The purpose of this thesis was to examine the relationship between feelings and visualizations of climate change. A case study was done on visualizations of climate change from a web page concerning climate change published by the Swedish newspaper Expressen and from the American photographer Gary Braasch?s web page ?World view of global warming?. The thesis is based on the article ?Emotional anchoring and objectification in the media reporting on climate change? by Birgitta Höijer.

The purpose of this essay is to examine how a newly built library and an old library from the sixties work out of an experience and feeling oriented view. Are the fundamental conditions of an old library compatible with the library standards of today? To be able to carry out this examination we have chosen two rather small Swedish libraries. One is the public library of Hässleholm, which opened in the year 2000, and the other is the public library of Kristianstad opened in 1965. The material used to attain the purpose of the study consists of literature studies and qualitative observations and interviews.

Market capitalism sets the conditions for how the world is conceived, experienced and organized at various spatial scales (global to local). Currently, competitiveness, entrepreneurship and economic growth are key values that shape how the world is conceived, experienced and organized. Discourses of place marketing, place branding, and the construction of places as (economic) products, are part and parcel of the heightened commodification of space. Tourism has been a major factor in the commodification of place and space. More often than not, tourism has been seen as a possibility for peripheral places, in their struggle finding new ways towards development.

This is a theoretical study of changing relations between men and women in the context of modernisation. Ideas derived from a general theoretical discussion will be illustrated by examples from countries that are going through societal changes affecting the lives of men and women; Uganda, Morocco and Mexico. Focus will be on connections between changes in the public sphere and interpersonal relations in the private sphere. One part examines certain effects of women?s increased participation in politics and in the workforce, concluding that these changes may cause conflicts with traditional values and consequently tensions in inter-gender relations.

Syftet med vår studie är att lyfta fram hur media beskriver en person som utför en självmordsattack. Själva utgångspunkten i studien är det terrorattentat som den 11 december 2010 drabbades Sverige, då självmordsbombaren Taimour Abdulwahab utlöser en hemmagjord bomb mitt i centrala Stockholm. Vi har gjort en kvalitativ studie, metoden som vi har använt oss av för att analysera vårt material är kritisk diskursanalys, materialet består av nyhetsartiklar från två dagstidningar och två kvällstidningar.Resultatet visar på att beskrivningen av Taimour Abdulwahab som en idealisk gärningsman är allra vanligast. Det finns beskrivningar av Taimour Abdulwahab som det idealiska offret i vårt material men dessa är inte särskilt många till antalet och det är heller ej lika målande eller skiftande i sina beskrivningar. Ytterligare en slutsats som vi kommit fram till är att man i några fall valt att beskriva honom utifrån ett mer neutralt perspektiv, varken som gärningsman eller offer.

Det här är ett arbete som bygger på en undersökning om åtta lärares syn på hur de möter elevers språkliga erfarenheter med matematikens abstrakta språk. Arbetet ger också en bild av vad de här lärarna anser är viktiga delar i matematikundervisningen. Genom den här undersökningen kan arbetet bidra till undervisningen och synen av matematik och därmed stärka kunskapsutvecklingen inom området. Vi har genomfört kvalitativa intervjuer med de åtta lärarna som vi sedan analyserat och tolkat utifrån forskningslitteratur. Vi kom fram till att lärarna inte ser det som ett problem för eleverna att möta matematikens abstrakta språk.

?Entity continuity? refers to recurrent transcendent experiences related to certain places (?hauntings?). The experiences are often interpreted to be due to discarnate spirits or folklore entities. Although the entity continuity experience can be regarded as religious experience, they have yet to be fully explored in science of religion.The purpose of this paper was to describe entity continuity experiences and map out the scientific discussion in order to provide a psychology of religion that provides an understanding of the phenomena. For this purpose a literature study of theories of jungian psychology, parapsychology, and described experiences was undertaken.

There is a lack of published material regarding designing graphical user interfaces of so called integrated video uploading services. The term integrated video uploading services refers to homepages that do not have video uploading as its primary purpose but which still offers that service to its visitors. The aim of this thesis was to improve the amount of published material about designing graphical user interfaces for integrated video uploading services. This was done by performing a literature study to find general design guidelines which can be applied to design of integrated video uploading services. Thereafter the functionality and design of dedicated video uploading services was analyzed.

