This essay contains two stories that reflect the reality I face as an educator, as well as a reflective discussion about my self-perceived dilemma. The dilemma reflects a classroom situation where I as an educator have trouble dividing my focus, my focus is either put on entire the class or on the child with special needs. Through this self-perceived situation I have started to question how children with special needs find their place in the school today. I discuss how I can handle and look at the unique situation that occurs when meeting this child.Terms like integration, inclusion, segregation, social rights and the expression "a school for everyone" will be discussed in this text, as well as how we can connect these terms and expressions to the problems I find in the school system?s way of handling children with special needs.I also highlight my dilemma from different ethical perspective.

Syftet med vÄr studie Àr att undersöka vilka uppfattningar barn i Ärskurs tvÄ har om sina livschanser utifrÄn ett etnicitetsperspektiv. Vi vill undersöka vad barn har för tankar om sitt framtida yrkesval. Vi vill Àven ta reda pÄ om deras etniska bakgrund har nÄgon pÄverkan för skapandet av deras uppfattningar kring deras framtid och livschanser. Undersökningen kommer att göras i tvÄ olika stadsdelar i en etniskt segregerad storstad. Vi har genomfört kvalitativa intervjuer i form av fokusgruppsintervjuer.

This thesis on the sustainable urban development has the intent to discuss the conservator?s position in alteration of the built environment. An essential component of the thesis consists of a case study in the form of an entry in an open architectural competition for the development of Furuset, an urban residential area in Norway. The thesis? discussion is based on two approaches to change and socio-economic transformations, considered being dominant within the heritage theory and practice: the production of ideas and great narratives and conservation as an instrumental tool.

Sweden's population holds today one of the highest life expectancies in the world and an increasing number of Swedes believe that they have good health. However, the problem still remains that there exists significant differences in health between different population groups and neighborhoods. Two neighborhoods that demonstrate high inequality in health status are Rinkeby and Danderyd in Stockholm County.    The purpose of this study was to examine why health differs between different neighborhoods and how residents experience the area and their health. To answer this purpose a combination of statistical data and qualitative interviews with residents in Danderyd and Rinkeby has been used with an additional literature review.      The study showed that the causes of health inequalities between these neighborhoods was primarily concerned with the factors of education, economic conditions, ethnicity, conditions of comfort and companionship and the surrounding residential environment. The population in Danderyd, made up largely of people with high education, good economic conditions and few foreign-born, while the majority of Rinkeby?s population consists of individuals with low education, poor economic conditions and a high proportion of inhabitants of foreign origin, which are determining factors leading to poorer health status among the population.

As of today, securitization is an established product on the capital market. The first transaction was made in the US in the 1970s. Since then the product has been developed and today there are several different structures of the product. Internationally securitization has been used for two reasons. Originally securitization was used to gain capital relief, but since capital requirements such as Basel II were implemented, the usage of securitization changed to more of a funding source.

In this thesis an explorative study was undertaken with the aim to study how a number of private care providers, as well as politicians and officials from councils in and around the Stockholm and Uppsala counties, think about the future of the Swedish elderly care from a property perspective, i.e. homes for the elderly. The analysis shows that there is a demand for capacity in 6 out of 16 municipalities, and that the property is an important part of this capacity, and the fulfillment of it. This was mainly due to the cost of capital, but also because of several other factors such as lack of land, a wish to guide the design, ideology, and in many cases a wish to use the property as an instrument of domination to control private health care providers.Also, the property was show to be connected to economic competition, to freedom of choice, and to quality. The problems related to the property in the market for elderly care still remains to be solved.

Syftet med studien var att beskriva arbetsterapeuters erfarenheter av att frÀmja delaktighet i dagliga aktiviteter för Àldre personer inom sÀrskilt boende. För att besvara studiens syfte valdes en kvalitativ ansats och data samlades in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med sju arbetsterapeuter. För att analysera data anvÀndes en kvalitativ innehÄllsanalys som resulterade i fyra kategorier: Bedömningar som kartlÀgger den Àldre personens behov; AnvÀnda den Àldre personens förmÄgor för att frÀmja delaktighet; Olika aspekter att ta hÀnsyn till vid förskrivning av hjÀlpmedel; Skapa ett fungerande samarbete med vÄrdpersonal. Resultatet visade att ett likvÀrdigt synsÀtt och ett vÀl fungerande samarbete med vÄrdpersonal var en viktig förutsÀttning i arbetet. Vidare sÄgs handledning och utbildning av vÄrdpersonal som en viktig faktor i arbetsterapeuternas arbete med att frÀmja delaktigheten i dagliga aktiviteter.

This is a qualitative study that explores the involvement of the relatives in the special housing based on the perspective of fourteen interviewees working in elderly care, at special housing.The purpose of this study is to analyze the nursing staff's view of the involvement of the relatives and the presence of care provision at special housing. The study is to find out what can constitute support or obstacles to the relatives.Three questions have been presented as the structural basis upon which the objective finds its conclusion. These questions try to explore and identify the forms of support that can help relatives in their involvement in elderly care. There are opportunities and obstacles for the involvement of the relatives in the care of the elderly as well as expectations of nursing staff on the role of the relatives in the care of the elderly which the following study focuses on.The research reflected in this study involves the care staff and their experiences and views on the relatives who have their older live permanently in residential care.In conclusion, the study identifies similar reasoning among respondents regarding to key aspects of the relatives at the special housing. They emphasizes that relatives are needed there and they are important resource for both the residents and the staff.The results indicate that there may be both opportunities and obstacles for the involvement of the relatives.

