Vårt arbete behandlade barns förståelse av ekologiska processer och genomfördes i en skola i Illinois, USA. Syftet var att utveckla elevers förståelse av fotosyntesen med hjälp av drama. Vi använde drama som pedagogisk metod för att synliggöra denna abstrakta process. Även praktiska experiment och teori ingick i undervisningen, detta för att förklara materians byggnad och omvandling. Två av de 6 medverkande eleverna i vår studie utvecklade en djupare förståelse och kunde se förhållandet mellan materians omvandling och sockret som energi för tillväxt.

Syftet med följande arbete är att belysa lekens betydelse i träningsskolan samt hur personalens syn på lek som kommunikation påverkar när det gäller barn i svårigheter. Arbetet inleds med en teoretisk översikt om lekens vara eller inte vara samt lekteorier. Min ambition är att lägga ett specialpedagogiskt perspektiv på leken i träningsskolan. Genom intervjuer av personal och genom observation av dramalek hos eleverna ville jag belysa betydelsen av lek för barn med autism. Sammanfattningsvis verkar leken vara central och viktig för personal på träningsskolan. Lekens potentiala kraft att vara en källa att häva ur samt berikas även barn med autism och blir då särskild viktig genom lekstruktur och personalens samsyn på lek..

According to pre-school curriculum, the children´s needs and interests from the basis for the design and planning of the educational activities. The curriculum also highlights that all children should have the opportunity to satisfy their increasing ability to influence the content and approach. The purpose of this study is to examine whether and how teachers work in involving children's influence and interest in forest excursions.The essay is based on a qualitative approach in which we have chosen to carry out unstructured observations by a team of three educationalists. The study includes children of 3-5 years of age.The results show that the educationalists take advantage of children's interests and needs foremost in conversations. The children are given the possibility of influence that of which concerns only themselves and nobody else.

The purpose of this paper is to examine preschool educators conceptions on gender pedagogy. Based on preschool teachers own words, we want to get an insight into the use of gender in the curriculum in preschool classes. We also examine the conditions and setbacks of conducting a gender-sensitive educational way of working the curriculum.In order to examine our research question, we choose the method of qualitative interview, and previous research in the theory of gender pedagogy from a sociocultural perspective, in which social interaction is very important. We have interviewed five educators in preschool classes, all with similar educational backgrounds.In the results and analyses section the educators' definition of gender pedagogy is presented and how they take part in gender educational theories strategies. The result of the survey show that the importance of the educator?s own approach to and further education in, the subject matter, makes it possible to really understand the gender norms.

This paper conducts a qualitative examination based on interviews with four high school librarians. The purpose is to illustrate their professional role in proportion to that of the teachers from working with students? reading comprehension and from their role, if any, in the school?s educational activity. The work is based on the following questions:- How does the high school librarian describe his or her work to increase the students' reading comprehension and contribute to their reading development?- How does the high school librarian describe his or her involvement in the schools? educational activity?- How can one understand the high school librarians' relation to the teachers with reference to the librarians? jurisdiction and the formal and actual legitimacy of the school library profession?The theoretical framework constitutes of the concept of jurisdiction and of formal and actual legitimacy.

The information technique is developing at a fast pace and almost all new technique is being welcomed with opened arms. The newest on the market is the tablet device, it´s a device used for surfing the web, sending email, watching movies and playing games. It is now also being used in some schools for educational purposes. My research goal has been to find out how the teachers feel about using the tablet device for educational purposes. I have conducted interviews to find the answers to my questions.

Att inneha ett rikt språk är betydelsefullt för attleva och verka i dagens samhälle som omges av text och samtal. Barns läsförmågaoch intresse för litteratur har senaste decenniet försämrats. Därför är det avstor vikt att lärare applicerar högläsning i undervisningen och bearbetar denpå ett varierat sätt, exempelvis genom drama. Ansatsen är baserad påaktionsforskning där fokus låg på att utveckla VFU-verksamhetens praktik. Syftet med studien är attbidra med kunskap omspråkutvecklande arbetssätt för bearbetning av högläst skönlitteratur.

This paper studies the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein during his years (1920?26) as an elementary school teacher in remote Niederösterreich, Austria. The paper gives a survey of his life, and also a brief account of three of his main works: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations and Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. Attention is given to his alphabetical word list, Wörterbuch für Volksschulen, published for educational use in elementary schools. The study is focused on Wittgenstein?s educational practise, and establishes a connection between his experience as a teacher and his late philosophy..

