The purpose of my study is to study Social Democrats immigration policy over the period 1990 and 2013. My material consists of party programs and motions that social democracy has raised in Parliament. As a research method I used McGee´s ideograph theory. I use a cluster analysis inspired by Kenneth Burke to analyze the meaning of those found ideographs. I also present and use Bitzers rhetorical situation in my analyzeWith help of Burke´s rhetorical situation I could see how the Social Democrats' rhetorical approach to immigration policy in the different periods in society.My investigation of the Social Democratic Party program and motions / propositions revealed the following ideographs: Democracy, solidarity, equality and freedom.

Många företag använder Twitter i sin marknadskommunikation, men misslyckas. Uppsatsen syftar till att belysa ett e-handelsföretag, Sportamore, i Sverige som använder plattformen i dess fulla potential och därmed skapar vänskapsrelationer. Uppsatsen baseras på en dialogisk analys av tweets till och från e-handelsbolaget under åren 2010, 2012, 2014. Det är en kvalitativ studie med ett hermeneutiskt perspektiv. Resultatet visar hur ett företag med hjälp av dialog kan skapa mervärde och relationer på Twitter.

The purpose of this graduate work is to seek knowledge about how children?s right to participation and influence is interpreted and understood in a specific context and also to examine how this right can be conditioned and shaped by the pedagogical practice of early childhood education.The focus of this study has been to examine the arguments and attitudes towards the right to participation and influence as a pedagogical practice as it is understood in early childhood education. Additionally, I have been interested in studying the affordances and restrictions that early childhood educators experience when dealing with children´s right to participation and influence.The platform used for data collection is Facebook and the informants recruited were active participants in forums regarding democracy in preschool education. In the second phase of the study I conducted online focus groups with these participants.For the analysis of the material I have adopted a poststructuralist perspective, starting from Jaques Derridas philosophical texts and use of deconstruction.The results show the complexity in early childhood education´s democratic mission. What becomes clear is the importance for the teachers to adopting an open, ethical and democratic approach in order to make children´s right to participation and genuine influence possible in the everyday reality of early childhood education. .

On the 8th of May 2007 a local power-sharing goverment consisting of Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was formed in Northern Ireland. The aim of this dissertation is to explore why the DUP, who in the past have opposed all forms of power-sharing decided to form a goverment and take active part in a power-sharing agreement. The study is based on a consociational theoretical framework developed by Arend Lijphart and further developed in a Northern Irish context by John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary. Using this theory the study seeks to understand the broad conditions surrounding the DUP's power-sharing. After a description of consociational theory and the road leading up to the Belfast Agreement,three possible explanations for power-sharing, based onconsociational theory are discussed.

The aim of the study has been to find out children?s librarians? views on and management of media that contains topics with a controversial nature and also to find out how this affects the public library as a democratic institution. We have conducted the study by interviewing six children?s librarians. By using Vestheim?s terms value rationality and instrumental rationality, we have been categorizing the answers from our informants and thus identified two different points of view.

Syftet med denna studie var att via en kvalitativ studie med intervju somdatainsamlingsmetod ta reda på hur elevinflytandet fungerade i skolår fyra och skolårfem. Jag ville även ta reda på om lärare och elever har samma syn på elevinflytandesamt på vilket sätt man skulle kunna utveckla elevinflytandet. Resultaten visade atteleverna hade mer inflytande över praktiska saker som rör deras vardag än vad dehade i planering av undervisning. Elever och lärare var överens om att det är viktigtmed elevinflytande, men även att båda parter trivs med en tydlig lärarroll som hartydlig struktur. Resultaten visade även att klassråd och elevråd var två forum somlärare och elever uppskattar, då elevernas åsikter kan komma till tals.

Researchers in the field of political corruption generally expect voters in democratic states to lose trust in corrupted politicians. However, there are cases where corrupted politicians maintain their popularity, a phenomenon studied in this thesis. Focus lies on three cases of political corruption: the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who has been the subject of several judicial investigations and court cases; the impeached former president of Lithuania, Rolandas Paksas; and the German Christian Democratic Union's (CDU) involvement in a party funding scandal. The cases are chosen based on the method of agreement. Berlusconi, Paksas and CDU have all, in spite of their corrupt behaviour, kept or regained popular support among a large group of their country's citizens.

