The purpose of this thesis is to examine the political ambitions regarding culture inVärmland, and the situation for artists living on the countryside in Värmland. This meansthat the conditions surronding the artists situation will be looked upon. I have chosen thepolitical document Kulturplanen, created by Region Värmland, as my guideline to whatkind of political view there is on art and cultures role in the region. Furthermore, I havechosen Pierre Bourdieu`s theory about art as a field controlled by and under the influenceof different rules within the filed itself and what or whom has the power to act and be apart of the filed. I also use interviews as my method for this study.

Denna studie syftar till att reflektera över den makt medierna besitter genom att studera de retoriska knep och tillvägagångssätt som Svenska Dagbladet och Sydsvenskan använder i sina ledare för att försöka övertyga läsarna. Tidningarna står nära varandra politiskt, men ändå inte på precis samma punkt på den politiska skalan, så det var då intressant att se om deras syn på valen skilde sig åt. För att komma fram till detta har jag använt mig av den klassiska maktteorin agenda setting och de retoriska teorierna om metaforer. Dessa teorier har applicerats under genomförandet av en retorisk analys av de ledare om valen som publicerats under första kvartalet 2012. I den retoriska analysen har de retoriska begreppen identifierats, analyserats och tolkats utifrån hermeneutiska förhållningssätt gällande min egen förförståelse.

This bachelor thesis is based on interviews with staff from three Egyptian NGOs in Cairo during the spring of 2013. The study examines how three Egyptian NGOs discuss the woman?s situation within the Islamic legal discourse in the contemporary Egypt. The empiric material was analysed through a theoretical framework of gender in Islam, and a discussion of the concept of human rights laws in a local context.The respondents emphasize the societies gender stereotypes as obstacles in the discussion regarding women?s rights.

This thesis revolves around co-opetition and boundary spanning activities with IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) as research case. The main objective is to through qualitative interviews and a passive observation of email conversations explore how the participants of IETF experience and is affected by a double membership where they sometimes are cooperating with their competitors. Theories states that boundary spanning activities can create role conflicts for these participants when different role-senders, IETF and the employer, send incompatible expectations. We also believe that this can have a negative impact on discussions and the standard development process, which is why we are conducting the passive observations mentioned above.The result shows that the environment of co-opetition is a contributing factor to role-conflicts. These conflicts appear when participants are forced to choose between the role as an employee and the role as an IETF participant.

This thesis aims to develop a theory in the under researched field of international comparative cultural policy studies. lt does so by combining theories from the fields of political scienceand cultural studies, researching how and to what extent the concepts of culture of different states have an impact on the way cultural policies are constructed.The thesis uses this theoretical development in order to research a specific problem, namely the perceived possibility that Swedish and German cultural structures are slowly converging. Two recent official policy documents from each country are the objects of study. Through comparative idea analysis and with Michiel S. D Vries theories on decentralization, the thesis explains the convergence between the countries by differing cultural views between them.

Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka vilka ämnen tidningen Göteborgs-Posten rapporterar om som rör grundskolan, dess lärare och elever. Vidare har studien som syfte att undersöka om det finns skillnader i rapporteringen från 1996 jämfört med rapporteringen 2006.För att komma fram till studien syfte har diskursanalys använts som utgångspunkt. Bland annat har van Dijk och hans diskursbegrepp ämne använts. Studien tar även upp media och makten genom att diskutera agenda-setting theory och gatekeeping för att ge ett bredare perspektiv av media som en maktinstitution i samhället.Slutsatsen av analysen är att rapporteringen under 1996 och 2006 är ungefär densamma i Göteborgs-Posten gällande grundskolan, dess lärare och elever. De skillnader som framkommer är att under 1996 finns det fler artiklar som rör studien ämnesområde jämfört med 2006.

AbstractThe debate on grammar has been on the agenda for thousands of years. Several different arguments and theories have been used in order to explain the importance of grammar in school. Some newer arguments have been added, while others have stayed, either in their original version, or in a modernised one.This essay aims to clarify the role grammar play in school. In order to do that we have looked into its history, the curriculum, modern research and interviews made with active teachers.The results of the literary studies, the studies of the curriculum and the field studies show that the very presence of grammar in school is disputed. The curriculum of today speaks of an orientation in language, with grammar as a part of it, based on the students? own language.

