In a global context the traditional democratic process is facing new challenges. Scholars are talking about a transition from government to governance, where local and regional networks as well as international collaboration are an important part in how regional policy is produced and implemented. In this paper the processes in regional projects funded by the European Union are considered, and related to the traditional democratic process. The study has been fulfilled through informant interviews with representatives from four EU-projects. The interviews are supplemented by a qualitative text analysis of current statutes.

Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka hur erfarna gitarrister utvecklas och lär sig att spela sitt instrument, synliggöra olika individuella kompetenser och lärstilar samt visa på vilka konsekvenser detta får i rollen som musiker, men också som pedagog.Frågeställningarna handlar om hur olika gitarrister lär sig sitt instrument utifrån ett figuralt eller formellt tillvägagångssätt med anknytning till musikalisk- rytmisk intelligens, vad som händer när man övar utifrån sina minst utvecklade kompetenser och varför det är bra att som pedagog och musiker känna till olika lärstilar. Utifrån dessa frågeställningar diskuterar vi våra skillnader som gitarrister och individer utifrån teorin om multipla intelligenser, definierar våra olika lärstilar och vad för typ av lärande som har ägt rum i vår undersökning.Arbetet grundar sig i Howard Gardners teori om multipla intelligenser och konstruktivistisk lärandeteori. Litteraturen som vi har förankrat arbetet i kommer från Howard Gardner, Knud Illeris, Barbara Prashnig. Vi använder också studiematerial från Jerry Bergonzi och ?EartrainingHQ.com?.För att besvara frågeställningarna har vi genomfört en praktikbaserad studie på hur vi själva arbetar för att utveckla de områden där vi funnit uppenbara utmaningar.

On the first of January 2012, a new public authority was formed in Värmland, due to a new legislation on public transport. The first task for the new public authority was to produce a plan for the development of public transport. In order to do so, it had to execute an extensive consultation process about the long-term goals of public transport. The purpose of the thesis is to investigate how a public authority can use a consultation process as a means to clarify accountability and produce unified goals. To answer that, I have done a case study about how the new regional public authority in Värmland for public transport has acted in the process of writing a plan for the development of public transport.

It is important that companies knows how to handle a complaint when they receive one from a customer. This information could the company take care of and use when they develop new services. Furthermore a good complain handling leads to satisfied and loyal customers which increases the revenue for the company. We have examined how SAS handle their internal information process and if this process affects the information and in that case how. The study is performed with a qualitative method, based on deep interviews.

This thesis has aimed to study steering process and institutionalization in the context of educational policy work. This has been conducted by using empirical material from the political decision-making process that preceded the implementation of a new national program on how principals should be educated and certified. By using an aggregated theoretical point of view containing new institutionalism and traditional Swedish curriculum theory, the process was analyzed from different perspectives. The results depict a process that contained several actors who tried to shape the principal education program differently. From the theoretical perspectives, the decision-making process could be understood as an act of both self-interest as well as trust in their own beliefs and cultural values.

Uppsatsen strävar efter att utveckla kunskap om sambandet mellan förskollärares didaktiska ingripanden och förskolebarns möjligheter till att kreativt utforska och uttrycka musik. Undersökningen utgår från ett kulturpsykologiskt perspektiv som betonar interaktionen och det individuella kreativa prövandets betydelse för det musikaliska lärandet. Förskolebarns musikaliska utveckling påverkas av förskollärares musikaliska kompetens och didaktiska förmåga att uppfatta och stödja barns egna musikaliska uttryck. För att kunna observera barn och pedagogers förhållningssätt till spontant kreativt musikskapande, erbjöd jag tre pedagoger och deras barngrupper en överraskning, en resväska fylld med ordinära och hemgjorda rytminstrument som jag kallat den hemliga lådan. Metoden gav mig också möjligheter att utforska musikdidaktiska alternativ till förskolans traditionella musikverksamhet, de gemensamma och vuxenstyrda sångsamlingarna.

Process standardization is a topic that has generated a lot of research and literature. At first, the focus was on production; today processes are used in all different kind of business areas.The aim of this study has been to analyze how processes can be applied on development businesses and how IT systems affect the result of the process. To accomplish this, we have asked questions such as what standardization is in a development process? Why are the processes standardized? What difficulties can appear with standardization? And how the IT-systems affect the result of the process?To answer these questions, we have preformed a case study on Saab. Saab is a well know Swedish company who are working with a project called the GMS-project, where they develop processes to cover the whole company´s business areas.The literature gives the reader an understanding of processes and standardization.

