Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1995 and the power of the organisation to make decisions has increased over the years in a rate which hasn?t been followed by an equally increase in democratization. This is partly due to the lack of participation in the decision making process and at the national level the citizens don?t possess enough channels to compensate the loss of influence. To solve this democratic dilemma, more and more countries are turning to the referendum.

Innan eleverna lämnar grundskolan ska de ha nått upp till de mål som är satta för godkänt i matematik för år 9. Syftet med detta arbete är att få en inblick i hur några skolor i en norrländsk stad arbetar med problematiken att alla elever ska bli godkända i matematik när de går ut grundskolan. De forskningsfrågor jag utgått från är: Hur kan en matematiklärare vid en högstadieskola i en norrländsk stad angripa problematiken att alla elever ska ha godkänt i matematik när de lämnar grundskolan? Vad känner matematiklärare vid högstadieskolor i en norrländsk stad inför uppgiften att få alla elever godkända i matematik innan de lämnar grundskolan? För att ta reda på detta har jag valt att göra tre djupintervjuer med matematiklärare, samt en mer kvantitativ enkätundersökning bland matematiklärarna på respektive skola för att få reda på deras känslor. Resultatet visar bl.a.

För den schizofrene patienten kan kontakten med andra människor vara svår och de känner ofta skräck inför mötet- Detta är ett dilemma när patienter med schizofreni uppsöker den somatiska vården. Vårdpersonal inom den somatiska vården har ofta ingen psykiatrisk utbildning och patienter med funktionshinder säger sig uppleva att de ofta blir kränkta i sina kontakter med sjukvården och att de ofta möts av bristande respekt. Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva vilka faktorer som påverkar sjuksköterskans bemötande av den schizofrene patienten i den somatiska vården. Studien är en litteraturstudie. Nio vetenskapliga artiklar, som är förstahandskällor och vetenskapligt granskade, analyserades.

The purpose of this report was to investigate what characterizes a good psychosocialwork environment, and whether it may have impact on a vessel's safe voyage. Thisreport is proposed to increase the understanding of what creates a good psychosocialwork environment and its potential effect on safety at sea. In order to find out thesuccess factors for a good work environment group interviews were conducted in socalledunstructured focus groups. During these conversations, the participants discussedfreely by the question "what is a good psychosocial work environment for you?? Thesuccess factors were thereafter applied on selected accident reports, to investigate theextent to which they were represented and taken into account.The results of the study show three categories of factors: colleagues, communicationand competence, where colleagues are the main contribution to a good psychosocialwork environment.

In this thesis I analyse and discuss what impact the 2003 U.S lead intervention in Iraq, had for the cooperation against global terrorism between the European Union and the United States. Six years have passed since the Bush administration decided to go on with the intervention, even though they did not have the necessary UN mandate. Due to unsuccessful argumentation in favour of the intervention by the Bush administration, the world got divided. George W. Bush reference to a ?war on terror?, which passed almost unnoticed by Americans, rang alarm bells in many European countries.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how some teachers work with above-average pupils in mathematics. I have issued three questions based on the purpose of this study:How do teachers define an above-average pupil?In what way the teachers stimulate and challenge the above-average pupils?Has the school done something special for the above-average pupils?The method used to conduct this study was a semi-structured qualitative interview with four teachers in primary school. The method consists of interviews and observations.The study shows that the teachers make an effort to give these pupils extra attention and challenging tasks. A major focus is put on problems solving and to develop the pupil's ability to be able to explain how they think and if necessary, they should be able to explain even to their fellow- pupils.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka vad den nya utbildningen ? Grundlärare mot fritidshem ? innebär för aktiva inom verksamheten, vilka förändringarna är och om de är välkomna eller inte. De medverkande i studien har insikt om både utbildning samt verksamhet, hur det sett ut och vad som är annorlunda idag. För att samla data till denna uppsats har fyra pedagoger och en student intervjuats under mars 2015. Dessa har alla gemensamt att de antingen utbildar sig inom eller arbetar inom fritidsverksamheten och ser hur den förändras.

