Organic agriculture is financially promoted in Sweden by special environmental support and as consumers we are all encouraged to buy organic food. At the same time scholars at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences claim that organic farming does not provide any environmental benefits. The main criticism is that organic farming has lower yields than conventional, which means that more land is needed to produce the same amount of food as in conventional farming, leading to deforestation and loss of biodiversity. As for climate change, the critics claim that the significantly higher productivity in conventional crop production compared to organic, releases surplus land, which could be used for bio-fuel production and thereby replace the fossil fuels. The critics also claim that organic farming causes higher nutrient leaching than conventional.

In the 19th century, photography was often employed in attempts to objectively capture evidence of paranormal phenomena. With the advent of television, this tradition came to be coupled with the apparent mystery of distant communication through electromagnetic waves. The television set has often been depicted as intrinsically occult or even haunted.It is therefore natural that television has proven to be an ideal medium to present beliefs, tales, and investigations about paranormal phenomena. Most such presentations have been openly ficticious, but in television the distinction between fact and fiction is often blurred, and the emergence of shows where the crew claims to pursue a serious investigation was inevitable. One of the most successful such shows is the British Most Haunted, airing since 2001.

Wikileaks is using the new technical solutions to mount big leaks, consisting of secret or sensitive information from the government, institutions and business. This might profoundly change the media reality and it certainly means both new opportunities and new challenges for traditional media; the conditions for the journalists, the sources and the news reporting are changing. In this thesis the relationship between Swedish journalists and Wikileaks has been the focus; they both affect each other but the conditions for this relationship is not yet clear. Clearly there is an interdependence, but who really is dependent on the other and to which degree they are dependent on each other is still a question without a given answer.The aim of this thesis has been to discern a new journalism, and how this responds to the theories of Public Journalism and Journalistik 3.0. The main aim has been to examine what Swedish journalist thinks about Wikileaks, what their attitude towards Wikileaks are,  if and how they think that Wikileaks have affected the Swedish journalism.

Today?s climate research shows that the climate may increase its temperature. One sector that is being threatened by global warming is the winter tourism of the Swedish municipality A?re. Tourism is an important economical source of income in A?re and is now threatened by a shortened winter season.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att belysa fenomenet ?det roterande kommunchefskapet? inom Åtvidabergs kommun ur ett makt- och ledarskapsperspektiv. Till grund för studien ligger intervjuer med de fem kommunchefer som ingår i det roterande kommunchefskapet och fem andra informanter ur organisationen. Analysmetoden för föreliggande studie är grundad teori. Analysen består av fyra delar; ide och modell, chef och individ, koncept och organisation och slutligen symbol och värde.

Från att det i början talades väldigt lite om coaching är det idag en mångmiljonsaffär som erkänts som ett effektivt sätt att bidra till utvecklingen av ledare på alla möjliga nivåer i en organisation (McLean, 2012, s 4). Genom att vara en coachande ledare kan man på sikt få mer självgående medarbetare (Chef 2007).Två kända definitioner av coaching är den av John Whitmore och den av Susann Gjerde. Gemensamt har de som utgångspunkt att coaching handlar om att utveckla individer och hjälpa dem att hjälpa sig själva genom att aktivt lyssna, ställa öppna frågor och identifiera styrkor hos individer. Det som skiljer dessa definitioner åt är tillvägagångssättet.Med denna undersökning vill vi ta reda på hur butikschefer inom mobiloperatören Hi3G tolkar och väver in coaching i sitt ledarskap och vad deras syfte med coaching är. Vi vill veta vilken syn de har på coaching som en ledarskapsstil, hur stor del av deras ledarskap som faktiskt handlar om coaching och vilka effekter det har på deras medarbetare.Undersökningen är baserad på både en kvalitativ och en kvantitativ undersökningsmetod där vi kombinerar tre stycken intervjuer med en enkätundersökning besvarad av 34 butikschefer.Resultatet visar att butikchefer inom Hi3G har en relativt likartad syn på vad coaching är, samt att de tillämpar och tolkar det ganska snarlikt, men att många saknar tid till att coacha i den utsträckning de skulle vilja.

The objective of this study was to uncover what aspects of urban plazas and parks that are most important for users? evaluations of places? aesthetics and microclimate (the characteristic climate for a limited space). This was done by investigating people?s general ideas of plazas and parks (the prototypical concepts) and compare these with place users? descriptions of four specific places. Interviews with two groups (31 and 24 persons respectively) were carried out in order to collect this information.

