To end up as an immigrant in an unknown country and to try to participate in the majority society means both psychological and physical difficulties where their whole life is changing. Gemensamma Krafter is a prevention changing work in a housing area in Borlänge. It works among other things as a meeting place for people from different cultures. The aim with this study was to describe and to get increased understanding for the lives of a number of immigrant women who lives in Borlänge/Sweden and which importance ?Gemensamma Krafter? has had for them.

Examensarbete II, 10 poäng, vårterminen 2006.

Syftet med denna uppsats på 15 hp är att undersöka företag inom turistbranschens förutsättningar för att överleva och expandera. Jag har valt att undersöka Abisko som konkurrerar med större, närliggande och mer väletablerade orter. Allt detta sker i samspel med yttre faktorer som påverkar företagens förutsättningar, exempelvis det faktum att Abisko är en nationalpark samt beläget i regnskugga vilket ger bra förutsättningar för norrsken och lockar enorma mängder turister varje år. Samverkan mellan företag visade sig vara en väsentlig faktor för framgång, de behöver varandra. Det framkom även att konkurrenssituationer kan uppstå mellan företag i Abisko.

   Did the mass media report in a different way about the real estate tax before the Swedish national election 2006 than they did after the election? If there were differences, what could be the cause?This study aims to answer these questions by using a quantitative analysis of articles about the real estate tax published in the Dagens Nyheter (DN), the biggest morning daily. The summer before the election, the ?Alliance?, (the non-socialist coalition, launched an election promise to abolish the real estate tax. Instead they planned to introduce a low community charge.The Alliance won the election and formed a government to implement their election promise. The analysis was made on all the published articles in DN that covered the real estate tax issue. In total there were 43 such articles. These where all published between the launch of the campaign promise until the electionday and a month before the proposal was launched 19/9 2007, until the proposal was implemented in 2008. The study results in three interesting conclusions.

Background and aims: The population of older people in our society is increasing. Agerelated changes in the skin results in a diminished perception of pain and pressure and a decreased microcirculation in the skin affects its ability to adapt to injury. Occurrence of pressure sore on geriatrikal clinics are 5-10%, witch means that between five and ten thousand patients gets daily treat for pressure sores. When the patient gets a pressure sore the need for help increases. A common apprehension is that if the patient?s affects with pressure sores it?s because of deficiency in care.

The aim of this study was to create an understanding of how a group of community policing officers engagement are shaped. Previous research argues that there is a police culture which conveys cynicism to the individual police. The research also says that the police adopt a pessimistic view of society, they are isolated and at odds with the rest of society. Furthermore, research has also shown how a narrative can exist that explains the police way of doing things. My contribution to the field is to explore how a narrative can be located, which precedes and shapes the police engagement.

The Aquatic Ape theory was first formulated by Alister Hardy in year 1960. All from the beginning the theory has been criticized, ridiculed, ignored and a source to strong feelings in the anthropological community. The purpose of this essay is to investigate why the Aquatic Ape theory is so controversial and why it is understood so differently by scientists. After interviews with Swedish scientists and the general community, and after reading of anthropological books, I have tried to show that the aquatic ape-coldness depends on it challenging nature against the anthropological paradigm, which describes human beings as strong, hunting creatures who can live in any environment. The Aquatic Ape theory - on the other hand - picks out one of all these environments and says: "here has our evolution occurred: we have been aquatic apes".

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att studera samverkan och relationer mellan olika experter i ett elevhälsoteam. Mer specifikt avser jag att studera vilka maktrelationer som blir synliga i ett elevhälsoteam. Det skall uppnås via besvarande av följande frågeställningar:1. Hur beskrivs samverkan mellan de olika professionerna i ett EHT?2. Hur ser relationen mellan elevhälsoteamets olika aktörer ut?3. Hur konstrueras maktrelationerna i elevhälsoteamet?4. Hur gör sig dominans och motstånd synligt?5. Hur tar individen anspråk på den makt som ges?Teori: Diskursteori med användande av Laclaus och Mouffes begreppsapparat. Centrala begrepp är bland andra nodalpunkt, det tecken som andra tecken relateras till, ekvivalenskedjor, de kedjor av ord som ger nodalpunkten dess mening och subjektspositioner, de olika roller ett subjekt ges i gruppen.

