Horovitz, M (2010). Drama som magiskt möte ? en undersökning med förskolebarn i fokus. C-uppsats i dramapedagogik, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, Högskolan i Gävle.AbstractDen här uppsatsen handlar om ?magiaspekten? i det dramapedagogiska arbetet med barn i förskoleåldern.

Sammanfattning Kunskap skaffas genom att tänka, känna och handla. Pedagogiskt drama har inte till syfte att fostra individen till att spela teater, utan det är en metod där individen tränar sig i att på ett kreativt sätt uttrycka sina tankar och känslor. Resultatet av detta blir ökat självförtroende och individen blir en självständigt tänkande person. Jag ville prova att använda mig av rollspel, som baseras på teorier av Dorothy Heathcote och Gavin Bolton. Grundtanken med rollspel inom pedagogik, är att ge varje individ möjlighet till att skaffa sig ny kunskap, bearbeta med kunskap på ett djupare sätt för att få större förståelse, tänka självständigt och genomföra olika lösningar av ett konkret problem och integrera olika ämnen för att få en helhetssyn.

AbstractThe purpose of my study was to examine how four social studies teachers in upper secondary school interprets the democratic educational mission and core values, and if they believe that the same values are tools to influence the students' democratic approach and if they think it is possible. It is also the study's minor purpose to make an analysis of my findings and previous research in the area to explain any similarities or differences in the social studies teacher's interpretation and practice of the democratic educational mission and core values. I used qualitative semi-structured interviews as a method in which the interview questions were based on my research questions. The two criteria I had for my sample of respondents was that there would be social studies teacher at a upper secondary school and that I wanted to have two of each sex. Their interpretation and how they think they practice the democratic educational mission and core values are similar.

This is a thesis in Personal- och Arbetslivsprogrammet at Dalarna University with thepurpose of evaluating an education initiative in Borlänge kommun. The educationCoaching Leadership is an initiative for the managers in the organization to exercisegood leadership and the education also serves as an incentive for managers. Eightbusiness managers and one from the HR staff have completed the training. Out of thetotal 9 participants in the training, six of them took part in this evaluation. Based on thethesis aim and questions we wanted to explore participants' attitudes to the education,and what skills and abilities they have acquired on the basis of educational goals andcontent.

Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka vilken uppfattning pedagoger har av att använda de estetiska ämnena musik, bild och drama som ett integrerat arbetssätt i samband med läs- och skrivinlärning. Utifrån syftet har följande problemformulering preciserats med två tillhörande underfrågor: Vilken uppfattning har pedagoger i år ett och två om de estetiska ämnena musik, bild och drama i integration med läs- och skrivinlärning??Hur ser deras egen verksamhet ut inom läs- och skrivinlärning??Hur ser de på sin egen roll som pedagog i läs- och skrivinlärningsprocessen? Undersökningen har utförts genom att studera litteratur inom området och för att besvara syftet har det gjorts en empirisk undersökning i form av kvalitativa intervjuer. Resultatet visar att samtliga respondenter i undersökningen ser positivt på att integrera de estetiska ämnena i läs- och skrivinlärning. De flesta respondenter i undersökningen väljer att kombinera olika metoder vid läs och skrivinlärning.

AbstractReading books to children is often an integral part in preschool activities. The purpose of thisstudy is to investigate how educators think about the educational function of literature inpreschool activities. I have in my study used qualitative interviews with active educators andobservations to answer my questions about why the educator reads to the children, how theeducator thinks about the choice of literature and if the literature can contribute to thechildrens development and if so, how. The knowledge- and research background presentsliterature and previous research done on the subject. The results of my study shows that theeducators have many thoughts about the importance of literature in preschool.

Secondary schools have for decades debated whether they promote social reproduction which is considered to generate the homogeneous student compositions. The gap between the academic programs and vocational education programs is considered to increase. What in recent years has appeared in research is that the gap is increasing most tend to be in the specific academic program, particularly in science. This paper's intention is to describe the science program at a local level and the pupils who were admitted to the science program autumn 2009 on the basis of an educational sociological perspective. The survey consisted of a census in which all students were given the opportunity to answer a questionnaire.

