Fornföreningen Fibula on the Aland Islands contacts the author because its members want to create a museum.The purpose of this two years master?s thesis in Archive, Library and Museum studies is to shed light on what a museum really is. The research question I have answered is ?what is a museum and is this what Fibula really wants in their reconstructed Viking village??. Based on interview material, ethnographic field studies, relevant research in the subject and documents from Fibula, I have answered the research question.

Finnish student have for several years proved to be successful in reading in international studies. This interview based study aims to describe how teachers in Finnish schools for Swedish speaking children are relating to reading and reading education during the first two years of schooling. The result shows that reading, reading training and reading comprehension are natural elements in all teaching during the first two years in school and that teaching is based on students? ability and interest. The teachers claim that they provide the students with varying opportunities to practice different kinds of reading.

Syfte och frågeställningarSyftet med studien är att belysa hur idrottssituationen har sett ut för svenska och finska kvinnor under 1900-talet fram till idag. Hypotesen är att stora framsteg har gjorts inom idrotten för kvinnor under ett århundrade. Frågeställningarna är: hur såg möjligheterna till idrottsutövande ut för kvinnor i Finland och Sverige på 1920?70 talet? Hur ser kvinnoidrotten i Finland och Sverige ut i dagsläget?MetodSammanlagt deltog 104 kvinnor i åldern 36-84 år i studien, där majoriteten av undersökningsdeltagarna var födda på 1950- och 60-talet. Till denna studie användes en kvantitativ metod i form av enkätundersökning.

The intention of this study is to investigate why some regions, which choose to secede from their parent country, are internationally recognized and others are not. The case studies of this study are South Sudan and Somaliland. South Sudan is as of now the world?s newest state, and Somaliland is a break-away state that is considered a part of Somalia by the International community. There are conditions that have to be fulfilled, before existing nations recognize the break-away state, such as an agreement between the seceded state and the parent country, which was the case for South Sudan and Sudan.

Genom en textanalys av författaren Maja Lundgrens bok Myggor och Tigrar undersöker uppsatsen skönlitterära texters möjlighet att förändra kvinnors positioner och potentialer. I den teoretiska bakgrunden redogörs för såväl historisk som nutida självbiografiforskning med fokus på diskussioner kring sanningsanspråk, textens konstituerande karaktär och specifikt feministisk forskning på området. Med betoning på hur förtryck kan beskrivas på alternativa och komplexa sätt för att i förlängningen skapa nya förståelser för kvinnliga subjektspositioner, undersöks Lundgrens försök att skildra subtila maktutövanden..

AbstractThe aim of this literature review was to describe the quality of life in stoma patients after stomasurgery. Different combinations of the keywords ?stoma?, ?Quality of Life?, ?stomasurgery? were used when searching in the databases Medline, Cinahl, Academic Search Elite and PubMed. A total of nineteen articles were used in the result. Fifteen studies had comparing design and four studies had describing design.

Denna uppsats har gjorts på uppdrag av Ålands statistik- och utredningsbyrå (ÅSUB) i syfte att förklara och prognostisera de åländska företagens omsättningsutveckling över tiden.I uppsatsen har jag undersökt om en tidigare framtagen modell för att förklara Ålands omsättningsindex kan användas för att förklara olika branschindex på Åland.Jag har även tagit fram två olika modeller på ledande indikatorer från Sverige och Finland med ARIMA-feltermer. De ledande indikatorerna är svenska och finska konsumenters förtroendeindex samt industrins förtroendeindex och svenska OMX 30 börsindex. Modellerna använder olika fördröjningar på dessa fem indikatorer som förklaringsvariabler. Modell 1 använder utvalda fördröjningar och Modell 2 använder glidande medelvärden på fördröjningsintervall.Jag har testat hur bra de två modellerna kan förklara och prognostisera Ålands omsättningsindex och de olika branschindexen. Båda modellerna förklarar Ålands omsättningsindex bra.

