Genom Lpo 94, Läroplan för det obligatoriska skolväsendet som kom 1994, fick teknikämnet en egen kursplan och egna kunskapsmål. Det blev en målstyrd skola istället för en regelstyrd.Idag har vi en ny läroplan, Lgr 11, som ger en ny och anpassad styrning över skolan. Ämnet teknik har förändrats i denna läroplan och ska passa in i dagens samhälle.Vad är det centrala i undervisningen i ämnet? Vad vill eleverna lära sig? Vad vill Skolverket att vi ska lära eleverna om teknik?Den här kvalitativa och kvantitativa undersökningen ska försöka ge svar på dessa frågor och ge ökad kunskap om ämnet och om förväntningar som finns av omgivningen.Resultatet av undersökningen visar på en positiv inställning till ämnet teknik hos eleverna, de vill arbeta praktiskt men vet inte riktigt hur de kan påverka sina betyg. Lärare i ämnet försöker förmedla nyttan och glädjen med ämnet men har små resurser.

The aim of this thesis is to examine how the history of mathematics can be used in teaching and whether pupils? attitudes to mathematics can be affected by this. In order to do this a school project about the history of mathematics is planned, implemented and analysed.The following questions are addressed:? Why use the history of mathematics in teaching?? How can the history of mathematics be used in teaching?? Can a historical perspective in teaching affect pupils? views on mathematics?The school curriculum emphasizes the importance of history in teaching. Literature, scientific articles and government inquiries call attention to the positive effects of including a historical perspective in teaching.The school project, which underlies this thesis, is put to practice by 25 pupils in a mathematics science profile class.

This master thesis concerns itself with the actual work of knowledge workers, consultants to be specific. We have through interviews and observation tried to get inside of the ?black box? of the consultants firm Consult in an effort to describe their way of working through a theoretical framework. In this framework we attempt to combine knowledge work theory with that of organizational development, OD. We try to introduce the situation of the individuals we study, the consultants, through Alvesson (2004) and Løwendahl (2005).

The purpose of this study is to increase understanding of how parents of children in need of special support have experienced their interaction with the pre-school. Our three main areas of interest were to investigate how several parents experienced their contact with the pre-school, if there were any experienced factors that had played a part in the contact with the pre-school and if we could conclude anything about how the curriculum had been followed in these cases, with assistance of the parents? experiences.Our study is qualitative and we chose to interview six parents. We both participated in all of the interviews. The theoretical base of this study is rooted in the phenomenological theory and we also used the framework factor theory to complement our analysis.One of our conclusions was that the parents expressed so many different experiences that we decide not to try compare them in general.

This thesis investigates management accounting systems in a Swedish health care environment. Through a qualitative case study of an activity-based cost accounting system that was introduced in 1994 at S:t Görans Sjukhus, a large Stockholm hospital, the following questions are addressed: What benefits can an activity-based cost accounting system offer the Swedish health care providers? What are the potential problems impeding the implementation of such a system? Main findings: an activity-based cost accounting system can improve the understanding of where costs are generated in the production processes. Comparisons between alternative production processes are improved, and the data may serve as a basis for internal pricing measures. Concerning the second question, difficulty in reconciliating the principles of economic control with the culture present in a hospital is identified as the main obstacle to a new management accounting system..

Mervärdesskatten infördes i Sverige den 1 januari 1969 med lagen (1968:430) om mervärdeskatt, så kallad moms. År 1994, året innan Sveriges inträde i EU, infördes Mervärdesskattelagen (1994:200) som anpassats till EG-rätt. Mervärdesskatten är alltid 25 procent om inget annat anges. Kunderna betalar moms till företaget och företagaren betalar in skillnaden mellan utgående moms och ingående moms till Skatteverket. Många företag bedriver blandad verksamhet, det vill säga både momsfri och momspliktig verksamhet som berättigar till avdrags- eller återbetalningsrätt av mervärdesskatten.

The study aims to demonstrate the significance of educators lived experiences of stimulating children's physical development. It has been noted that children are occupying themselves with more and more sedentary activities, which may lead to that they do not develop motor skills at the pace expected. To understand educators lived experiences from a phenomenological hermeneutic perspective empirical relevance has been collected through narrative interviews. The results shows that educators find it difficult to understand the Curriculum goals for motor activity and that the desire to stimulate motor development is great, but the realization is conspicuous by its absence. The discussion highlights educator?s commitment and motivation and the importance of being a reflecting practitioner..

The Third International Assessment of Educational Progress (TIMMS) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) during the last decades regarding the results of mathematics teaching shows that China have a better performance than Sweden?s.Swedish teacher-guidelines focus on developing student?s individual interest and confidence for mathematics. In the Chinese teaching-guidelines for Mathematics Curriculum Standards, Ordninary Senior Secondary, the focus is given on: Elevate their mathematics literacy necessary for future citizenship and Development of citizen´s qualities (s.3).Teachers are the primary factors that impact teaching and learning of mathematics. Two teachers from Sweden and two from China were interviewed and their methods were compared in my study. The aim of my study was to understand mathematics teaching in China and Sweden.

