Abstract Author: Annika Sjögren ArvidsonTitle: The reflective leadership role in social service organizations Supervisor: Anders GiertzAssessor: Jan Petersson  I have studied the leadership role of unit managers in social service organizations and their relationship to the concept of reflective approach. I started from a curiosity about how and if unit managers within social services use the concept reflective approach in their leadership role, and how their organizations look upon this and what the consequences are. If in the long term, this affects the individual receiving assistance. All the interviewed persons come from different places, services and organizations. The study is qualitative, with a number of interviews conducted with unit managers.

The purpose of my project was to explore variability. I wanted to combine different ways of sitting and create some kind of seating furniture that could be changed to fit different kinds of situations and needs. I sought after a way to express safety and stability in the seating furniture and at the same time make it clear that it could be changed into something else or something more. It was very important to me that the furniture piece would have a long lifetime and would be something you kept for a long period of time. I decided that the changeable factor in my piece would be the possibility to change it from being a chair for one person into being a bench for two people.

The manufactory industry, due to decline in profit margins, is seeking new business opportunities by moving towards servitization and value-adding services in after-sales. We have therefore conducted a case study to investigate a manufacturing company in their current transformation towards servitization. By studying the management perspective, we aimed to understand how Information Technology, by adding value, could play a role in the transformation process. This study shows that information technology can take an integrating role, by supporting new value-adding services to provider and customer, as well as a co-creating role, where both provider and customer benefits by learning from each other, in the changing work process initiated by new services. The study has also shown that Information Technology, together with organization, information and people, are crucial components in the manufactory industry?s transformation towards servitization.  Furthermore, the study has also shown that the value chain has the potential to drastically change due to the value-adding that the information technology brings to the progress of servitization..

I detta examensarbete har en metod för att optimera en missilestimator med hänsyn till mätdata från skjutna skott tagits fram. Missilestimatorn är konstruerad som ett Kalmanfilter. Metoden utnyttjar nya mätsignaler samt använder sig av en kostnadsfunktion som minimeras. Val av både mätsignaler, vilka av de extra mätningar som utförs vid ett skjutprov tillför extra information till missilestimatorn, kostnadsfunktion, vilket kriterie som skall väljas för att optimera missilestimatorn, samt minimeringsalgoritm, hur skall den optimala missilestimatorn bestämmas, beskrivs. Nackdelar med metoden och förslag till förbättringar, fortsatt arbete, diskuteras.

Bullying is today a major problem in schools worldwide. Far too many children are forced to undergo bullying day in and day out without anyone seeing or doing something. My purpose with this study is to find out how four F-6 schools in a municipality south of Stockholm are describes their work to get zero tolerance for bullying at their school.My questions are:How does the four F-6 schools' anti-bullying group in a municipality south of Stockholm describes their work to have zero tolerance for bullying?What do the employees in the school anti-bullying groups consider that bullying is?Why do the employees in the school anti-bullying groups think bullying occurs?Who do the employees in the school anti-bullying groups think are bullies or are being bullied?To get my results I have done four interviews with those in charge of the school's anti-bullying group. My theory is based on standards, what is acceptable behavior and normative theory, hypotheses, what is right and wrong as well as desirable or undesirable behavior.

Syftet med den här studien var att genom en kvantitativ enkätstudie och kvalitativa intervjuer undersöka hur det går för några elever på nationella program på gymnasiet, efter att de ha haft särskilt stöd i kärnämnena matematik, svenska och engelska under grundskolans senare år. Hur ser de själva på sina stödbehov? Hur har de upplevt studierna i grundskolan och hur går det för dem nu? Räckte det att få detta extra stöd i kärnämnena för att sedan klara av studierna på egen hand på gymnasiet? Om man jämför elever som studerar på ett yrkesförberedande program med elever på ett studieförberedande program på två gymnasier, kan man se några samband när det gäller hur eleverna beskriver sina behov av extra stöd?Enkätstudien genomfördes i sammanlagt fem klasser på ett studieförberedande program (SP) och i fem klasser på ett yrkesförberedande program (HR) i två städer. Utifrån enkäterna genomfördes sedan fyra intervjuer, två pojkar och två flickor.Resultatet av intervjuerna visar att alla informanter är överens om att de nått målen i kärnämnena, dels tack vare det extra stöd de fick under den sista tiden i grundskolan, och dels för att de var motiverade att komma in på gymnasiet. Studierna fungerar nu för två av eleverna och två av eleverna har fått "IG-varningar" i ett eller flera ämnen.

