This is a study of the discussions and sense making that HR-professionals and HR-students present concerning the phenomenon of diversity, through the theory of social representation.Our purpose is to study the reasoning around the phenomenon of diversity and what meaning HR-students and HR-professionals create around it. This study also attempts to examine how HR-professionals and HR-students reasoning and interaction differ from each other. In this study we have used the qualitative method of social representation through focus groups.The common themes found in the data material were the meaning of the phenomenon diversity, how the work with human resources can be connected to the phenomenon of diversity and diversity as an issue in society. The main result in this study was that we found a wide range of meaning put into the word diversity by the participants and that the individuals in the focus groups actively strived for consensus..

Syftet med arbetet var att ta reda på hur pedagogisk dokumentation används i tre olika arbetslag inom förskolan och hur denna bidrar till att synliggöra barns lärande. I undersökningen deltog tre arbetslag i en kommun i Norrbotten. Vi har använt oss av kvalitativa intervjuer med pedagogerna samt observation för att få veta deras tankar kring den pedagogiska dokumentationen och hur de använder sig av den i verksamheten. Vi har därmed gjort en fördjupning i den pedagogiska dokumentationen, lärande, dialog och barnsyn. Resultatet av våra intervjuer har visat att pedagoger ser på pedagogisk dokumentation på olika sätt och att pedagogisk dokumentation är en ständigt pågående process som har blivit en viktig del av verksamheten i många förskolor..

The primary aim of the current study was to gain increased knowledge about drivers' risk experiences. The study was based on questionnaires answered by 30 private drivers and 30 bus drivers, with 50% men and 50% woman in each group. The study revealed no differences, either between men and women drivers with regard to their experience of risk, or between the groups of private and bus drivers. Gambling is common within the private drivers group. Mistakes are common in all groups.

This study was aimed to examine what happened when a municipality in Sweden invested in ICT. The purpose of this study was also to find out how the change of process with ICT investment was expressed the need for more knowledge. This was called ?one-to-one? with the goal that all students would have their own computer during their years in school.Teachers have been interviewed and observed about how they work with ipads during reading and writing lessons. The teachers in this study said that they need more knowledge to improve their everyday work with ipads.

Syftet med den här studien var att synliggöra förskollärarens föreställningar om språk-stimulering och få djupare kunskap om hur förskollärare stimulerar och bemöter barnen för att främja språkutvecklingen. Studiens utgångspunkt var Vygotskijs sociokulturella perspektiv som framställer att lärande sker i samspel med omgivningen. I undersök-ningen använde jag observation och intervju som metoder där jag tog reda på hur för-skollärarna förhåller sig till barns språkutveckling i sitt arbete och hur de resonerar om språkstimulering. Resultaten visade att förskollärarna hade ett medvetet och engagerat förhållningssätt i hur de kan hjälpa barnen för att stimulera deras språk. Språkstimuleringen för dem var allt som händer i vardagen, det vill säga inte bara de planerande aktiviteterna utan också de vardagliga.

Vi har gjort en undersökning på hur klasslärare upptäcker och hjälper elever med läs- och skrivsvårigheter. Syftet med undersökningen är att fördjupa kunskapen i hur klasslärare i den första läs- och skrivinlärningen upptäcker och hjälper elever med dessa problem. Vi har genomfört kvalitativa intervjuer med 4 klasslärare som arbetar med läs- och skrivinlärning i årskurserna 1-3.Resultatet visar på att klasslärare anser sig lätt upptäcka om en elev har läs- och skrivsvårigheter genom observation och kartläggning. Deras roll som lärare och deras kompetens spelar en stor roll för att de ska kunna möta dessa elevers svårigheter. Datorn används som ett hjälpmedel i undervisningen och mycket eget tillverkat material som anpassas efter varje individ..

This study is about exclusion and childrens role-play in Swedish preschools. 8 preschool teachers, in 4 different preschools, have been interviewed about exclusion and low and high rating roles in children's role-play. The interviews was recorded and then analyzed. Relevant research in this study was from Corsaro, Tellgren and Löfdahl amongst others, and the results of the interviews is what this study is based on. The study showed that one of the most common roles in childrens role-play is the role of mother and that the roles children play are based on social norms and values.

