Mot bakgrund av att många elever idag upplever skolan som meningslös har vi i detta arbete reflekterat över vad som skulle kunna öka möjligheterna för elever att uppleva skolan som meningsfull. Uppsatsen handlar om meningsskapande arbete i skolan, vilket inte är liktydigt med ?meningsfullt arbete? i skolan. Med meningsskapande arbete menar vi sådan pedagogisk verksamhet där en syn på barnet som kunskaps- och kulturskapare får konsekvenser för hur arbetet blir, för hur pedagoger planerar uppgifter och för hur de pedagogiska målen med ett arbete formuleras. Vi fokuserar på sådant meningsskapande arbete som använder sig av estetiska uttrycksformer.

This study is based on my work as a teacher of Swedish language and literature to upper secondary school students, and my interest in developing the teaching of literature by using both new criticism theories and theories of literary perception focusing on reader response. The purpose of the study is to examine the learning process in trying to develop literary competence and to find out how to describe the competence shown by the students. My starting-point is a discussion about literary competence and the theory and model of literary competence by Örjan Torell. In examining literary competence, by how students use their constitutional competence as well as performance and literary transfer competences, Torell´s model shows the possibility and the need for both knowledge of literature and personal Reception by focusing on the dialogue between author and reader.The method is qualitative and the empirics are material collected in one senior high school class in the Social Science programme during their second and third year. The material contains written reading logs, written answers to tasks and transcribed recordings of discussions of literature.The analysis shows a variety among the literary competence shown and developed by the students and points to the complexity of understanding the concept of literary competence.

 The purpose with my study was primarily to illuminate the students' expectations on gained knowledge during their studies at the upper secondary school Hotel- and Restaurant program, and to what extent these expectations were fulfilled. Secondarily, the purpose was to compare the students' expected and perceived knowledge with the program goals set by the Swedish government and the knowledge requirements expressed in a pilot study made by the Education council of the Hotel and restaurant business (UHR, 2007).I chose a quantative approach and I used an anonymous group enquiry among students at the Hotel- and Restaurant program at two different upper secondary schools to carry out my study.Tendencies in the result suggested that the students at the Hotel- and Restaurant program expected high knowledge level within the competence areas of Guest Reception and communication, Cleaning and hygiene, Cooking of cold and hot dishes and Waiting. The expectations were not big within the areas Computers and Internet and Business economics and management.Fulfillment of expected knowledge tended to be high within the areas where the expectations were big. It might therefore be a good investment for schools to work on the student expectations to increase motivation within the low expectation areas.A confrontation of the tendencies in the result with the program goals and the competence requirements expressed in the UHR study, suggested that the upper secondary Hotel- and Restaurant education might focus some more the areas of Guest Reception and communication, Beverages and Organization of banquets. Business economics and management should be given much more weight..

 Extra high requirements are made on all systems in health care that they are functional and usable,´something, however, that is not always the case. At Emergency Admissions at Sahlgrenska University´Hospital many systems are in use at the same time and it happens that much overhead is caused by having to fill in the same information in different places. In addition, data that is gathered is to a large extent saved in free text format, which means that it cannot be used in a larger context such as research, quality control or for decision support. Data is saved in the patient file only for the treatment process of the individual patient.A data collecting system with decision support functionality could be a first step towards reducing Emergency Admissions? costs and patients? waiting times by providing a structured method of data collection.

This is a Reception study on how the idea of Paneuropa, as launched by the austrian count Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi in 1923, was received by the political weekly magazine Tidevarvet, a product of ? and an opinion forming organ for ? the social liberal wing of the Swedish suffrage- and peace movements. The main purpose is to examine to what extent there was an existent Europeanism in the public debate in Sweden during the interwar period, and how that discourse was constructed through the conceptual pairings disruption/unity and parts/whole. The study is conducted mainly through discourse analysis, combined with partly new research into sources such as the parliament, the newspapers and civil society to try to initiate a mapping over the wider Reception of the Paneuropa project in a Swedish context. The study finds that the subject of Paneuropa is present throughout the almost entire period of the publication, namely 1924?1936, and that the question of a federal Europe is closely connected to the pacifist attitude of the editorial staff in general and writer/editor Elin W?gner in particular.

Animal art is one of the more mystical aspects of Scandinavian Iron Age culture. It has foremost been regarded in the light of art and style history. Interpretation has also ? mainly from the 1990s and onwards ? been made through iconographic analysis. But the problem here is that iconography requires textual analogy, something that the Scandinavian Iron Age lacks.The purpose of this paper is to lift some of the ?mystical fog? that engulfs the scandinavian animal art, by developing a method for interpretation of pre-historic images that evades the flaws in the iconographic method.

In this essay I have been writing about the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. It was written at the Library School in Borås as a contribution to the struggle of the maintenance of the free word. In the essay I have been concentrating on how Reich was received in Sweden from the publication of his first book 1927 to the year of 2000. The work started with a biographical chapter and a chapter about Reich's scientific development, which was divided into three phases: one psychoanalytical and Marxist, one physiological and biological and a third phase that makes a synthesis of these in a cosmological form. The analytic material has been books and articles from periodicals and papers.