 Syftet med den här studien var att genom en kvantitativ enkätstudie och kvalitativa intervjuer undersöka hur det går för några elever på nationella program på gymnasiet, efter att de ha haft särskilt stöd i kärnämnena matematik, svenska och engelska under grundskolans senare år. Hur ser de själva på sina stödbehov?  Hur har de upplevt studierna i grundskolan och hur går det för dem nu? Räckte det att få detta extra stöd i kärnämnena för att sedan klara av studierna på egen hand på gymnasiet? Om man jämför elever som studerar på ett yrkesförberedande program med elever på ett studieförberedande program på två gymnasier, kan man se några samband när det gäller hur eleverna beskriver sina behov av extra stöd?Enkätstudien genomfördes i sammanlagt fem klasser på ett studieförberedande program (SP) och i fem klasser på ett yrkesförberedande program (HR) i två städer. Utifrån enkäterna genomfördes sedan fyra intervjuer, två pojkar och två flickor.Resultatet av intervjuerna visar att alla informanter är överens om att de nått målen i kärnämnena, dels tack vare det extra stöd de fick under den sista tiden i grundskolan, och dels för att de var motiverade att komma in på gymnasiet. Studierna fungerar nu för två av eleverna och två av eleverna har fått "IG-varningar" i ett eller flera ämnen.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vad elever i grundskolan har för attityder till moderna språk. Studien har bedrivits i två städer i södra Sverige, varav den ena staden är dubbelt så stor som den andra. Skolan i den större staden har ett upptagningsområde som endast sträcker sig inom stadsbebyggelse, medan skolan i den mindre staden har ett större upptagningsområde delvis bestående av landsbygd. Arbetet är betydelsefullt eftersom allt fler elever tycks välja bort ett extra språk. Det är av stor vikt att försöka ta reda på om eleverna redan i åk 7 nåtts av budskapet att ?det lönar sig att läsa språk?, eftersom från och med höstterminen 2010 kommer extra meritpoäng att ges vid ansökan till högskolor.

Fiscal policy and its consequences have attracted much attention on both academic and societal level, in Sweden and elsewhere. However, the dependence between fiscal policy on municipality level and business cycles has only recently sparked a debate among Swedish economists. Studies point out that a law which came to force in 2000, balanskravet, may have caused municipalities to lower expenditures, alternatively raising taxes, during recessions. This thesis examines how the level of municipality taxes depends on business cycle fluctuations and the impact that balanskravet has had on this correlation. We employ econometric regressions, with annual data covering the period 1980-2014, to enable an analysis of the dependence between taxes and business cycles, both before and after the introduction of balanskravet.

Today an increasing number of schools and organizations are investing in so called Learning Management Systems. Researchers disagree on the pedagogical value of these tools. Some mean that Learning Management Systems cement old-fashioned behaviouristic teaching practices; others mean that the systems provide good opportunities in supporting learning in a socio cultural perspective. The aim of this study is to reach better understanding and increased knowledge of how the introduction of a Learning Management System influences the role of the teacher and how the learning is organized. We have conducted two case studies.

Inspired by the article Special support on dubious grounds published in Teachers News (2010), we chose to examine the methods and procedures regarding acting out children without diagnosis. In preliminary work, we discussed the various forms and causes of acting out behavior among children in preschool and supervision and conflict management. The topic seemed relevant since we on several occasions experienced a feeling of inadequacy and lack of knowledge in our educational role both in teacher training placement time and during our working years as supply teacher and graduated child minders. Based on our past experiences and interests of acting out children without the diagnosis, work limited extent and time aspect for the course of the work we chose to only interview three pedagogues. Through the interviews, we wanted to compare these three pedagogues description of their work around acting out children without diagnosis in relation to accepted theories such as structure and clarity.

The Swedish teacher education is continuously changing along with the understanding of learning. The teacher education at Södertörn University has an intercultural profile, which is considered modern and innovative. In this essay, students? experiences from their practical training are analyzed to examine the correspondence between teacher practice and the modern teacher role conveyed by the University. The results show that some students have experienced practical training where the standards of the University?s teacher role were met, whereas others feel that they have not received the practical guidance needed to be able to wholly use their education in their future employment.

The purpose of this Master`s thesis is to examine if the pur-chase of media in public libraries reflects the library's role in society. Two questions have been posed: ? What view of public library's role in society is reflected in the purchase of media? ? What principles guide the selection of media in public li-braries in Sweden? In order to investigate these questions, we used a question-naire that we sent out to a sample of 120 public libraries in Sweden. The analysis is based on a theory of three ap-proaches to the role of the library developed by Douglas Raber. The three approaches are the conservative approach, the populist approach and the social approach.

The present study deals with the usage of the school library for upper secondary school students. Is it a place for working or studying? The questions are:? What do the students say they use their school library for?? Are there any differences between students in theoretical programs and students in practical programs with regard to their use of the school library?? What are the features of the ideal library from a students? point of view? My study represents a user?s perspective. The investigation is both quantitative and qualitative. Eighty-two inquiries from four different classes, representing two theoretical and two practical programs were carried out.

Bullying is today a major problem in schools worldwide. Far too many children are forced to undergo bullying day in and day out without anyone seeing or doing something. My purpose with this study is to find out how four F-6 schools in a municipality south of Stockholm are describes their work to get zero tolerance for bullying at their school.My questions are:How does the four F-6 schools' anti-bullying group in a municipality south of Stockholm describes their work to have zero tolerance for bullying?What do the employees in the school anti-bullying groups consider that bullying is?Why do the employees in the school anti-bullying groups think bullying occurs?Who do the employees in the school anti-bullying groups think are bullies or are being bullied?To get my results I have done four interviews with those in charge of the school's anti-bullying group. My theory is based on standards, what is acceptable behavior and normative theory, hypotheses, what is right and wrong as well as desirable or undesirable behavior.