The global wood pellet market has seen a rapid growth after the adoption of the Kyoto protocol and the renewable energy incentives created within the European Union. The global consumption of wood pellets reached 13,5 million tonnes in 2010 and several experts estimate the consumption to be between 35-50 million tonnes by 2020. These forescasts raise the questions which regions that can supply this vast amount of wood pellets and what the conditions are for producing it. This study evaluates the conditions for wood pellet production and export from British Columbia, on Canada?s west coast, focusing on existing industry structure, raw material supply and the distribution chain.

The content of teaching materials considerably affects pupils? attitudes and worldview. This paper is an analysis of textbooks used in 7th through 9th grade of the Swedish School system in Swedish as a Second Language (SSL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The purpose of this paper is to look at which minority groups, the five official national minorities as well as other minorities, are included and portrayed in the textbook series Tre gÄnger svenska and Wings Mini as well as to see if there is any bias in their portrayal. The seven types of bias investigated; invisibility, stereotyping and generalizations, unreality, imbalance and selectivity, fragmentation and isolation, linguistic bias and cosmetic bias are an adaption of the framework to detect bias in curriculum materials presented by Sadker and Zittleman (2002/2003).

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Swedish childcare has undergone radical changes in the last 15 to 20 years. It has evolved from kindergarten to pre-school, in other words, gone from simple childcare to an active learning environment with the child as the center. Official documents, such as the pre-school curriculum and other guide documents, define the role and work ethics of the pre-school teacher. In my thesis I argue that it is essential to have an ongoing and continuous discussion at pre-schools on the practical applications of these frameworks and ambitious goals.What do you do when you simply cannot give every child the individual time they should have according to rules and regulations? How do you stay an active and present pedagogue in today?s pre-school with large classes and heavy workloads? How do you establish a common professional work ethics within a pre-school so that all children are treated equally? In my scientific essay, I examine these issues based on a real-life situation: Ellen in the hallway.A pedagogue must continuously make balanced decisions based on rules and regulations, on life- and work experience which, in many cases, contradict each other.

The internet has become an increasingly part of everyday life with digital artefacts like smartphones and tablets. We?re looking at the usage of social networks and how the usage relates to traditional addiction. We conducted a quantitative research where 84 poeple finished our web survey. Our research focused on addiction, time spent on social networks, normal and non-normal usage and general user patterns.

Svensk media har under tidigare valkampanjer valt att inte uppma?rksamma invandringsfientliga partier som Sverigedemokraterna i sin rapportering, men efter de senaste valframga?ngarna fo?r partiet har media inte kunnat undvika det da? nyhetsintresset kring partiet varit stort. Sverigedemokraterna var info?r 2010 a?rs val en del av den svenska mediala arenan med en sta?ndig debatt kring partiets kontroversiella politik.I den ha?r uppsatsen underso?ktes hur rapporteringen av Sverigedemokraterna skedde i lokalpress veckan efter valet 2010 och pa? vilket sa?tt partiet gestaltades i en ja?mfo?rande studie med Socialdemokraterna. Vi valde att titta na?rmare pa? tre kommuner pa? olika geografiska omra?den i landet da?r sto?det fo?r Sverigedemokraterna var ho?gt efter valet 2010.

AbstractAim: The purpose of this study was to describe and compare education in swimming in grade six in two different schools. Another purpose was to investigate students? perception of their swimming skills and their attitudes to education in swimming. The more précised questions were: (1) How is the education in swimming organized in each school? (2) How do the teachers control that the students reach the goals to attain in swimming in the 5: th grade? (3) How do the students judge their own swimming knowledge? And (4) What attitudes towards the education in swimming do the students have?Method: A quantitative method, a questionnaire, was used to answer the purpose and questions of the study.

Syftet med studien Àr att undersöka, belysa och analysera hur tidningen Sydsvenskan skriver omhatbrott, genom att studera alla artiklar som tidningen publicerat under rubriken hatbrott Är 2005respektive Är 2010. I studien görs jÀmförelser mellan 2005 och 2010, för att undersöka huruvida detfinns skillnader i rapporteringen över tid. Vidare belyses teoretiska förklaringar, i form avdagordningsteorin, konstruktionism och moralisk panik, för att söka svar pÄ varför Sydsvenskanskriver som de gör. Det Àr kriminologiskt relevant att undersöka hur det kommer sig attSydsvenskan skriver som de gör för att pÄ sÄ vis fÄ vidare kunskap om förhÄllandet mellan mediaoch brott. Föreliggande studie förhÄller Sydsvenskans rapportering till tidigare forskning ochstatistik.

