SammanfattningMalin StångbergKunskapsutvecklingOm matematikbokens betydelse för lärandet i tidiga årStudy about Pupil?s knowledge in mathematicsAntal sidor: 25Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur elever i tidiga skolåren lär sig matematik.Dessutom ville jag få fram om eleverna fick bättre förståelse och ett annat förhållningssätt tillvardagsmatematik om man arbetar utan matematikbok. Detta undersökte jag utifrån tre läraresperspektiv genom intervjuer.Mina frågor lyder:Hur lär sig barn inom matematiken?Vad händer med barnens förhållningssätt till matematik om man tar bort matematikboken?Kan bortplockandet av matematikboken bidra till ökad individualisering i skolarbetet?Får eleverna bättre förståelse för vardagsmatematik utan bok?Genom insamlandet av teorierna och med hjälp av mina intervjuer med lärarna har jagkommit fram till flera olika slutsatser som kan påverka hur barn lär sig inom matematiken tillexempel genom ett varierat och stimulerande material, goda samtal och diskussioner ochlärarens roll som en god förebild. Om eleverna inser sambandet mellan matematik i vardagenoch skolmatematik skulle fler tycka att matematik var både roligt och intressant och lättare attförstå.Sökord: Matematik, inlärning, kognitiv teori, sociokulturell teori.

The purpose of these studies is to see how the reception and education of non-Swedish speaking newcomers are organized in a small county, and what you can do to improve this process to achieve a better and quicker integration into the Swedish language and society. To do this, interviews have been performed with four headmasters and different categories of teachers representing all schools in the actual county.In the result it was clear that both headmasters as teachers saw a need to change   and improve reception to provide consistent but flexible support. The headmasters wanted to create written instructions to assure equivalence between the different schools. The majority of teachers wanted to change the current system whereby some Pupils, based on their origins, were placed in a preparatory class to learn the language whilst others were placed directly into a Swedish class. All teachers also thought that the help the non-Swedish speaking newcomers were offered was insufficient.The conclusion is that the county must decide and create instructions according to Skolverket?s recommendations and it also ought to offer all Pupils the possibility of learning the basis of the language in a preparatory class.

The aim with the study is to get an understanding of why Pupils read literature in upper secondary school from four Swedish teachers´ thoughts and attitudes towards fiction in upper secondary school. Some of the theoretical starting points that lay as a foundation to the study are Lpf 94, the curriculum for Swedish and different literature oriented researchers as Lars-Göran Malmgren´s subject construction, Louise M. Rosenblatt´s transaction theory, Jan Nilsson´s view on fiction as a source of pleasure and a source of knowledge and Gunilla Molloy´s dialectal questions. To reach the aim in question qualitative interviews with four Swedish teachers in upper secondary school were carried through. The result shows that the teachers see the literature?s part in school as meaningful and claims that it deserves to have an even higher value in all subjects, not only in the subject Swedish.

Children from different backgrounds, cultures and home environments attend school everyday. The educational system of today focus on the importance for every individual Pupil to take responsibility, in order to gain knowledge. From an early age should the Pupils learn how to work independant and take responsibility for their education. My questian, and what I have decided to discuss in this paper, is wether everyone has the same opportunity to gain knowlwdge and learn trough this method. In preperation for this essay I read litterature where the authors claims that this kind of educational system is not for everyone, but it benefits those Pupils that comes from a middleclass background.So, is our school system fair and equal? Can everyone, no matter what social and cultural group they belong to, get the education thay have right to? In order to get a deeper understanding I interviewed three teachers that works in different schools.

Vårt syfte är att studera hur pojklagskulturen i ett ishockeylag ser ut och hur dess normalitet upprätthålls genom positiva och negativa sanktioner med särskilt fokus på maskulinitet, manligt fostrande, konfomitet, interaktionsritualer och sociala band.Studien genomfördes genom deltagande observation där vi följde ishockeylaget Pucksta under två veckor. Vi följde dem på alla deras schemalagda träningspass under denna tid och även i omklädningsrummet där vi förde informella samtal med spelarna men också tränare och ledare. Resultatet visar att det är viktigare att vara en central deltagare i pojklagskulturen än att prestera idrottsligt. Spelarna visar upp traditionella manliga attribut och använder sanktioner för att upprätthålla en normalitet. Konformitet är ett verktyg för att skaffa sig ett centralt deltagande vilket samtidigt stärker de sociala banden. Det finns utrymme för ett avvikande mot pojklagskulturens normalitet men ett överdrivet avvikande sanktioneras negativt.

AbstractThe present thesis examines reading acquisition. The aim of the study is to gain a deepened understanding of various methods used for reading acquisition, how teachers? are dealing with these methods and what aspects require special attention. The overall research question of the thesis is: How can one assess children?s future reading ability and identify a method that is appropriate to this ability? The overall aim leads to several more specifically addressed issues.In the theoretical part, different perspectives and theories about reading acquisition are presented along with different methods for how to work in order to facilitate reading.

