Avsikten med denna studie var att ta reda på i vilken omfattning lärare inom musikämnet ensemble jobbar mot produktioner/resultat eller elevers egna utveckling på instrumentet och skapandet av en bred musikkunskap. Fyra musiklärare som undervisar i ämnet ensemble intervjuades och intervjuerna transkriberades. I resultatdelen redovisas det relevanta innehållet från intervjuerna och i diskussionen jämfördes slutsatserna med teorier men även de förutfattade meningar vi haft.Det huvudsakliga resultatet i studien var att lärarna generellt vill jobba med elevers utveckling inom ensemblespelet, men att vägen dit endast blir genom konserter - d.v.s produktioner. De menar att de inte finns resurser för att kunna fokusera på en genre på djupet och att undervisningen därmed ofta hamnar på en grundläggande nivå. De menade även att samarbetet mellan de olika musikestetiska ämnena behöver bli bättre för att underlätta utvecklingen hos elever eftersom allting inom ämnet musik hänger samman..

Titel: Rockmusic preferences in the rock programme. Popular culture, music preferences and repertoire inside a teaching institution. This paper raises some questions about the popular music that exists outside as well as inside institutions. From the example of popular music and rockmusic the students of a music teacher education programme based on rock music are asked for their taste for music in a brief questionnaire. The answers are compared to those concerning the music they used to like before they entered the education as well as the music played on the ensemble lessons at the programme.

The following essay aims to determine what textbooks and teaching media educators in the county of Västerbotten use when teaching the relation between religion and science. Based on educational science theory and through analyzes of factual texts, the teaching materials was examined to determine how much focus they put on the thematic of religion and science. The result shows how the different teaching materials affect this thematic differently. The main conclusion is therefore that students in Sweden could, depending on the teaching materials used in their education, be taught by different standards to reach the same requirements..

This paper set out to investigate how teachers of Swedish in Sweden implement the grammar objectives of the curriculum in their teaching, through interviewing six teachers. It has been important to compare their methods to modern research of grammar teaching and teaching in general. They have been asked a series of questions to answer whether or not they use grammar terminology as mediating tools, if they intergrate dialogue among students in grammar teaching and to what extent the teachers? knowledge of and attitude towards grammar influence their teaching methods. The results show that grammar is used as mediating tools primarily when it comes to feedback on pupils? texts, though not to a great extent; dialogue between pupils is rare when it comes to grammar teaching; and the teachers? grammar knowledge and attitude affect the teaching methods, primarily in the sense that seeing value in grammar knowledge increases the teacher?s desire to develop new methods for grammar teaching..

The aim with this study was to investigate how a few teachers in Swedish, at upper secondary school, are using computers in their teaching, and what approach they have towards using computers in teaching. A qualitative study has been made to accive a result, on this matter, were five currently teaching teachers in Swedish, at different upper secondary schools, have been intervjued. The teachers answered questions concerning how and in what speciefic fields of study they use computers, the computer program and -tools they are using and what benefits and disadvantiges they see with computers in teaching. They also answered questions concerning the availability of computers at the schools which they are working. The study showed that the way teachers are using computers in their teaching, and the amount they are using them varied between the teachers; but all are using computers mainly with the purpose to write texts and to search for information. All teachers also had in common that they are using computers not as frequently and in a different way when grammar is concerned. It appered that the teachers were mainly positive to use computers in their teaching, even if some teachers acknowleadged more disadvantiges than the others.

The aim of this thesis is to examine how the history of mathematics can be used in teaching and whether pupils? attitudes to mathematics can be affected by this. In order to do this a school project about the history of mathematics is planned, implemented and analysed.The following questions are addressed:? Why use the history of mathematics in teaching?? How can the history of mathematics be used in teaching?? Can a historical perspective in teaching affect pupils? views on mathematics?The school curriculum emphasizes the importance of history in teaching. Literature, scientific articles and government inquiries call attention to the positive effects of including a historical perspective in teaching.The school project, which underlies this thesis, is put to practice by 25 pupils in a mathematics science profile class.

AbstractThe purpose with this examination is to contribute with knowledge about teaching in Swedish as second language from teachers? point of view and which materials the teachers? choose to use while teaching. To reach the purpose, I have formulated questions that I have tried to answer through a qualitative study. The questions are: How do teachers? describe their teaching in Swedish as second language? Which material do teachers? feel that they use while teaching and is there any difference in teaching at schools that has many pupils needing second language teaching compared to schools with fewer pupils who needs second language teaching?I have interviewed three teachers? in three different districts, who all work with second language teaching.