The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate the social identity of students at upper secondary school for physically disabled students. The youths I drew my attention to suffered from severe physical disabilities and therefore received specially adapted education in small classes, but integrated at an ordinary upper secondary school.By "social identity" I mean how the students view themselves as a group, how they value their membership of the group and how they relate to non-disabled students at school. I wanted to investigate the connections between these students' social identity and the problems of marginalization of disabled people in society.According to qualitative methods I interviewed five physically disabled students, aged 18-19, at upper secondary school level taking part of especially adapted education. The study showed that these students regarded themselves as a segregated group at school. None of them associated with non-disabled students at school.

Åsikten att kvinnan anses vara understĂ€lld mannen Ă€r inget nytt fenomen. Detta synsĂ€tt har prĂ€glat bĂ„de det svenska och oĂ€ndligt mĂ„nga andra samhĂ€llen under hundratals Ă„r. Sverige anses av mĂ„nga vara ett av vĂ€rldens mest jĂ€mstĂ€llda lĂ€nder nĂ€r det gĂ€ller mycket, sĂ„ Ă€ven skolsystemet. Skolans vĂ€rld Ă€r majoriteten av mĂ€nniskorna i Sverige en del av under en tidsperiod av livet. Men hur Ă„terges dĂ„ det jĂ€mstĂ€llda svenska samhĂ€llet för eleverna? Syftet med denna uppsats Ă€r att undersöka hur kvinnor och mĂ€n framstĂ€lls genom fotografierna i lĂ€roböcker för historia pĂ„ gymnasiet.

The area of JÀrvafÀltet in the northern parts of Stockholm is one of the many large-scale investments into Swedish residency executed in the 60?s and 70?s, and which got the name Miljonprogrammet. Not until today these buildings have been restored, and frustration has been brewing in these areas for some time. JÀrvadialogen is the name of a communication program connected to the housing restoration in the area of Husby, which is a part of JÀrvafÀltet, and functions as a promotional and informational dialogue between residents in the area and those responsible for the communication program. The cultural diversity in the area of Husby is significant, and with theories on intercultural communication, change communication and power we study the performed communicative process and the manner in which it is received.

The purpose of this thesis is to explore what possibilities Swedish public library has to work with and promote integration. The possibilities are examined on the basis of internal requirements of integration, the role of public library in the civil society and its policy documents. Further, the thesis examines what Swedish National library politics could contribute to this particular field. The experience of integration politics shows that a genuine commitment from all parts of the society is required in order to build an integrated society. The part of a society that public libraries are closest to and have the greatest impact on is undoubtedly the civil society.

Uppsatsens syfte Àr att se erfarenheter av ett bostadsomrÄde ur ettförÀldraperspektiv och hur erfarenheten pÄverkar förÀldern i val gÀllande barnen. Genom att fÄ enökad förstÄelse för hur förÀldrarollen pÄverkas av ens bostadsomrÄde, kan förÀlderns situationnyanseras och möjliga problem kan synliggöras.- Vad har förÀldrar för upplevelse av BiskopsgÄrden som bostadsomrÄde?- Hur upplever förÀldrarna relationen mellan boende i BiskopsgÄrden?- Hur agerar förÀldrar utifrÄn sina erfarenheter av omrÄdet i frÄgor gÀllande sina barn?Metod och material: Syftet och FrÄgestÀllningarna besvaras med hjÀlp av kvalitativ metod. Genomen fokusgruppintervju och en enskild intervju, med totalt 5 förÀldrar.Huvudresultat: FörÀldrars upplevelser av BiskopsgÄrden prÀglas av strukturell problematik, sÄsomsegregation och brister i de lokala skolorna. Man upplever ocksÄ kriminalitet i omrÄdet somproblematiskt.

In a sequence described in the next paragraphs, I remove the poorly insulated roof of Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory and make new use of its  foundation. The monolith cement slab, once supporting heavy industrial machinery, is now the site of lakes and other movements:The top floor area is split, and a new built volume, one story higher, overtakes the southern half resting on the factory?s basement, digging into it at its western and eastern ends. Striking horizontally, the fissure exposes a long central axis, taking advantage of the factory?s horizontality to articulate vastness .

This diploma work has been carried out in collaboration with the building contractor Sh Bygg Fastighetsutveckling AB in Uppsala with the intention to investigate how the height of a building affects various energy aspects such as transmission losses, infiltration, and the specific energy usage. Three different reference objects have been studied. The reference objects have been simulated for four different heights in the calculation program VIP-Energy.The results show that an increase in floor number can lead to both advantages and disadvantages. As the number of floors increases, transmission losses per square meter floor area decreases. However, as the height of the building increases, the reduction rate decreases.