Information technology (IT) have for several decades been used in university education. An increasing number of classrooms today are built around a concept which uses IT in collaboration with the room itself. However, little is known about the experience of university teachers when working in such classrooms. This study examines the views and opinions of teachers at a Swedish university regarding using and interacting with these classrooms. Furthermore, we identify possible underlying factors that influence these views.

In preparation for the autumn term in 2011, the Swedish elementary school adopted newsyllabuses regarding,inter alia, the civic education (Sw. Samhällskunskap). The civiceducation has traditionally been a disciplinary subject with a main purpose of mediatingdemocratic values as well as providing general orientation in the society. Generally, the civiceducation intends to reflect the world in which people live in, being a complex society whichto a large extent is regularly affected by global aspects and developments.The purpose of this study is to review all the elementary school?s syllabuses relating to thecivic education with specific focus on the globalisation perspective.

AbstractThis study deals with outdoor education together with Swedish language teaching. In my future profession as a teacher I want to be able to offer my pupils varied, discovering and exploring lessons focused on nature. The aim of this study is to throw light upon outdoor teaching, hoping that more people will discover nature as the right place to learn.In my study I have asked these questions:? What is outdoor education?? How can Swedish be taught out of doors?? Why is this method a good complement to the traditional teaching in the classroom?With these questions in wiev I made three qualitative interviews with teachers with different backgrounds. In addition I have planned, taught and evaluated the lesson that is the basis of the result.Outdoor education should be given increasing time in school and be used as a complement to the traditional teaching in the classroom.

I denna studie lyfts det som uppfattas som positivt i ledarskapet hos högt uppsatta chefer inom det svenska näringslivet fram. Tidigare har det framförts mycket kritik kring chefer och deras ledarroll i företag. Studiens huvudsyfte var att belysa de framgångsfaktorer som dagens chefer besitter. Studien är utformad med hjälp av en kvalitativ design. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes på cheferna i studien med hjälp av en intervjuguide som baserades på en pilotstudie med en ledarskapskonsult.

C-essay in political science by Dennis Callejas Gidlund, ht-14. Supervisor: FreddyKjellström.?Great minds think alike. An comparativa study of the Social Democrats and theModerates parties programme 1990-2013.?The purpose with the essay is to examine if the Social Democrats and the Moderates havegotten closer within labor market policies, education policies and also within the view ofmigration and integration.

En förstudie om framgångsfaktorer och hinder med avseende på jämställdhetsarbete med fokus på ledarskap och medarbetarskap. Vilka faktorer stödjer/hindrar en framgångsrik implementering av jämställdhetsarbete? Viken roll har ledarskap, medarbetarskap och kommunikation i denna implementeringsprocess? Kvalitativ studie baserad på intervjuer. I en politisk styrd organisation skall jämställdhetsmål lyftas upp och diskuteras, men i praktiken görs det sällan. Vi vill därför belysa vilka faktorer kan främja och hindra en framgångsrik implementering av jämställdhetsmålen i enheten Äldre, Funktionshindrade, Rehab ? Vård och Omsorg i en stadsdel i Malmö.

The purpose of this study is to investigate what knowledge children in preschool have about recycling, and to examine how teachers work with environmental efforts to increase children's understanding of environment and sustainable development. And if there is differs between the two preschool classes, one of which has a environmental profile. The study is based on qualitative semi-structured interview methods of teachers and children, and observation of the children during a sorting exercise with a number of garbage objects. The result shows that teachers in the environment profiled preschool spend more time per week on work related to environmental and natural issues and worked more thematic. Similarity between this preschool classes is that the use of outdoor education to get into environmental awareness.

This study aims to explore managers? experiences and perceived conditions for exercising leadership in both hybrid and physical work environments. The empirical material consists of eleven semi-structured interviews and four policy documents. The sample includes eleven managers, of whom six work in a physical environment and five in a hybrid setting. The study follows an inductive approach, where the interviews were first collected and later analyzed by identifying patterns and connecting them to theories on different leadership styles, monitoring, and trust.

This essay aims to explain the fluctuations in the Swedish transition rate to higher education between 1923 and 2002. With theories of human capital, and screening, as points of departure, seven variables are selected and their correlation with the transition rate investigated by use of graphs and tables. The variables are unemployment, youth unemployment, the supply of academics, cohort size, number of high school graduates from programs preparing for ensuing studies, relative wage trends for worker categories with differing levels of education, and structural phase. Results show that no single variable nor the theories of human capital or screening can explain the fluctuations in transition rate in full. Instead I propose a theoretic model which amalgamates the above and places risk aversion as the driving force behind the individual?s educational decision.

