This work is about leisure educators' views on educational quality in large groups of children. School centers will contribute to children's development and learning through meaningful leisure and leisure educators' contribution with a high educational quality. There are a lot of discussions and writings about growing groups of children. How are the leisure education and its quality affected by increasing children's groups? It sparked my interest and therefore I wanted to examine this more closely how it might look in the leisure activities.The aim of this work was to examine leisure educators' perspective on how the educational quality is affected by large groups of children and what is considered of leisure educators' as a high educational quality.To answer my purpose five interviews was made with leisure educators' in different parts of Sweden and also by studying the theoretical foundations and literature for school centers and leisure education.The results of the interviews reveal, among other things, that leisure educators' feel that the large groups of children affects the quality of teaching at many levels.

Background: Officers in the Swedish Armed Forces educates their soldiers in various skills and arenas. The Officers get their educational training in officer training courses conducted by the Swedish Armed Forces or the Swedish national defence college. The aim of this study was to find out how the cadets, belive that they are formed into educators, their views on the literature being used in the Swedish armed Forsces, and their views on leadership and educational science.Methods: The data for analysis were collected in spring 2010, by use of a questionnaire among cadets studying the tactical/operational program Ta/Op 07/10 at the Swedish national defence college. The respons rate was 69, 6 %.Results: The majority of the cadets thought that experience was the most important factor in becoming a good educator. Most of the cadets also thought that the literature being used by the Swedish armed forces was good, however, few cadets stated that they will use the material for reflection on their own teaching when working as officers.Conclusions: The Cadets had a positive attitude towards the educational philosphy and literature being used, but few will use the literature in reflecting on themselves as teachers.

The aim of this masters thesis is to examine how the educational work of the Swedish public library was regarded in the Swedish library journal Biblioteksbladet at three different periods of the twentieth century, i.e. the thirties, the sixties and the nineties. Using a theoretical framework from the field of professionalization and a methodological framework of hermeneutics, it is shown that the educational work of the thirties can be described as having a focus on free learning whereas the educational work of the sixties can be described as having a focus on public utility. The educational work of the nineties focuses on the information seeking process of the user. It is noted that this development during the century can be understood as a shift of the cognitive authority of the public librarians.

In this study the author attempts to identify factors that are determinants for why some pupils in Swedish grade school have high status in comparison with their peers. The study takes on the characteristics of both an ethnographic and a literature study by comparing the findings of interviews carried out with students of a first grade class with previous research. The study identify several tools for analyzing of how status may be understood in specific situations.The study also finds that important factors for gaining high status amongst children in aschool classes might be the ability to apply access strategies to get accepted in social interactions, such as game play, have the ability to create games that are enjoyed by peers and social skills, to name a few. Overall the study shows that children's game play with each otherare crucial for their social interactions and their social position. The study also show that children that have earlier established relationships with other children in a specific group alsohave a better opportunity to establish a high status position..

This study investigates certified and non-certified teachers in Sweden and how they themselves view the status of their profession. Teacher certifications were introduced to Sweden in 2011, under the assumption that it would raise the status of qualified teachers. Recent results from international studies showed that Swedish students have fallen in rank compared to other countries around the world, and one of the proposed solutions proposed to this was to raise the status of teachers, as well as their pay. A higher status would then solve other issues, such as the low number of applications to university courses related to teaching. This study asked high school teachers, through an online questionnaire, what their views were on the status change the reform was supposed to create.

A common form of communication within Facebook is the communication between users via status updates. If you write a status update all your friends have the opportunity to read and to respond to the update. The overall issue of this survey is: how are Facebook users to commu- nicate with status updates?  The survey aims to gain insight and greater understanding of communication patterns and user awareness of social contexts when they write status  updates. The study will act as an attempt to understand a small part of a complex interaction taking place in a social situation.

This thesis examines the relationship between recognition of prior learning and the aim to increase social and ethnical diversity in higher education. Recognition of prior learning is a result of educational politics aiming to broaden social and ethnical recruitment to higher education. By examining if recognition of prior learning rather can, and shall, be seen as part of what Pierre Bourdieu calls educational social reproduction I try to question whether it fulfils education policy goals or not. My results show that persons responsible for recognition of prior learning rather recognise knowledge from prior educational institutions than knowledge gained outside the educational system. Considering this, recognition of prior learning does not quite live up to the aims.

I denna uppsats görs en jämförelse mellan läromedel i spanska för nybörjare. Betoningen ligger på grammatik och länderkunskap..