Jag har kommit fram till i denna c-uppsats att den anti-estetiska och visuella aspekten i für Alle-konsten i huvudsak bygger på Wahlbeck/Ericssons användande av modern teknik såsom videokamera, ljud och visuell ljus-teknik. Detta i kombination med alternativa former för att visa upp konsten, t ex genom teater, likt spelfilmen och såpoperans estetik. Jag har även kommit fram till att det konstnärliga formatet och produkterna som sådana (Cd, Film och Video) är av betydelse för det anti-estetiska uttrycket i für Alle-konsten. Den anti-estetiska frågeställningen har jag fått svar på genom att studera tidigare forskares texter om anti-estetik, t ex. Keith Moxeys text om Heironymus Bosch, Folke Edwards text om Futurism, gränslös mediauppfattning och 60-talets konst samt Hal Fosters text om anti-estetiken.

In today?s hectic society more and more people experience stress and our lifestyle gives us a very limited chance to recover. For some it sometimes goes that far that they get burnt-out, they have pushed themselves to the ultimate limit. There are different methods and treatments to recover but one very efficient treatment is to spend time in a rehabilitation garden. There the patients get treated by therapeutics that uses the garden as the main tool.The fact that gardens and parks have a positive effect on humans have been used by people for a long time but it?s not until recently that the research has taken speed.

AimOur aim with this study was to examine how outdoor education is designed and experienced in three upper (senior) levels of compulsory school in Stockholm, and to compare it with the Norwegian equivalence.MethodOur method has been interviews with ten teachers, of whom six are Swedish teachers and four are Norwegian teachers. Two Swedish teachers are teaching in other subjects than Physical Education, four are teachers in Physical Education, two are teachers in Norway in Physical Education at and two are teachers in Norway at university level. Questionnaires were used to examine the Swedish pupils? attitudes towards outdoor education. 90 questionnaires were delivered, and 70 answered them.

Syftet med denna uppsats a?r att erha?lla en fo?rdjupad fo?rsta?else fo?r de karakta?ristiska drag som anva?ndare upplever att vinylskivan har i en tid av digitala stro?mningstja?nster. Da?rfo?r har tva? fra?gesta?llningar formulerats som behandlar vilka kvaliteter som anva?ndare tillskriver mediet och vilka praktiker som de upplever a?r relaterade till det.Det teoretiska ramverket som underbygger denna uppsats a?r fra?mst Jay David Bolters och Richard Grusins (1999) remedieringsteori och tanken om att medier sta?r i en dialektisk relation till varandra och att det go?r att vi tillskriver dem olika kvaliteter. Tillkommer go?r a?ven, bland andra, John Durham Peters och Eric W.

The purpose of this study was to identify the way in which history textbooks from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s used for grades 7-9 depicts World War II from a eurocentric perspective. A qualitative textual analysis was used to achieve the purpose. Three history textbooks from each decade was included in the study, also comparisons have been made to see any changes over time. The study used John M. Hobson matrix describing how the Occident and the Orient are defined from a eurocentric perspective.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and to analyse didactic considerations and decisions made by pre-school teachers in the context of a multi-cultural pedagogical environment.The basic theoretical perspective is social constructivism, but notions from Donald A. Schön and John Dewey's theories of thinking and reflection have also informed the study; even Hans Lorentz' definition of a multi-cultural pedagogical environment has been employed as an analytic tool.The empirical study consists of a qualitative field study at a pre-school, where participatory observation and a group interview have been used in order to collect data. Those who participated were teachers at the pre-school.The results of the study, when analysed in accordance with the method, shows mainly three things. First of all that the teachers at the pre-school, in their didactic considerations, make use of the following methods of knowledge formation: knowledge-in-practice, reflection-in-practice, reflection on practice, reflection on knowledge-in-practice, and reflection on reflection-in-practice. Secondly, that no reflection particularly on the learning conditions in a multi-cultural pedagogical environment takes place.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka uppfattningar elever har till elevinflytande, i ämnet specialidrott fotboll, som erbjuds vid NIU-gymnasium. Sedan 2011, och införandet av den nya läroplanen för gymnasiet, kan endast så kallade RIG- och NIU-gymnasium erbjuda specialidrott. Tidigare har samtliga gymnasieskolor haft möjlighet till detta. För att uppnå studiens syfte används en kvalitativ metod. Åtta NIU-elever intervjuas genom semistrukturerade intervjuer.John Deweys pedagogiska teori och Myndigheten för skolutvecklings analyseringsmodell fungerar som teoretiska ramverk.

-------------------------- 4AbstractThis study is a qualitative case study in order to delineate how visible learning processes in the classroom. The study draws its theory from researcher John Hattie's findings about effective teaching. Data collection is taken from a class in grade 2 in a medium-sized Swedish municipality. The result demonstrates how the communication takes place in the classroom based on the teacher's strategies and planning in relation to pupils' interests and their own initiative. Is there a mutual feedback between teachers and students while teaching? From five perspectives, and the definition of what visible learning is all about, the results shows many good examples of excellent teaching.