The aim of this master's thesis is to investigate and to explain the concept of folksonomy in the perspective of knowledge organisation. By creating a conceptual explanation and defining what folksonomy as a concept consists of, the intent is to establish a basis for evaluating folksonomy and to discuss what relevance folksonomy may have in the field of knowledge organisation. By applying a qualitative content analysis a review is performed on how folksonomy is perceived and discussed in a selection of articles written on the subject. Employing the theory of classification, subject indexing and bibliographic retrieval, folksonomy as a method for knowledge organisation is analysed. The practice of tagging in existing systems is also studied.

Idag är det allmänt känt att barn upplever stress både i skola och förskola. Att många barn visar tecken på negativ stress gör att kraven på oss vuxna ökar och det visar även tydliga brister i vårt sätt att möta barnens behov och krav. Jag är övertygad om att avslappningsövningar kan fungera som ett avbrott i den annars så bullriga och aktiva vardag våra barn lever i. Syftet med denna rapport var att ta reda på små barns reaktioner på avslappningsträning. Undersökningen genomfördes under fem veckor på en 1-4-årsavdelning, gruppen bestod av fyra barn.

This paper investigates how students in the humanities in four universities in Sweden reflect on their education and the current view on the humanities as an education and a science. I want to investigate what impact the past few years public debate about the humanities have had on the students. What kind of beliefs and identities do the students of the humanities form and how do they discuss the universities, the choices they made in life and how do they feel about the future.This study is based on interviews with seventeen students in Sweden from four different universities. The research is also based upon a report that The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv) published in 2011 and the debate following that report. I have also made participant observations on the four universities to make a broader description for the reader.

Syfte och frågeställningarSyftet med vår studie är att jämföra elevers upplevda stress på två olika skolor där skolmiljön och närliggande samhälle ser annorlunda ut från varandra. Syftet i studien vill vi besvara med dessa frågeställningar: Hur stresspåverkade är eleverna? Skiljer sig de stressrelaterade psykosomatiska symptomen åt mellan skolorna? Vilka stressorer upplever eleverna och skiljer de sig åt? Samt vad upplever eleverna att de själva, föräldrar och pedagoger i deras närhet kan göra för att förebygga och åtgärda deras upplevda stress?MetodVår studie är en kvantitativ studie där vi har använt oss av enkäter med fasta och öppna svarsalternativ. Enkäterna har delats ut på två gymnasieskolor till elever i år 2, 72 elever ifrån skola A och 73 elever ifrån skola B. Totalt har 145 elever medverkat i enkätstudien och könsfördelningen blev 69 killar och 76 tjejer.

In recent years, the demands for effectiveness and evidence in social work have increased in all work areas, including that of healthcare. This has sparked the discussion on concepts such as practical- and theoretical knowledge and their respective roles in social work. In the light of this, the purpose of this candidate thesis is to investigate healthcare social workers understanding of practical- and theoretical knowledge in the working process as well as their respective influence and importance. This candidate thesis is based on three interviews with social workers from different departments in Norrlands Universitetssjukhus in Umeå, Sweden. To provide range to the thesis, the interviewees were chosen from a purposeful sampling.

Denna studie behandlar hur studie- och yrkesvägledare, som arbetar på flera skolor samtidigt, upplever sin yrkesroll. Detta studeras genom att titta på vägledarens upplevelse om krav, resurser, förväntningar och stöd. Genom dessa faktorer får läsaren en klarare bild över hur studie- och yrkesvägledare upplever sin arbetssituation. Den kvalitativa studien har genomförts på så sätt att sex studie- och yrkesvägledare, som arbetar inom grund- och gymnasieskolan, intervjuats. Vi har utgått från Krav-kontroll modellen för att undersöka hur faktorerna påverkar den upplevda arbetstillfredsställelsen.

The purpose of this study is to examine to what extent the senior level Swedish school can be viewed as supporting, or counteracting, a colonial discourse that legitimizes global and national injustices. The study is executed through a discourse analysis of five textbooks in social science for senior level Swedish schools.Using elements from Foucault and Edward Said a theoretical framework is constructed, in which a colonial discourse is perceived as structured around four clusters of ideas, namely (i) the use of dichotomies, (ii) the concept of progress and civilization, (iii) the construction of -we- as synonymous with (ii), and (iv) the construction of -the others- as the opposite of (ii) and, therefore, the opposite of -us-.The results show that a colonial discourse is still highly present in the textbooks, in that the texts are structured around dichotomies such as tradition/modernity and democracy/dictatorship. Sweden and the Western world are perceived as closely associated with democracy, freedom, and modernity, whereas -the others- of the world are being associated with e.g. poverty, conflict, tradition, and ignorance. -The others- within Sweden, i.e.

