The porpuse of this paper is to find out how three teachers working in years four to six in a Swedish school say they use formative assessment and how they use it in educational practice, and if there is a difference in the use of formative assessment between year four, five and six. Formative assessment is the kind of assessment that aims to enhance the student?s learning, as opposed to summative assessment wich is intended only to summarize student?s accomplishments. To answer the purpose, I conducted qualitative interviews with the teachers, and observations in each of the teachers? classrooms.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka fem Reggio Emilia-inspirerade förskollärares kunskaper om och förhållningssätt till barns begynnande skrivutveckling. Studien syftar också till att undersöka om och i så fall på vilket sätt dessa kunskaper påverkas av Reggio Emilia-inspirationen. Datainsamlingsmetoden som används är kvalitativ samtalsintervju, där respondenternas kunskaper synliggjorts i syfte att utröna tankemönster och kartlägga uppfattningar. Dessa intervjuer har analyserats och sammanställts utifrån fem kategorier. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i literacy-forskning, som beskriver människans socialisering i den skriftspråkliga världen. Studiens resultat visar att respondenternas kunskaper om barns begynnande skrivutveckling är varierande, och kan ofta härledas till förskollärarnas intresse. Reggio Emilia-inspirationen tycks bidra till en ökad medvetenhet om barns olika uttrycksformer, men tidig skrivutveckling fokuseras inte. Synen på förskolans roll för barns tidiga skrivutveckling framställs betydelsefull och resultatet visar att samtliga respondenter lyfter detta.

Huvudsyftet med studien är att undersöka fem svenskundervisande lärares språk- och talhandlingar avseende pojkars läs- och skriftspråkande. Studiens undersökningsfokus är således riktat mot på vilka sätt pojkars läs- och skriftspråkande uppfattas i lärares språk- och talhandlingar. Ambitionen har även varit att säga något om vilket literacyerfarande pojkar erbjuds inom svenskämnet.Teoretiskt förankras studien i två perspektiv, ett anglosaxiskt forskningsinriktat gällande literacy (Fast 2007) och ett diskursanalytiskt (Winther Jørgensen & Phillips 2000). Studiens ansats är kvalitativ och semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts (Kvale & Brinkmann 2009). Empirin har i sin tur analyserats genom ett diskursanalytiskt perspektiv (Winther Jørgensen & Phillips 2000).Utifrån studiens resultat presenteras en konstruktion av svenskämnet samt två konstruktioner som belyser hur pojkar positioneras som läs- och skriftspråkande individer; Konstituering av ämnet, ?Pojkar är pojkar? samt ?Pojkar har inte tid att läsa?.

ABSTRACTThe purpose of the study was to examine, from the point of view of former research findings, what impact physical activity had on learning. I chose to make an explorative/inductive research, to get as much knowledge as possible from the studied presentation of problem, not to limit myself to a specific research theory. The result proved, that school personal and student experienced many positive effects from daily physical activities. The pupils were more pleased. There was more piece and quiet in the classroom.

This graduate work is about didactic issues related to the preschool environment. The study aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how the preschool teachers can plan and design the indoor environment to promote children's development and learning. We will also examine how the work of the preschool indoor environment relates to the kindergarten curriculum. This will be examined through qualitative interviews with teachers at a preschool in Botkyrka municipality. The thesis is based on an inductive study method so the theoretical approach has been chosen by the informants' responses.

The aim of this paper is to investigate how well information and communication technology (ICT) is implemented in the new teacher training program in the subject of Swedish and how this is presented in the applications for examination licence to the National Swedish Agency for Higher Education. This is an interesting field of study, since ICT has been selected, by an investigation chosen by the government to be one of four overall perspectives that are supposed to permeate the teacher training program. There have been several difficulties involved in this project of which one has been the extent of the material.  27 applications and all curriculums in the subject of Swedish belonging to them have been examined. Another difficulty was that the applications and the curriculums are written by different persons under different conditions such as time and resources.

 ABSTRACTThis study focuses on immigrant women in Sweden and how their perceptions of resource loss may affect their motivation to learn Swedish. Focus group discussions were conducted with immigrant women who partake in a Swedish language learning project. Their Swedish language skills were very limited, and all of them had no or very few years of elementary level education. Results of the study suggest that the strongest motivator to learn Swedish is its potential role in facilitating everyday activities.    .

The purpose of this study is to gain additional knowledge and a greater understanding of pupils experiences of joining a special teaching group.  The study focuses on pupils with special needs and the ambition has been to get a student perspective of how they perceive their education with special support. In addition, the study is concerned with how pupils perceive their special support and whether this has any relevance to their learning, development and future goals.This study is based on Urie Bronfenbrenners theory The ecology of human development. The theoretical perspective highlights the interaction between the pupils and the school environment, which is important for development and learning. The study is based on a qualitative research method in the form of interviews.

