In this essay, I discuss one of the recurring dilemmas for a working recreational pedagogue, namely the hard task of cooperation with parents. As a recreational pedagogue, I am required to work by the curriculum Läroplan för grundskolan, förskoleklassen och fritidshemmet 2011. This policy document talks about what my responsibilities are, including establishing collaboration with parents in terms of the children?s development and education. It happens, however, that the pedagogue and the parent's ethical positions differ.

The aim of this thesis is to examine the theoretical developments on social entrepreneurship. Our purpose is to create a better understanding of the phenomenon leading to new insights. We have categorized the knowledge of the concept into social economy, social ownership, social innovation and social missions. Drawing from our theoretical review we have chosen four empirical illustrations, Grameen Bank, Wikipedia, Basta Arbetskooperativ, Jörn Hälsogemenskap, and we have shown how these fit into the general description of the social entrepreneur. With help of our illustrations we show that it is complicated to pin point the core of social entrepreneurship as they each have separate structures, innovations, social missions and operate close to different sectors.

Syftet med undersökningen är att vi vill göra en historisk tillbakablick för att se om det finns en skillnad över tiden bland yrkesverksamma lärares kunskaper och erfarenheter om grupprocesser i skolan och vad som bidragit till att det eventuellt kan vara så. Detta gör vi genom att undersöka vilka erfarenheter och kunskaper yrkesverksamma lärare har om ämnet samt vad dessa har med sig från sin yrkesutbildning. Tillvägagångssättet har varit enkäter, intervjuer samt litteraturstudier för att se vad som påverkar lärarnas syn på grupprocesser. Det vi sett är att två kulturer påverkar lärarnas roll: en officiell kultur (progressivismen) och en inofficiell kultur (enligt uppfostringsdoktrinen). Intervjuerna visar tydligt att läraren i sin roll behöver kunskaper inom ämnet, men att de fått dessa utanför och före lärarutbildningen och inte genom den.

Dialogen mellan barn och pedagoger på två förskolor.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka lärarens pedagogiska perspektiv på läxans funktion i undervisningen. Vårt resultat visar att lärarna använder läxan som ett pedagogiska verktyg i sin undervisnig. Men även att lärarna använder läxan som ett socialt-, moraliskt- och fostransverktyg. Studien visar att läxan är ett komplext fenomen som inte går att ses ur enbart ett perspektiv..

The purpose of this essay was to investigate affecting factors concerning social workers in social services assessments with cases of abuse. We wanted to see if social workers in social services tend to make different assessments of the need of substance abusers care. Our survey was carried out as a vignettesurvey with complementary interviews as means to deepen the outcome results.Our survey showed that the included social workers in social services in some senses make different assessments when it comes to choice of effort put in for the client. We shed light on different factors and circumstances, which could bear meaning for the social workers in social services assessments. Examples of factors were the social workers in social services age, gender, working experience and attitude towards substance abusers..

Bakgrund: Allt fler barn anses idag ha någon form av skolsvårigheter och vara i behov avsärskilt stöd. För att få detta stöd upprättas ett åtgärdsprogram där problemet preciseras,elevens behov beskrivs, målsättningar sätts och förslag på åtgärder ges.Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa åtgärdsprogram som praktik, dvs. hur elever beskrivs iprogrammen samt att problematisera möjliga konsekvenser av detta.Frågeställningarna som behandlas är:1. Vilka diskurser förekommer om idealeleven i de undersökta åtgärdsprogrammen?2.

Social work is a social phenomenon, existing in most societies, that has given rise to a multitude of special organizations and professions. For that reason social work is dealing with a complex identity. The purpose of this study is to illustrate how social workers and the scientific discourse interpret the concept of social work. In addition to that the study intends to show similarities and differencies. The research process containes two studies, one based on qualitative interviews with five social workers and the other consisting a surway of academic litterature.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how social procurement can be a further development of public-private partnership. This is done with interviews and a case study of the social procurement Mitt Gröna Kvarter and its labor effort Boendebyggarna. The theoretical framework used in the thesis consists of public-private partnership and corporate social responsibility. It tries to answer the following questions:What does this social procurement mean by the concept of public-private partnership?What does this social procurement mean for the participants involved?How can social procurement be seen as a further development of public-private partnership?The thesis uses the theory development around the concepts of public-private partnership and corporate social responsibility and shows that social procurement does indeed have similarities to public-private partnership and could very well be a further development of it..

I den här studien studeras skolans fostrande roll av eleven i allmänhet och inom livskunskap i synnerhet. På en del skolor runt om i Sverige finns sedan ett antal år ett tämligen nytt ämne som heter just livskunskap. Initiativet kommer från skolorna själva och är vad man kallar en bottom-up rörelse. Plattformen för vår studie har varit olika läromedel i livskunskap och framförallt att närgranska ett läromedel som heter Livsviktigt. Livskunskap har ingen nationell kursplan och därför kan innehållet skifta från olika skolor och likaså omfattningen.

The aim of this study is to illuminate social worker?s perception of social class within the Swedish social service system. This study therefor examine if social class contributes to the production and reproduction of the client and what impact social class has on the interaction between client and social workers. The study was conducted with qualitative semi-structured interviews with social workers from three different departments of social service. The theoretical approach is Yeheskel Hasenfeld?s theory about moral practices in welfare organisations, Michael Lipsky and Roine Johansson?s theories about client construction and Pierre Bourdieu?s class theory.

Purpose: To compare the expectations of coming profession in social work with experienced social work. We wanted to compare the pictures between the students in school of social work studies with social workers. We also wanted to increase social workers as well as other readers? awareness of social work as a profession.Questions: What characterizes the school of social studies? How do students in school of social work view the coming role as a professional? How do students in school of social work view upon social workers as professionals? How do social workers view upon their own profession? How do social workers view upon the own role as a professional? How do social workers view upon the relation between the idea of the profession and the daily practice? How do the students in school of social work studies and social workers view upon professional social work?Method: Qualitative study with qualitative interviews.Conclusion: Social work is a low status profession. How to increase the status of social work is not easy.

Detta examensarbete handlar om hur fo?rskolebarn anva?nder leksaker som socialt redskap. Syftet med arbetet var att underso?ka om och hur barn anva?nder LEGO som socialt redskap och uttrycksform och vi sta?llde oss fra?gorna: Pa? vilket sa?tt kan vi se att barn anva?nder LEGO i leken? Kan vi se skillnader i barns anva?ndande av LEGO i olika situationer? Va?r metod fo?r att underso?ka detta var videoobservationer pa? en fo?rskola. Barnen som deltog i studien var mellan tre och fem a?r gamla och sex stycken till antalet.

My big interest in sports was what shaped my choice of subject for the essay. The purpose of this study has been to explore the social meaning of team sports for functionally impaired persons. In order to fulfil the purpose of the essay I formed following questions: How do the actives experience their participation in team sports? And how important is the social intercourse in team sports to the individual welfare? The methods I?ve used have been qualitative with an ethnographic approach. I have used participant observations and field interviews to gather my empirical material.

This study analyses social age as a phenomenon and if unaccompanied refugee children has a social age that, according to the Swedish culture, do not correspond with their biological age and if so is, the reason for that. Furthermore, our study has discussed the potential consequences of the effects for the unaccompanied refugee children and the social age when interacting with Swedish society. According to our study, the social age is effected by other factors besides cultural norms, values and role expectations that a society has on a specific biological age. The results in this study shows that social age is a vital component to someone?s identity.