The purpose of this study is to give a picture of the current status for the recruitment to forest machine operator educations in Sweden, how many the educators are and the outcome of this activity. The three at present different types of education are upper secondary school, polytechnic school and vocational school. The method used for the survey is telephone interviews, pre-broadcast issues were discussed and the responses were recorded. The results are then compiled and presented in linear form. The conclusions one can draw is that education is desirable and important. To get young people interested in forest machine operator education it is very important that the forest industry continues to develop attractive employment..

AbstractThis paper is about the organisation of the special needs education in three nine-year compulsory schools in Stockholm and the pedagogical thoughts and theories that underlie these organisations. The main purpose of the paper was to investigate whether the special needs education of these schools should be interpreted in accordance with a segregating or an including view on integration as these perspectives are presented by the Norwegian professor Peder Haug. In addition to this I also wanted to investigate if there were any historical arguments in favour of one or another of these perspectives that were still being put forward in today?s debate.The methods that I used were a study of literature regarding special needs education and interviews of a qualitative character with three special educationalists and a special teacher that were working on three different nine-year compulsory schools in Stockholm.The result of the study shows that a big part of the special needs education of the schools that I visited can be interpreted in accordance with the segregating view on integration.The organisation of the special needs education of the three schools differed slightly from school to school but the common trait was that the largest part of this work took place outside of the student?s regular classroom and sometimes outside of the scheduled school day.Two of the schools had special groups where students that were believed to have a need of special education got some, or their entire schooling. That the schools chose to build a big part of their special needs education upon solutions that should be regarded as segregating was motivated on the basis of an effect oriented view on education.

Many researches have been done about the difficulties in teaching children with disabilities and like in this case dyslexia, which is the disability my essay is focused on. Earlier researches have investigated how and what teachers do practically when they have pupils with dyslexia and what help they have in their work. I wanted to investigate how the theories in National Compulsory School Curriculum (Lpo94) and about inclusive education in relation to the actual work in one Swedish school. My essay, with help of other research, has taken the expression ?school for all? and it?s meaning to what is possible to do in a real life work situation, with the assignments that schools have in Lpo94.

Syftet med detta arbete var att genomföra en undersökning för att identifiera vilka faktorer elever som studerar Matematik B på gymnasieskolan, anser vara viktiga för deras motivation i matematik. Fokus låg på differenser mellan könen. Undersökningen omfattade totalt 107 elever och utfördes på en gymnasieskola i södra Sverige i november 2007. En enkät delades ut till eleverna där de fick ange i vilken grad de instämde med ett antal faktorers betydelse för deras motivation i matematik. Två enskilda faktorer kunde utläsas vara av klart större vikt för elevernas motivation än de övriga.

AbstractSyftet med detta vetenskapliga arbete är att studera hur olika pedagoger i förskoleklassbeskriver sitt arbete för att barnet ska känna motivation och lust för att lära sig läsa.Forskningsbakgrunden lyfter fram olika forskares tankar och studier i ämnet, huruvidapedagogen kan påverka barnets motivation och läslust eller inte. Forskarna är inte överensom huruvida pedagogen kan påverka barnets motivation och läslust, då det finns forskaresom anser att pedagogen inte kan påverka barnets motivation medan andra menar attpedagogen har en viktig roll i barnets motivation och läslust. Personliga semistruktureradeintervjuer användes för att samla kvalitativ data från sex olika pedagoger som arbetar iförskoleklass. Samtliga har högskoleutbildning i någon form. Resultatet av intervjuernavisade att de sex informanterna var överens om att de kunde påverka barnets motivation ochläslust genom att själv vara positiva.

The aim of this paper is to look into the occurrence of home schooling by choice in Sweden. It examines the subject of home education in order to provide an informative overview. It also looks into the legal aspects of the matter to see whether freedom of choice is an issue here when it comes to choosing a certain type of teaching for children of compulsory school age. A further purpose is to provide a comparison of home education in Sweden and in other countries such as the United States, England and Norway.In order to do this we have carried out a secondary analysis of previous research and have also interviewed teachers as well as people with experience of home educating their own children. To accomplish this, we had to look to England for literature and home educating families as home education is a much more common practise in England.The result of this paper strongly indicates that home schooling is not only a legally viable option to traditional schooling, both in Sweden and the other countries concerned, but that it is also a trend that is expected to increase.

Motivation beskrivs som grundläggande för mänsklig verksamhet och handlar bland annat om att aktivera och upprätthålla beteenden. Det förekommer en mängd olika motivationsteorier i litteraturen men de som är mest intressanta för pedagogen är de som behandlar prestationsmotivation. Prestationssituationer kännetecknas av att vi vill nå uppsatta mål och framgång. Teorierna tar upp flera faktorer som spelar roll för prestationsmotivationen, alltså för hur mycket vi väljer att engagera oss i en aktivitet. Några av dessa är värdet vi ser i att utföra en uppgift, förväntningar om att klara den, tidigare erfarenheter av framgång eller misslyckande, förväntningar från lärare och föräldrar och självuppfattning.Som pedagog är det viktigt att förstå vad en dålig självkänsla innebär och vikten av att få uppleva framgångar.