Syftet med den fo?religgande underso?kningen a?r att fa? kunskap om hur undervisning kan fo?rba?ttra elevers la?rande vad det ga?ller elevers historiemedvetande. Metoden som under- so?kningen anva?nde sig av a?r en learning study, ett kollektivt samarbete mellan historiela?rare som riktar fokus pa? elevers la?rande. Genom utva?rderingen av det samlade datamaterialet besvarades underso?kningens fra?gesta?llningar Vilka a?r de kritiska aspekterna fo?r att elever i a?rskurs 8 ska kunna utveckla en ho?gre grad av historiemedvetande, och Vilka centrala punkter i undervisningens uppla?gg go?r positiv skillnad fo?r elevers la?rande? Resultatet visar att de deltagande pedagogerna identifierade tre kritiska aspekter som anses vara avgo?rande fo?r en undervisning med ma?let att utveckla elevers historiemedvetande: 1.

Early intervention is important on different levels and must be justified as a social and economic long-term investment. There is no doubt about the importance of early detection when helping children/students in need of support. What kind of support that is deemed suitable and who provides the support can be viewed from different perspectives and with different approaches. Seen from a relational perspective the special education process is a long-term process and affects not only the individual but the whole school culture and systems may need changing. This study intends to describe the importance of the learning environment and what efforts are initiated early for students in need of support from the special education point of view.

Barn börjar skolan med olika erfarenheter av läsning samt olika sorters literacy. För att vi på bästa sätt ska kunna möta våra elever är det av stor vikt att ta hänsyn till detta och använda elevernas erfarenheter i undervisningen. Syftet med den kvalitativa studien är att undersöka åtta elevers relation till läsning. Vi vill förstå vilket förhållningssätt till texter eleverna i undersökningen har och hur detta tas tillvara på i skolan. För att uppnå vårt syfte har vi observerat två klassrum, intervjuat åtta elever i år tre och deras två klasslärare samt lämnat 16 enkäter till elevernas föräldrar.

The purpose of this study is to examine how teachers and parents are communicating with each other in a foreign area. In case of obstacles in the communication, this study will examine how the preschools create opportunities to solve the problem. This study will also look closely at this relationship from an intercultural communication.This study is based on interviews. My informants are four teachers and four parents, one of the parents is Swedish and the other three have different ethnic and culture backgrounds.This study has reached to several results. The interviews with the teachers have shown that they are unsatisfied with their relationship with the parents because there are two factors that result to their communication difficulties.

Projects to equip every student and teacher with a laptop, with the intention to improve academic results, have rapidly spread through the country. New technology, new contents and new ways of learning have changed the learning envi-ronment. The school library, being a part of this environ-ment, faces the same changes and challenges.The purpose of this thesis is to study how the school library is being affected when a One-to-One project is carried out in a learning environment. The research questions concern how the school library is viewed within the organization and also how the change affects both the school library and the school librarian.The empirical material of the thesis includes five qualitative interviews carried out on location, at a single selected school. The interviews are followed by a study of relevant documents, all produced within the organization.To understand the organization in which the school library operates, as well as the school library itself, I chose to divide the theoretical approach in two: Christensen?s et al.

Ur ett barndomssociologiskt perspektiv studeras i denna uppsats tre riktningar i forskningen om barns läslärande samt de metoder som bygger på denna. De tre riktningarna är: Traditionell pedagogisk och psykologisk forskning om barns läslärande; Emergent literacy/Early literacy samt Literacy from infancy. I första hand studeras skrifter av tre svenska forskare: Ingvar Lundberg, Caroline Liberg och Ragnhild Söderbergh. Syftet är att undersöka vilka barndomsdiskurser och vilka sätt att se på begreppen barn och barndom som speglas.I Lundbergs forskning ser jag diskursen om Barnet som kultur- och kunskapsåterskapare ? ett förhållningssätt som säkrar makthierarkin mellan barn och vuxen.

Jönsson, Annika & Thelin, Kristina (2007). Genom språket sker lärandet (Literacy, key to learning). Skolutveckling och ledarskap, Specialpedagogisk påbyggnadsutbildning, Lärarutbildningen, Malmö högskola. Syftet med vår studie var att ta reda på vilken innebörd begreppet ett språkutvecklande arbetssätt hade för pedagoger i skolans senare del, och hur de konkret arbetade för att elevernas språk ska utvecklas. Vi ville även se hur pedagogernas arbetssätt harmoniserade med gällande styrdokument. Dessutom ville vi undersöka vilken roll specialpedagogen hade i ett språkutvecklande arbetssätt. Vi genomförde tio halvstrukturerade intervjuer med pedagoger som arbetade i skolans senare del.