The purpose of this study is to investigate how the researcher experiences its role in real life in relation to the field of education and adult learning. The context of the study is the academic department of education and adult learning in Swedish institutions. This is a qualitative study, inspired by Grounded Theory. Data consist of interviews, texts from policy documents and reports. Both the aspects gender and context have been taken into consideration.

The aim of this paper is to investigate how well information and communication technology (ICT) is implemented in the new teacher training program in the subject of Swedish and how this is presented in the applications for examination licence to the National Swedish Agency for Higher Education. This is an interesting field of study, since ICT has been selected, by an investigation chosen by the government to be one of four overall perspectives that are supposed to permeate the teacher training program. There have been several difficulties involved in this project of which one has been the extent of the material.  27 applications and all curriculums in the subject of Swedish belonging to them have been examined. Another difficulty was that the applications and the curriculums are written by different persons under different conditions such as time and resources.

This is a qualitative study inquiring ?What does it entail to be a sex worker in Sweden today?? Four female sex workers were interviewed in semi-structured interviews. Using methods for reflexive analysis, interpreting the interviews and their context theoretically through notions of Competence and Stigma, the results of this study shows that sex workers may be both competent agents and stigmatized. This informs the understanding of sex work, stigma and how learning, subjective room for action and social agency can be aggravated or hindered by stigma. The results are viewed in the context of Swedish legislation against sex purchase in relation to previous research which shows that said legislation is problematic.

Denna litteraturstudie ämnar undersöka varför det är skillnad mellan tjejers och killars läsning och läsvanor samt hur synen på läsning som något lustfyllt respektive bildande ser ut idag. Utgångspunkten för studien och området är avhandlingar, artiklar och forskningsrapporter samt den senaste PISA-undersökningen från år 2012, som konstaterar att killar läser sämre än tjejer. Utifrån tidigare forskning presenteras de förklaringar som finns kring skillnaderna, där de sociokulturella förklaringarna står i fokus men för att få ett större perspektiv och förståelse för området så kommer även de biologiska förklaringarna att synliggöras.Av de resultat som presenteras är de sociokulturella förklaringarna som exempelvis betydelsen av läraren kön, bristen på manliga förebilder, läsning som något kvinnligt några av de återkommande argumenten för skillnaderna i tjejers och killars läsning. Flertalet forskare belyser dock att de biologiska förklaringarna, såsom mognad och hjärnans utveckling, behövs tillsammans med de sociokulturella för att kunna förstå och motverka skillnaderna av tjejers och killars läsning. Synen på läsning, då som nu, påverkar inställningen där den kvinnliga nöjesläsningen oftast ses som mindre värd i förhållande till mäns bildande läsning.

The objective of this graduate work is to gain a better understanding in how pre-school educators are able to work with music in their pre-school activity to promote child development. We also want to enlighten possible factors for the development of children based on music and to form our own ideas of whether teachers choose to apply music in their didactic practice or not.The point of this essay has been to attempt answering on what importance music makes for children's development and learning in pre-school, and how teachers could work with music in pre-school in order to promote children?s development. Our data consists of six interviews and two observations realized at a pre-school in Södertälje.We took heed from the theories laid out by Lev Vygotsky's which describe four different levels of development that includes educational development in social interaction between teacher and child. Our choice of this theory is inspired by our seeking deeper understanding of Vygotsky's theory´s application to the aesthetic approach in the interaction in meaning making and learning.The result of our study confirms previous theory and research in that music as a form of expression has a major impact on children's development.

The purpose of this study was to examine young offenders? attitudes towards crime, and to the penalty they have been sentenced to as juveniles. More specifically its aim was to examine an intervention program called Galaxen, specifically used  to deal with  juveniles  in Växjö. This intervention program consists mainly of conversations with social workers from social services,  aiming  towards  better  self-awareness  and  the  ability  to  understand  the  consequences  of one?s actions.

The purpose of this thesis is to find how to work with pedagogical documentation with the aesthetic subjects of dance, music and visual arts. The study also aims to investigate how teachers themselves believe that documentation of these subjects make visible the children?s learning processes. Also to explore if there are any differences in how teachers document the various subjects, and if so, how they can learn from each other to develop the work with pedagogical documentation. I have chosen to use qualitative interviews with a selection of three pre-school teachers who have been working with either dance, music or visual arts.