The Swedish right-wing party the Sweden Democrats gathered much attention during the Swedish general election of 2010. The party?s immigration policy clashed with other major Swedish parties perceptions and the Sweden Democrats got major coverage in Swedish media even before the election had taken place. Despite controvercies surrounding the party, they eventually succeeded in getting into the parliament.This study explores how the coverage of the Sweden Democrats in five large Swedish newspapers has changed between 2009 and 2013. This was done by studying two periods, each period taking place a year before the next general election.

Denna studie syftade att undersöka hur personlighetsdragen extraversion, neuroticism och hardiness skiljde sig mellan elitidrottare och breddidrottare samt lagidrottare och individuella idrottare. Deltagarna bestod av elitidrottare (n=61), breddidrottare (n=60), lagidrottare (n=62) samt individuella idrottare (n=59) (M = 24.68, S = 6.47). Instrumentet som anvÀndes var ett enkÀtbatteri bestÄendes av Eysenck?s Personality Inventory och Personal Views Survey III-Revised. Resultaten visar att elitidrottare och lagidrottare var mer extroverta, mindre neurotiska samt hade högre nivÄ av hardiness Àn breddidrottare och individuella idrottare.

I uppsatsen Lokala nyheter: till vilket pris som helst? undersöker vi hur stor del av det redaktionella materialet i tre lokala tidningar som Ă€r textreklam samt hur det har förĂ€ndrats mellan 1996 och 2011. För att ta reda pĂ„ det har vi genomfört en kvantitativ innehĂ„llsanalys. Tidningarna som Ă€r med i studien Ă€r BohuslĂ€ningen, Södermanlands Nyheter och Östersunds-Posten. Vi har tittat pĂ„ vecka 40 Ă„r 1996 och 2011 och jĂ€mfört resultaten med varandra.

Det hÀnder mycket i den svenska skolan just nu. Sommaren 2011 börjar en ny lÀroplan gÀlla med allt vad det innebÀr av förÀndringar. Men vad har egentligen förÀndrats sedan den förra lÀroplanen frÄn 1994? I vÀrlden runtomkring oss sker saker som mer och mer pÄverkar oss hÀr hemma i Sverige. Vi har under vÄren kunnat följamedierapporteringen om uppror för demokrati i Nordafrika och Mellanöstern och om kÀrnkraftskatastrofen i Japan.

I meet in my work as art teacher many students of different descent, were they, or their parents, have different school experience than the Swedish. This, in combination with therecent discussion after the Muhammad caricatures about the banning of images in Islamic religion, made me curious to study what art education in a Muslim country looked like. I went to visit the Maramra Egitim KöyĂŒ school in Istanbul, Turkey, and especially their art classesfrom grade five to eight, which are the same age of students that I have been working with thelast ten years. This was my first visit to Turkey.The question I ask is: What does the practice of Turkish art education look like, using the Marmara school as an example. Which discourses can I identify in the art teacher practice? What surprised me the most was the frequent visual exposure of the founder of the Turkishstate, Kemal AtatĂŒrk.

I oktober 2010 faststÀllde regeringen en ny lÀroplan med kursplaner för grundskolan som ska verkstÀllas under hösten 2011. NÀr det gÀllde kursplanen i religionskunskap föreslog Skolverket att alla fem vÀrldsreligionerna skulle fÄ lika mycket fokus i undervisningen medan regeringen menade att fokus skulle vara pÄ kristendomen Àven fortsÀttningsvis, precis som i den gamla kursplanen i religionskunskap. Detta Àr en viktig frÄga att belysa dÄ Sverige Àr och fortsÀtter att bli allt mer mÄngkulturellt.Denna religionsdidaktiska undersökning syftade till att jÀmföra vad representanter frÄn de Ätta riksdagspartierna i Sverige ansÄg om den nya uppkommande kursplanen i religionskunskap samt religionsundervisningen överlag. Med hjÀlp av intervjuer fick vi tillgÄng till partiernas stÄndpunkter gÀllande dessa frÄgor. Sammanfattningsvis kan vi sÀga att vi i slutsatsen kom fram till att de borgerliga partierna (M, FP, KD och C) samt sverigedemokraterna menade att den nya kursplanen med dess fokus pÄ kristendomen var bra samt att de ansÄg att lÀrare borde fokusera mer pÄ kristendomen Àn övriga religioner i religionsundervisningen.

The aim of this study is to discuss how public officials, who are implementing integration policies, describe and relate to ?immigrant women?. The analysis is based on interviews with eight public officials. Drawing on perspectives from discourse theory, multiculturalism, western feminism and postcolonialism, the diskussion tries to place the interview statements within a theoretical debate concerning the concepts of culture/ethnicity and sex/gender. The picture of the ?immigrant woman? seems to be somewhat revised.