The aim of this bachelor thesis is to examine the collaboration between school librarians and teachers in primary school, in order to illustrate how the two professions can work together, how they see their own roles and how they look at the other professionals´ roles. We also discuss earlier studies in LIS concerning collaboration between teachers and librarians. The method of investigation is qualitative interviews with practicing school librarians and teachers, we interviewed three school librarians and three teachers from three different schools in the same county.  As a basis of the discussion and analysis Andrew Abbott's theory of professions is used. The thesis shows that collaboration differs between the schools.

Hedström Tom, Care planning teams. Advantages and disadvantages. Examination work C-level, 15 hp, Malmö Högskola, Health and society, Social works program, autumn semester 2009. The purpose of my work was to find out what the advantages and disadvantages might be with a care planning team from a support administrators point of view. The data collection for this work was done by semi-structured qualitative interviews with five people, all working as support administrators within the social services in the same region and town in Sweden. In my choice of interviewees i have tried to get such a diverse mix as possible when it comes to the interviewees experience in the profession and experience with care plannings.

The foundation for this thesis lies in whether or not, and how, the body representation in printed commercials, specific products directed to the body (shampoo, body lotion etc.), has changed during the last fifty years. Four years have been chosen because of the changes in society that we believe might have had an impact. The commercials that have been picked out are the ones that best represent the general view of the body. We have found that the changes when it comes to body presentation has followed the social development to a certain degree, but it is difficult to say how much the society has had an affect on the body ideal in advertising. Representations of the male body is something that has escalated since the early 70?s, fifteen years earlier few commercials was made with male models, and the few there were, never showed more than the face.

The use of chainsaws in both private forestry and commercial companies is highly associated with personal injuries and accidents with deadly outcome. As a result to this, a driver?s license for chainsaws was presented in the year 2005. To get the license you have to attend a course given by the Swedish Forest Agency or one of several private educators. This study is an evaluation of one course given by the Swedish Forest Agency in Uppsala.

The purpose of this study is to investigate, and if possible explain, how background, childhood, and education in a municipal or regional context can affect young peoples? life trajectories.The living conditions for the population in the coastal region Roslagen with its geographical and historical specificities has during centuries largely been characterized by practical crafts-manship. With a growing share of non-permanent residents in the region with demand for help and services, this culture has during the later years been able to prosper. The social reproduc-tion in the municipality also seems to be extensive. In addition to original background, appar-ently the municipality?s service-dominated trade and industry culture has also affected the choice of education and profession of the youth in Norrtälje.

Vårt syfte med undersökningen är att med hjälp av en mindre grupp vägledare från komvux, försäkringskassan och AF, ta reda på hur de upplever sin yrkesroll i vägledningssammanhang. Vi är också intresserade av hur dessa vägledares samverkan är med andra myndigheter. Metoden vi har använt oss av är kvalitativ intervju med hjälp av en intervjuguide. Vi valde vägledare från olika områden för att få variation av informanternas berättelse av samma verklighet. Vårt resultat i vår studie visar att de flesta av informanterna har samarbete med olika professioner, ett fåtal har vid några tillfällen samarbetat med någon myndighet.

This study was built on the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) as an ability with four branches, to effectively: (1) perceive (2) reason (3) understand and (4) manage emotions. By closely studying the four processes of EI through eight semistructured interviews with psychologists, counselors, CBT-therapists and psychotherapists, a study of participants' stories from real practice was done and then analyzed and interpreted. The purpose of this study was to get the participants to describe and put words on practical experiences that occur with clients that correspond to the four domains that define the concept of EI according to Mayer et al. (2008) and find out about if their way of "doing" EI gets trained and developed after several years of professional activity. The results shows that the practitioners used all four branches of EI in dialog with the client, both intra- and interpersonal.

Syftet med arbetetär att undersöka om det finns möjligheter för barn och elever att få redskap för att hantera konflikter på ett konstruktivt sätt.Idéenbygger på att elever genom kommunikation kan förutse en konflikt och då hanteradetta på ett konstruktivt sätt.Vidare ärsyftetatt undersöka hur det ser ut på fritidshem vad gäller pedagogers förmåga att förmedla detta. Genom intervjuer ochenkäterkartläggshur pedagoger ser på konflikthanteringoch vilken utbildning de har i detta.Resultatet visaratt pedagoger som är trygga i sin profession vad gäller konflikthantering inte upplever konflikter som negativa, de vet hur de ska agera för att hjälpa elever att själv hantera situationer där de behöver komma överens. Resultatet visar även att lärarutbildningarän så längeberör dessa områden alldeles för lite, samtidigt som det är varje enhets eller pedagogs ansvar att fortbilda siginom områdena kommunikation och konflikthantering.

Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka pedagogers inställning till lärarlegitimation samt huruvida legitimationen på olika sätt kan beröra både verksamma och nyutexaminerade pedagoger. Syftet med studien var även att skaffa oss en djupare förståelse kring lärarlegitimationen och dess innebörd. Av intresse var också att undersöka vad informanterna anser om sin egen utbildning samt om de ser på lärarlegitimation som ett svar på att höja läraryrkets status. För att få svar på våra frågor har vi använt oss av både kvalitativ och kvantitativ metod där vi genom semistrukturerade intervjuer, enkäter, litteratur och tidigare forskning analyserat vårt material. Resultatet visade att inställningen till lärarlegitimation förhållandevis är positiv men att det enligt informanterna krävs mer för att legitimationen ska vara värdig sitt namn och inte bara vara ?ett utskrivet papper?..

The aim of this study is to examine how zodiac signs are depicted through social interactions from an identity perspective and if zodiac signs can be seen as a form of divination. Our method was based on the answers of seven informants (six interviews in total), all of whom were interested in astrology with two of the informants having the title of astrologer by profession. After the implementation of Erving Goffman?s dramaturgical theory regarding identity and Jesper Fr?kj?r S?rensen?s divinatory perspective, we found evidence in the orrelation between zodiac signs and identity, along with astrology having little to no correlation with divination. The results show that although the majority of the informants were hesitant to the assertion that astrology can provide divinatory evidence, many of them still consumed and followed astrological advice based on prognosis.

This essay studied how six girls experienced their reading development during their college education in male-dominated profession programs. The issues assumed were how they experience their literature reading and literature education and what happened with their interest in reading. The theoretical frame included researchers Säljö, Rosenblatt, Gun Malmgren, Olin-Scheller, Ulfgaard and Molloy.The study showed that most of the girls felt their reading had worsened but not because of their male classmates but because of school. They had a lot of homework and participated in so many different school projects which would be completed that there was no time to reading for pleasure. The girls did not like the teachers? literate sample and did not like the methods used in learning literature.

The production of cut flowers has diminished in Sweden and the remaining growers produce mainly in greenhouses. This situation could be changed if hardy, garden perennials suitable for Swedish conditions were to be used as cut flowers. A grower with suitable equipment as plastic tunnels or houses would be able to provide florists with an attractive assortment of perennials for cutting, during an extended selling period compared with the natural flowering period for these cultivars. This assortment would be based upon imported perennials already used by florists, but would also contain new products. To investigate the demand for locally field grown perennials as cut flowers, an inquiry took place.

The main purpose of this master thesis is to explore a selection of Swedish librarians view of professional ethics. The latest master thesis written on the subject was published in 1997, which concluded that the Swedish public librarians had a poor awareness concerning professional ethics. We wanted to investigate if something had changed. We interviewed six librarians from five public libraries, asking them questions concerning ethical guidelines, responsibility, censorship and selection, pressure from lobbyists, and ethical problems relating to Internet. The answers we got gave the impression of a divided profession, and the librarian?s awareness of professional ethics can hardly be said to have been improved since 1997.

This essay studied how six girls experienced their reading development during their college education in male-dominated profession programs. The issues assumed were how they experience their literature reading and literature education and what happened with their interest in reading. The theoretical frame included researchers Säljö, Rosenblatt, Gun Malmgren, Olin-Scheller, Ulfgaard and Molloy.The study showed that most of the girls felt their reading had worsened but not because of their male classmates but because of school. They had a lot of homework and participated in so many different school projects which would be completed that there was no time to reading for pleasure. The girls did not like the teachers? literate sample and did not like the methods used in learning literature.

Syftet med vår studie är att ta reda på hur matematiklärare på grundskolans senare år ser på verklighetsanknuten matematikundervisning samt att undersöka hur de eventuellt bedriver sådan. För att uppnå syftet utformade vi en enkät som delades ut till 60 verksamma matematiklärare i år 7-9 inom Luleå kommun. Under bearbetningen av det insamlade materialet framträdde bilden av att inställningen bland lärarna till största delen är positiv till verklighetsanknuten matematikundervisning. Det framgår också av undersökningen hur sådan matematikundervisning bedrivs, närmare bestämt genom att använda matematiklitteraturen, nyttja exempel ur vardagslivet eller arbeta med tema och arbeta med projektarbeten. Detta styrker oss i vår uppfattning att verklighetsanknuten matematikundervisning är värdefull för att fånga elevernas intresse och få dem att inse nyttan av skolmatematiken.