The aim of this study is to examine the significance of having a music department at the public library in Enköping, and how the organization of the phonograms is handled. The different areas examined are the reason of the reintroduction of a music department, its budget, its users, the work with selection, the marketing, statistical data concerning loans, the work with classification, indexing, and organization of the phonograms and the future of the music department. The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with staff connected to the music department at the public library in Enköping. For the theoretical frame, Sanna Taljas discourse analysis of music libraries in Finland is used. Talja presents three discourses which all show different views on what kind of material a music library should contain.

Det finns goda förutsättningar att gestalta en förskolegård som möjliggör ett jämställt förhållande mellan barn, men då krävs även personalens aktiva medverkan. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att öka medvetenheten om vikten av en jämställd lekmiljö på förskolegårdar och att försöka komma fram till hur en sådan kan gestaltas. Förhoppningsvis kan uppsatsen fungera som underlag för vidare diskussioner och studier. Förskolans läroplan uttrycker att förskolan ska motverka traditionella könsroller och att alla barn ska få utvecklas utan begränsningar av könstillhörighet. I utvecklandet av könsroller påverkas barnen av både den sociala och fysiska omgivningen.

BAKGRUND: Förskolans historia har präglats av individer som har haft ett brinnande engagemang för förskolan och dess utformning. Friedrich Fröbel, Alva Myrdal, Maria Montessori samt filosofin Reggio Emilias grundare Loris Malaguzzi är några utav dem som vi tagit upp mer ingående om i bakgrundskapitlet.I det material som vi använt oss utav talar alla om miljöns betydelse för barns utveckling. Reggio Emilias anhängare talar om miljön som den tredje pedagogen. Inom Montessori pedagogiken anses att miljön ska vara utformad så att barnen aktivt är delaktiga i sin vardag. Miljön ska vara ett hjälpmedel för den pedagogiska verksamheten anses inom Montessori.SYFTE: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur innemiljön på förskolan används.

Prior research in human bird relations is relatively small and discussion about bird ecology in relation to humans is largely not discussed. The study means to understand how a difference in usage of birds and symbolization of a bird occurs. This will be answered through analysis of two bird species. The study uses three different sources of material to conclude its answers. The sources are graves with bones of predatory birds, material culture representing bird motifs and historical sources discussing mythology.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate how the crisis communication was perceived between SAS, massmedia and citizens during the volcano crisis in 2010. The questions posed are: - How did the communication between SAS, media and citizens function during the crisis? - How did senders, intermediaries and beneficiaries experience the information and communication during the crisis? - How important was the internet communication for SAS, media and citizens during the crisis?The collected material consists of interviews and desktop research of material from Internet.The study shows that the communication between SAS, the media and citizens worked well on the social medias but was weaker in all other mediachannels. SAS was also weak in following up information received by media and travelers, and they therefore they had a different picture of the situation during the crisis. SAS thought that the communication worked fine between the parties involved.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate how the crisis communication was perceived between SAS, massmedia and citizens during the volcano crisis in 2010. The questions posed are: - How did the communication between SAS, media and citizens function during the crisis? - How did senders, intermediaries and beneficiaries experience the information and communication during the crisis? - How important was the internet communication for SAS, media and citizens during the crisis?The collected material consists of interviews and desktop research of material from Internet.The study shows that the communication between SAS, the media and citizens worked well on the social medias but was weaker in all other mediachannels. SAS was also weak in following up information received by media and travelers, and they therefore they had a different picture of the situation during the crisis. SAS thought that the communication worked fine between the parties involved.

Ephemerality is one of the most essential characteristics of fashion, since fashion by definition is existing in the present, in the fleeing moment. Also, fashion is closely related to art and there is currently no clear theoretical distinction made regarding the boundary between these two domains. In this essay I have explored the concept of transiency and the relationship between fashion and art in relation to fashion in general and to the collection Haute Papier, made by the fashion designer Bea Szenfeld, in specific. The Haute Papier collection is constructed almost entirely out of simple white paper sheets and of this reason it can be regarded as ephemeral. The material also positions the garments in a void between fashion and art, simultaneously existing in both domains and in none of them.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur pedagoger på förskolan beskriver hur de arbetar för att stödja barn att komma in i den fria leken. Vi ville även undersöka vilka strategier pedagogerna använder sig av för att hjälpa barn att komma in i den fria leken. I studien användes en kvalitativ forskningsstrategi. För att samla in material till studien intervjuades åtta pedagoger på tre olika förskolor. Resultatet visar att material, miljön och tiden har en stor påverkan på barns fria lek.