This paper aims to explore those yet relatively unexplored dimensions of Frantz Fanons (1925-1961) authorship. Fanon, known to the world as a theorist of violence and revolution, was one of the first to ever map the language of the colonizer. The language of the colonizer was, as Fanon would have it, imbued with different notions of time, constructions of historicity and ideological principles of individuality that would dehumanize the colonial subjects. In line with that the colonizer would also speak of the colonized people in what Fanon called zoological terms. From within those different notions emerged a racist rhetoric consistent of, to quote Richard Delgado, words that wounded.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the attitude of teachers regarding including democratic behaviour when grading students in social science. The purpose is also to investigate whether the teachers consider there to be a conflict between the right of freedom of speech and the democratic values that the school is supposed to make sure the students have when they graduate. The study also investigates the problems political decisions encounters when going from theory to reality.The theory of Ulf Petäjä on why the freedom of speechs is important, Robert Dahls theory about the democratic process and Anders Sannerstedts theory about converting political decisions to reality is what this study is based on.The study was carried out at three different schools; Teleborg Centrum, Växjö, Dackeskolan, Tingsryd and Centralskolan, Virserum ranging from the spring of 2006 and the spring of 2007. The method used except from litterature studies was interviews with active teachers.This study shows that teachers don?t think it?s acceptable to grade students based on their political ideology.

The foundation for this thesis lies in whether or not, and how, the body representation in printed commercials, specific products directed to the body (shampoo, body lotion etc.), has changed during the last fifty years. Four years have been chosen because of the changes in society that we believe might have had an impact. The commercials that have been picked out are the ones that best represent the general view of the body. We have found that the changes when it comes to body presentation has followed the social development to a certain degree, but it is difficult to say how much the society has had an affect on the body ideal in advertising. Representations of the male body is something that has escalated since the early 70?s, fifteen years earlier few commercials was made with male models, and the few there were, never showed more than the face.

Föreliggande uppsats avser att undersöka om lärarnas inofficiella diskurs om individualisering och nivågruppering stämmer överens med läroplanens officiella diskurs. Den aktuella uppsatsen är en fallstudie och görs ur ett maktperspektiv och den består av en diskursanalys av lärarnas diskurs och en av den officiella diskursen, det vill säga läroplanen. Analyserna utarbetas med hjälp av Laclau och Mouffes metodologiska verktyg för att sedan jämföras och därmed utröna om det finns någon kamp mellan de två diskurserna. Detta tillvägagångssätt används för att möjliggöra en koppling till de teoretiska utgångspunkterna, vilka är tagna från Focaults tankar om makt. Resultaten av undersökningen visar att lärarna i sin diskurs lyfter fram att huvudproblemet förefaller vara att de stora heterogena klasserna idag gör att de inte hinner stimulera alla.

In this report the situation for cyclists on 2+1-roads is analysed and studied. Theseroads are often the old 13-meter roads that have been changed into 2+1 to increasethe security. Two road sections outside Motala in Sweden has been deep studiedand analysed. The different parts in the planning process show how the progressgoes. To begin with the change should be within the old 13 meters but after thepilot study was circulated for comments the result became a broadening to 13,75and 14,00 meters.

Political realism is a general theory within political science focusing on the principle interest defined as power. The theory?s mutual standpoint is that states are inspired by power politics meaning that military and economic power or security stands in the centre while moral and ethics are placed in the periphery. This essay?s purpose is to analyze realism which helps to understand the development and change of the perspective.

The purpose of this study was to try to understand the Swedish population regarding the perceptions of the Swedish welfare system, based on the reactions that occurred after Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's statement about raising the retirement age. Our results demonstrate that the reactions on changes in the pension system in fact rooted in a safety factor and not the change in the pension system itself, through which the Swedish welfare system acts as a safety net for the population. Further the results shows that these safety factors create a form of egoism. With an interaction between empiricism and theory, where the starting point of the material was of an inductive approach, the material abstracted into different levels from which the result emerged. The focus of this study lies in the understanding of how human beings act according to one's need for security in major changes, which may be of importance to a comprehensive understanding of changes in social structures..

Whether use of affirmative action can be justified is an ethical dilemma that hasbeen intensely debated. The question raises several conflict dimensions. Thepurpose of this thesis is to separate different arguments of the debate and classifywhich principles they are built upon. To accomplish this, an analytical instrumentis created where three different perspectives of equality, and deontology versusconsequentialism, are compared. A third conflict dimension, individual versusgroup ethical principles, is also considered.