Sverige och Finland är två länder som ofta jämförs. Så även inom utbildning då media framställer finska barn som framgångsrika. Förutom hög status inom lärarprofessionen i Finland bekräftas framstegen i PISAs undersökningar där finska skolungdomar presterar höga resultat. För de små barnen går största delen av dagen ut på att leka och undersöka deras närmiljö. Genom leken skaffar sig barnet värdefulla färdigheter som gagnar barnet i det livslånga lärandet.

Titel: Comparative study between traditional seminars and webinars for marketing purpose. Level:Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business AdministrationAuthor:Peter Nicks and Alexander WidellSupervisor:Aihie OsarenkhoeDate:2011 ? JanuaryAim:We want to examine how businesses can use webinars to supplement or replace seminars in its industrial marketing. When should businesses use seminars, when should they use webinars and when should they use a combination of the two?Method:We have chosen to do a combination of quantitative and qualitative research.

The national spatial planning guidelines and the subsequent legal regulation in the Natural Resources Act and the Environmental Code has been a part of the Swedish planning system for almost 40 years. In the recent years, critics have claimed that the regulations are outdated and does not work the way it was intended. This paper examines closer why it is perceived that the regulations does not work, with a focus on how the national interests are managed in the municipal planning. Why is the national interests not applied in the municipal planning as intended? Is the error in the system or in the implementation of it? The aim of this essay is to study the gap between theory and practice by studying how the land management provisions in the Environmental Code is applied in five selected municipalities. The aim is also to find interesting issues for futher studies of the topic.

Title: What is important knowledge in social studies- An analyse of opinions among teachers in social studiesThe aim of this paper is to increase the awareness about how teachers in Social studies think about goals and substance in the subject. I also want to get a picture about what kinds of problems teacher?s experiences when teaching Social studies. My expectations told me that Social studies are complex to teach, because it derives from several university disciplines such as Political science, Economics, Sociology, Law and Geography, which I believe makes the subject harder to define and what to give priority to. Finally, I want to increase the awareness, if it seems to be any fundamental essence in Social studies as a subject.To achieve my goals with this paper I have studied relevant literature about Social studies.

Swedish schools have during the last few years started to providing pupils in high school with tablet-computers. By doing interviews I examine how pupils in high school use tablet-computers in different ways and how that affect their studies. From a sociocultural perspective and with the concept of artefacts I analyze how suitable tablet-computers are for studies on this level of education. My results show that the tablet-computers are used as the pupils primary study tool. They are available to all pupils and can be used in most parts of their studies and this creates new opportonities in how to interact with collective knowledge and with other people.

Democracy is said to uphold the dearest values and be the most moral system. But it cannot be characterized as a rigid "syste" but a continuously changing political framework, under which aims and values can be fulfilled - and replaced.The increasingly diverse and ever-changing environment of contemporary democracies forces change upon the systems' natural evolution, which makes their future features uncertain and unforeseeable. A powerful change-force doctrine does however claim change is mainly (or merely) caused by the power of ideas; the elite power over ideas can thus provide a natural foundation for the analysis of the direction of development for democracy. This study aims to provide such a foundation by reconstructing empirical and normative descriptions of democracy at two certain points in time, following extensive government studies.As a tool for analysis, this study identifies values of substantial and procedural character central to democracy theory and discourse. It further creates ideal types of democracy based on these values, to which the nature of democracy is measured.

A comparative essay between the findings of research and practical methods in the English classroom conserning vocabulary learning in a foreign language..

Personlighetstest avser att mäta olika personlighetsdrag, olika egenskaper som formar individens personlighet. Personlighetstestet Predicting Job Performance, PJP, bygger på den så kallade ?femfaktormodellen? inom personlighetspsykologin och på studier av hur generell problemlösnings-förmåga påverkar arbetsprestation. PJP är ett arbetspsykologiskt instrument för användning i urval av arbetssökande. I föreliggande studie har personlighets-delen i PJP översatts till turkiska med syftet att utforska en turkisk version av instrumentets reliabilitet samt begrepps-validitet.