The environment became an established issue on the international political agenda after World War 2. How to preserve natural resources became an issue that concerned several powerful participants, affected by changed conditions in the environmental legislation. This paper is a study of the growing environmental work within the multinational Swedish corporations Boliden, IKEA and SAS and how it was affected by the globalization. The material studied is environmentally related information produced by the companies and also interviews with the Environmental Managers. The information provided has been analyzed and compared with well-known opinions of globalization, trying to find out how the process of globalization has affected the handling of environmental work within the companies.

This examination work is performed at the institution of industrial economy and production at Jonkoping technical university, for JELD-WEN Door Solutions plant in Forserum.Today the focus in the company is on to reduce their inventories binding of capitals as well as inventory of products and that includes to get a good control of the supply and handling of material which is of great importance.JELD-WEN Door Solutions is one of the worlds leading producers of windows and doors and the head-office is located in Oregon, USA.A great number of wooden doors are manufactured by the company in varying of constructions, classifications and performance.The production of the plant in Forserum has a project- and customer focus manufacturing where only internal doors are produced. The overall market they are concentrated on is to different institution such as schools, hospitals etc.The purpose of this work is to investigate possibilities to improvement of material- and production control at JELD-WEN. The report will handle the master production schedule to and from the production divisions within manufacturing industry. Focus will be on the way for information- and material flows from arrival, transport within the company and further on to customers.Further a map of the flow was performed which gave a clearer picture of the connection between the flow of information- and material for the manufacturing process. On the basis of the mapping of the flow, the group discovered that the flow of material had some improvement potential.

Studies among parents of children with disabilities have shown that they experience a higher level of parenting stress as well as a lower degree of wellbeing, compared to parents of children without disabilities. However, there is a need to further explore parents? experience on this matter within a Swedish context. The aim of the current study was to examine how parents of preschool children, with and without disabilities, in Västerbotten, experience the impact of their child. A sample of 67 parents of children with disabilities and 134 parents of children without disabilities took part in the questionnaire study.

The purpose of this study is to examine whether the high school textbook on religious studies differences in how Christian ethics and in what way it is presented in comparison with the presentation of Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism and it´s ethics. The analyzed material is textbooks from the late 1960s to the 2010s. Due to the survey´s nature the focus is first and foremost the chapters dealing with religious ethical issues and what amount of pages or space the different religions are given in the books. The results from the textbooks are compared with the curriculum that is or was effective during the time the books were published. This is done to determine whether there is a clear link between the books and the guidelines of the curriculum.

I den här rapporten redovisas processen och resultatet av mitt examensarbete på Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies. Möbeltapetsering är ett brett och omfattande område vilket förmedlas och tydliggörs under utbildningens tre år. Förutom hantverket som praktiskt arbete har insikt om en långt mer komplex och mångfacetterad bild av området gjort sig gällande. I den här rapporten presenteras arbetet med att ta fram ett underlag till tapetserarverkstaden på Skansen för att utveckla det pedagogiska uppdrag som utförs i verkstaden. Arbetet har resulterat i historieberättande med utgångspunkt i den aktuella tiden i verkstaden,det vill säga 1800-talets andra hälft.Historieberättandet utgår från en möbel som jag valt utifrån den information och de historier som är väsentliga för tiden och som bör synliggöras.

Syftet med det här arbetet var att skapa ett häfte med några tips och idéer på hur matematik och lek kan kombineras, och att se om det finns några sidovinster med att kombinera matematik och lek.Lekarna i häftet ska vara genomförbara utan krav på vare sig material eller miljö.Jag genomförde en enkät för att se om det fanns något liknande material ute på förskolorna, och om ett sådant material används eller om det fanns ett intresse för att använda ett sådant material.Det egentliga huvudresultatet för det här arbetet är häftet som innehåller några lekar som kombinerar matematik och leken, och visa på några sidovinster det kan ge att kombinera matematik och lek.Det jag i stora drag kom fram till var att det egentligen inte finns några hinder på hur matematik och lek kan kombineras. Det är i princip bara den egna fantasin som kan var ett hinder i hur matematik och lek kan kombineras. Med ett öppet sinne och med lite fantasi så kan man leka när som helst, och var som helst. Att kombinera matematik och lek är alltså inte några som helst problem..