The purpose of this study was to gain understanding of orthodox Christianity in Swedish educational material. The aim was to compare the presentation of orthodox Christianity towards pupils before the new curriculum and after. With the help of an analytical approach by Bergström and Boreu ?s and the interpretation strategy by Quentin Skinner, I have studied material used in school for the subject religion. I have limited my educational material in one way.

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BakgrundForskning belyser hur barn påverkas av olika faktorer då det handlar om deras materiella status. De faktorer som har stor betydelse för barn är bland annat; vänner, massmedia, föräldrar, pedagoger, reklam och den rådande norm som finns i samhället. Alla dessa delar har en central och avgörande roll för barns lärande, önskningar och de val de gör för att eftersträva status.SyfteSyftet med studien är att undersöka hur pedagoger i förskolan och föräldrar till barn i förskolan uppfattar barns materiella status, i form av kläder och leksaker. Vi är även intresserade av att undersöka om den materiella statusen kan påverka barns inkludering eller exkludering.Frågeställningar? Hur upplever pedagoger och föräldrar att barn eftersträvar status?? Vilken uppfattning har pedagoger och föräldrar kring barns intresse för kläder och leksaker?? På vilket sätt påverkar kläder och leksaker barns status i barngruppen?? Vilka faktorer påverkar barn att vilja ha materiell status?3MetodStudien är baserad på en kvalitativ metod där intervju använts som redskap, varav vi intervjuat åtta pedagoger samt åtta föräldrar.ResultatVårt resultat visade att föräldrar och pedagoger har en gemensam uppfattning om vad som var statushöjande och populärt bland barnen.

This study aims to determine whether pupils, students and teachers at various music schools feel that there is a difference in status between different music styles/genres, and if this has an impact on the individual level. The survey was conducted with a digital survey that was e-mailed to junior/high schools with music profile in the Stockholm area and to all the teachers and students at the Royal College of music in Stockholm (KMH). Due to low participation by students and teachers from the junior/high schools the students and teachers of KMH became the main object of the study. The results shows that a majority of the main group of this study feels that there is a difference in status between different music styles/genres. The study also shows that half of the participants believe that the difference in status affects them on an individual level.

Uppsatsen syftar till att belysa och problematisera synen på skolämnet Idrott och hälsa i relation till ämnets status idag och i framtiden. Vi vill därmed undersöka hur lärarutbildare resonerar om ämnet Idrott och hälsas status samt hur lärarutbildare anser att ämnet kan förstärkas i framtiden. Uppsatsen bygger på enkätstudie där vi vänder oss till lärarutbildare i Idrott och hälsa på två utbildningsorter.För att läsaren ska få en förståelse för området ger vi en teoretisk bakgrund. Där behandlas varför Idrott och hälsa inte prioriteras, ett historiskt perspektiv, legitimeringar, motsättningen mellan teoretiska och praktiska kunskaper, förändringar i läroplanen och lärar- och ämnesstatus.Resultatet av denna studie visar majoriteten av lärarutbildarna tycker att ämnet Idrott och hälsas status är oförändrad sedan införandet av Lpo 94. De anser heller inte att daglig fysisk aktivitet eller kunskapsformerna har påverkat ämnets status.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka lärarstudenters och yrkesverksamma lärares uppfattning om läraryrkets status samt att undersöka en eventuell legitimations inverkan på läraryrkets status. De övergripande frågorna behandlar hur lärarstudenter och yrkesverksamma lärare uppfattar läraryrkets nuvarande status samt vad ett införande av lärarlegitimation skulle kunna ha för inverkan på yrkets status. Vidare frågas om en lärarlegitimation kan professionalisera läraryrket. I bakgrundskapitlet presenteras för studien viktiga begrepp utifrån olika teoretiska perspektiv. Begreppen profession, status och professionalisering definieras och innebörden av ett legitimationssystem för lärare presenteras. Det empiriska underlaget för studien samlades in med hjälp av en enkät riktad till lärarstudenter på sitt sista studieår samt redan yrkesverksamma lärare från tre geografiska områden. Resultatet visar att lärarstudenter och yrkesverksamma lärare uppfattar läraryrkets status vara mellan låg och medelhög.

The aim of this Master's thesis is to study how DIK (Documentation, Information and Culture), the major trade union for Swedish librarians, work with the status and professionalization of the occupation. The status is, as we see it, low and depending on several factors. They are among others: the knowledge base, how extended the research base is and the domination of women within the profession. These factors all work together to maintain the status and the prestige of the occupation at a low level. With the help and work of the trade union DIK the status can improve if the focus is right.