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the special education, for children with language impairment in preschool, was organised in a municipality in Sweden. The study was based on interviews and field studies as the primary research tools in qualitative and ethnographic method. The result showed that special education teachers were localised in different geographic areas of school and that there were preschools that lacked special educational expertise in language impairment. Literature and the importance of playing for language development were emphasised as well as the use of signs and visual aids as augmentative and alternative communication. In the preschool for children with language impairment, the teachers carried their knowledge into practical and pedagogical work.

Research now shows that the Individual Educational Programs (IEP) are dominated by individual- oriented actions. This despite the fact that the school`s policy documents advocate that IEP should be viewed in context of the school`s activities. Support must be seen from a holistic perspective and the student`s difficulties will be related to the whole school environment. In an attempt to understand why the individual- oriented actions are still there, I have studied how specific IEP are formulated, and how it relates to the school`s policy documents.In the study, I used discourse theory as a method. By examining the I E P in educational activity, I wanted to find the meaning with which the concept of individual, group and organizational level were filled.The results show that the IEP in comparison with the policy documents mainly differ on the definition of group and organizational level.

AbstractPurpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to examine the democratic potential of Forum Games.The main focus of the essay is if working with forum games can help the participators to better communicate their thoughts and ideas and through this take better part in a democratic society.Material/Method: The material to the study has been gathered through three interviews with persons using forum games in their work and one enquiry with 21 students in Teacher education at Uppsala University, who had recently tried the method for the first time.Main results: The conclusion of the study is that forum game has a democratic potential. Ability to communicate is important for a democratic society and participating in forum games can improve the participators communication abilities. Furthermore forum games seem to have other positive effects on a democratic society, apart from helping the participators to improve their communication skills.Keywords: Forum Games, Forum Theatre, Communication, Democracy, Drama.

The aim of this study was to compare educational systems in Sweden, Czech Republic, Italy and Scotland. In the light of the Bologna Declaration signed in 1999, I was particularly interested in comparing social work educations in these four countries. Especially to clarify how far they have come to fulfill the goals of the common European educational policy.Central questions asked were: How do the educational systems look like in each of the four countries? How are the social work educations organized in each of them? In what ways do the social work educations differ? How can we explain such differences?Each country in this study represents a different welfare regime, and therefore I was challenged to find out if this has an impact on the implementation of the incentives of the Bologna Declaration. By studying various documents from the European Union, documents from each country and presentations of various social work programmes, I have come to the conclusion that the differences found mainly depends on the historical and socioeconomic traditions in the countries.

This study investigates how social interaction affects newly arrived pupils? views on their study situation in the Swedish educational system. The aim is to give a contribution to the discussion on the notion of including ?the Other? in educational practice in multicultural schools. Semi-structured group interviews were conducted to explore how the intercultural perspective and the theory of inclusion can be used to explain the dynamics of social interaction.

Over the period as a student at the Master's Program for Educational Leadership, I have learned thatsometimes the participants School?s management shows concern regarding the purpose of studyingat such a program. The curiosity of what that might devolve upon got me to immerse myself in theapproach to and attitude towards competence development within educational leadership.The essence of what I wanted to examine was how the students from the above mentioned Master'sProgram perceived the treatment they received from supervisors and colleagues and if it waspossible to explain the attitude that the participants in the study reported. I also wanted to examinewhat issues, related to competence development and leadership within the school system, highlightsthe treatment of participants in educational leadership.The results are based on questionnaires and interviews and are divided into four categories; thesupportive, the unaffected, the discouraged and finally a side category to explain how to handle thediscouraged?s lack of support.

Syftet med denna studie är att utveckla kunskaper om förutsättningar för lärande inom det estetiska ämnesområdet i grundsärskolan för elever med kombinationen utvecklingsstörning och hörselskada/dövhet. I studien undersöks vilka undervisningsstrategier som används av lärare i bild, drama och slöjd. Studien beskriver även kunskaper och förmågor som eleverna ges förutsättningar att utveckla, samt hur detta lärande tar sig uttryck.Denna fallstudie har en kvalitativ ansats och genomsyras av en sociokulturell syn på kunskapsbildning.  Det empiriska materialet består av videofilmade observationer av lektioner i bild, drama och träslöjd samt semistrukturerade intervjuer med respektive ämneslärare. För att identifiera lärarnas undervisningsstrategier och elevernas förutsättningar för lärande har det transkriberade materialet tolkats utifrån den didaktiska triangeln samt två andra teoretiska ramverk.Resultatet visar att lärarna genom ett flexibelt arbetssätt, personligt bemötande, individuella anpassningar och en ?röd tråd? mellan lektionerna får eleverna delaktiga och aktivt deltagande.