövdingarnas boplikt i residens fyller en viktig funktion ur ett representativt perspektiv, medan Hans Mildenberger på Enheten för statlig förvaltning, hänvisar till symbolvärdet i att ha landshövdingar boende i länsresidens.Men alla är inte lika övertygade om relevansen i landshövdingarnas residensboende.

Ulla Isaksson (1916 ? 2000) wrote many novels, often with a woman or several women as protagonists. In Dit du icke vill (?Where Thou Willst Not?) from 1956 she depicts a crisis of faith in a woman, which would not have been successful had she chosen a contemporary setting. She uses an adequate historical framework, the prosecution of witches in Sweden in the 17th century, well documented in reliable sources.

This study sets out to investigate how the roll of the teacher is constructed in the Swedish Teachers? Unions trade publication. Based on the theory of social constructionism we have used the method of critical discourse analysis to establish dominant trends and patterns in how the roll of teacher is constructed in editorials in Swedish Lärarnas Tidning. We have established that the conflict between a modernist school tradition and a postmodern society has resulted in a dominant, traditional teacher discourse which is being simultaneously challenged by both a market-orientated discourse and a professionalization discourse. Furthermore, we attempt to highlight how these ?ideal? constructions can create problems in terms of identity construction for teachers.

The aim of this study is to examine new interpretations of homosexuality in Islam based on Scott Kugle?s book ?Homosexuality in Islam? and the documentary ?A Jihad for love? by Parvez Sharma. Through a theological perspective, a critical analysis is performed in order to find new interpretations and compare them with each other and with the Islamic legal tradition. Argumentative analysis is also used for both the book and the documentary for this essay.     Both Kugle and Sharma use new interpretations and arguments about love to find space for homosexuality in Islam. They use a Muslim language to have relevance with their discussions to Muslim readers and viewers.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur pedagogerna på förskolan resonerar kring begreppet mångfald samt hur de beskriver att de arbetar med detta i sin verksamhet. Vi valde att göra en kvalitativ studie baserat på åtta intervjuer på två separata förskolor. Resultatet visade att mångfald var ett komplext begrepp som pedagogerna tolkade på olika sätt,  men inte diskuterades inom arbetslaget. Pedagogerna arbetade med mångfald i den dagliga verksamheten där de flesta lyfte barnens likheter och olikheter. Resultatet visade att mångfaldsarbetet utfördes på en daglig basis och att det sällan förekom någon fördjupad aktivitet kring mångfald.

The aim with this study was to learn about the experiences of field workers and welfare officers in the field of possible self-harm behavior among young people.Our problem was: Do field workers and welfare officers treat young people with deliberate self-harm differently and - How do field workers and welfare officers describe deliberate self- harm?Our study was conducted through qualitative semistructured interviews with twelve interviewee?s.The result of this study shows that there is a difference in how young people with self-harm behavior are being treated - based on their gender.One possible cause for this result could be the old tradition mindset of viewing boys and girls differently ? and thus, treating them differently when they seek help.Our study shows there is a possibility of treating boys and girls differently ? which shows that we made a thought-provoking point.

Qigong was initiated by the Chinese government in the 1950´s as a domestic medical tradition to be included within a modern scientific framework. During the first decades it became popular among the élite. During the 70´s and 80´s scientific confirmation of the existence of qi contributed to its immense popularity among the population. Charismatic leaders with a traditional background were leading their groups in parks and the movement was booming. In 1992 Falun Gong was established by Li Hongzhi as qigong taken to a higher level.

Vi har trädit in i det urbana århundrade. Idag bor vi för första gången fler människor i staden än på landsbygden. År 2050 beräknas 80% av jordens befolning att bo i städer.Att förse den växande urbana befolkningen med mat har visat sig vara svårt. Jordbruket som idag är uppbyggt kring en storskalig industri på landsbygden följs av en lång förädlingskedja med många mellanhänder.Slakthusområdet är en plats med en över hundraårig historia och tradition av mat- och livsmedelshantering. Området som anlades år 1912 och som idag är ett utav Stockholms 2 partihandelsområden för livsmedel står nu inför en stor förändringsprocess.