Sweden is today often defined as a multicultural society. The implications on organizing and providing information in public libraries are many, since the systems presently used in the western hemisphere are not adapted to multi-cultural information. This thesis aims to outline ethical and practical problems that arise when organising and providing information concerning cultures other than western, and not least, when dealing with material in other scripts. With this theoretical framework the thesis examines the website of the International Library in Stockholm, a website built to serve users of different languages and scripts than Swedish. The research questions in this thesis are: 1, what specific problems can be distinguished within library work in a multicultural and multilingual environment? 2, what problems and needs were considered in the creation and design of the International Library?s website? And 3, can examples of problems and possible solutions of these be seen in the information and it?s organisation on the International Library?s website? The empiric material consists of the International Library?s website, and interviews with three informants involved in developing it.

Who runs the development? A comparative study of the construction of residential buildings in Nacka and Södertälje.The aim of this study is to identify actors involved in the initiation and implementation of residential house construction in two Swedish municipalities. This means who is taking initiative for new residential buildings, who affects the planning process, who finances these new buildings and who builds them. By exploring empiric material from the municipalities of Nacka and Södertälje, the above questions will be answered and by referring to pluralism, growth machine theory and regime theory a link to general theories of political science is made. The results found show that the analysed municipalities have quite different possibilities for acting and that these backgrounds are also important for which actors will take initiative for new residential buildings and which actors will be allowed to state their opinion during the planning process.

Through the collection and analysis of negotiations surrounding the gay magazine Destroyer, the intention of this paper is to identify norms of sexuality within a contemporary sex-radical discourse. These negotiations are collected from interviews with individuals whom, at the time of the inter-view, consider themselves or their politics sex-radical. In order to allow for a more general under-standing of the context in which these negotiations have come about, material about Swedish law is also included in this text, together with the interview material, and serves as a base for analysis through the application of Gayle Rubin?s theory on the hierarchical value system of sexuality.Following, are the main themes throughout the paper: The meaning of the context; Sexualized children; The possibility to (not) participate: differences of power; The decision whether or not to sell the publication and The position of the pedophile and crossgenerational love/sexuality within the LGBTQ community.Key words: sex radicalism, pornography, boy-love, kiddy porn, pedophilia, Destroyer, Gayle Rubin..

Vårt syfte med studien är dels att belysa hur förskollärare kan arbeta med utomhuspedagogik och att undersöka vilka fördelar och nackdelar förskollärare ser på utomhuspedagogik. I studien valde vi att utföra en kvalitativ studie där vi intervjuade sex förskollärare.Studien visar att den pedagogik som sker inomhus kan bedrivas utomhus. Resultatet visade att förskollärarna utgick ifrån läroplanen för förskolan Lpfö98 även utomhus. Förskollärarna betonade att Läroplanen för förskolan Lpfö98 med fördel kan beröra planerade aktiviteter och spontana händelser i utemiljön. Vi fann att motorik var något samtliga förskollärare ansåg främjar barns utveckling genom att vistas ute.

This study is about the importance of pictures to children's pleasure in reading. The aim of this study was to investigate pupils ' thoughts about the pictures in picture books. I wanted to find out if the pictures in the books are of importance to children's pleasure in reading and why. Also what types of pictures that create the pleasure in reading and why. Through literature, I see why it is important to read books and how teachers can create encouraging reading among children.

Syftet med detta examensarbete var att studera vilka strategier barnen använde när de sorterade material i närvaro av en pedagog och på egen hand. Metoden som användes var kvalitativ forskningsmetod. Datainsamling bestod av åtta observationstillfällen, sammanlagt fyra observationer av barn med pedagoger och fyra till utan pedagoger. I vår studie valde vi fyra barngrupper och inom varje grupp valde vi tre barn, sammanlagt 12 barn. Vårt syfte med observationerna var att undersöka barnens lösningsstrategier vid deras lek med knappar och djur.

Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka behovet av att i förskolan kartlägga barns språkutveckling. Vi har även studerat i vilket syfte kartläggning sker och vilka metoder som används. Särskilt intresse har riktats mot TRAS - Tidig Registrering Av Språkutveckling, och några pedagogers uppfattning om detta material. Vår undersökning bygger på kvalitativa intervjuer av fyra specialpedagoger samt enkäter som besvarats av personal på totalt 32 förskolor.Barns språkutveckling är komplex och påverkas av många faktorer. I enlighet med tidigare forskning visar vårt resultat att kartläggning är nödvändigt för att kunna se vilka behov en viss barngrupp har och därmed kunna anpassa verksamheten efter barnens utvecklingsnivå.