In this report, a case study of conditions for Swedish language development in children of immigrant origin is presented, and its results explored. The boundaries of the case study are defined as preschool pedagogues? facilitation of Swedish language development through co-learning, in children of immigrant origin in an ethnically segregated urban area. Concepts central to the report include dialogue, second language learning and perspectives on language difficulties. For the theoretical background of the report, a basic sociocultural theorem is used, which links language as well as other areas of development to verbal interaction in a social context.

The aim of this study was to compare educational systems in Sweden, Czech Republic, Italy and Scotland. In the light of the Bologna Declaration signed in 1999, I was particularly interested in comparing social work educations in these four countries. Especially to clarify how far they have come to fulfill the goals of the common European educational policy.Central questions asked were: How do the educational systems look like in each of the four countries? How are the social work educations organized in each of them? In what ways do the social work educations differ? How can we explain such differences?Each country in this study represents a different welfare regime, and therefore I was challenged to find out if this has an impact on the implementation of the incentives of the Bologna Declaration. By studying various documents from the European Union, documents from each country and presentations of various social work programmes, I have come to the conclusion that the differences found mainly depends on the historical and socioeconomic traditions in the countries.

White- and blue collar workers traditionally belong to different unions and, therefore, are covered by different collective agreements. Collective agreements for different employee categories create internal divisions, which mean that white collar workers are not obliged to do work that falls under a blue collar agreement and reversed. Historically the difference between white- and blue collar work has been fairly sharp and so has the difference between collective agreements. Due to the continuous development of technology white- and blue collar work within production has become less clear. This has resulted in an increasing amount of disagreements regarding what collective agreement should apply and whether the employee is obliged to perform different work tasks.

Syftet med studien är att få förståelse för och inblick i hur medveten läsförståelseundervisning genomförs i ämnet Sv/SvA i grundskolan. Fokus har lagts på hur metoder och strategier använts medvetet i deltagande lärares undervisning. Denna kvalitativa fallstudie har inslag av etnografi, vilket innebär användande av triangulering av insamlad data på fältet, där datainsamlandet har gjorts genom observationer och intervjuer som sedan teoretiserats med litteraturstudier. I analysarbetet har inslag av etnografiskt tillvägagångssätt använts. Studien visar att läsförståelse är central för all kunskapsinhämtning och en välfungerande ordavkodning är grunden till detta.

Bakgrund: Våra levnadsvanor har en central roll vid uppkomsten och utvecklandet av diabetes. Det primära vid vård av personer med typ 2 diabetes är att stödja egenvården. Målet med behandling av diabetes är att behålla en god livskvalitet samt förhindra komplikationer orsakade av sjukdomen.Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka den egenvård som personer med typ 2 diabetes utför.Metod: En kvalitativ intervjustudie med semistrukturerade frågor användes. Tio personer med typ 2 diabetes intervjuades. Innehållet analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys.Resultat: Resultatet visade att kunskap om egenvård och livsstilsfaktorer som påverkar typ 2 diabetes, ger den drabbade möjlighet att själv påverka sjukdomens progress.

Denna studie handlar om den fysiska miljön i två förskolor, hur rummen är utformade, hur olika flöden ser ut i dessa rum samt vad barnen gör när de befinner sig i de olika rummen. Vårt syfte med studien var att undersöka relationen mellan den fysiska miljön och barns rörelser samt aktiviteter i den fria leken. Vi har använt oss av observation som metod och följt barnen i deras fria lek och hur de rör sig i och mellan rummen. Studien består av två delstudier där den ena undersökte de två förskolornas utformning och flöden och den andra undersökte barns aktiviteter i de olika rummen. Vi fann att de båda förskolorna har ett varsitt rum som fungerar som en central punkt i förskolan, både för barn och vuxna.

A foundation of our welfare state is that we have a social safety net. This safety net is designed to pick up individuals who are in need of help and support to manage their way of life. This essay regards people who need help with care or people who need help with an addiction. This essay is a qualitative text analysis, which aims to see whether, and if so how, help-seekers are constructed in 40 social service documents within a municipality in central Sweden. We have endeavored to illustrate the power that the written word possesses and which categories of people are constructed depending on the language and content of the social documents.

The aim of this study is to explore how sports journalism can include and/or exclude athletics from a national community. This study put emphasis on finding patterns from articles by Swedish sport media on non-ethnic Swedish athletics. The theories central to this study are ethnicity and nationalism, as these concepts contain reflections on why certain groups of people are excluded and/or included. Norman Faircloghs critical discourse analytical model has been selected for the study method that analyzes texts in three levels: the text level, discursive practice and social practice. Four non-ethnic Swedish athletes have been chosen to explore how they were portrayed in the media.

