En enkätundersökning har genomförts bland landets naturbruksgymnasier för att undersöka deras uppfattningar om distansutbildning och lärplattform. Syftet med undersökningen var att beskriva och försöka skapa en bättre förståelse, samt att ta reda vilka faktorer som är viktiga att tänka på när en gemensam lärplattform och webbaserat lärande implementeras. Uppsatsen avslutas med några rekommendationer. Enkäten skickadesvia e-post, tillsammans med en film och ett dokument som visade ett exempel på en distanskurs. Enkätsvaren analyserades i huvudsak kvalitativt med hjälp av ett fenomenografiskt perspektiv.

Den här uppsatsen handlar om utbildningspolitik och syftar till att undersöka hur svenska politiska partier talar om skolan i ett antal debattartiklar och repliker, samt om de är överens i några aspekter och vilka dessa i sådant fall är. Utgångspunkten är att det sker en avpolitisering av politik, där kampen mellan ideologier inte längre existerar på samma sätt som tidigare. Genom diskursanalys har ett antal texter analyserats med ett resultat som visar att det mycket väl verkar stämma att partierna inte längre kämpar ideologier emellan, utan att man är övergripande överens och först och främst förvaltar ett redan existerande system. Den politiska kampen, eller spänningen, är inte särskilt stark då samtliga partier är eniga på flera punkter. Däremot existerar en diskursiv spänning kvar i aspekten av att man ständigt försöker underminera varandras kapacitet att vara i regeringsställning.

Media has power and impact. It is therefore important for managers to be able to handle media storms when they arise. If not, the brand can be affected negatively. It is managers who should learn to handle media storms because the managers constitute an important part of the external face of the company. Because it is managers who should learn to handle media storms it is interesting to study how media storms should be handled from a theoretical management-perspective.

Digitizing objects and environments from real world has become an important part of creating realistic computer graphics. Through the use of structured lighting and laser time-of-flight measurements the capturing of geometric models is now a common process. The result are visualizations where viewers gain new possibilities for both visual and intellectual experiences. This thesis presents the reconstruction of the Parthenon temple and its environment in Athens, Greece by using a 3D laser-scanning technique. In order to reconstruct a realistic model using 3D scanning techniques there are various phases in which the acquired datasets have to be processed.

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to study an electronic reference service from a user perspective. By qualitative interviews with eight students the thesis examines their information behaviour, why and when they use the service, the user?s experiences of the service and the communication with the librarian. The users have all used the Swedish electronic reference service Fråga biblioteket ? Forskningsbibliotek.

Bakgrund: Varje år får cirka 12 000 personer i Sverige afasi, ofta till följd av en stroke. Afasi innebär att talet och/eller förståelsen är nedsatt, vilket påverkar kommunikationen och därmed omvårdnadsarbetet eftersom det blir svårare för sjuksköterska och patient att förmedla sig med varandra. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att belysa hur sjuksköterskan upplever kommunikationen med strokepatienter som har afasi. Metod: Studien är en intervjustudie och baseras på 5 intervjuer med sjuksköterskor som arbetar på strokeavdelningar. En kvalitativ ansats har använts och datainsamlingen skedde genom intervjuer med semistrukturerade frågor.

This study is a comparative analysis of how Hollywood portrays people from the Middle East before and after 9/11. The films used to conduct this study are True Lies (1994), The Siege (1998), The Kingdom (2007) and Body of Lies (2008). With a qualitative methodology, discourse analysis and postcolonial theory this study analysed not only how people from the Middle East is portrayed, but also how the Americans in the films are presented and how the characters in the films changed in the movies produced after 9/11.     The results show that people from the Middle East are portrayed in a negative way and that Hollywood uses stereotypes. However, people from the Middle East are more gradated in the films post-9/11. There is a bigger focus on Islam in the movies produced after 9/11 and the study also shows that family values play a less central part in the story in the films made after 9/11 and that work is of more importance.

Lifestyle magazines portray women in different manners and have an influence on how media consumers create self-images. The importance of knowing how different visual representation of the female acts out in magazines with large target audiences is therefore of weight for the magazines? readers to understand. This thesis analyze how the two lifestyle magazines ELLE and LOVE portrays women in images and how they in turn create ideal images of women.The thesis has been conducted through a qualitative analysis of 5 images from each magazine that represents the magazines artistic styles. The theories used in this study are semiotic image analysis and visual text analysis viewed from a gender- and discourse perspective.The conclusion of this thesis is that ELLE portrays women as strong, happy and feminine, with at tendency towards androgyny, while LOVE describes women as inferior and sexual objects constructed for the male gaze.

This thesis is a critical discourse analysis of the vision of Malmös contemporary urban development. By analysing official documents produced by Malmö municipality our aim is to make discursive and sociolcultural practices in the constitution and construction of the city visible and problematicize them. To do so we use critical discourse analysis and theories on Urban Studies. Malmö is a city historically labeld as a ?labour- city?, with heavy industry as its main labourmarket.