??Försäljningsbranschen använder sig av både monetära och icke-monetära belöningar, vilka kan bidra till att få säljare motiverade. En fallstudie har genomförts på ett försäljningsföretag. Empiriskt material samlades in genom intervjuer med sju säljare i två små organisationer, varav fyra i en liten organisation och tre i en mikroorganisation. Frågeställningen i studien var att förklara hur säljarna i den lilla organisationen samt mikroorganisationen motiverades av monetära och icke-monetära belöningar för att sedan förklara om det förekom skillnader mellan säljarnas motivation av belöningar beroende på organisationens storlek.

This research is about different perspectives, offered by three mother tongue teachers, one principal and also featuring a representative from Skolverket, on the subject: teacher legitimation for mother tongue teachers, mother tongue teachers opportunity for competence education and the future of mother tongue education in Sweden.The theoretical framework is mother tongue language, globalization, the post-colonial theory, power and social inequality. A qualitative approach was used including five interviews taken place in Stockholm, the results does not however represent the whole country nor the community of Stockholm itself.The result shows that mother tongue teachers thinks the teacher legitimation does not mean anything regarding their already low-status. Even principal and representative from Skolverket express their concern towards the 'non-demand' for mother tongue teachers to get their legitimation and they feel there is a lack of ambition from decisonmakers to include the mother tongue teachers.As per today there is no higher education for mother tongue teachers leading towards an exam. Mother tongue teachers are worried about their future although principal and representant takes a bright outlook. .

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka vad som motiverar elever att lära sig matematik samt undersöka den eventuella korrelationen mellan motivation och prestation i matematik. Motivation ses utifrån två huvudkategorier, inre och yttre motivation. Hur motivations- och prestationsnivån påverkar och påverkas av attityder mot matematikundervisningen samt påverkas av känslan av relevans är viktiga följdfrågor. Studien är kvantitativ och undersöker med hjälp av drygt 80 enkätsvar dessa frågeställningar. Analysen av det empiriska materialet visade att elever framför allt är motiverade att lära sig mer matematik på grund av yttre motivation (betyg, söka utbildning, föräldrar tycker det är viktigt).

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur gamification använts och hur det kan skapa motivation till att utföra en uppgift. Den ämnar också undersöka inom vilka kontexter som gamification har använts, vilka delar av gamification som skapar motivation och om designen har någon påverkan på motivation. Studien tar sin grund i tidigare forskning om motivation,spelmotivation och gamification. Tre företag som alla arbetar med gamification på ett eller annat sätt har varit föremål för undersökningen och valdes ut med ett målinriktat urval.Studien är av kvalitativ karaktär och genomfördes med semi-strukturerade intervjuer där respondenterna fick stor möjlighet att berätta fritt och styra samtalet inom ramarna för vårt syfte och våra frågeställningar. Resultaten visade att gamification har många element med egenskaper att skapa både yttre och inre motivation hos sina användare samt att det har stora möjligheter att användas som ett verktyg för att öka motivation och engagemang så länge stor hänsyn tas till aktuell målgrupp och kontext.

This thesis presents a general definition of science education and earth science education.An inventory has been conducted of published material during the years 2011-2013, withthe start in 2013 and working backwards for international publications and with no timelimits in time for Swedish publications. Different databases were used during April 2013 forthe inventory.The thesis organizes and analyses published material in earth science education in a tablewith a following discussion.The purpose with the inventory was to investigate the amount and content ofprevious year?s publications in earth science education. Concept inventories were foundto be the most common subject of the found material, followed by virtual field studies. Thelargest amount of publications was published in North America.

This study is an examination of how conditions for formal and informal music education look like in two townships in South Africa. The purpose of this examination based on different actors' experiences is to find out whether the children in South Africa receive some form of music education and if so, how they think it can help the children in the surveyed areas. The information was gathered both through qualitative, semi-structured interviews with a music teacher, music therapist, creative music facilitator, students, and people who have worked for Sida and partly through unstructured observations. The results show that children in the surveyed townships do not receive any formal music education through the school but they sometimes can get music education through a NGO project (Non Government Organization) which usually runs by an enthusiast and is funded by various aid agencies. My examination also showed that for the children in the surveyed areas music education can be an alternative from being on the streets, giving a positive group experience, the ability to express themselves, fend off young people from drugs and criminality and bring together various grouping.

This study aims to theoretically investigate the concepts of the interpersonal actions 'to motivate' and 'to manipulate' and also to examine possible differences and similarities between the two. The method used is a conceptual review based on the Self-Determination Theory, related to the concept of motivation, and Machiavellianism, related to the concept of manipu-lation. The results show that 'to motivate', according to Self-Determination Theory, concerns influencing the intrinsic or extrinsic motivation, where intrinsic motivation is related to the feeling of self-determination, inner locus of causality, being or feeling competent and exercise activities for the pleasure of it, whilst extrinsic motivation is related to external locus of cau-sality, external pressure and engaging in activities for the purpose of reaching a goal or re-ward. 'To manipulate' is according to Machiavellianism based on the manipulator doing whatever it takes to reach a certain goal and gain something for himself with no regard of what methods being used. The comparative analysis showed that the crucial difference in how an behaviour is interpreted as either, or both, motivating and manipulative is based on who is doing the interpretation, what information she has and which aspects that are focused on..

 The aim of this study was to describe the experiences and thoughts among midwives when encountering same sex couples at the maternity ward. Further, the aim was to explore the midwives attitudes towards education about special needs among same sex couples and their thoughts about contents and design of such education. The study had a descriptive design using a qualitative method. The data was collected through interviews with 10 midwives in February 2009. The midwives worked at two different maternity wards.