ABSTRACTThe purpose with the investigation was to find if there is a relation between daily health active and too reusing theoretic learning for health promotion school?s Pupil. In the investigation I have focused into if the Health promotion school?s student has better result at the nation?s test (NT) in Swedish, English and in mathematic in the fifths grade, than the ordinary school that isn?t health promotion school. The personal feelings of the two schools are that there is a connection between health active and too reusing theoretic learning.

The education in Swedish schools today should be for all children. This means that even if a Pupil has reading and writing disabilities the education should be in the classroom with the rest of the Pupils. The education should include every one.The aim of my study was to investigate the education with Pupils that have reading and writing disabilities. I wanted to get a deeper knowledge about working methods that are used for Pupils with these problems.In my study I have used qualitative research methods. I have used group interviews and observational studies.

In the fall 2011 a new grading scale will be implemented in the Swedish school. A government bill suggests a change of the scale from a three- to a six-point scale. The students will also be graded from the sixth class instead of today?s eighth. From the first year of the compulsory school the Pupil will get a written judgment.

The purpose of this study is to examine the view of Swedish language teachers on the role of fiction and of school libraries within the compulsory school?s teaching of Swedish of form 6-9. The questions to be answered are:? What part do Swedish language teachers (hereafter called teachers) think fiction is playing regarding the Pupils inclination to read and reading promotion?? What is the attitude of teachers regarding the function of fiction in the Swedish subject?? What do teachers consider being the role of the school library in education, and can this be related to the local school library resources?To answer the questions a questionnaire was sent out to thirty-five teachers. Four qualitative interviews were also carried out among the fourteen teachers that answered the questionnaire.

In today?s individualistic society, I experience a need to bring forward the importance of collaboration. From a sociocultural perspective, I have chosen to highlight the positive and negative aspects of collaborative learning, with the intention of illustrating the effects for the individual learning and development. I have therefore made an interview with an educationalist, who?s been a teacher all her grown up life, with the intent of illustrating her thoughts on collaborative learning.

The purpose of this Master's thesis is to contribute to a betterunderstanding of children's free time reading book practices by studyingPupils in the school library and their processes of finding and borrowingbooks for themselves to read silently in the classroom, so called free timereading books. The study also includes observations of the staff's role,particularly the school librarian's in supporting Pupil's book selection.The empirical material consists of field notes from an etnographic studywhere Pupils in 4th grade (aged 10-11) and staff were observed duringthree school library visits. The theoretical framework is inspired byLennart Björneborn's concepts of information practices in libraries:serendipity, integrative library interface, mediation flow and affordancespaces.The study shows that Pupils' search for free time reading books in theschool library is relatively routine-based at the same time as it isspontaneous. The process is an interplay with factors such as time,display and interaction in the integrative library interface. In the presenceof adults, finding books becomes an imposed task for the Pupils.

AbstractThis study explores how well teachers think they succeed in their mission to include children with special needs into their ordinary groups of children. Interviews were carried out with five teachers in practice of the public school (year 2,3,5 and 6). The teachers were asked what support they have got from the schools manager, initially and ongoing, (information, necessary education, supportive expertise personnel, assistant teacher to the child and schoolmaterial.) The teachers were also asked how inclusion is arranged by three indicators of participation: physically, socially (interaction) and didactically -in educational situations of reading and writing. One finding of the study was that inclusion is difficult to arrange if  parents of included children demand secrecy of the diagnosis their child has. Three cases reveal severe problems of acceptance for the included child by the peers.

This study focuses on oral communication in the classroom involving discussion and dialogue amongst Pupils, but also between teacher and Pupil. The overall aim is to study the choices regarding the group composition and working methods that might occur in four individual teachers? lessons plans with the intention of increasing the Pupils? knowledge through oral communication. The main focus is to explore what the teachers think of the choices they make and how they believe these changes affect the Pupils. It is also focused on how the teachers perceive their Pupils? learning is improved by oral communication and how they incorporate all Pupils, especially the Pupils who rarely participate in classroom activity.The methods used are qualitative studies using interviews and observations.

Denna studie handlar om elevers uppfattningar om motivation i ämnet matematik. Syftet med denna studie var att lyfta fram elevers egna utsagor och upplevelser om sin motivation, samt få en bild av eventuella förändringar eller mönster kring elevers motivation till matematikämnet under deras tidiga år i grundskolan. Studien har genomförts med hjälp av elevenkäter och elevintervjuer, där kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder kombinerats för att möjliggöra ett fördjupat analysarbete i undersökningens resultatdel. Här presenteras elevers uppfattningar av motivation i ämnet matematik samt deras tankar om vad som påverkar motivationen. Analysen av resultaten visar att eleverna har en god uppfattning om vad som påverkar deras motivation. De ger många exempel, där fysiskt och psykiskt välmående samt lärarens pedagogiska arbete i klassrummet, har betydelse för motivationsprocessen.