I skolans styrdokument, Lgr 11, står skrivet att skolan ska ansvara för att varje elev efter grundskolan kan använda modern teknik som ett verktyg för kunskapssökande, kommunikation, skapande och lärande. Genom en kvalitativ studie, gjord på tre hem- och konsumentkunskapslärare samt 50 st elever i årskurs 8, innehållande intervjuer, observationer och enkätstudier, undersöker denna uppsats hur lärare använder IT i hem- och konsumentkunskapsundervisningen samt vilka uppfattningar som lärare och elever har till användningen av IT i ämnet.Resultaten visar att både lärare och elever är positiva till användningen av IT i ämnet hem- och konsumentkunskap, men att det främst är tiden och skolans ekonomi som styr hur det används. Även faktorer som lärarens intresse, utbildning och bristen på datorer i skolan spelar en stor roll i vilken utsträckning IT används..

This thesis analyzes contemporary Swedish discourse on Russia, i.e. the ways Russia and Russians are perceived in Sweden today. After a summary of historical Western and Swedish perceptions of Russia, and a discussion about the treatment of these tensions within modern research, contemporary Swedish discourse is reconstructed based upon analytical articles in three major newspapers during the period 1992-2007. It is argued that the prevailing image of Russia contains the reproduction of old stereotypes and prejudices. The five major representations of Russia in contemporary Swedish discourse are: non-Western, unreliable, authoritarian, threatening and eternal, with the last one being a meta-representation functioning both as a representation of its own and a mechanism for the reification of the others.

This essay studies what has been written about religious experience and visions both in the past and now. It deals with both the religious experience and tries to explain how and if there is any place in the modern society for religious visions and experience. The essay has a strong theoretical perspective to psychology of religion as presented by Anton Geels whose writings in the subject have been of one of my main sources.The study shows that people of all times and cultures have had religious visions and the feeling of a divine experience even if this has changed because of tradition, time and place. Religious experience and visions can furthermore occur both in a spontaneous, unprepared way as well as being cultured through ascetic practice in order to facilitate the divine reception. The study also shows that religious experience in no means is reserved for special ?chosen ones? but can occur to each and every one, no matter what class, race or position in life.

This exam work project strives to investigate different roles a teacher can adapt to in classroom situations. The focus is on three different types, gained from a dissertation made by Evelyn Säll where she has investigated teacher students? opinions about the teacher?s role. These types are:the Dramatist, the Director and the Illuminator, and five teachers are defined accordingly. Questionnaires and observations are used as a tool in order to come to a conclusion.

Museums are a part of the cultural sector that over the last couple of years had to compete with the steadily growing consumption of spectacles. New techniques to attract and amaze the visitors have evolved. Living History Museums has developed a method to simulate past times by building up an environment with reconstructions. History is a non-definite science, there will never be an exact answer to how it really was, for example during the Middle Ages.This essay deals with the difference between reconstructions and authentic artefacts and how they build up an illusion of the past. In what sense does it matter if the artefacts are genuine or not? How do these museums deal with anachronistic phenomena from today's modern world in the historic environment? Additionally I discuss whether or not these reconstructions - of environment, buildings and personal characters - have any influence on the historic narrative given by the museum.

This essay seeks to analyze the consequences of modern information and communication technology for collective action within the framework of social movements. With references to the protests in Seattle 1999, the essay argues that the emergence of distributed collective action is closely related to the use of technology, for example cell phones and Internet. This distributed collective action can be characterized by its decentralized and self-organizing features, forming a global pattern emerging from local interactions. Whereas contemporary theories of collective action can be ´stretched´ to fit these aspects, they lack analytical tools to describe and analyze such systems. Further, their rejection of classical crowd theory is problematic, since it contains valuable insights.

Syftet med detta arbete är att göra en fallstudie på en mjölkgård på Gotland om hur lönsamheten kommer att se ut efter en nybyggnation av en mjölkladugård på 180 platser. Eftersom det skrivs mycket i pressen om att hålla byggkostnaderna nere så tyckte jag det skulle vara intressant att se var man hamnar. Enligt vissa rådgivare bör man inte överstiga 50 000 kr/koplats. Jag har också jämfört kostnaden med att bygga varm och kall lösdrift. Jag har i detta arbete tagit in offerter från välkända och beprövade företag som har bra produkter och sammanställt dessa.

