The aim of this study is to fill the gap in mathematics education research concerning the relationship between identity and positioning in mathematical collaboration in groups. This study elaborates on the relationship between how pupils see themselves as math students in sixth grade, how they show their identities as math students, in contrast to how they position themselves reflexively in group collaboration while engaging in mathematical problem solving. The theoretical concepts linked to this study are discourse, identity and positioning. Discourse is used to describe and form the setting and context of the study. Identity is seen as a transient and elusive concept formed by the students own perceptions of self through narratives.

In today?s Europe nationalist movements grow stronger. The Scottish referendum is a result of the nationalistic party Scottish National Party?s aim of an independent Scotland. Using a descriptive idea analysis the essay aim to answer how the referendum arose, its main arguments and how national and state identity is affected in the arguments.

The study aims to increase understanding and knowledge of motivation; this by examining how the leader experiences her capability to promote employees' work motivation. Also, how employees perceive that the leader influence and enhance their work motivation. Interviews were conducted with a manager and two employees of a government agency in Sweden. The results demonstrate different opinions between manager and employees in the manager's ability to foster motivation in the everyday work. The leader thinks that she promotes her employees work positively and believes that she is giving her employees attention and appreciation.

Syftet med rapporten var att studera, tolka och försöka finna svaret på hur gymnasieelever ser på motivation och vad motivation betyder för dem. Det finns flera tidigare studier utförda inom området, där forskarna försöker tolka, förstå och förklara begreppet motivation Kortfattat och summerat kan motivation definieras på följande sätt. Motivation har många olika betydelser, för varje enskild individ har det sin egen betydelse. Yttre motivationsfaktorer är något individen generellt påverkas av, men den inre motivationen är strängt personlig. Den inre drivkraften som motiverar och får individen att gå vidare, är en känsla och en sinnesstämning, en självupplevd positiv erfarenhet som ger vällustkänslor och därmed ökad motivation.Resultatet i min rapport visar att motivation är styrd av flera faktorer.

Arbetssysslan har en stor påverkan på medarbetarnas motivation. Är arbetssysslan monoton kan det skapa negativ effekt attityden kring arbetsplatsen och motivationen. Syftet med denna forskningsstudie är att bidra med förståelse kring hur företag med monotona arbetssysslor kan öka motivationen hos sina medarbetare. Fokusen i studien ligger på att ta reda på vilka faktorer det är som kan öka motivationen hos medarbetare med monotona arbetssysslor. Utifrån en kvantitativ surveyundersökning hos tre företag tar vi reda på hur företagen arbetar med motivation och hur medarbetarna upplever motivationen utifrån olika motivationsfaktorer.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vad det är som gör att eleverna känner sig motiverade eller omotiverade och vilka faktorer som påverkar deras motivation. Uppsatsen ger förhoppningsvis läsaren en fördjupad förståelse för elevers motivation.För att uppnå studiens syfte har jag genomfört kvalitativa intervjuer med åtta elever. Intervjufrågorna baseras på studiens frågeställningar: Vad är elevernas uppfattning om vad som gör dem motiverade? samt, Vilka faktorer påverkar elevernas motivation?Jag för även ett teoretiskt resonemang kring motivation som baserar sig på vad forskare tidigare har skrivit inom ämnet.Analysen av resultatet visar att eleverna i undersökningen i regel känner sig motiverade inför skolan och skolarbetet. Aspekter såsom engagerade lärare och elevernas mål påverkar motivationen.

The purpose of this Masters-thesis is to examine the impact of identity politics on (a) Turkey's foreign policy towards Europe and the EU, and (b) Europe's/EU's political attitude towards Turkey, and what implications this may have on a possibly future Turkish membership in the EU. It is a more interpreting thesis than it is an explaining one. The examination shows that Turkey has considered Europe as a political model, while Europe has used the muslime Turkey as a threat to determine its own identity. The negotiations between EU and Turkey this autumn will have great impact on the identity of both sites. If the EU accepted Turkey as a member, the union could gain a chance to spread democracy to the islamic world and thereby earn global respect.