The aim of this essay is to examine the supervisor?s view on the structure and content of the tasks given to students during their vocational training. The investigation could be of help for teachers when devising new vocational training tasks. The study is based upon qualitative interviews with five supervisors, all of whom work at preschools. The supervisors were asked to grade all the vocational training tasks on a scale from one (easy) to five (difficult).

One of our big public health problems in Sweden is that human beings are too inactive in outdoor settings. That is why stress related diseases increase and influence humans both mentally and physical. The physical activity is halved among many children when they start school and the older they become the less they enjoy school. It is also an increasing problem that children and youth in today's society have lack of worthwhile experiences in the nature. The aim of this study was therefore to examine how the experience of outdoor environment had importance for health and learning on upper secondary school pupils.

Dyslexia is a functional problem, affecting the ability to read and write. As future teachers, we will meet students with dyslexia. The purpose with this exam study has therefore been to describe dyslexia and its causes. Another purpose was to find out ? from the perspective of a teacher ? what experienced teachers know about the problem and how they in practical work can enhance the learning process for students with dyslexia, both individually and in class.

The porpuse of this paper is to find out how three teachers working in years four to six in a Swedish school say they use formative assessment and how they use it in educational practice, and if there is a difference in the use of formative assessment between year four, five and six. Formative assessment is the kind of assessment that aims to enhance the student?s learning, as opposed to summative assessment wich is intended only to summarize student?s accomplishments. To answer the purpose, I conducted qualitative interviews with the teachers, and observations in each of the teachers? classrooms.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka fem Reggio Emilia-inspirerade förskollärares kunskaper om och förhållningssätt till barns begynnande skrivutveckling. Studien syftar också till att undersöka om och i så fall på vilket sätt dessa kunskaper påverkas av Reggio Emilia-inspirationen. Datainsamlingsmetoden som används är kvalitativ samtalsintervju, där respondenternas kunskaper synliggjorts i syfte att utröna tankemönster och kartlägga uppfattningar. Dessa intervjuer har analyserats och sammanställts utifrån fem kategorier. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i literacy-forskning, som beskriver människans socialisering i den skriftspråkliga världen. Studiens resultat visar att respondenternas kunskaper om barns begynnande skrivutveckling är varierande, och kan ofta härledas till förskollärarnas intresse. Reggio Emilia-inspirationen tycks bidra till en ökad medvetenhet om barns olika uttrycksformer, men tidig skrivutveckling fokuseras inte. Synen på förskolans roll för barns tidiga skrivutveckling framställs betydelsefull och resultatet visar att samtliga respondenter lyfter detta.

Huvudsyftet med studien är att undersöka fem svenskundervisande lärares språk- och talhandlingar avseende pojkars läs- och skriftspråkande. Studiens undersökningsfokus är således riktat mot på vilka sätt pojkars läs- och skriftspråkande uppfattas i lärares språk- och talhandlingar. Ambitionen har även varit att säga något om vilket literacyerfarande pojkar erbjuds inom svenskämnet.Teoretiskt förankras studien i två perspektiv, ett anglosaxiskt forskningsinriktat gällande literacy (Fast 2007) och ett diskursanalytiskt (Winther Jørgensen & Phillips 2000). Studiens ansats är kvalitativ och semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts (Kvale & Brinkmann 2009). Empirin har i sin tur analyserats genom ett diskursanalytiskt perspektiv (Winther Jørgensen & Phillips 2000).Utifrån studiens resultat presenteras en konstruktion av svenskämnet samt två konstruktioner som belyser hur pojkar positioneras som läs- och skriftspråkande individer; Konstituering av ämnet, ?Pojkar är pojkar? samt ?Pojkar har inte tid att läsa?.

ABSTRACTThe purpose of the study was to examine, from the point of view of former research findings, what impact physical activity had on learning. I chose to make an explorative/inductive research, to get as much knowledge as possible from the studied presentation of problem, not to limit myself to a specific research theory. The result proved, that school personal and student experienced many positive effects from daily physical activities. The pupils were more pleased. There was more piece and quiet in the classroom.

This graduate work is about didactic issues related to the preschool environment. The study aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how the preschool teachers can plan and design the indoor environment to promote children's development and learning. We will also examine how the work of the preschool indoor environment relates to the kindergarten curriculum. This will be examined through qualitative interviews with teachers at a preschool in Botkyrka municipality. The thesis is based on an inductive study method so the theoretical approach has been chosen by the informants' responses.