Rektor och lärare på Luleå Gymnasieby, Kvarteret Kungsfågeln upplevde att eleverna på ett industritekniskt program (I-Tek) tappade studiemotivationen från årskurs ett till tre. Syftet med undersökningen var att undersöka vad det är som motiverar eleverna vid I-Tek programmet, samt att undersöka om det fanns några skillnader mellan årskurserna. Det var även av intresse att undersöka vad som kan öka studiemotivationen. Metoden som användes var enkäter och halvstrukturerade intervjuer, utformade utifrån Vrooms förväntansteori (refererad av Dipboye, 1994), Herzberg två-faktor teori (Herzberg, Mausner, & Snyderman, 1959) och Maslows behovshierarki (1982). Resultaten visade att jobbmöjligheterna efter utbildningen, intresset för ämnet och det praktiska arbetet var de främsta motivationsfaktorerna.

Rektor och lärare på Luleå Gymnasieby, Kvarteret Kungsfågeln upplevde att eleverna på ett industritekniskt program (I-Tek) tappade studiemotivationen från årskurs ett till tre. Syftet med undersökningen var att undersöka vad det är som motiverar eleverna vid I-Tek programmet, samt att undersöka om det fanns några skillnader mellan årskurserna. Det var även av intresse att undersöka vad som kan öka studiemotivationen. Metoden som användes var enkäter och halvstrukturerade intervjuer, utformade utifrån Vrooms förväntansteori (refererad av Dipboye, 1994), Herzberg två-faktor teori (Herzberg, Mausner, & Snyderman, 1959) och Maslows behovshierarki (1982). Resultaten visade att jobbmöjligheterna efter utbildningen, intresset för ämnet och det praktiska arbetet var de främsta motivationsfaktorerna.

Syftet med denna studie var att inom den positiva psykologins ramar se hur optimism (LOT-r, Scheier, Carver, & Bridges, 1994) förhåller sig till lyckonivå (OHQ, Hills & Argyle 2002) och livstillfredsställelse (SWLS, Diener, Emmons, Larsen & Griffin, 1985) och om detta skiljer sig i kön, civilstånd och ålder. Studien undersökte också vad som gör individer lyckliga. Urvalet var av snöbollsmetoden och 106 respondenter deltog där 47 var män och 59 var kvinnor. Civilstånd delades upp i tre kategorier, gifta/sambo, särbo och ensamstående. Ålder delades upp i tre kategorier, 18-29, 30-49 och 50-74.

The study shows how seven informants, all studying at a university in northern Sweden to become art teachers, perceive and relate to controversial contemporary art in the context of secondary school art education. The study is based on semi-structured interviews. The study contributes to a nuanced view of these informants opinions and thoughts regarding provocative contemporary art, in relation to the school's democratic values ??and founding mission. The seven informants' responses were compiled thematically linked to the study's purpose and issues to allow for comparisons and analysis.

Dyslexia is a disability faced by an extensive amount of students in the current educational system. No medical alternatives have been found to improve the cognitive processing challenges presented with dyslexia. Therefore today?s educators are required to make instructional adjustments in their schooling, to ensure dyslexic students an academic future. The purpose of this qualitative study was, firstly, to discover how teachers work with dyslexic students, and secondly, to find out which practices are being used in this field.

The purpose of this essay is to study the film culture in South Africa in a national cinema-context, focusing on the relationship between anti-apartheid film from 1974-1994 and the film in South Africa today. By pitching the South Africa-specific works of Lucia Saks and Jacqueline Maingard against the over-arching debate on national cinema as formulated by, amongst others, Stephen Crofts and Andrew Higson, this study aims to find whether or not a specific South African national cinema have existed, and exists today, or not. The study finds that an underground culture of documentaries and short films made by and for the black population has been in place since the apartheid, and the distribution method on video and television is still being used to reach the black population today. By re-examining the concepts of both the national, and of national cinema to also include film on video and television, the study shows that South Africa has indeed a film culture that can be called a national cinema..

Fo?respra?kare fo?r a?ldersblandade klasser menar att det finns pedagogiska fo?rdelar med denna klassform, sa?som till exempel att elevernas inla?rning och sociala utveckling fra?mjas (Nandrup & Renberg, 1992; Sandqvist, 1994). Syftet med fo?religgande studie a?r att underso?ka om det fo?rekommer sa?dana fo?rdelar i a?ldersblandade klasser och om de kan visas o?ver tid. Detta go?rs genom att ja?mfo?ra elever i a?rskurs 8 som under la?g- och mellanstadiet hela tiden ga?tt i a?ldersindelade klasser (n=423), elever som ga?tt i a?ldersblandade klasser i la?gstadiet men inte pa? mellanstadiet (n=22), samt elever som ga?tt i a?ldersblandade klasser ba?de under la?g- och mellanstadiet (n=30).