AbstractThe purpose of this essay is to investigate the views Swedish elementary school teachers produce on the subject of ethics. The teachers? thoughts on selection among ethical notions is described and also how these notions are assessed. The essay proceeds from the central content and the knowledge requirement in the syllabus of religious knowledge.The empirical survey is based on qualitative scientific interviews with four teachers employed in grades 4-6 at different schools.The teachers find ethics in its current state of the syllabus hard to define and they find encounters with parents and pupils difficult in their tasks. The selection of ethics is decided by previously planned basic values education or from conflicts erupting during schools hours.

Girls in honour cultures have been the subject of many studies and are often debated in the media. The purpose with this study was to focus on boys in honour cultures. I wanted to understand the situation of boys in honour cultures with a perspective of the rights of children. My central questions were: How is it to be a boy in honour cultures? Are boys in honour cultures exposed? How are they exposed? My study was a qualitative study in which I interviewed four professionals who meet boys in honour cultures in their work.

The following Bachelor?s thesis examines how three Swedish national newspapers (Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet and Aftonbladet), which all represent different points on the ideological spectrum, portray victim and perpetrator in their representation of rape during the year 2011. The thesis examines the newspapers news, editorial pages and reports of rape. The study uses a quantitative approach with qualitative elements which has its foundation in the theory of social constructivism and priming theory. Political science can be studied from the perspective of power, and media has a central role of this power.

The aim of this essay is to examine the experiences of an introduction process of newcomers through an integrative perspective, by two guiding questions: How does the examined organization socialize newcomers? How is the organizational socialization experienced by the employees? Most Swedish corporations engage in some form of workplace introduction and this introduction should give the newcomer an understanding of his work and its relation to the organizations other business practices. Earlier studies have mostly focused on the effects of socialization tactics but few on the experience. This study, based on qualitative interviews with a regional manager, newcomers and established employees shows that the studied organization socializes its newcomers through many socialization tactics where the newcomers? personality and previous knowledge allows to direct the socialization process.

Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka ett område som i mina ögon är relativt lite behandlat, nämligen domänkunskap. Denna förvärvas i systemutvecklingens första fas, analysen.I den litteratur som jag har studerat påpekar flera forskare att en systemutvecklingsgrupp bär ha god domänkunskap, Vad som saknas hos flera av dem var en definition av begreppet domänkunskap, dvs det som de själva ansåg vara viktigt för systemutvecklarna.Avsikten med studien blev att undersöka vad systemexperter lägger i begreppet domänkunskap. Detta ledde till problemformuleringen " Några svenska systemexperters definition av domänkunskap, hur den förvärvas samt några utvecklingstrender".För att behandla problemformuleringen valdes halvstrukturerad intervjusom undersökningsmetod. 12 systemexperter från sju företag intervjuades.De viktigaste slutsatserna av studien är:· Det tycks inte finnas någon koncensus om begreppet domänkunskap.· Vid förvärvandet av domänkunskap arbetar man mest med intervjuer och/eller brainstorming och därefter prototyper.· Studien har inte gett svar på hur mycket resurser som läggs på analys. Flertalet intervjuade ansåg dock att man bör tilldela analysen mer resurser i framtiden.· Utvecklingen går mot att analysen kommer att få en mer central roll..

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether hedge funds generate higher risk-adjusted returns than traditional managed funds in Sweden.Methodology: This study was based on quantitative data about the funds historical returns. The funds historical returns were taken from the database Morningstar and the risk-free rate from the Swedish central bank. Random samples of 36 funds have been divided into three portfolios in the form of a hedge fund portfolio, stock portfolio and mix fund portfolio.Result & Conclusion: The study concluded that the stock portfolio has shown the highest average yield for the study period where all portfolios below market index. Hedge fund portfolio has achieved the highest risk-adjusted return calculated by the portfolios Sharpe Ratio. Of all hedge strategies, arbitrage had the highest average return and risk-adjusted returns..

Syftet är att ur ett genusperspektiv undersöka hur människan framställs i fyra läroböcker om religionskunskap, avsedda för gymnasieskolan. Läroböckerna är från åren 1973, 1988, 1998 och 2006 och undersökningen intar således ett diakront perspektiv. Frågan är om framställningen förändrats under tidsperioden 1973-2006, och i så fall på vilket sätt. Metoden utgår från beskrivande idéanalys där textanalysen utgör ett verktyg för att kunna utröna underliggande strukturer i textmaterialet. Som verktyg används en analysmodell vilken i sin tur är förankrad i teorin.