Konsumtion kan vara allt från ditt köp av tuggummi, ett par nya skor, en gammal päls från 70-talet, en resa till Indien, till en kebabrulle nere på hörnet. Samtidigt innebär detta att du betalar för smaker, utseende, åsikter, upplevelser, känslor och kulturer. Detta är att leva i ett konsumtionssamhälle. Det du konsumerar speglar vem du är och hur du vill att andra ska uppfatta dig ? alltså din identitet.

AbstractThere is a lot of confusion when it comes to defining Special Education. An example of this appears here by a statement from Assarson (2007) "Special Education initiates a special pedagogy, but contains no innate sense of what is the special component in it" (p. 52, authors? translation). This study is an attempt to clarify the elements of the concept.

This is a case study influenced by Grounded Theory and Symbolic Interactionism. Its focus is on a small group of pupils isolated both geographically and socially from the ordinary school. The composition is written from the children?s perspective. Observations and interviews have made it possible to study both the interaction between the children and also the adults, how the children are described by the adults working with them and what expectations they have on the children.In the light of earlier research, our case study can be seen as an example how the school is dealing with the children?s problems.

I gruppen möten mellan olika kulturer kommer vi bland annat lyfta fram möten som en invandrare ställs inför när han/hon integreras i det svenska samhället. Dessa möten innebär eventuella möjligheter eller begränsningar till integration. Vi kommer dessutom att diskutera hur en nyanländ människa påverkas av den nya kulturen samt hur individen bevarar sitt kulturella arv. Vi har studerat dessa möten i fyra fallstudier med inriktning på; en mångkulturell svensk gymnasieskola, kulturarv, sexuell läggning och slutligen bostadsförhållanden. I den mångkulturella skolan ligger tyngdpunkten på att studerahur olika etniska grupper samspelar och behandlar varandra.

To complete an overweight treatment program is associated with better weight loss. Previous studies have in principle focused on drop-out from the entire program, not individual parts of a program. Factors previously shown to influence the patients´ weight loss results are: frequency of individual meetings with a professional, the lack of social support from family or friends, the lack of motivation and in a few studies vacations. In several studies the drop-out patients have stated that their reasons for drop-out were dissatisfaction with the staff and the program design. Drop-out has also been shown to be connected with difficulties in adherence to the diet.

Sedan miljöbalken infördes och den politiska målsättningen om ett ekologiskt hållbart samhälle lagstadgades har kravet om att sanera förorenade områden stärkts. Därigenom ökar också kravet på en tydlig lagstiftning där det går att ställa förorenaren till svars, i enlighet med den internationellt vedertagna principen om att förorenaren betalar. I studien beskrivs hur miljölagstiftningen i Sverige utvecklats när det gäller regleringen av ansvaret för efterbehandling av förorenad mark. Vidare undersöks om den gällande rätten medverkar till uppfyllandet av miljöbalkens mål om en hållbarutveckling. Som teoretisk grund används teorier om hållbar miljörätt.

Vattendirektivet som trädde i kraft år 2000, innebär ett helt nytt sätt att arbeta med vattenfrågorna i Sverige. Omfattande arbete pågår i Sverige för att ta fram underlag som de kommande vattenmyndigheterna kommer att behöva för att kunna arbeta enligt direktivets bestämmelser. En central del som måste utredas är hur lång den akvatiskt ekologiska återhämtningstiden är när restaureringar och efterbehandlingsåtgärder genomförts. Fem svenska efterbehandlingsprojekt med avseende på metallföroreningar har undersökts i en fallstudie. En översiktsstudie har genomförts på hur fterbehandlingssituationen för metallföroreningar ser ut i Sverige genom att personer vid samtliga av landets länsstyrelser har kontaktats.

National and international studies, such as PISA and TIMSS, which are part of the national evaluation system, are carried out continuosly. Skolverket, in collaboration with researchers, are responsible for the implementation, evaluation, and analysis of the studies. National results show an increasing percentage of pupils who do not reach the goals in mathematics. The last completed international studies PISA 2009 and TIMSS 2007 show an impaired trend of knowledge, in international comparison. Moreover, studies also show that the differences between schools and also within the same school in Sweden have increased.

