The conflict over Western Sahara is primarily a conflict over sovereignty, with Morocco on one side claiming territorial rights, and the Polisario Front on the other side claiming popular sovereignty. The conflict has till this day not been resolved and is in a dire need of a solution. In order to determine which solution is the most appropriate, an understanding of all the complex aspects of the conflict is required. In this context, the study aims to examine the conflict in a globalized setting by analyzing how the American news agency AP News portrays the conflict. The US media conglomerate was specifically chosen due to its dominance over international information flows.

Many political reforms are currently implemented in the Swedish schools. The trend indicate that education in Sweden follows neo-liberal restructuring policy, that highlights assessment, marketization and surveillance in different aspects. According to the new curriculum LGR 11 the school head is the school's educational leader with responsibility for the school's results and development. The reforms put new demands on the school heads tasks, their responsibility and leadership. The aim of my research study is to investigate how the school heads experience andhandle this situation.

The concept of sustainable development is a challenge that demands cooperation from all levels of society for it to be successful. The focus for this thesis is how politicians within the local councils understand the concept of sustainable development and how they implement it in political decision-making.The basis for the study is a questionnaire that was distributed to 303 local politicians in three municipalities of varying size in Southern Sweden. The study concentrates on departments within the local councils that are directly connected to the Swedish environmental law and the Swedish planning and construction law. One of the primary goals with the aforementioned laws is the achievement of sustainable development within one generation.The outcome of the study was that over half of the local politicians could correctly define sustainable development according to the World Commission on Environment and Development?s (WCED) definition.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka om det finns några skillnader mellan tillverkningsföretag x och rekryteringsföretag y, i vad som påverkar rekryterarens intryck vid en anställningsintervju och hur detta hanteras, utifrån vissa givna aspekter? Dessa aspekter är: Intryck, sociala regler, kroppsspråk, attityder, intuition och halo/devil effekten. Tyngdpunkten i studien ligger på intryck. Studien bygger på sju kvalitativa intervjuer, varav tre genomfördes på tillverkningsföretag x och fyra genomfördes på rekryteringsföretag y. Författarna använder sig av en hermeneutisk analysmetod för att bearbeta studieresultatet.

Syftet med denna studie är att analysera situationer av kunnande i matematik utifrån en specifik undervisningskontext med stora drag av aktiv inlärning. Den är upplagd som en fallstudie och genom observation av klassrumsmiljön samt genom intervjuer av matematikläraren och sju elever i skolår sex analyseras i vilken mån den undervisning som bedrivs kan utnyttjas vid en bedömning som stärker elevernas lärande. Huvudresultatet av studien pekar på att den undervisningskontext som utmärker detta fall, där bedömning till stora delar görs utifrån intuition, inte ger eleverna möjligheten att visa läraren vad de kan, utan snarare vad de inte kan utifrån elevens synvinkel. När prov infördes blev bedömningen mer strukturerad och eleverna fick större möjligheter att visa vad de kan i matematik. Studien visar på nödvändigheten av fortsatt forskning om vad läraren lokalt behöver för att kunna föra en undervisning baserad på aktiva elever som själva får sätta sina mål..

Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att genom en litteraturgranskning undersöka om ökad fysisk aktivitet har något samband med inlärningen och skolprestationerna hos barn i åldrarna 6-12 år. Metod: Litteratursökningen i databaserna CINAHL och Academic Search Elite resulterade i 15 artiklar som publicerats de senaste fem åren. Artiklarna har kvalitetsgranskats och därefter sammanställts. Resultat: Fysisk aktivitet i samband med inlärning har i ett flertal studier visat sig leda till positiva resultat genom snabbare svarstid, noggrannhet och uppmärksamhet. Barnen som deltog i aeroba aktiviteter blev mer uthålliga och kunde behålla fokus längre vid de kognitiva testerna.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how social services workers describe, the risk of being exposed to threats and violence in their profession. Six social services workers were interviewed, four from the Welfare Office in a major city and two from the Child and Family Services in a minor city. Results showed that the majority of social services workers consider themselves exposed in their profession, meaning that they feel there's a risk of a violent or threatening situation occurring in their work situation. All interviewees had experiences from some sort of threat or violence in a work related context and they attested that non-personal assaults, such as threats made through telephone, email and answering machines are more common than verbal assaults made in personal meetings. Being prepared and listening to ones intuition is a way of dealing with exposure when meeting with a client.