I detta examensarbete undersöker jag om och hur känslan av kvalitet i hantverk, material och sittkomfort påverkas av rationaliseringar i tillverkningsprocessen. Jag diskuterar också hur upplevelsen av kvalitet, hantverk och materialval förhåller sig till hållbarhetsaspekten i såväl estetiskt som ekologiskt, etiskt och ekonomiskt avseende. Undersökningen bygger på mina erfarenheter och min analys av mitt eget arbete med min gesällmöbel, kopian av denna och två ytterligare fåtöljer av identiskt utseende, alla med samma kvalitéer och material i det som syns utåt men med avvikelser i både tillverkningssätt och material i det inre. Jag konstaterar att beträffande utseende och komfort finns det ingen skillnad mellan de olika fåtöljerna, däremot med avseende på hållbarhet, både konkret över tid, och ekologiskt..

The main purpose with this study is to describe teachers? use of textbooks and other teaching materials in upper secondary school (gymnasiet) in Sweden, and to discuss the use according to school subject and teacher style. Data was collected in two different ways. At first twenty classroom observations were made during lectures concerning the subjects Swedish (mothertounge), English (foreign language) and religion. Then four open interviews were carried out with the teaching teachers.

Undersökningens syfte var att jämföra två förskolors utemiljöer och se hur barn och pedagoger samspelar där. Vi ville se i vilken omfattning barnen har tillgång till material och vilket material och vilka platser de var intresserade av. Utifrån vårt syfte ställde vi oss frågorna: Hur ser förskolornas utemiljö ut? Vilket material finns tillgänglig för barnen? Vilka material och vilka platser visar barnen intresse för? Vad i leken blir föremål för pedagogernas samspel eller styrning? Skapar de olika utemiljöernas kontext olika förutsättningar för samspel och styrning? Forskning om barns utemiljöer som vi tagit del av är gjord av Grahn och Mårtensson (1993, 1997, 2004). Vår undersökning byggde på ostrukturerade observationer och fotografering av lek och samspel på de två förskolornas gårdar.

 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.

The field of coping has become more developed during the past decades but there is still a lot to be discovered and discussed. Theories of developmental psychology describe the possibility to map a general developmental structure of how the human mind expands. The aim of this study is to contribute to further research in whether there is a reason why we cope the way we do in relation to age. The questions answered in this study was, what coping two girls, whom lived during the Holocaust, used and how the coping found, were possible to interpret from theories of developmental psychology. In order to answer the questions asked a method called Template Analysis Style and three different theories have been applied.

Scientific studies show that good leadership is a key factor for group- and individual development. Studies have also shown that the contrary can curb talented individuals and/or cause stagnation, or even cause groups to halt their progression. This essay studies how leaders in musical and athletic environments look on their own leadership. In interviews, the leaders reflect upon experienced issues related to their profession, their views on difficulties in their leading role, as well as individual, and group development. This study also includes two observations, one in each field of profession.

The Swedish institute of racial biology was the first of its kind in the world. The purpose of their activity was to gather information about the different kind of racial characters of the Swedish population. They did this by traveling around the country gathering pictures and statistic information. In 1958 it was decided that the institute was going to get integrated with the University of Uppsala and change its research focus to a more medical genetic. Most of the research material also got integrated into the university?s library.The purpose of this paper is to find out how the institutes collection has been handled through the ages and if there have been any controversy or debate about it.

Fältbiologer in Lund : A study on how the NGO Fältbiologerna has affected environmental politics in the municipality of LundThis paper examines, through interview and literary studies, if the environmental NGO Fältbiologerna has had any impact on the environmental politics of the municipality of Lund. The study is based on a case where Fältbiologerna were protesting against the establishment of two shopping centers near the outskirts of Lund.The study is inconclusive, but provides a few interesting questions for further studies in this subject..

This paper concerning the regional architectural term known as the Tjust Empire style analyses manor houses built in the Tjust area by the east coast of Småland in the period 1810-1860. The term Tjust Empire style was invented in 1937 by PhD. Manne Hofrén in his dissertation on architecture in Kalmar län in the period 1650-1850. The aim of the paper is firstly to determine whether there is a distinct difference between the regional Tjust Empire style in architecture and the common Swedish empire style or as its Swedish equivalent is known; the Karl Johan style. Secondly, the paper strives to analyse why and how the Empire style became so popular in the area during this period, focusing on architecture as a means to express social identity and status.