The background to the study was to find out the view of three teachers on students reading comprehension. What strategies and methods are used by the teachers in the classroom when working with reading comprehension? How interaction between teacher and students happen when working with reading comprehension.   The theoretical research approach is based on a sociocultural perspective. Sociocultural perspective maintains that social interaction and cultural institutions, such as schools and classrooms have important roles to play in an individual?s cognitive growth and development.

Detta är en fallstudie och resultaten går inte att generalisera. Huvudsyftet med studien är att belysa pedagogens och utemiljöns betydelse för barns tankar om naturen. Uppsatsen inleds med en genomgång av läroplanen för förskolan, Lpfö 98. Därefter följer forskning inom olika områden såsom utomhuspedagogik och olika teorier om lärande, Piaget och Vygotsky.Undersökningen genomfördes på två förskolor med olika utemiljöer. Enskilda intervjuer med tjugo barn, tre-fem år, och gruppintervju med pedagogerna samt observationer har skett på båda förskolorna.

Syftet med mitt examensarbete är att utifrån de didaktiska frågorna, vad, hur och varför, undersöka hur verksamma lärare introducerar och arbetar med förståelsen för likhetstecknet i skolår 1. I litteraturgenomgången går jag igenom abstrakta symboler, styrdokument, Malmers inlärningsnivåer, Vygotsky och likhetstecknet. Undersökningen är gjord på två mellanstora skolor med ca 60 elever och en liten skola med endast 10 elever, samtliga skolor ligger i mellersta Sverige.Jag har använt mig av en kvalitativ metod för min studie där jag gjort intervjuer med sammanlagt fem lärare. Grundfrågorna för intervjun är hur lärarna introducerar likhetstecknet i matematikundervisningen, vad de använder för material och uppgifter, hur de kontrollerar elevernas förståelse samt hur arbetet förändrats med tiden. Alla de intervjuade lärarna introducerar likhetstecknet i matematikundervisningen i början av höstterminen när eleverna just börjat skolan.

The purpose of this study is to explore specific pedagogical activities that benefit the student's verbal language development and to learn more about how our schools use teaching methods to achieve the ambitions in the governing documents in Sweden. The aim is finding the correlation between theory, research, governing documents and the educational work in our schools. This study contains an empirical survey in intention to see how teachers, pupils and school administrators experience school activities, to see if those activities are formed with the intention for pupils to reach the learning goals according to the governing documents.The aim of this study has been achieved by relating empirical data with theories and previous research on conversation analysis. Goffman's and Norrby's research on the importance of dialogue and previous research on dialogicity studied by Dysthe, Vygotsky and Bakhtin are presented. Those are related to empirical data and show that most teachers realize the importance of integrating dialogues in daily activities and in different learning contexts.

The aim of this study was to examine how the interviewed primary teachers in two schools situated in the Stockholm area understand themselves as teachers in relation to their image of the good teacher. The research questions were: How do the informants discuss their image of the good teacher? How do the informants describe their own role as a teacher?A qualitative method, by interviews made with four primary teachers, was used to collect data for the examination. The results from the interviews were analyzed and discussed from the theories and earlier research concerning the role of the teacher and what they describe as the good teacher. The theoretical connection of this study was based on the theories of Vygotsky, Piaget, Bruner, Dewey, Dreikurs, Kounin and Glasser concerning the relationship between the role of the teacher and learning.

The aim of this study is to increase knowledge and understanding of free play or free fun time importance for children of age around five years in preschool, in order to promote children?s development and learning. The focus was on exploring and better understanding of teacher?s and educators? approach to the free fun play time as a tool in their educational work, and also about their own role in this context as well as analyzing of forms, rules and structures spontaneously created by groups of children having free play fun time. Another important moment of this study was to give more light on approaches to this issue in education theories by Piaget, Vygotsky and Freud among others.As to the practical experimental part of the study it has been performed at a preschool and kindergarten in a suburb at the outskirts of Stockholm, with four employed educators there and with groups of children of age around five.

This is qualitative study of, four teacher´s views on the use of iPad in teaching and learning. In addition, I will examine the disadvantages and advantages of iPad use as a teaching tool in preschools.My questions are:What is the practical use of tablets in preschools today?Are preschool teachers using the tablet as a teaching tool? If so, how?Is the use of tablets in preschools contributing to children´s social interaction, as well as between children and teachers` social interaction?The purpose of this study was to find out how the four teachers uses the iPad as a teaching tool in the interaction between children in preschool. I have chosen to use Vygotsky?s and John Dewey´s theories.

Syftet med vår studie var att ta reda på hur pedagoger tillvaratar barns informella kunskaper och hur de konkret arbetar för att utveckla barns begreppsuppfattning i matematik med hjälp av språket. Vi avsåg även att undersöka förutsättningarna för en sådan undervisning. Vi ville se till både individ-, grupp- och organisationsnivå. Ytterligare en specialpedagogisk frågeställning som vi avsåg att undersöka var hur barn i behov av särskilt stöd gynnas av detta arbetssätt. Vi genomförde tio kvalitativa forskningsintervjuer, som var delvis strukturerade, med pedagoger som arbetar med språket på ett medvetet sätt i sin matematikundervisning.