This essay focuses on the relationship between Islam, secularism, girls and sexuality. These categories problematize gender and how it affects identity processes of young women with a Muslim background. Sexuality is especially emphasized. The Muslim background is placed in contrast to the prescribed norms and ideals of the Swedish society/context concerning gender, sexuality and identity and this essay analyses how young women create gender and identity and which possibilities and strategies they have and use to negotiate about space in the relationship to other people. A girls? relationship to her own and others? sexuality is precisely what makes her a girl, but more importantly, also to which kind of girl.

Prisons are for many an unknown world, and few know about the prison culture which includes unwritten rules, power structures, interactions and relationships between inmates and correctional employees.While many think that Swedish prisons are too comfortable,inmates are facing extreme stress due to surveillance and detention, by depriving inmates their possibility to shape their own lives. When the inmates is deprived of control over their own life?s the penal system have great power to shape and to influence the inmates.The purpose of this paper is to investigate prisoners' experiences of treatment and exercise of power in prisons. Starting point is to examine what are the kinds of relationships between prison officers and inmates from a power perspective, if there is any difference between the closed and open prisons and how the inmates affected by the structures that exist.Based on my overall purpose, and with my informant´s stories which revealed a number of similar points, four main headings were developed; Mass media and society´s view, and unknown world, interaction between inmates and prison officers and consequences.Prison officers with the role as a contact persons as well and other staff which work close to the inmates play a significant role by supporting through motivational interviewing and can help the inmates to gain insight about their life situation and actions. My informant?s underlined that a good contact person can either help or discourage.Inmates who contributed with their experiences express that there is a big difference between open-and closed prisons.

 Denna undersökning är ett försök att visa på vilka faktorer som påverkar elevers inre motivation positivt och som bör eftersträvas i undervisningen, samt de faktorer som bör undvikas. Underökningen är utförd med hjälp av, och vänder sig främst till elever på Hantverksprogrammet, men kan förhoppningsvis vara till nytta och av intresse även för andra utbildningar..

This study intends to discuss what might motivate Swedish upper secondary students to read literature in English. The study was performed through interviews with both teachers and students, as well as questionnaire studies with both students and teachers. The students give different interpretations of what the definition of motivation is, ranging from definitions of extrinsic motivation to signs of their definitions leaning toward intrinsic motivation. The conclusion is that although the English language itself is not a barrier for students? reading motivation, the majority of them are not motivated to read.

National identity, multiculturalism and invisible norms are three conceptions focused on in this essay. They are discussed and analysed with the purpose of deepening deepen the understanding of their meaning. Further on they become instruments in a study of the Liberal Party's proposal for new politics of integration. My ambition is to distinguish signs of a Swedish national identity in this proposal and to interpret the party's relation to multiculturalism.The method of this essay comprises partly a literature study and partly a qualitative analysis of text.My discussion and analysis ended in an understanding of national identity and multiculturalism as complex and interrelated conceptions. I found parts of a Swedish national identity in the value of working, in the fear of the cultural unknown and of eventual anti Swedish culture, in the idea of Sweden as the best country in the world considering gender equality and in the strong defence for the Swedish language.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how genealogists create identity through their own research, and how they live with their ancestors in the everyday life. The questions at issue are: How do genealogists deal with concepts like ?native home district?, ?heritage? and ?family?. Does it exist a problem in creating identity and how genealogists regard other people with a different background, for instance immigrants. This thesis consists of three parts: in the first I present my aim, questions at issue, my method with qualitative interviews, and my theoretical frame from sociology and anthropology.

AbstractLevel:Bachelor thesis in Business Administration/Marketing Title:Care Of Haus, "Kan Reklam. Förstår Annat". Ett Varumärke, En uppfattning? Problem:When it comes to building a strong brand it is important that their brand identity, which means how they want to be perceived coincide with how their customers sees them (Melin 1999). Purpose:The purpose of this thesis has been to find out if and how these two aspects coincide with each other.

This essay examines how four archaeology scholars reason about gender. I have used a qualitative method in making this study of their dissertations.  The aim is to obtain a deeper understanding of gender identity in prehistory, gaining a broader appreciation of how this might be expressed through archaeological material. This essay takes its theoretical departure from postprocessual thinking, where gender perspectives, including feminist and queer theories are in focus. The result of this study shows that the scholars have a postprocessual, structuralistic theoretical perspective in common, and that they use stereotypical identity-descriptions.