Johanna Petrén, a prospective teacher of religion, has examined how a couple of students view Christianity as it is presented in a Religious Education classroom. Furthermore, how this image matches their experience of Christianity outside of school. The key questions of this essay are: How do the students generally describe Christianity and what it means to be a Christian based on the image they have acquired from outside of school, or from Christian friends, confirmation or their own faith? How do the students describe Christianity according to what they learn in Religious education at school? What potential differences do the students perceive between the image of Christianity conveyed by the school and the image they have of Christianity from outside of school? Does the school's teaching influence the credibility and interest in Christianity? The questions have been discussed in focus group interviews, in which the students way of reasoning and talking about religious matters were analysed based on previous research. References used in the analysis includes research on topics such as science of religious history, religion in multicultural and postcolonial rooms, secularism and discourse analysis have.

This paper investigates how students in the humanities in four universities in Sweden reflect on their education and the current view on the humanities as an education and a science. I want to investigate what impact the past few years public debate about the humanities have had on the students. What kind of beliefs and identities do the students of the humanities form and how do they discuss the universities, the choices they made in life and how do they feel about the future.This study is based on interviews with seventeen students in Sweden from four different universities. The research is also based upon a report that The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv) published in 2011 and the debate following that report. I have also made participant observations on the four universities to make a broader description for the reader.

Denna studie behandlar hur företaget Gällöfsta Perlan Ledarskap, verksamt inom utbildningsbranschen, arbetar med att upprätta långsiktiga kundrelationer. Till följd av en ökad konkurrens och att marknader blivit mer komplexa ställs högre krav på att bibehålla befintliga kunder och återta tidigare kunder. Genom att företag betraktar sina kunder som resurser där varje kunds unika preferenser tillgodoses skapas ett värde som främjar att långsiktiga relationer upprättas, vilket frambringar kundlojalitet och ger företaget konkurrensfördelar.Denna studie tar en kvalitativ ansats genom att en fallstudie tillämpas där det empiriska underlaget består av intervjuer med personer inom Gällöfsta Perlan Ledarskap. Studiens resultat påvisar faktorer som blir viktiga för företaget vid upprättande av långsiktiga kundrelationer. Dock har utmaningar framkommit som Gällöfsta Perlan Ledarskap bör beakta för att ytterligare förbättra sitt arbete med att upprätta långsiktiga kundrelationer..

Syftet med va?r underso?kning a?r att studera om det ledarskap som chefer inom banksektorn anva?nder sig av har a?ndrats i och med de fo?ra?ndringar och omstruktureringar som sker inom branschen och i sa? fall pa? vilket sa?tt. Vi har valt att genomfo?ra kvalitativa djupintervjuer med fyra chefer inom banksektorn i Mellansverige. Intervjuresultaten har kopplats och analyserats utifra?n relevanta teorier inom omra?det.

This thesis is about how students see their education, creativity and future based on our understanding of the concept of entrepreneurial learning. The aim is to highlight if and how this relatively new concept in the school world is rooted in pupils everyday lives. To get answers to our questions, we talked to students about their thoughts and reflections on their schooling, but also their views on how they think their future will look like. We have also examined what students associate to the concept of creativity by letting the pupils make a mind map during the interview sessions. Research and theories are talking about how to conduct school education, but despite all this knowledge the results in today´s schools drops.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how six students at a Secondary School describes interaction patterns among teachers when students express in a way that the teacher perceives as racist and/or xenophobic, by presenting a qualitative interview study. The interviews were analyzed by two opposing models of value education: the traditional and the constructive model.The results show that students divide teachers in different categories based on five qualities: 1) they listening, 2) they accept students' opinions, 3) they allow discussion, 4) they are knowledgeable and 5) they can express their own opinions.These qualities are included in the value pedagogical model for deliberative conversations, whose strategies for interaction aim to create an understanding of different rules and values, thereby creating skills of rules by using a democratic approach. In contrast to this model, the rule-based moral education, in which the teacher uses his authority and refers to rules without giving an explanation for why they occurred, as strategies. .