Taiwan has over the past thirty years experienced a substantial political transformation. Being ruled by Chinese nationalists since World War II, Taiwan started its democratic transition in the late eighties. The new democratic system did not only provide people with freedom to vote, it also marked the beginning of a search for a new national identity. Based on the international theory of constructivism, this paper defines and studies the Taiwanese people?s progression away from a dominant Chinese national identity towards a uniquely defined Taiwanese identity.

Denna uppsats är en litteraturstudie som behandlar hur man kan jobba med att främja elevers medvetande om det egna lärandet. Syftet med arbetet är att förbättra kunskapen om att arbeta med metakognition hos blivande lärare samt redan verksamma lärare. Materialet för analysen har bestått av litteratur skriven av fyra författare inom området, nämligen Howard Gardner, Peter Gärdenfors, Ference Marton et al. samt Roger Säljö. Metoden jag har använt mig av är en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet har delats in i tre metodkategorier; variation, struktur- och mönsterskapande samt dialog.

Arbetslöshet och/eller långtidssjukskrivning hos föräldrar är en vanlig situation för många tonåringar. Påverkar det deras framtidstro? En deskriptiv studie av ca 6 500 tonåringar i Uppsala Län genomfördes i syfte att se huruvida deras framtidstro samvarierade med föräldrarnas arbetssituation. Kontrollfrågor gällande depression, dialog med föräldrar, välmående samt nöjdhet med livet analyserades likaså. Sambandet mellan föräldrars arbetssituation och tonåringens framtidssyn var inte signifikant.

This essay follows a Media Teacher in her work as a coordinator and an artistic leader for a European project called Legalopoli concerning laws and ethics in a senior level school for 13-16 year-olds in Mora, Sweden. The students write film stories about how their characters have to make choices in ethical dilemma situations. Then the learners create interactive computer games together through practical film work. At the same time we can see how the educator also gets into difficult ethical situations, when she is working with the students. This forces her to self-reflection.

The purpose of this study was to see how teachers experience their own leadership style and how they did to get their leadership to work in the classroom. The purpose was also to understand the teachers? actions, what they think is best for the students? development and how they describe the leadership in the classroom. I interviewed six female teachers and they all have had many experiences since this is their profession. My research was based on Stensmo (2000).

Problem: Vi anser att socialt samspel och en dialog krävs för att ett formulering organisatoriskt lärande ska ske. Idag blir organisationer allt mer distanserade och kommunikationen sker mer och mer elektroniskt. Tekniken för detta finns men hur arbetar medarbetarna i organisationerna med tekniken för att säkerställa lärandet? Syfte: Med denna uppsats vill vi bidra till andra människors lärande så väl som till vårt eget lärande. Vi vill skapa förståelse för elektroniska kommunikationsmedel i lärande organisationer. Metod: Som metod för insamling av vårt empiriska material har vi valt att först göra en förstudie där utvalda organisationer har svarat på ett formulär på Internet.

Tanken med följande kvalitativa studie är att visa hur ett antal förskolechefer motiverar sina medarbetare. Inledningsvis berör vi allmänt om vad som kan definieras som motivation, för att sedan gå in på motivationsteorier som vi anser är relevanta för vår studie. I vår teoretiska referensram använder vi oss av självbestämmande teorin (inre och yttre motivation), Maslows behovshierarki, Alderfers ERG teori och Herzbergs tvåfaktorteori. Vidare tar vi även upp om chefens roll vid motivation av sina medarbetare. Dock är det viktigaste utgångspunkten för vår studie sex faktorer som vi ur vår teoretiska referensram anser vara viktiga.

This essay has the ambition to examine and compare Croatia?s and Bosnia and Herzegovina?s development towards a consolidated democracy. By applying Linz & Stepen?s theory on how to consolidate a democracy and put focus on political society, behavioral patterns, attitude and constitutional structure the purpose is to find similarities and differences between Bosnia and Croatia within this field.The focus of this study is to compare two similar countries that have developed in very different ways. By applying the theory and a comparative method the purpose is to examine why two so similar countries with so much in common have developed in so different ways?In order to better answer the question there are two part questions and these are:What difficulties, concerning consolidation of democracy, have Croatia and Bosnia faced since the democratic transition in the beginning of the 1990s?What similarities and differences in the area of democratic consolidation (with focus on political society, behavioral patterns, attitude and constitutional structure) are there between the two countries?As the analysis shows, the main reason why these two countries differ so much is that Bosnia is a divided country with different nationalities and each nationality only wants to realize its own interest and does not care about what is best for the country as an entity.