This essey discuss competence development for the employees in a unit of the Swedish police authorities. The purpose with this survey has been to show an understanding for how this unit within the Swedish police authorities works with competence development and what kind of competence investments they carry out and also why competence development is important in their organisation. To answer the purpose of the survey and the questions a qualitative method has been used remaining interviews with five involved respondents working in the investigated unit. The result shows that needs for competence development are made clear during meeting for personal development and during the local educational council inventories. Competence development for the employees is prioritated for the policemen comparing to the civil employees on account of that the policemen have a demanding work and they have to develop their work all the time because of the resisting circumstances.

This thesis discuss the matter of non-profit-making associations as a self regulatory technique out of a theoretical concept of power. The object for the study is the non-profit-making association Ditt Nya Hageby, which work in the neigborhood of Hageby, a suburb to Norrköping. In the study the association is placed in a contemporary postmodern social context and analyzed through semi- structured qualitative interviews, accordingly to hermeneutical method, with five active members of the association as informants. The association consists of members who lives in the neighborhood. Together with a hired organizer they realizes their own ideas in to projects which unquestionably improves the social and physical enviroment in Hageby.

This bachelor thesis is about civilian marching bands in the province Värmland industrial communities, with a focus on Degerfors, Edsvalla, Gruvön, Nors, Slottsbron, and Vålberg bands. Degerfors, Gruvön, and Slottsbron bands are three corps that still operates concerts and performances. The other three unions are defunct.In Värmland, there were many mills that were operating well into the 1900s, roughly speaking there were about 25 mills in various industrial areas. These mills had operations in glass, iron, and paper, each user had a band at least a brass sextet and today there are only eight bands left in Värmland. Bofors in Karlskoga, Charlottenberg, Degerfors, Dejefors, Gruvöns in Grums, Hagfors, Skoghall, and Slottsbron bands.What is the reason that so many bands have disappeared? To answer the question I have investigated the importance of four factors have had for the unions: finance, recruitment collaboration with the music and arts, as well as cooperation with educational associations.The results show a marked reduction in civil bands, from about 25 corps to eight corps today.

The essay is an evaluative study of student democracy in the Swedish high school, its departure point being the 1994 national curriculum for the voluntary school forms (Lpf 94). We adopted an interview method, the survey units consisting in a number of high school teachers. The analysis has two principal theoretical departure points, involving democracy theory and implementation analysis, respectively. The former is utilized to help identifying what sort of democracy permeates the governing document and high school daily life, the latter to explain actual outcomes.The study concludes that the 94 curriculum is characterized by a strong democracy with emphasis on participatory democratic processes, whereas in practice there is a thin democracy in both classroom and formal student government contexts. Representative processes are given plenty of room although few attempts at participatory democratic components can be identified.A deeper analysis of the result reveals implementation problems traceable to elements of symbolism in the goals.

1994 drabbades Rwanda av ett folkmord vars omfattning betecknas som ett av de mest brutala i vår moderna tid. Drygt tio år senare innehar rwandiska kvinnor den högsta parlamentariska representationen i världen och har därmed gått om Sverige. I denna studie är det just kvinnors politiska deltagande som undersöks. Det analysverktyg som används i studien består av: Post-konfliktteori, Transversal politics, Critical Mass, Essentialism, Gender Mainstreaming och kvinnors empowerment. Med hjälp av dessa förklaras relevansen av, och bakgrunden till, fyra faktorer som har möjliggjort och bidragit till kvinnors politiska deltagande i Rwandas freds- och återuppbyggnad efter kriget.

Detta examensarbete handlar om vilka uppfattningar som finns om filosofiämnets syfte på gymnasiet. Det som berörs i uppfattningarna är huruvida de bygger på ämnets färdigheter eller kunskaper. Läroplaner (kursplaner) och läroböcker har analyserats och en grupp gymnasieelever har intervjuats. De läroplaner för filosofi som är analyserade är från år 1933, 1966, 1977, 1994 samt 2000. Läroböckerna som analyserats är Lars-Göran Alms Gula idéer sover lugnt, Martin Levanders Filosofi.

In November 2010, The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting) distributed a survey where 53 % of the responding municipalities declared that they use Twitter. Out of the municipalities that declared they did not use social media, 49 % answered that they were planning on using it but that they had not gotten started. The purpose with social media was primarily declared to be maintaining dialogue with citizens and a channel for information.The informal ?twittersphere? is a new environment for the conventionally formal government communication, and with it comes an entirely new set of demands on the style and content of texts, compared to other media. The purpose of my work was to present a style proposal for the public sector?s communication on Twitter, with the help of theory and empirical data.My methods consisted of text analysis and qualitative interviews.

Studiens syfte är att undersöka om elever i år 9 är kritiskt granskande mot tidskrifters skönhetsbilder. För att dra paralleller mellan elevernas åsikter och föreställningar och det rådande samhället används för studien relevanta delar av följande teorier: socialkonstruktivism, kulturteori, postmodernism, vardagslivets estetisering samt kritisk teori. Tillsammans kompletterar dessa teorier varandra för att kunna förklara den verklighet som eleverna lever i. Studiens visuella metod bygger på fyra olika videofilmade fokusgruppsintervjuer med 5-6 elever i varje grupp. Vid bearbetning och analys av materialet användes Kvales (1997) metod ?ad hoc? samt trippelhermeneutiken (Alvesson och Sköldberg, 1994).