Aspirationspneumoni är en vanligt förekommande komplikation hos personer med stroke och dysfagi. Omvårdnadsåtgärder som bedömning av patientens sväljningsfunktion bör utföras tidigt och kan genomföras på olika sätt. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie är att granska vetenskaplig litteratur för att beskriva omvårdnadsåtgärder som kan förebygga aspirationspneumoni hos patienter med stroke och dysfagi. Goodmans modell användes som inspirerande modell för att strukturerat sammanställa tillgänglig litteratur. Efter granskning enligt protokoll ansågs elva artiklar innehålla sådan kvalitet att de kunde ingå i sammanställningen.

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to deepen my knowledge in how teachers can teach pupils with reading and writing disabilities, and also find out how a co-operation with remedial teachers can look like.The study is based on qualitative interviews with two teachers and two remedialteachers.The study shows that the two teachers´ co-operation with the remedial teacher appeared to bedifferent. The teacher who had the longest work experience was the one of the two that had a co-operation with the remedial teacher, the other teacher who graduated in 2007 did not have any co operation at all with the remedial teacher.The study also showed that the teachers and the remedial teachers in the study had different opinions about what method to use for pupils with reading and writing disabilities, and that the LTG method was the one most frequently used .All the participants in the study agreed that reading and writing disabilities is a large area, andthat there is a large variety in difficulties among the students . Some of the difficulties the participants had experienced were problems with decoding, pupils that had problems with learning the letters..

Syftet med arbetet var att undersöka hur lärare använder närmiljön i sin matematikundervisning. Vi undersökte även i vilken utsträckning de använde närmiljön samt vilka för- och nackdelar det finns med att använda närmiljön i matematikundervisningen. I denna studie användes ostrukturerad observation som metod. Dessutom användes kvalitativa intervjuer för att få svar på frågeställningarna. Resultatet visade att lärare använder närmiljön både när de undervisar inomhus och utomhus.

The purpose of this study was to examine leadership in the public sector based on leadership models, organizational factors, conditions and health of employees. The study was divided into sub-study one and two. In sub-study one the design was an observational study using cross sectional design in which 67 first line managers in the public sector answered a survey about conditions and leadership models. Sub-study two was an observational study using case-control design focusing on a health promoting leadership intervention in the municipal sector. Two semi-structured interviews and 41 surveys were collected.

The aim of this study is to identify factors, which decide wheter you choose to commute with bicycle to work in the winterseason. The study is conducted in Umea, in the norhtern part of Sweden. The study is based on 509 answers from a webbased survey, conducted on municipal employees. The study has investigated which factors that affect different commuting groups from a gender perspective. The groups, which has been compared is motorists, wintercyclist and summercyclists.

This paper aims to examine how, and if, music is being used integrated in other subjects thanmusic in school. The study is based on qualitative interviews and I haveinterviewed fourteachers, regardless of whether they use music a lot or not.The questions the study is basedon are if there might be a connection between theteachers' own feelings for music andwhether they use music inschool or not, how music is being used and does the use of musicgive any effects?The result of this study shows that there can be a connection between the teachers ownsfeelings for music and the fact if they use music when they teach or not. One of the teachersI?ve interviewed had bad music experiences and didnot use music in her teaching.

The aim of this study is to analyse and investigate a rather new field of LIS studies, i.e. link analysis which is a part of webometrics. Webometrics has been described as the quantitative study of web based phenomena drawing on bibliometric or informetric methods. Link analysis has its counterpart in citation analysis within the field of bibliometrics. The questions the study investigates are if webometrics can provide LIS with new knowledge and if there is a place for webometric studies in LIS research.

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to clarify and analyze the servicescapes impact on brand image and customer loyalty among general dealers. The research question that we have used in the study is what characterizes the connection between the servicescape and the possibility to maintain and strengthen the customer relation among general dealers. The study is based on a qualitative approach and we have conducted eight interviews with experts and special advisers within the field. We have chosen to focus our study on the fact the market for general dealers have changed and the demands from the customers are severed throughout the years. The servicescape consists of the physical surroundings where the service is produced, examples of factors that influence the servicescape is the employees and the customers.