The wide spread of the Internet and new information technologies in recent years has come to effect how libraries manage and disseminate information. Search engines like Google are widely used by people who often find the information retrieval systems of libraries to be too complicated. In 2004 Google announced plans to digitise five major library collections. Organisations representing the publishing industry and authors have since then filed lawsuits against Google claiming that Googles scanning of library books infringe the rights holders copyright. Due to Googles potential impact on libraries this thesis aims to examine how Googles digitisation project, Google Book Search, has been received in the library community.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur modersmålslärare upplever arbetet i ett arbetslag och vilken funktion den har. Med dessa utgångspunkter vill vi undersöka om samverkan i ett arbetslag har något betydelse för elevens lärande och vilka fördelar respektive nackdelar lärarna ser med arbetslaget. Vidare vill vi ta reda på om samverkan i arbetslaget kan bidra till modersmålsverksamhetens utveckling. Denna studie har gjorts i två modersmålsverksamheter. I insamlandet av empiri har vi använt oss av kvalitativa intervjumetoder med 15 modersmålslärare, och observationer vid sex olika tillfällen. Vi kom fram till i vår undersökning att arbetslaget upplevs mer som en socialt och reflekterande funktionsform än ett beslutsfattande forum.

Syftet med detta arbete är att få ökad insikt och kunskap kring samarbete mellan skola och hem i en mångkulturell yrkesgymnasieskola. Samverkan innebär att läraren, föräldrarna och eleven genom samarbete hittar samarbetsformer vilka främjar elevens kunskaps och sociala utveckling. Som forskningsobjekt hade jag en mångkulturell yrkesgymnasieskola. Jag ville se vilka samarbetsformer som brukar användas i skolan och vilka hinder som finns. Jag vill också se hur eleverna, deras föräldrar och lärarna ser på samarbete mellan skola och hem.

The curriculum of the Swedish school system explains how the transitions between the preschool class and the pre-school should be. The co-operation between the organisations should aim for a long term perspective with the students learning process in mind (Lgr11).The pre-school has almost the same aim in their curriculum, as the curriculum of the Swedish school system.The aim with my study is to examine how the teachers from the different organizations relate to knowledge and how they look at the students social interactions. Also how the transition between the pre-school and the pre-school class is viewed from their point of view. How do the teachers from the different organisations comprehend knowledge?How do the teachers from the different organisations comprehend the social abilities?How do the teachers from the different organisations work and interact in terms of the transition between the pre-school and the pre-school class?The study that has been made is about the transitions between the pre-school and the pre-school class. It´s been investigated by doing interviews with teachers from both the pre-school and the pre-school class.

I dagens kunskapsintensiva verklighet krävs att organisationer har förmåga till en god intern samverkan och ett ständigt pågående lärande. För att lyckas med detta krävs en samverkan mellan ledning och medarbetare och att medarbetarna ser positivt på de ständiga förändringarna. En fungerande kommunikation är en av förutsättningarna för att ge medarbetarna insikter om förändringarnas betydelse. Det balanserade styrkortet är om det används på ett korrekt sätt, ett verktyg som kan hjälpa organisationer att kommunicera ut olika budskap till dess medarbetare. Syftet med denna uppsats är att se hur medarbetarna i en organisation upplever att kommunikationen har förändrats efter en implementering av det balanserade styrkortet.

In this study I examine the debates, intentions and ideas concerning the physical and created schoolroom as they appeared in the journal Lärarnas Tidning - Svensk Skoltidning (Teachers Journal ? Swedish School journal) during the period 1962-1974. The built and created school building and its environment has been a relatively neglected topic in Swedish pedagogical research.When the Swedish comprehensive system transformed during the sixties, with new curricula and a common nine year school, many school professionals realised the need for a new and pedagogically adjusted schoolhouse.The early seventies marked a decline after a ten year period with an extensive building program affecting large parts of Sweden, and where schoolhouses had been an important part. The debate concerning the new Swedish school building was sometimes inspired and refreshing, but resistance and bitterness was also expressed. In part, this should be seen against the backdrop of the introduction of a new educational system, using new and sometimes untested pedagogical ideas, together with the fast transformation of the Swedish society.The research method is an exploratory textual analysis focused on five different issues: ideas concerning community centres and integration, participatory and democratic issues about the built environment, the school building as a pedagogical tool, aesthetic considerations, and the working environment.

Purpose: The purpose of this interview study was to describe the nurses? view of their experiences of interaction with other professionals to improve the elderly patient's nutritional status in municipal elderly care.Method: The study is based on qualitative interviews with nine nurses and was analyzed according to a qualitative content analysis method.Results: The main themes that emerged: Communication among the involved, To feel secure in their role, Lack of structure. The nurses worked closely with nursing staff and cooperated more with doctors about nutrition than with the physiotherapist and occupational therapist. The nurses felt they had the main responsibility for maintaining a good nutritional status of the elderly patient and described themselves as primarily responsible for nutrition while they lacked nutritional competence equal to the responsibilities they had during the whole nutrition process. The nurses had no community dietitian?s skills and felt that the dietitian had a great responsibility and the most updated knowledge in diet and nutrition.