This assignment is a venture into the use of the concept alchemy in the texts on analytical psychology written by Carl G. Jung. Originally the idea was to compare the blending of colours in art painting with the Jungian understanding of alchemy. In order to understand the many and it seems differentiated correlations to alchemy in the texts on analytical psychology written by C.G. Jung, I have found it necessary to investigate the history of alchemy in modern Europe and the Egyptian figure of Hermes Trismegistos.

Föreställ dig hur en modern stad  - vad skulle hända om man placerar en enorm glaskapsel över den? Hur lång tid skulle det ta innan livet däri skulle upphöra? Förmodlingen ganska snabbt. Med detta enkla tankeexperiment förstår vi hur beroende vi är av naturen - även i staden.     Vivarium är ett latinskt ord som betyder ?plats för liv?.

Animals in zoos live in more barren environments than their conspecifics in nature. In nature, elephants spend more than 75 % of the day foraging and have been observed lying down two hours during night. Stereotypies are common in many different species in zoos. Stereotypic behaviors may constitute up to 50 % of the daily activity budget of zoo elephants. Modern zoos try to reduce stereotypic behaviors by means of environmental enrichment.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur två olika stora mjölkgivor påverkar kalvars tillväxt och kraftfoderkonsumtionen under mjölkperioden och vid avvänjningen. Anledningen till att försöket gjordes var att få fram uppdaterade uppgifter om konsumtionen av mjölkersättning och tillväxten för att kunna utnyttja sambandet mellan dessa för att uppskatta hur mycket mjölk kalvar konsumerar som tillåts dia fritt från modern. Kalvarna utfodrades med mjölkersättning med samma energiinnehåll som i helmjölk. Studien var en del av ett större projekt där kalvar gick med mödrarna i ett lösdriftsstall med robotmjölkning. I foderförsöket ingick 47 kalvar av båda könen och av rasen SRB.

Is it possible to convey spirituality through art and material culture? Is it possible to renew art within the traditional church so that it appeals and is understandable for the modern man? These are the fundamental questions of my master´s work, which has it´s starting point in a public commission for an artistic contribution to the new Pentecostal church in Kalmar. The work also addresses the question whether there is a need for symbolism, art and sacred objects also within the Pentecostal movement, a traditionally strong image hosting environment. If so, how is it possible to bring this in to the church without completely breaking with the tradition and ideology of the movement? I want to communicate the Christian message in a renewed way, and in this particular project also highlight the importance of using images also within the Pentecostal movement.

The management at the City of Stockholm?s Sports Department have problems. During recent years several IT-projects have been launched but results are worse than could have been hoped for. The projects are generally perceived as being too expensive, too time consuming and not to have delivered the expected results. This thesis aims at giving the City of Stockholm?s Sports Department theoretically based advice on how to improve their management of IT-projects.

SAMMANDRAGDenna rapport är en del i ett examensarbete på byggingenjörsutbildningen vid Chalmers Tekniska Högskola. Som komplement till rapporten finns ritningar på idéförslag samt ett program som beskriver byggnadens nutida utformning samt kraven på en ombyggnad.I denna rapport utreder vi möjligheterna att bygga om den befintliga järnvägsstationen i Mellerud till ett modernt resecentrum, på uppdrag av Melleruds kommun. Rapporten behandlar flera olika grundläggande lösningarav utformningen. Med dessa som utgångspunkt utformas sedan de olika delarna i den bästa av de grundläggande lösningarna. Målet med rapporten är att utforma ett resecentrum som tillgodoser resenärernas behov.

In this essay, I have studied the image of the drug abusing mother and her motherhood as seen in some of the social science literature on drug abusing women. This I did with a qualitative research design and with the questions:How is the drug abusing mother and her motherhood portrayed by social scientists?What signification is her motherhood given in her life by the researchers?What approach towards the drug abusing mother in the research process, and hence in the creation of the images of her, does the scientists have?I found that there are distinct patterns and themes in the research on mothers with a drug abuse. The researchers studied the women with the goal to understand them and to give them the opportunity to speak for themselves through the researcher. The drug abusing mother is in short portrayed as a woman who cares for her children, whose motherhood is one of the most important factors in her life and who is anxious that her substance abuse should not threaten it.