The Swedish education system reflects the multicultural society in Sweden, therefore there is a need of school textbooks that pupils can identify themselves with to create meaning and value in their learning. According to the Swedish Education Administrations (Skolverkets) report (2006) and Selander (2003, s. 198) the school textbooks are the main source of education in class. There has been an implicit message in the older textbooks that is associated with the belief that non-Europeans are "seen" as victims, and that Europeans are privileged with a "good life".Many school texbooks has been analyzed from different points of perspectives, however, analysis from a postcolonial perspective on home economics books has practically been nonexistent.Analysis in this study are focused on how non-western people are been portrayed in six different textbooks in the subject to conclude if the colonial discourse is still maintained and reproduced in the school. To answer the question of formulation an image analysis is made of the six, previiously mentioned, textbooks.

The essay, based on interviews with eight people, deals with name changes from a foreign-sounding name to Swedish-sounding name. The aim is to investigate the reasons behind the name change and whether experiences of ethnic discrimination were among these reasons. Furthermore, I explore the consequences of the name change, and whether the name change was an effective strategy to avoid ethnic discrimination. The study employs qualitative method; I carry out eight interviews with four women and four men, and analyze the empirical material by means of post-colonial theory in which categorizing, otherness and passing are significant terms. The results show that the name change takes place primarily to reduce a sense of otherness, and the discursively locked positions a foreign-sounding name creates.

The aim of this study is to investigate how employees in consulting companies develop their competence in order to perform their daily work. The focus is on informal competence development. The theoretical framework consists of theories concerning learning and competence development in working life, theories on organizational change and evaluation, a well as professional reflection. The methods applied are narrative research and interviews based on the assumption that knowledge about reality is only obtainable through language and communication.The main results show that competence is developed through experience, social interaction, communication and dialog with co-workers and customers. The post-modern conceptions of the rapid (technical) development and need to be up-to-date has a strong hold on the informants apprehension of working life, as does the notion of not having enough time for all the competence development they would like.

This thesis is a comparative analysis of language policy in the Post-Soviet states Ukraine and Kazakhstan, wherein the states are seen as rational actors using language as an instrument in the nation-building process. With a take-off point in an underframe of theories on the nation, national identity, instrumentalism, power and the particular role of language in the nation-building process, this thesis shows that language is a key instrument used by the two states.The Ukrainian and Kazakhian language policies create and put across a certain image of the nation, by emphasising the titular languages as symbols of the new states. The line of argument in the language policy is a balance act between large-scale promotion of titular languages and a careful and inclusive attitude towards the Russian language. The biggest differences are that Ukraine, compared to Kazakhstan, has a more comprehensive and consequent language policy with a deeply rooted historic rhetoric. The most obvious instruments of the states in language policy is censuses, corpus-planning and the state choosing one official language..

Syftet med studien var att utifrån ett vårdtagarperspektiv nå ökad kunskap om och förståelse för hur äldre personer uppfattar och upplever sjukgymnastik inom kommunal verksamhet. Studien baseras på åtta intervjuer med äldre vårdtagare mellan 67 och 89 år, fyra män och fyra kvinnor, med olika grader av erfarenhet av sjukgymnastisk behandling utförd på olika enheter i kommunal verksamhet.Under analysen framkom tre kategorier;?Den äldre som individ - förutsättningar och förväntningar?Yttre påverkande faktorer ? rehaborganisation, miljö och bemötande?Sjukgymnastinsatsernas innehåll och karaktärResultatet visar att de intervjuade med en övergående funktionsnedsättning, t.ex. efter höft-fraktur, som fått sjukgymnastik under en kort, intensiv behandlingsperiod på en rehabenhet eller i ett hemrehabteam, väsentligen var nöjda med den behandling de fått. Däremot beskri-ver de intervjuade med en kronisk funktionsnedsättning, t.ex.

SammanfattningSyfte: Att utifrån litteratur beskriva hur patienter som drabbats av Poststroke Depression (PSD) upplever sin livskvalitet.Design: Beskrivande litteraturstudie.Metod: Litteratur söktes i databaserna PubMed och CINAHL, som publicerats mellan 2002-2012. Resultatet baseras på 13 vetenskapliga artiklar.  Resultat: Livskvalitet kan ses ur två dimensioner, psykiskt och fysiskt. Då livet förändras inom dessa dimensioner efter en stroke, kan detta påverka hur individen upplever sin livskvalitet. Patienter som drabbas av PSD kan uppleva en sämre livskvalitet, då de kan uppleva minskad fysisk aktivitet, liksom nedsatt funktionsförmåga och minskad självständighet i utförandet av aktiviteter i dagliga livet (ADL).