In this essay I have described ecocriticism as a theory with several different subfields that are inspired by a cross-disciplinary approach, such as green culture studies, ecofeminism, and postcolonial ecocriticism. After a short summary of the background of ecocritical studies I analyze the various subfields, take a closer look at their contents and present various examples of ecocritical thinking. A presentation of the commonly used concepts within the discipline and some reflections on these is followed by my final discussion, where I state that even though ecocriticism is a relatively new theory and the concept doesn?t have a clear definition as yet, it is in my view a useful tool for analysis and can with time make valuable contributions to literary studies, not least by introducing a number of new perspectives..

The Swedish museum world is a complex and disputed field. Changes are high on the agenda, but they are neither easy nor self-evident. This master thesis looks at how Swedish museum professionals discuss changes and how they envision museum work for the future. It is also an analysis of the current state of the field. We have made a critical discourse analysis of three recent projects; Svåra saker, Museum 2000, makten.nu and the debate articles from the journal Svenska Museer from 2000 to 2001.

The aim of this study is to understand how the library environment affects the experiences and feelings of public library users. In order to concretise this, the study sets out from the public library in Bollebygd. We wanted to find out how the library users experience the library environment. Does the library environment affect the meeting between library users? How does the environment affect their moving patterns inside the library? Which environmental factors influence the users' experiences? Our questions were: how do users experience the library environment - as a mediating space for information and culture? - as a social room and meeting place? The material used to attain the purpose of the study consists of qualitative observations and interviews, and literature studies.

This paper studies three Swedish textbooks for the A-course in religious studies, in the Swedish equivalency of high school, to see if the image of Islam and Muslims presented is diverse or homogeneous and exotic. The purpose of the study is to see whether or not the religious studies can contribute to the forming of islamophobic beliefs in pupils. Studies have shown that islamophobia is widespread in Sweden, therefore it could be interesting to see if the schools play any part in the forming or spreading of islamophobic views. The conclusion reached is that this cannot be excluded as a possibility. There are still some textbooks that present Muslims in a homogeneous and exotic manner to some degree.

Geography, derived from the Greek meaning "the study of the Earth," is a discipline with strong traditions and a rich history. Throughout different historical periods and intellectual movements, however, the focus of the subject has shifted between physical geography and human geography, influenced by scientists, philosophers, and various thinkers who have proposed differing perspectives on what the subject should represent (Couper, 2015). Due to the impact of these actors, geography education in today's Swedish school system is of an interdisciplinary nature, blending elements of both physical and human geography, with components such as environmental issues, sustainable development, digital learning, and fieldwork. However, this task is more complex than it may initially appear. The subject is shaped by various traditions, including national curricula, institutional customs, and the geographical perspectives held by individual teachers.

De specifika syftena med studien var att undersöka om (a)taluppfattningen förbättras om man i en liten display får se den som talar, jämfört med om ingen bild alls visas, och om (b)taluppfattningen förbättras då kontextuella ledtrådar presenteras i samband med ett talat meddelande. Studien syftade även till att ta reda på deltagarnas upplevelser och inställning till tekniken. Därför genomfördes (a) en datainsamling av objektiv data i form av ett talåtergivningstest, och (b) ett videosamtal via mobiltelefon samt en insamling av subjektiv data i form av intervju, med 10 deltagare med hörselnedsättning.Resultatet av studien visade att både visuell och kontextuell information ökade taluppfattningen för deltagarna i studien, vilket innebär att videosamtal har potential att fungera som ett hjälpmedel för denna användargrupp. Ur intervjun framkom bland annat att hälften av deltagarna ansåg att konversationen förenklades med videosamtal, och hälften att den försvårades. De deltagare som tyckte att konversationen försvårades uppgav som skäl att ljudet kom före bilden i samtalet vilket gjorde det svårt att läppavläsa samtalspartnern.

To complete an overweight treatment program is associated with better weight loss. Previous studies have in principle focused on drop-out from the entire program, not individual parts of a program. Factors previously shown to influence the patients´ weight loss results are: frequency of individual meetings with a professional, the lack of social support from family or friends, the lack of motivation and in a few studies vacations. In several studies the drop-out patients have stated that their reasons for drop-out were dissatisfaction with the staff and the program design. Drop-out has also been shown to be connected with difficulties in adherence to the diet.