The application of the LSS law and how the public organization (Municipality of Hudiksvall) later had to reform their organization to fit the new demands is the foundation to this master's thesis. An internal evaluation was performed due to this reorganisation process within the social care department (LSS unit). The aim was to investigate and evaluate if the reorganization resulted in a better working environment and if the work load (distribution of work) became more evenly divided between the different unit managing directors. The primary empirical information to this master's thesis is collected from that evaluation report. The main aim of this master?s thesis is to answer if the organisational choice between specialised or de-specialised working tasks has an effect (experienced and measured) on the level of stress among the unit managing directors.

Bakgrund och problemformulering: Sjuksköterskan har ett brett kompetensområde med stort ansvar. Den nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskan behöver en god introduktion, där möjlighet att uppöva sin yrkesskicklighet finns. Stöd och feedback från kollegor är viktigt, då stress och utbrändhet är vanligt och påverkar den nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskans välbefinnande. När en sjuksköterska upplever ohälsa och utsatthet på grund av stress, kan kvalitén på vården påverkas.Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskors upplevelser av sin arbetssituation.Metod: En litteraturstudie som bygger på vetenskapliga artiklar med kvalitativ metod. Evans (2003) modell för innehållsanalys har varit utgångspunkten under analysarbetet.Resultat: Tre huvudteman och nio subteman identifierades under analysarbetet.

Uppsatsen syftar till att ta reda på huruvida elever i årskurs fem upplever sin fritid som stressande och om detta inverkar på deras skolgång. Är detta något som lärare i så fall ska ta hänsyn till i sin planering av undervisning och läxor? Tre elever och tre lärare har intervjuats enskilt och deras utsagor ligger till grund för resultatet. Eleverna drogs slumpmässigt från samma klass och det resulterade i två pojkar och en flicka. Lärarna hade alla anknytning till den aktuella klassen.

As a student during my studies, I have been told about entrepreneurs who have red numbers in their financial statements, and there is a forest machine operator shortage in Sweden. The basic idea of this thesis was to examine the underlying factors that may have caused the problems described above. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the factors that create stress and job satisfaction as a forest machine operator. The study was performed as a comparison between forest companies own harvesting teams and entrepreneur teams to investigate if there are any differences in stress and job satisfaction between the two different types of team. The study was conducted in collaboration with SCA Skog. The material for this study was collected by doing interviews with SCA's harvesting teams. A total of 27 forest machine operators were interviewed, divided into a total of 10 separate harvesting teams. It was very similar between the different type of teams, which situations the operators experienced stress.

Bakgrund Arbetsterapeuter m?ter ?kade arbetskrav och organisatoriska utmaningar som kan p?verka deras aktivitetsbalans och arbetsrelaterade h?lsa. Tidigare forskning har fr?mst fokuserat p? h?lso- och sjukv?rdspersonal generellt, men det saknas en f?rdjupad f?rst?else f?r arbetsterapeuters egna upplevelser. Exempel p? organisatoriska hinder ?r l?g bemanning, tidsbrist och otydliga arbetsbeskrivningar. Syfte Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att unders?ka hur arbetsterapeuter uppfattar sitt arbete i relation till arbetskrav, stress och aktivitetsbalans. Metod Studien ?r en kvalitativ litteratur?versikt med induktiv ansats, baserad p? analys av sju artiklar.

AbstractWorking with child and youth welfare is one of the most difficult challenges a social worker might face in the field of social work. Those who work with child and youth welfare are more exposed to stress and burnout than other comparable human service occupations. Research links the prevalence of stress and burnout to several key variables, such as demographics, working conditions and personality factors. In contrast, even though social workers in this field face many negative work-related problems they report a high job satisfaction. The aim of this study is to examine how uplifting and straining experiences affect social workers, who work with child and youth welfare, through the use of The Critical Incident Technique and interviews.

Practical and theoretical learning are methods that are used in schools as a way to prepare students for the working life. Within the practical learning knowledge is not only acquired to learn in practice, but the students must also be able to apply their theoretical knowledge to what he/she does. Against this background, the aim of the study was to investigate the importance of practical learning for students in college / university level and how they are experiencing the stress that may arise out of the loss of practical learning during their education, as well as their vision for working life after completing their education. The population of the study consisted of N = 36, which 18 of these had used both practical and theoretical learning and the remainder had only used theoretical learning. The method was a questionnaire survey with a high proportion of fixed alternative answers according to likert scales.

Popular culture is a phenomenon of growing importance in the society today. Children and teenagers are increasingly using popular culture in their everyday life to reflect and answer questions about their identities and the meaning of life. Swedish primary and upper secondary schools are expected to prepare their students for adulthood and to provide them with tools to explain understand and problematize contemporary society. From this perspective it is relevant to question whether the schools achieve this and whether the instruction given there represents the contemporary society. For the purpose of knowing more about how popular culture is perceived and dealt with in the Swedish education system, this study examines how eight textbooks in Religious Education (RE) and the national curriculum for upper secondary school discuss and treat popular culture.  The study focuses on when and in what ways the textbooks mention popular culture and if the curriculum provides any supportive base for including popular culture in religious education.