Denna studie handlar om musikaktiviteter i förskolan och bygger på kvalitativa intervjuer av pedagoger samt observationer i verksamheten. Syftet är att få ökad förståelse för förskolans arbete med musik och få insikt kring vilken roll pedagogerna har för barnens musikaliska utveckling. Resultatet visar på att musiken utgör en stor del i förskolan men pedagogerna saknar musikalisk utbildning, de eftersöker till viss del större kompetens genom bredare utbildning i lärarhögskolan. Resultatet visar att de planerade musikaktiviteterna styrs av pedagogerna och används främst som ett verktyg för social och språkligutveckling. Jag har också kommit fram till att barnen på förskolan använder sig av musik i sin fria lek..

Uppsats för avläggande av filosofiekandidatexamen iKulturvård, Ledarskap i slöjd ochkulturhantverk15 hpInstitutionen för kulturvårdGöteborgs universitet2014:35.

This study takes place within a publicly owned art producing organization and dwells on the problems of a change process that the organization was involved in. Both leaders and staff were disappointed by the way the change process had developed. The management team explained the outcome by referring to the uniqueness of working with artists who constantly put their own personal objectives before the benefit of the whole. The aim of this study is to find a complementary explanation to the one the management team provided us with; an explanation that can help in the understanding of the dynamics of a change process. Can perhaps theories on information, communication and change processes give an alternative explanation to why the change process faltered? To investigate this, we have used a qualitative single case study.

The aim of this thesis is to examine whether law reforms in the detailed planning process can be an aspect that gets in conflict with the citizens rights to participate in the Swedish planning through dialogue, and how five chosen municipalities are working with citizen participation. To be able to answer the aim of the thesis a literature study and five semi-structured interviews was performed in purpose to get wide-ranging information from municipal officials working with detailed planning handling. Law changes that aims to make the detailed planning process more efficient has been implemented partly to satisfy the needs of dwellings since the detailed planning process among master builders seems to be slow and inefficient, which to the them means higher costs. The requirement on having a detailed planning program was taken away when the new planning law was adopted year 2011. The planning program was including a moment of citizen dialogue. The case studied municipalities have not been affected in this law change arguing that it?s still possible to bring a program if needed.

The aim of this study is to investigate how Lunds Vokalensemble achieves its goals and in which way the goals influence the choir's work. The study also explores the choir's artistic process. Qualitative interviews and observations were used as a method. Four singers and the director participated to the interviews. The results show that the choir's artistic goals have quite an influence on many aspects of the choir's work, both in a musical and a social way.

This essay will cover the Swedish electoral system with a focus on the proportional representation andthe process involved from the conversion of votes to seats in the parliament. This process consists ofseveral methods which are created by political decisions as well as mathematical formulas and is notalways perfect in terms of equalization. An increment of six adjustment seats would have made thegeneral election of 2010 more proportioned. Despite this, the Swedish electoral system is wellconstructed and the essay will highlight areas which could be subject for improvement as well asexplaining fundamental concepts of the process..

Syftet med denna studie är att redogöra för mitt karaktärsarbete under höstterminen 2012 med slutproduktionen ?Cosi fan tutte? av W. A Mozart.Frågorna i denna studie var: Vilka verktyg behöver operasångaren/sångerskan för att skapa en trovärdig operakaraktär anser regissören? Är de övningar och uppgifter vi fick göra innan repetitionsarbetet påbörjades baserade på någon specifik skådespelarteknik? Hur uppstod idén till att lägga in gudarna Venus och Mars som två nya karaktärer i ?Cosi fan tutte?? I denna uppsats har jag valt att använda mig av en kvalitativ intervju. I studien har jag intervjuat regissör Mira Bartov som regisserade ?Cosi fan tutte? vid Högskolan för scen och musik i Göteborg höstterminen 2012..

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to examine the process of resocialization for individuals who previously lived as criminals from an individual perspective. The research questions for the essay are: How do individuals in the study describe their process of resocialization? In which way does a support organization affect the process of resocialization for the individual? In which ways do the reactions from society affect the process of resocialization for the individual?To answer these research questions a qualitative method was chosen where six narrative interviews was conducted with men who previously lived as criminals but have been resocialized into society. These men are roughly between the ages of 30-60 years and are all members of a support organization for ex criminals.The results show that the process is divided in four stages and that the support organization has facilitated the process of resocialization of the respondents. Reactions from society both facilitates change using the help of different agencies can contribute, while negative reactions from other individuals makes change difficult.