The purpose of this analysis was by qualitative semi-structured interviews with twelve children 5-years old and six pre-school teachers at three pre-schools, a total of six departments, find out how pre-school teachers worked with waste separation, if it motivated the children to take care of the environment, and if the work was understandable for the children. The results showed that the children did not comprehend what the pre-school teachers expressed that they worked with regarding waste separation and actions connected to caring for the environment. The pre-school teachers also expressed that the children was not mature enough to learn about the process when waste separated garbage is recycled, and that the work with the subject therefore had been carried out on a lower level. The children however expressed knowledge that did not come straight from their actual every day life, but since dialogue about the subject did not seem to exist between pre-school teachers and children, the pre-school teachers appeared to have failed in making the learning meaningful and understandable for the children, from their knowledge, experiences and interests..

Today the talk about global warming and climate change are on top of the public agenda. There for schools and schoolbooks also debate the issue of global warming. A newcomer on the school stage is the sponsored school materials that studies show to be a growing phenomenon. In a debate like that of global warming which is filled with uncertainties and so much political and economic interest, I find it interesting to study how these schoolbooks talk about the issue.In my study I have tried to analyze and compare how school materials for primary school discuss the phenomenon of global warming. I have compared two different types of schoolbooks.

I denna uppsats har en undersökning gjorts där jag har intervjuat fem verksamma förskollärares inställning till och föreställningar om teknik och genus i allmänhet och i synnerhet i förskolan, samt vad de anser om att använda det material vi tagit fram för att skapa en diskussion om detta med barnen. Flanosagan går ut på att berätta sagor med en pojke och flicka som använder sig av teknikföremål för att försöka tänja gränserna mellan vad som anses som kvinnlig teknik och manlig teknik. Figurerna som vi valt att använda i denna saga är tagna ut boken Totte bakar och Emmas verkstad där pojken och flickan bryter mot de traditionella könsmönstren. De intervjuade förskollärarna hade på vissa områden liknande åsikter och på andra områden olika åsikter. Det alla hade gemensamt var att alla var positiv till att använda detta material i förskolan. .

Detta arbete handlar om lärares förhållande till de nationella proven, som sedan 1996 hålls för skolår 5, i syfte att hjälpa till för bedömning av elevers kunskaper. Vi ville också undersöka om det fanns andra faktorer som påverkade lärares bedömning av elever. Vi valde att göra en fallstudie i form av intervjuer och observationer. Vårt material hämtade vi från två olika skolor.I vår teoridel redogörs för Skolverkets riktlinjer i användandet av de nationella proven samt dess syfte. Här framkommer det även olika bedömningsformer som alla har för avsikt att ge en lärare den bästa förutsättning för en rättvis bedömning av elevers kunskaper.Några olika former av bedömning presenteras och diskuteras i relation till en rättvis bedömning av elevers kunskaper.I vår undersökande del framkommer det att lärare använde sig av olika material och inte bara de nationella proven då de bedömde elevernas kunskaper i matematik..

Aktuatorer är idag det senaste inom smarta textilier efter utvecklingen av bland annat sensorer. Med aktuatorernas funktioner finns idag potential att utveckla nya material som inte bara har förmågan att känna av saker, utan även röra sig genom formförändring. Formändringen innebär att aktuatorer har förmåga att ge en respons på stimulus och en del aktuatorer har dessutom förmågan att uppnå reversibilitet. I detta examensarbete presenteras därmed en experimentell studie där olika polymera material har sammanfogats genom laminering och därefter utsatts för värme. Syftet med den experimentella studien är bland annat att undersöka om plastlamineringar kan efterlikna termiskt aktiverade bikomponentfibrer.

This paper examines how the ideal of manhood is portrayed and constructed and how the participation of Swedish soldier volunteers are motivated and legitimatized. The purpose of this examination is to gain understanding and knowledge about the Swedish soldiers in the Swedish brigade, how they legitimatize and motivate their participation and how the ideal of manhood is portrayed and constructed. The study is based on material from the war archive in Stockholm. The empirical material is composed by letters and propaganda material. In the analysis of the empirical study, there have been two theories used which are Eric Hobsbawms historical method and theory about invented traditions and Peter Aronssons historical method and theory about ?historiebruk? and legitimacy.

The purpose of this study was to try to understand the Swedish population regarding the perceptions of the Swedish welfare system, based on the reactions that occurred after Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's statement about raising the retirement age. Our results demonstrate that the reactions on changes in the pension system in fact rooted in a safety factor and not the change in the pension system itself, through which the Swedish welfare system acts as a safety net for the population. Further the results shows that these safety factors create a form of egoism. With an interaction between empiricism and theory, where the starting point of the material was of an inductive approach, the material abstracted into different levels from which the result emerged. The focus of this study lies in the understanding of how human beings act according to one's need for security in major changes, which may be of importance to a comprehensive understanding of changes in social structures..