The comprehensive aim of the essay is to discuss the abilities of developing individual, communicative and cooperative skills, related to The Swedish National Agency for Education, for pre-school children in Montessori and Reggio Emilia-inspired pre-schools. The importance of the choice of pre-school for lifelong learning is discussed and examined. The two educational profiles are presented and the theories of communication, collaboration and individual work are the basis for the analysis of the results. The collection of empirical data is done through observations and interviews with pre-school children. First, the informants construct a fantasy animal on their own and then together with a partner.

Sammanfattning:Globalisering har möjliggjort för verksamheter att verka över stora geografiska områden. Detta har lett till ökad Potential för lönsamhet men ställer samtidigt höga krav på verksamheten. Konkurrensen på marknaden ökar ständigt och ställer krav på organisationer att rationalisera och effektivisera sin verksamhet. En effekt av detta är uppkomsten av fenomenet distansledarskap. Denna kandidatuppsats behandlar ämnet distansledarskap, hur man kommunicerar samt hur man kontrollerar och mäter arbetsprestation på distans.

I studien redovisas elevers kunskapsutveckling rörande två grundläggande naturvetenskapliga fenomen, kolets och vattnets kretslopp, i ett storylinearbete. Avsikten med undersökningen har varit att prova storylinemetodens Potential att främja naturvetenskapligt lärande samtidigt som övergripande perspektiv förmedlas i undervisningen. Studien utgår från en konflikt mellan gällande styrdokument, nationella resultat i naturvetenskapliga skolämnen, och ett uttalat önskemål om att skolan skall bedriva miljöundervisning enligt en viss miljöundervisningstradition, s.k. utbildning för hållbar utveckling. Tidigare forskning om storylinemetoden är begränsad, men har visat att övergripande perspektiv kan förmedlas genom undervisning med denna metod.

According to the Swedish strategy for forest protection, additionally 40 000 ha productive forestland will be protected in the county of Västerbotten, between 1999 and 2010. A national project was carried out to distinguish the proportion of forest with a high biological value, in all counties. The project resulted in demarcation of small landscape areas or small ?biological value regions? (bvr), with higher concentrations of forests with conservation values and red listed species than the surroundings. In Västerbotten, 26 such bvr?s were identified and the Counties Agency and Forest Agency in Västerbotten developed a regional strategy for forest conservation to standardize the forest protection process.

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..

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the content in Swedish library weblogs. We want to examine what the posts contain, especially on the subject knowledge organization. Which themes do the weblogs have in common? How the weblog authors categorize their posts and how the readers use the comment function, are other questions we seek answers to in the thesis. We have performed content analysis where we created the code units during the process.

SammanfattningSyftet med denna studie var att studera hur inställningen till matematik i förskolan skiljer sig åt mellan föräldrar med olika utbildningskapital. Tidigare forskning pekar på vikten av föräldrars engagemang för barns skolresultat. De barn vars föräldrar engagerar sig i barnens lärande inom ett ämne får ökade möjligheter att lyckas inom utbildningssystemet. Högutbildade föräldrar besitter en större Potential att ge barnen detta stöd. Som teoretiska utgångspunkter har vi främst utgått från sociologen Pierre Bourdieus teorier om kapital och då företrädesvis utbildningskapitalet.

Rising energy prices and higher energy demands have led to an increased focus on energy efficiency, in particular in the real estate business, where high Potential for energy savings exists. Within the next few years, buildings that were constructed in the sixties and seventies will be in need of renovation. One of the challenges of these renovations will be to improve energy efficiency. A real estate company that is facing this challenge is Uppsalahem AB, based in the city of Uppsala, Sweden. This study focused on analyzing energy efficiency measures when renovating old buildings.

This thesis is about a part of the marquetrytechnique, scorching. Scorching is made by heating up something, put a veneer into the heated substance and make a controlled burning. This technique is old but still used today and have according to me great Potential for development. In my work I wanted to give the scorching greater room then I earlier have seen. I wanted the scorching to be the dominant ingredient for a decorative element in a piece of furniture or an interior.

Syftet med denna studie är att skapa kunskap om hur dans kan ta plats i estetiska lärprocesser igrundskolan. Vidare är syftet att undersöka hur danspedagoger/danslärare talar om dans som Potential i ett sammanhang av elevers utveckling och lärande. En empirisk undersökning i kvalitativintervjuform har genomförts med tre danspedagoger, en är danslärare och en fritidspedagog. Tre av danspedagogerna och en danslärare är anställda via Kulturskolan och arbetar med dans i grundskolan. Danspedagogerna, Dansläraren och Fritidspedagogen har alla en högre utbildning inom dans.

High-performance equine athletes have an energy requirement that often reaches twice the maintenance requirement. Horses are grazers and adapted to a grass diet, and diets high in grains and concentrates are associated with digestive upsets and behavioural disorders. It could therefore be of interest if the energy requirement of a high-performing horse could be met by forage. It is important that the forage have a high concentration of energy so that the horse is able to consume the whole amount of energy needed from the forage without exceeding the maximum voluntary intake. The purpose of this literature study was to investigate if the energy demand of a high-performance horse can be covered by forage produced under Northern Swedish climate conditions.

An analysis of a specific application of anaerobic wastewater treatment at a pulp and board mill, Stora Enso Skoghall, was carried out. A literature study was done and effluent wastewater from CTMP pulp production was analyzed. The analysis consisted of a broad constituent analysis and an anaerobic treatment trial. Results from these test where used to calculate the treatment effectiveness and resulting energy Potential at the mill.The literature study and constituent analysis showed that toxicity of the water to be treated, due to wood extractives and sulphur content, was of concern. Detoxification chemicals targeting these constituents where used in the anaerobic treatment trial.

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to identify problems that may occur in the execution of a civil engineering project and suggest measures to reduce the risk of errors. The study was conducted in cooperation with a civil engineering company in the Gothenburg area. During two weeks in February 2012, a field study took place on two construction sites where disruption and problems that took more than 15 minutes to correct were noted. During the field study we identified 39 such occurrences in the projects and then these were classified into different categories according to their cause.The two largest categories were "Design" and "Planning", which accounted for half of the errors that were discovered.In the study results were evaluated to decide whether it was possible to detect discrepancies at an earlier stage. The cost to fix an error in the design stage may be significantly less than to correct the problem in production.According to the evaluation, 55% of the errors could have been detected earlier if there was a greater degree of observation for such issues by everyone involved in the project.

The first aim of the thesis is to analyse the problems of trust, according to game theory, in the Russian market for private pensions insurance. The second aim is to find suitable strategies to solve the problems. Problems of trust have arisen because, (i) buyers of insurance have had negative experiences when dealing with insurance companies and corruption has decreased trust for all players in the market, (ii) incomplete information makes it difficult to separate honest actors from dishonest, and (iii) dishonest insurance companies do not get punished because of corruption and weaknesses in the law. Mutual risk-sharing is a Potential solution as necessary conditions already exist in the Russian society. There are groups who (i) share the same type of risks, (ii) are aware of moral hazards, and (iii) are able to control each other.

The objective of this thesis is to examine which form value-adding qualities specific for the Web take and to what extent they exist in a selection of electronic scholarly editions of literary works. The examination was concentrated on the qualities hypertextuality, interactivity and hypermediality. Besides extent and form, the research questions focused on whether or not the form of the editions correspond to theories and guidelines about how electronic scholarly editions should be designed to generate an added value from a scholarly point of view. The empirical approach was qualitative and the selection consisted of 31 editions. They were examined according to theories about the value-adding features of the qualities.