Läxor är en av skolans mest etablerade traditioner. Syftet med denna studie handlar om läxorna och deras funktion.  Varför finns läxor? Vilken funktion fyller arbetet med hemuppgifter i dagens skola? I denna studie försöker vi få svar på några av våra frågor angående läxorna och deras funktion. Intervjuerna visar lärarnas medvetenhet angående vad som står i läroplanen.

Denna undersökning bygger på fem kvinnliga förskollärares uppfattningar om förskolans fysiska innemiljö. Syftet är att ta reda på vad förskollärare tänker kring material och utformning av lokaler. I litteraturdelen berörs olika syn på barn och på förskolan som institution samt teorier kring material och den fysiska innemiljön. Eftersom jag söker förskollärares olika uppfattningar, använder jag mig utav en kvalitativ metod och genomför fem intervjuer. Mitt resultat visar att det är flera delar som påverkar förskollärarnas tänkande kring utformningen av förskolan, bl.a.

Syftet med mitt arbete var att undersöka om det fanns skillnader på flickors och pojkars motoriska färdigheter i år 5. Dessutom om denna eventuella skillnad har påverkat deras val av slöjdart i år 7-9. Kunskap om motoriska färdigheter och olikheter inhämtades dels genom litteratur i ämnet och dels genom information på Internet. Elevernas inställning om sina motoriska färdigheter undersöktes både genom enkät och med observationer och foto. De elever som ingick i undersökningen tillhörde skolår 5 och undervisades i textilslöjd.

This essay studies what has been written about religious experience and visions both in the past and now. It deals with both the religious experience and tries to explain how and if there is any place in the modern society for religious visions and experience. The essay has a strong theoretical perspective to psychology of religion as presented by Anton Geels whose writings in the subject have been of one of my main sources.The study shows that people of all times and cultures have had religious visions and the feeling of a divine experience even if this has changed because of tradition, time and place. Religious experience and visions can furthermore occur both in a spontaneous, unprepared way as well as being cultured through ascetic practice in order to facilitate the divine reception. The study also shows that religious experience in no means is reserved for special ?chosen ones? but can occur to each and every one, no matter what class, race or position in life.

The purpose of this paper is to examine different attitudes regarding freedom of information and how libraries should fulfil their information-task represented by four organisations. The organisations are important in shaping the Swedish public libraries in different ways. The purpose is to examine in what ways their definition of information freedom may differ from one another and what that means in defining the public library. For the survey the qualitative textual analysis has been used for examining the documents and websites that are part of the debate about the public library and information freedom. We chose to interview representatives of four organisations that in different ways influence the shaping of the public library.

The Swedish government corporation Försäkringskassan is currently undergoing large organizational changes. Modifications are made regarding the national insurance system and work procedures. In this study we have investigated the procedures of change with the aim of identifying which pedagogical processes in work procedures that enables organizational learning. Furthermore, the study aimed at gaining insight of how the work procedures enable organizational learning in a learning organization. We have utilized case study tradition to examine specific occurrences in their natural environment to thereby understand the matter of investigation.

SARS [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome] penetrated China in spring of 2003, created havoc in the social society, exposed weaknesses within the political system and pushed the nation towards a crisis of confidence. At the same time the crisis revitalised the Party's position, brought people from different social stratum together and had a beneficial impact on the populace's knowledge on health related issues.What makes the SARS crisis in China interesting for further and deeper investigation is the method it chose to respond to its national crisis. They plan of response was indeed a retrogression back to "older" times, using methods and propaganda very much like those used during Mao Zedong and later Deng Xiaoping. The first step of response was denial and cover up of the real situation, which quickly turned to unprecedented transparency, as the magnitude of SARS became known. The Party and the government were quick to proclaim themselves as the bearer of the key knowledge and information on how to best fight the disease, this in sharp contrast to the political trend of more co-operation between the private and public sector and political transparency.