This study focuses upon the new societal objects that are termed public privatepartnerships where the public sector forms strategic alliances with the private sectorand the civil society to manage the wicked issues of today. An exampel of suchcooperation is Vänerhamn AB where the municipalities around the lake of Vänernand the private shipping companies got togheter to handle an economic crisis of theshipping buisiness. The partnership Vänerhamn has developed from a problematicactivity to a healthy company and the aim of this thesis is to illuminate thisdevelopment through an historical institutional approach, focusing critical junctureto discover if the governance theory can be used to understand the partnershipspositive process. This will be done through research questions about the organisation of thepartnership, about the members interests with the partnership and about eventuallycoordination problems in the partnership. The questions derive from dimensions ingovernance theory, central for the activity of partnerships. Interviews with centralinformants where held and it was complemented through a document analyses inorder to search for indications of the dimensions and that is the methodologicalapproach of the study. The conclusion of this thesis is that the governance theory can be used tounderstand Vänerhamns postive development since the members interest with thepartnership to a begining was not at all conformed and that led to obviouscoordination problems.

Den största förändringen av gymnasieskolan var införandet av en kursutformad gymnasieskola vilket skedde 1994. Syftet med detta arbete är att ta reda på hur den valfriheten som införandet av den kursutformade gymnasieskolan i upplevs av elever och lärare. Vi har i detta arbete begagnat oss av den s.k. Likert-skala för att kunna mäta elevers och lärares attityder till valfriheten i skolan. Den består av ett antal påståenden som elever och lärare skall instämma i eller ta avstånd från på en femgradig skala. Vi valde att genomföra vår enkätundersökning på totalt fem gymnasieskolor i tre skånska kommuner. Eleverna i undersökningen uttrycker en positiv attityd till valfriheten i dagens gymnasieskola.

Syftet med studien är att ta reda på hur fyra intervjupersoner som är lärare på två olika skolor i samma kommun anser att de bedriver undervisning samt hur elever upplever delaktighet i sitt lärande. Jag avser att jämföra deras upplevelser mot styrdokument läroplanen och den lokala skolplanen. Metoden baserar sig på en fallstudie enligt Meriam (1994). Jag gjorde fyra halvstrukturerade intervjuer med lärare från de båda gymnasieskolorna och två gruppintervjuer med elever från respektive gymnasieskola.Resultatet av undersökningen visar att lärare på respektive gymnasieskola arbetar olika. Min slutsats av undersökningen är att den kommunala gymnasieskolan fortfarande bedriver en form av förmedlingspedagogik, däremot ansåg inte lärarna i den kommunala gymnasieskolan att de bedriver förmedlingspedagogik.

This thesis examines how Swedish newspaper media problematize surveillance. This is done by analysing the media reports from two major surveillance events: the debate in 2008 about the legislation concerning the expansion of the rights of Försvarets Radioanstalt to monitor internet and telephone traffic crossing the Swedish borders, and the revealing of an ethnically based index including over 4000 individuals created by the Swedish police. The thesis sets out to expand the knowledge about media?s role as a interpreting source of information concerning how people understand and relate to surveillance (Barnard-Wills, 2011; Carlsson, 2009; Greenberg & Hier, 2009). The thesis attempts to answer the question whether Swedish media problematizations regarding the abovementioned surveillance events correlates with the most common theories of surveillance critique.

Luftfarten står för en betydande del av koldioxidutsläpp i planetens atmosfär. Utsläpp från luftfart är en komplex fråga som inte är statsbundet i den mening att ett enstaka land inom EU inte kan åstadkomma en betydande sänkning av koldioxidutsläpp. Luftfartsstyrelsen innehar myndighetsrollen i Sverige och är landets representant i internationella sammanhang. För att internationellt klara en minskning av koldioxidutsläpp diskuteras det inom regeringen och internationellt, att flyget i framtiden ska anslutas till handel med utsläppsrätter. Myndighetsrollen för civil luftfart ligger på Luftfartsstyrelsen sedan 1 januari 2005.

The first Debt Relief Act was introduced in 1994 into Swedish law. The old Debt Relief Act was replaced on 1 January 2007 by the current Debt Relief Act. The current law is in many ways similar to the older law. The main change is the debt settlement process.The Debt settlement Act's main purpose is to financially rehabilitate over-indebted individuals. This aim should be balanced against the creditors' interest in getting paid for their claims.

In the new media society, social media has become an important part of many organizations' daily lives. Organizations, whether public or private, must be where their audience is and many times, these can be found on social media channels like Facebook. Leading researchers in the fields of crisis communication and relationship management believe that social media is a great tool for managing relationships between an organization and its' public, whether it's before, during or after a crisis.The purpose of this study is to examine how the Karlstad municipality use Facebook to manage civic relations before, during and after a crisis. The municipality's approach will be compared to the citizens' experiences of the municipality's communication in different stages of a crisis.The theoretical framework used in this essay is the research on crisis communication and relationship management. How these two frameworks can be integrated with social media like Facebook, is an important part of understanding how the Karlstad municipality make use of Facebook to manage civic relations and communicate before, during and after a crisis.The empirical study consists of a qualitative interview, two qualitative content analysis and an online survey.