Den här studien syftar till att utveckla kunskap om hur lärare ser på begreppet likvärdig bedömning vilket är intressant eftersom bedömning och likvärdighet är ständigt aktuella ämnen i skoldebatten. Frågeställningarna rör sig om vad likvärdig bedömning innebär för lärare och vad som är betydelsefullt för den likvärdiga bedömningen. Den metod som används är kvalitativa intervjuer med sex yrkesverksamma lärare. Teoretiska utgångspunkter är sociokulturellt perspektiv (Vygotsky, 1987; Säljö, 2000; Gipps, 1999) med fokus på likvärdighet och alla elevers rätt till utveckling där bedömning är dynamiska kulturella processer som kan användas som verktyg för lärande (Eggen, 2010). I studiens resultat beskrivs hur lärare dels uttrycker att det är omöjligt att uppnå likvärdig bedömning och dels att likvärdig bedömning handlar om hur alla elever ska ges möjligheter till lärande och utveckling. Slutsatser som dras är att likvärdig bedömning har olika betydelser beroende på de studerade lärarnas kunskapssyn.

The purpose of this study is to explore specific pedagogical activities that benefit the student's verbal language development and to learn more about how our schools use teaching methods to achieve the ambitions in the governing documents in Sweden. The aim is finding the correlation between theory, research, governing documents and the educational work in our schools. This study contains an empirical survey in intention to see how teachers, pupils and school administrators experience school activities, to see if those activities are formed with the intention for pupils to reach the learning goals according to the governing documents.The aim of this study has been achieved by relating empirical data with theories and previous research on conversation analysis. Goffman's and Norrby's research on the importance of dialogue and previous research on dialogicity studied by Dysthe, Vygotsky and Bakhtin are presented. Those are related to empirical data and show that most teachers realize the importance of integrating dialogues in daily activities and in different learning contexts.

Aim of this work was to determine teachers' ideas about how to encourage lifelong learning in primary school in year 3, so that students can continue learning throughout life. To get answers to my purpose, I used the following questions: What are the teachers' perceptions of the concept of lifelong learning? What are the main aspects teachers emerged as important in education, to encourage students to lifelong learning? Is there potential barriers to teachers for the promotion by the term of lifelong learning?The method used, is qualitative interviews and as a starting point I used the hermeneutic approach. Theoretical part included Ziehes modernity theory of learning and Vygotsky socio-cultural perspective.The results revealed that lifelong learning is interpreted on the basis of active teachers in many varied ways. Teachers' perceptions of the concept of lifelong learning have been very varied.

The purpose of this study is to explore specific pedagogical activities that benefit the student's verbal language development and to learn more about how our schools use teaching methods to achieve the ambitions in the governing documents in Sweden. The aim is finding the correlation between theory, research, governing documents and the educational work in our schools. This study contains an empirical survey in intention to see how teachers, pupils and school administrators experience school activities, to see if those activities are formed with the intention for pupils to reach the learning goals according to the governing documents.The aim of this study has been achieved by relating empirical data with theories and previous research on conversation analysis. Goffman's and Norrby's research on the importance of dialogue and previous research on dialogicity studied by Dysthe, Vygotsky and Bakhtin are presented. Those are related to empirical data and show that most teachers realize the importance of integrating dialogues in daily activities and in different learning contexts.

 This study aims to deepen the understanding of which opinions and perceptions the teachers in the study have about the national goals, as well as local, when they plan their lessons in science studies for the younger ages. We wish to illustrate which goals these teachers find most important, their opinions on how they use these and how the different goals affect their design of teaching. The study also aims to examine which syllabuses, national or local, the teachers believe have an effect on their planning. Data were collected by interviews with four teachers, combined with questionnaires sent to 25 teachers teaching in science studies in forms 1-6. To analyse the data, key terms from Vygotsky and a sociocultural theory was used, such as situated learning, artifacts, the zone of proximal development, thinking in group and mediation. The data was also interpreted and examined by recent studies regarding this subject. The results show that the teachers find their own knowledge, the national syllabus and their colleagues as most important for their planning.

Syftet med detta arbete är att beskriva hur och varför drama används i språkinlärning, samt att se på ämnet som en inlärningsmetod utifrån teorier om inlärning och dramapedagogik. Inledningsvis förklaras dramapedagogikens innebörd och syftet med dess användning. Därefter ger jag en historisk bakgrund om dramat och dess användning i skolan och vid andra undervisningstillfällen. Därpå följer en presentation hur drama berikar dagens språkinlärning. Arbetet består av en litteraturdel och en undersökningsdel.

Syftet med undersökningen var att studera lärares egna uppfattningar om hur de arbetar med att främja elevers positiva självbild samt studera om lärarnas egna uppfattningar om elevernas självbild påverkar bedömningen av eleverna i ämnet idrott och hälsa. Undersökningen är kvalitativ och utgörs av sex semistrukturerade intervjuer bland lärare inom idrott och hälsa i grundskolans senare år. Studiens teoretiska utgångspunkter utgörs utav Meads spegelteori, teorier om sociala jämförelser samt Vygotsky och det sociokulturella perspektivet. Gemensamt för teorierna är deras betoning på omgivningens inverkan på en persons självutveckling. Därutöver redogör forskningsbakgrunden för litteratur och forskning som anses relevant för studiens syfte, där bland annat de nationella styrdokumenten, undervisningsklimatet samt flow belyses.