AbstractThis degree project focuses on the questions how teachers´ within the four socially oriented subjects? history, geography, religion and social science use the textbook, and their attitudes towards textbooks. The method used in this project was interviews with teachers. Previous research shows that teachers use the textbook to a great extent. Studies also show that teachers? way of educating depends upon their individual educational attitudes.

Vi har genomfört en studie om estetiska uttrycksformer i förskolan och grundskolan. Syftet med denna undersökning är att belysa estetiska lärprocesser i förskola och skola ur ett barn/elev- och lärarperspektiv samt ta del av lärarnas och barnens/elevernas tankar om estetik och estetiska uttrycksformer. Vårt intresse för lärandet via estetiken samt språkutveckling har avgjort valet av innehåll i denna studie. De metoder vi använde i vår studie var barn och elevsamtal, observationer och intervjuer. Resultatet visade att alla barn tycker att estetiska uttrycksformer är roligt och att kreativiteten gör förskolan och skolan rolig.

This is a thesis in Personal- och Arbetslivsprogrammet at Dalarna University with thepurpose of evaluating an education initiative in Borlänge kommun. The educationCoaching Leadership is an initiative for the managers in the organization to exercisegood leadership and the education also serves as an incentive for managers. Eightbusiness managers and one from the HR staff have completed the training. Out of thetotal 9 participants in the training, six of them took part in this evaluation. Based on thethesis aim and questions we wanted to explore participants' attitudes to the education,and what skills and abilities they have acquired on the basis of educational goals andcontent.

This is a thesis in Personal- och Arbetslivsprogrammet at Dalarna University with thepurpose of evaluating an education initiative in Borlänge kommun. The educationCoaching Leadership is an initiative for the managers in the organization to exercisegood leadership and the education also serves as an incentive for managers. Eightbusiness managers and one from the HR staff have completed the training. Out of thetotal 9 participants in the training, six of them took part in this evaluation. Based on thethesis aim and questions we wanted to explore participants' attitudes to the education,and what skills and abilities they have acquired on the basis of educational goals andcontent.

The educational underachievement of children in foster care has been known for a long time. This study aimed to compile and analyze the current knowledge about interventions, intended to improve foster children?s school achievements. The method used was a systematically undertaken narrative review. Despite a comprehensive searching strategy, only ten relevant studies were found, indicating that little has been done to improve the educational outcomes for children in public care.

The purpose with this essay is to illustrate the problematical mother-daughterrelation in Mar-gareta Garpes drama/play ?To Julia? through a psychoanalytic and philosophical perspective. To get a deeper understanding for the relations between mother and daughter, and the kind of motherhood that Gloria is practising in the play I have used a hermeneutic method in search for answers to the questions: Why does Gloria take a position as a so called friend or sister in the interaction with her daughter Julia? Why is not mother Gloria capable to be mature, caring and nursing in the interaction with Julia? Through Gloria Margareta Garpe is giving me possible answers: Gloria is still seeing herself as a rejected and lonely child. The role of the daughter Julia in her mother?s life is to fill an empty space that was created in Gloria?s adolescence when she experienced the same feelings as Julia in present time in the play.

The aim of this study was to determine the self-perceived learning needs in patients with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). CHD is the leading cause of death worldwide. Poor compliance is one of the causes of rehospitalisation. Patients suffering from CHD need education in order to manage their disease and prevent readmission to hospital. As hospital stays diminish the time available for patient education is limited.

The aim of this study is to see if the individual developing plans (i.e. individuella utvecklingsplaner) can be used as a tool for the special needs teacher (i.e. specialpedagog) to develop the school in its challenge to meet the needs of every child.  The study is based on contentanalycis and interviews, in order to understand how one school worked with the students´ individual developing plans.The results showed that the school did not use the plans as a tool to develop the education for each and every child, since the plans didn´t affect the tuition.The headmaster did not include the special needs teacher in the responsibility of developing the school.Even though our results showed that the school didn´t use the individual developing plans as a tool for the special educator to develop the school, we still found a possibility for developing the individual educational plans in the capacity of the special needs teacher. The study showed a need of dialogue in which teachers can reflect and problematize their actions and their teaching for the purpose of developing new understanding and new actions in the work with the individual educational plans. We believe that the profession of special needs teacher should supervise these dialogues..