The attention on environmental issues has never been as huge as today. The climate is changing and more and more evidence suggest that the cause behind climate changes is an increase of carbondioxide into the atmosphere. The increase in turn is considerd to be an act of human activity. Therefore some companies have decided to become climate neutral and implement information technology in their business in order to reduce their emissions. This thesis has three aimes: to calculate a small company´s carbondioxide emissions, study whether or not information technology could help to reduce these emissions and furthermore find out why some companies decided to become climate neutral and describe the concept climate neutral.

Skolan, med skolmaten som instrument, har en enastående möjlighet att i positiv riktning främja goda matvanor hos eleverna. De ansvariga för skolmaten i kommunen bör därför arbeta aktivt med de råd och rekommendationer som finns för bra mat i skolan. Syftet med studien är att belysa vilken syn de ansvariga för skollunchen i en kommun har på råden ?Bra mat i skolan? och hur de följs. Fokus ligger på skolmåltidens betydelse, vilka styrdokument som finns och hur de följs, den pedagogiska måltiden samt matsalsmiljön.

Lack of political interest and will to deal with human rights violations carried out under the civil- military dictatorship, has characterized the transition and post-transition in Uruguay. The systematic use of torture, arbitrary imprisonments and forced disappearances in the relatively small country created a culture of fear that has been present through out the post-transition phase. Human rights groups have been central actors in the fight for truth and justice and against impunity. This study analyzes how these groups multiple democracy-building functions have contributed to democratic development. It also analyses how the democracy-building functions have been constrained by the political context.

Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva, analysera och tolka hur elever upplever arbetet med agendan. Vi är montessorilärare och undervisar i montessoriklasser därför var det naturligt för oss att studera Maria Montessoris skrifter om självständighet och frihet, vilket kan tolkas som dagens elevinflytande och delaktighet. Studier har gjorts av läroplanen för grundskolan samt av andra pedagoger och deras syn på elevinflytande och delaktighet. Studien påbörjades i ett annat arbete där 36 elever fick besvara en enkät om funktionen av den gamla agendan. Resultatet visade att eleverna var nöjda med den, medan pedagogerna ansåg att den gav för lite utrymme för elevers inflytande och delaktighet i sitt eget lärande.

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to examine the representation of student life in Uppsala in the 1860s and 1870s in memoirs. This purpose is achieved by contextualising the memoirs in two different analyses. In the first, the representation of student life in the memoirs is compared to that in another literary genre, the university novel, and it is found that the two representational forms paint completely contradictory pictures, where in the novels the higher education is depicted as rotten and in dire need of reformation, whereas in the memoirs the system, albeit somewhat flawed, works. The memoirs and the novels thus seem to be competing systems of representation, created in different discourses, wherein the purpose and nature of higher education widely differed. In the second analysis, the examination of the memoirs is based on research concerning the nation building process in Sweden during the 19th century.

The Swedish Public Relation industry has gone through a rapid growth in the recent decade. A peculiar, although perhaps not unexpected, development is that former politicians and politically employed individuals to a larger extent have been the subject of recruitment effort from the industry. Simultaneously there has been a public debate concerning the influence on Public Relations and Lobbying over the political agenda. The purpose of this thesis is to widen and deepen the discussion concerning Public Relations consultants. It centers on the individual consultants and takes their competence as the point of departure.

The subject of this study is gender norms in the preschool and children who oppose those norms. The aim is to investigate how the discourses are linked with the way in which preschool teachers and teaching assistants talk about children?s gender identity. This study is founded in feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, which was a basis for the interpretation of the results. My research questions are:? How do educators express themselves concerning gender norms?? What do educators need to work with a gender critical agenda?? How do the educators describe their work concerning gender, gender norms and children who oppose those norms?? For educators who have experience with children who do not identify with the gender they was given at birth, how do educators describe their own treatment of said children, and how would they describe the treatment from the other members of the teaching team?The study consists of qualitative interviews with five educators who were asked questions relevant to: norms, gender, gender criticism and how they work with those topics.I found both positive and negative aspects of gender work in preschool.

På en utställning på Fotografiska museet i Stockholm 2012 visades två av konstfotografen Maria Fribergs fotosviter tillsammans, Almost There (2000) och The Painting Series (2011). Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka huruvida bilderna påverkas av varandra. Förändras tolkningen och budskapet i bilderna då de visas gentemot varandra? Bildanalyser och en jämförande studie mellan serierna utfördes för att komma fram till hur de influerade varandra. Almost There framhäver starkt frågor kring maskulinitet, könsroller och manlig sårbarhet.