 Tediousness, fear and boredom are all part of everyday?s life for a student. How can a teacher counteract these feelings of boredom and replace them with a feeling of pleasure of learning? Students have to be motivated and want to go to school every day. By comparing student?s experiences of motivation this essays purpose is to create a theory about factors for motivation in education.

More than half of the implemented IT-projects go over budget, deadline or simply fail. The processes in an IT-project requires technical competence to be present among the project participants to ensure the achievement of business goals and to make organisations competitive. The success of an IT-project largely depends on the project manager which makes it interesting to further investigate what impact the project manager?s technical competence has on the project. Previous research shows differing opinions whether technical competence is considered important for the project manager to be successful or not.

A systematic quality work is essential for anyone working in preschool, school,kindergarten and adult education to give children and students an equal education.Skollagen (2010:800) indicates that quality work should be focused on the nationalgoals of education. According to Skolverkets allmänna råd med kommentarer omsystematiskt kvalitetsarbete - för skolväsendet (2012) is the work to develop quality acontinuous process. Everyone's involvement and participation is therefore essential.Systematic quality work means to systematically and continuously monitor theactivities, analyze performance against national targets and based on that plan anddevelop. Although the work has been driven outside governmental policy documentssince 1997 shows, among others, Skolinspektionens audits of municipalities andschools that there is major deficiencies in the obligation to conduct a systematicquality work. It appears that more than half of the surveyed schools had deficienciesin its system quality work.This is the starting position this study takes on to and through literature review,document studies and interviews of principals is the subject problematized.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine how six fantasynovels reflects or breaks the heteronormativity in society bylooking at how gender roles and sexuality are described.The theoretical framework is based on Judith Butler's theoryabout the heterosexual matrix which requires two separategenders and a compulsory heterosexuality and YvonneHirdman's two principles about dichotomy and hierarchy.The method used was idea analysis where dimensions basedon the theoretical framework were constructed. Thesedimensions were: behaviour, tasks, relationships and roles.The result shows that all of the books both breaks andreflects the society's values on gender and sexuality. Thereare some stereotypes present, for example that intuition isassociated with femininity and physical strength withmasculinity. However, the books also offer characters ofboth sexes that break the gender stereotypes, such asstrong women and emotional men.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur predetermination (förutbestämda kompositionsregler) påverkar kompositionsprocessen och upplevelsen av musiken hos lyssnare. Genom analys av min egen kompositionsprocess, litteraturstudier och intervjuer med tonsättare behandlas i uppsatsen olika sätt att arbeta med predetermination, resultat av att arbeta med förutbestämda kompositionsregler och skäl till att tonsättare väljer eller väljer bort att arbeta med predetermination. Undersökningen visar hur en viss regelstyrning kan vara till hjälp i kompositionsprocessen men även hur det kan vara hämmande att arbeta med predetermination. Lyssnarupplevelsen undersöktes med en enkätundersökning. Två par egna kompositioner ? två poplåtar och ett stycke för kammarensemble i två satser ? har spelats upp för musikhögskolestuderande.

The aim of this master?s thesis is to obtain greater understanding of how children relate to the film medium and their experiences. This is obtained by listening to the children and observing their verbal and nonverbal communication in two focus group interviews. Children?s access to and selection of film are due to adult?s restrictions.

Pupil achievement and behaviour in schools was earlier seen as given by socioeconomic and biological factors. But since the late 1970s the school effectiveness research has come to give school factors a much greater role for pupils? attainments. Research has shown that schools´ pedagogical and social climate, which is to be seen as a complex product of deeply felt values and norms held by school principals and teachers and developed through practical actions, can explain variations in effectiveness between schools. Effectiveness is here to be seen as a higher mean cognitive and non cognitive student outcome than is expected with regard to initial attainment or family background.

Uppsatsen är dels ett teoretisk försök att förstå den läroprocess som äger rum när en individ bygger förtrogenhet inom ett speciellt fält, en kunskap som inte var avsedd hos individen och som ofta personen är helt omedveten om att den besitter. I syfte att vidga kunskapsbegreppet följer ett närmande av hur vi kan förstå ett icke-intenderat implicit lärande ur ett socialt och ett kognitivt perspektiv. En utgångspunkt är att vad vi minns är beroende av en inkodningsprocess - en procedur som omvandlar något en person ser, hör, tänker eller känner till ett minne. För att impulser vi möter ska bearbetas i arbetsminnet och lagras i det explicita minnet krävs att informationen är särskilt levande eller betydelsefull för oss. Men vår hjärna innehåller även ett annat typ av minne; ett implicit minne.