Syftet med studien är att definiera musikaliska redskap och plattformar för studenter i ämnet improvisation på eftergymnasial nivå. Mitt intresse för ämnet ligger i de positiva möjligheter improvisationen erbjuder vår undervisning och är utgångspunkten för detta arbete. Jag upplever att forskning som inriktar sig på improvisationsundervisningens didaktik för ensemble på högre nivå med fördel kan utökas från vad vi idag har att tillgå, därav utgår studien från ett didaktiskt perspektiv på undervisning. För att söka svar på mina frågor har jag använt mig av den kvalitativa forskningsintervjun i mötet med mina informanter. De fyra utvalda musiklärarna har alla undervisat improvisation i ensembleformat, de flesta med inriktning mot rytmisk och improviserad musik. I resultatet presenteras bland annat en syn hos de intervjuade musiklärarna som visar på vikten av ett personligt och ärligt musikutövande där den instrumentaltekniska färdigheten först får liv och mening då studenten har en konstnärlig åsikt att förmedla. Sedan diskuteras bland annat lärarnas kompetens som improvisationspedagoger i relation till Hanken och Johansens (1998) musikdidaktiska utgångspunkter, samt ämnets möjliga utveckling och framtida undervisningsstruktur..

Vi vill genom detta arbete visa på de utvecklingsmöjligheter som finns inom improvisationsensembler. I en improvisationsensemble handlar det ofta om att spela solo (att ensam improvisera över ett visst antal givna ackord och takter) vilket samtliga elever vi träffade var mycket duktiga på. Det vi däremot såg när vi gjorde våra övningar var att eleverna ofta var i ?sin värld? när de improviserade, istället för att vara medvetna om sin egen och de övrigas roll i ensemblen. Som blivande musiklärare/gitarrpedagoger har vi sett att elever ofta har en begränsad självbild (att eleven inte själv vet hur han/hon låter) samt vad han/hon själv kan bidra med för att få en ensemble att bli mer samspelt.

Denna studie visar att vokalisten tycks befinna sig i en mångsidig och inte helt okompliceradposition i ensemble. En position som präglas av såväl musikaliska som sceniskaförväntningar, men även av en stark och ofrånkomlig koppling till kroppen.Vokalistpositionen kan också förstås som en underordnad position i förhållande till övrigainstrumentalisters positioner inom ensemble. Dels utifrån den traditionellt västerländskasynen på uppdelningen mellan kropp och sinne, natur och teknik. Samt dels utifrån förståelsenav sång som ett feminint kodat instrument och hierarkin manligt och kvinnligt.Syftet med studien är att undersöka fem vokalisters upplevelser av förväntningar i sambandmed ensemblespel, samt deras förhållningssätt till dessa. Uppsatsen bygger på fem vokalistersskrivna berättelser kring deras erfarenheter och upplevelser av att vara vokalist i ensembleinom populärmusik.

The aim of this study is to examine how the way of teaching in technical subjects are in Uganda and to link those results to Swedish circumstances. A comparison is being done both of the teaching and what methods are used. Since I was living with my family in Uganda I could easily examine the system of school here. During four days I was at a school named Aga Khan School here in Kampala. I could there participate in teaching, talk to teachers, observe and participate during lessons.

The following essay aims to determine what textbooks and teaching media educators in the county of Västerbotten use when teaching the relation between religion and science. Based on educational science theory and through analyzes of factual texts, the teaching materials was examined to determine how much focus they put on the thematic of religion and science. The result shows how the different teaching materials affect this thematic differently. The main conclusion is therefore that students in Sweden could, depending on the teaching materials used in their education, be taught by different standards to reach the same requirements..

The Third International Assessment of Educational Progress (TIMMS) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) during the last decades regarding the results of mathematics teaching shows that China have a better performance than Sweden?s.Swedish teacher-guidelines focus on developing student?s individual interest and confidence for mathematics. In the Chinese teaching-guidelines for Mathematics Curriculum Standards, Ordninary Senior Secondary, the focus is given on: Elevate their mathematics literacy necessary for future citizenship and Development of citizen´s qualities (s.3).Teachers are the primary factors that impact teaching and learning of mathematics. Two teachers from Sweden and two from China were interviewed and their methods were compared in my study. The aim of my study was to understand mathematics teaching in China and Sweden.

Varfo?r fungerar det ba?ttre att spela med vissa personer a?n andra? Vad a?r det som go?r samklang? Vad a?r samklang? Hur musicerar olika personer tillsammans?Jag och tva? sopraner har bildat en ensemble fo?r att sjunga luciasa?nger och fo?r att sjunga pa? a?ldreboenden. Luciata?get har gjorts vid flera tillfa?llen varav ett tillfa?lle har dokumenterats.Huvudfokus fo?r detta arbete har varit samklang och interpretation. Det inneba?r att vi i samband med repetitioner har fokuserat pa? interpretation genom att analysera sa?ngsa?tt, frasering, nyanser, artikulation, intonation, uttal, balans och tolkning.

The purpose of this study is to investigate and describe the role of course books for teaching English to children at intermediate level of primary school in Sweden. The essay is based on a descriptive, qualitative method and interviews have been conducted with seven teachers in different schools, teaching English in year 4, 5 and 6.The result of the study shows that course books have considerably influence on the teaching of English in the schools who took part in this investigation. The participating teachers use a course book as main teaching material and almost everybody follows the traditional routine working with Textbook and complementary tasks in Workbook every week. They base their lessons on course books and use alternative teaching material mainly for fun activities, speaking practice and individualization. Even though all teachers rank speaking and listening as most important for new learners, it is reading which has the largest impact on their teaching.