Min utgångspunkt för den här studien har varit att förstå och analysera pojkars menings- och identitetsskapande i vardagen. Mitt intresse var att förstå identitetsprocesser såsom de framträder i pojkars möten med olika texter, i ett vidgat perspektiv, med fokus på virtuella världar. Grundläggande begrepp är identitet, Reception och meningsskapande. Vad jag främst velat ta reda på är vilken betydelse texter och virtuella världar har för pojkars menings- och identitetsskapande. För att ge en bakgrund och för att läsaren ska kunna få en bild av de olika sociala rum studiens pojkar befinner sig i ?tecknar? jag deras ?porträtt?.

The purpose of this essay is to look at how the depiction of cats is performed in childrens? picture books. I will analyze eight pictures from four different books, two from each. The books are from two different decades: from the 1960s and from the 2000s.My ambition is to see if there are any artistic or cultural differences when comparing the two decades? depictions of cats to each other.

This thesis investigates the Reception of middle literature novels among critics in Swedish newspapers and at Swedish libraries. Works by three authors were chosen as representatives for middle literature: Helen Fielding, Nick Hornby and Tony Parsons. The investigation is based on interviews with librarians at the Gothenburg City Library, the total purchased number of books at public libraries in Sweden and analysis of Swedish newspaper reviews. The result is compared with theories by literary sociologists as Jofrid Karner Smidt, Janice Radway, Erland Munch-Petersen and Staffan Bergsten among others. It was found out that literary scientists and critics had a different way of looking at middle literature.

Självbetjäningsterminaler tar över efter traditionella kassor och Receptioner på allt fler platser i dagens samhälle. Vare sig du ska handla möbler på IKEA, låna böcker från biblioteket eller besiktiga bilen är sannolikheten stor att du stöter på en terminal. Dess användare anser många gånger att självbetjäningen är snabbare än och effektivare än dess traditionella motsvarighet, medan motståndarna anser att en maskin aldrig kan ersätta den personliga service en människa ger.Den här rapporten försöker dels besvara frågan om en självbetjäningsterminal tillför något positivt för personal respektive patienter på en mammografiklinik, och dels redogör den för de problem patienterna upplevde medan de använde terminalen.De patienter som rör sig på en mammografiklinik är i allmänhet äldre kvinnor med väldigt varierande förutsättningar vad det gäller datorvana. För att få så stort antal testpatienter som möjligt under utvärderingsperioden, stängdes klinikens ordinarie Reception ner och samtliga patienter blev istället hänvisade till en av två självbetjäningsterminaler. Totalt användes terminalerna av 425 kvinnor i åldrarna 21 ? 83 år, där medelåldern låg på knappt 54 år.Utvärderingen visar att patienternas största problem i allmänhet var att först och främst hitta terminalen, och därefter att förstå att de skulle trycka på terminalens pekskärm för att interagera med den.

Uppsatsen handlar om hur Receptionen av Hilma af Klints konst sett ut från 1986 fram till 2012 utifrån diskussionen om andlighet. Genom att se på olika konstskribenters texter lyfts mönster av värderingar fram som visar på inställningen till andligheten i Hilma af Klints konst.  Konsthistorikerna James Elkins och Suzi Gablik exemplifieras som två motpoler och värderingarna länkas samman med deras teorier om andlighet och religion i samtida konst..

The goal in doing this study has been studying public interpretations of media content in the commercials that this study uses. The analysis was based on two TV commercials for feminine hygiene products. Initially, they seemed to differ from each other, but soon the question whether or not they in fact did convey the same underlying message was raised. The theoretical premises on which the study was founded on are the gender perspective in advertising and the social construction of gender. To reveal the hidden signs appearing in these commercials and to find out their meanings, we used the method of semiotic analysis.

Title: The life is too soft to accord in to tariffs: an essay about youth and families with children who are recipients of economic support, their experience of their financial situation and the Reception towards the social welfare.Author: Ana Becovic & Kerstin Olsson         Supervisor: Erik WesserInstitution: Humanvetenskapliga institutionen, Högskolan i KalmarType of Essay: Degree project, 15 ECTS                     Date: December 2008The aim for our study has been to examine how youth and families who are recipients of economic support on long term basis experience their contact with social welfare. The starting point for the question at issue has been the client's experience of their financial situation the Reception and expectations towards the social welfare.In our B-level study we carried out qualitative interviews with social welfare officers to find out how they applied the "child perspective" in granting financial support and to what extent they felt that they succeeded in meeting the need of the client. The conclusion was that there is still room for improvement in this field and particularly a wish to focus more on the child's situation and development. The officers told us that they tried to pay closer attention to the child's situation through asking about the children and by visiting the families at home.They expressed awareness of the importance to a child's well being the financial situation of their family. They also expressed the need for the child to be able to take part in leisure time activities and having an active social life.In this study our research method is based on qualitative interviews.

Målet med denna C-uppsats är att försöka kartlägga och analysera det recensionsmaterial som finns i dags- och kvällstidningar angående två av Kerstin Thorvalls romaner. Romanerna är Det mest förbjudna respektive När man skjuter arbetare. Uppsatsen utgår från en frågeställning där recensionernas behandling av Thorvall själv står i fokus, främst eftersom just Thorvall som person diskuterades ovanligt mycket i recensionerna av romanerna. Teorin som används i uppsatsen är en intersektionell teori, vilket ger en bred synvinkel på ämnet och tillåter många olika infallsvinklar i analysen..