The main purpose of this Masters thesis is to contribute to the understanding of high school teachers information seeking behaviour in the transition from university studies to occupational practice. The theoretical framework encompasses theories of professional socialization, the sociology of knowledge, of professions, and of library and information science. The empirical material has been collected through interviews with six recently qualified high school teachers in different subjects. The interviews have been analysed on two different levels; first on a descriptive level and then on a theoretical level. The major findings are that the academic context limited the student teachers information seeking and they did not have the opportunity to choose cognitive authorities on their own initiative.

Att arbeta som barnmorska på förlossningsavdelning innebär att också vara handledare för barnmorskestudenter under verksamhetsförlagd utbildning. Stora krav ställs på handledaren som bör vara en kombination av skicklig yrkesutförare, reflekterande analytiker, pedagogiskt utbildad samt ha ett genuint intresse för studenter. Tidigare forskning visar på barnmorskors glädje och stolthet över handledarskapet men forskning visar också på stora brister. Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva hur barnmorskor, som arbetar på förlossningsavdelning, erfar sin situation som handledare och bedömare. Studien har inspirerats av reflekterande livsvärldsforskning vars syfte är att upptäcka, analysera, klargöra, förstå och beskriva innebörder såsom de erfars av oss människor.

Uppsatsen presenterar och analyserar hur Barentsregionen har utvecklats efterSovjetunionens fall, från början av 1990-talet till början på 2000-talet, och då explicit ur ettnorskt säkerhetspolitiskt perspektiv.Den har som utgångspunkt, för att analysera förhållandena i regionen, valt att studera hurdet formaliserade Barentssamarbetet med sin unika konstruktion har utvecklats och hur dethar påverkat relationerna mellan Norge och Ryssland. I undersökningen utnyttjas i förstahand det teoretiska perspektivet liberalism, för att fördjupa förståelsen för hurBarentssamarbetet kan ses som en framgångsfaktor för den ökade stabiliteten i regionen.Analysen visar att den traditionella geopolitiska kontexten om regionens marginalisering pågrund av den drastiska minskningen av tidigare så påtagliga yttre hot, inte kan stå somensam förklaring till regionens utveckling. En annan påverkande faktor är sannolikt denframgångsrika formaliseringen av Barentssamarbetet i Barents Euro-Arctic Region(BEAR), från början på 1990-talet och deras utveckling fram till idag, som har ökatinteraktionen mellan regionens befolkningar på alla nivåer och som med ett brettdeltagande har ökat förståelsen för de globala problemen och behovet av att överbryggavälfärdsgapet mellan väst och öst..

The object under investigation in this Master?s thesis is students? information use in connection to Bachelor thesis writing. The purpose of the study is to increase understanding of why nursing students and product engineering design students are using information in such different ways despite their comparable starting point. The empirical material consists of 18 student theses and a document comprising directives for thesis writing that are analysed from three different theoretical perspectives. A citation analysis of all 18 theses is carried out.

Syftet med föreliggande studie var att beskriva hur sjuksköterskor som gått en handledarutbildning upplever användandet av reflektion när de handleder sjuksköterskestudenter i VFU. Studien hade en kvalitativ ansats med beskrivande design. Tio legitimerade sjuksköterskor som gått en handledarutbildning på minst 7,5hp och var verksamma på olika vårdavdelningar på ett sjukhus i Mellansverige deltog i studien. Data samlades in via semistrukturerade intervjuer och analyserades genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Tre olika kategorier bildades vid analys och dessa var: Reflektionens användningsområden, Yttre och inre faktorer som möjliggör användandet av reflektion och Reflektion för lärande och som del i en handledarmodell.

It?s not for nothing the time we live in is often referred to as the age of information. Children and young adults who grow up I today?s society have greater access to facts and opinions than any earlier generations. This also applies to popular culture that during the last couple of decades have taken new expressions that no one could have ever dreamed of and more time goes to the consumption of it via visits to the cinema, television and computers.

Aim: The study aims to investigate the distribution of grades between students in a practical subject and in a theoretical subject.The problem:What is the grade distribution in physical education and mathematics, with respect to gender, socioeconomic background, parental education, ethnicity, and physical activity?Method:To answer the aim of the study a quantitative method was chosen. As the collection method used was questionnaires to 620 students in the 9th grade in Stockholm. Of the 620 questionnaires, 597 questionnaires were used for the static analysis. The method of analysis used cross tables and logistic regression analysis.

The study aims to investigate student?s attitudes and experiences of information retrieval on the Internet, as tools for learning. I have been interested of their own views about their own knowledge and experience in the subject, information seeking on the Internet. The focus is on what they perceive as problematic, what skills they consider they have and what needs they have in terms of teaching. Data were collected via questionnaires.

Denna uppsats syftar till att skapa en större förståelse för den situation en gömd flykting kan befinna sig i. Utgångspunkten är att undersöka hur livssituationen kan se ut för gömda flyktingar, hur denna livssituation kan påverkas utifrån de villkor och rättigheter som finns för denna grupp i samhället och hur gömda flyktingar själva kan uppleva sin situation och dess inverkningar på deras tillvaro. För att undersöka detta har kvalitativ metod använts bestående av halvstrukturerade intervjuer med sju personer som lever gömda eller tidigare har levt gömda. Det empiriska materialet har sedan analyserats med teorier om identitet, marginalisering, exkludering, behovstillfredsställelse, psykisk hälsa och socialkonstruktvism. Vidare har det jämförts med tidigare forskning.Uppsatsen visar att ?situationen som gömd? kan upplevas mycket svår på många olika sätt.

The purpose of this study was to examine how teachers see the use of action plans for students in need of special support in physical education. The questions used were: What do the teachers consider being the causes for students not reaching the objectives in physical education? What experiences do four teachers have considering the work with action plans for students in need of special support? And, what experiences have one chosen head of school about establishing action plans for students in need of special support?To reach the answers to these questions qualitative interviews were made with four teachers from different schools. The interviews deal with the teachers views on assessment, curriculum, and the work with action plans for students in need of special support.The results show that that the underlying causes for students not reaching their objectives was either lack of participation or difficulties in certain parts of the subject. Despite this, the teachers write very few action plans even though it appears there are students in need of special support.

The purpose of our study is to find out how teachers can help their students to learn how to managestage fright. By interviewing high school teachers and high school students and also observe one oftheir classes, we wanted to find out how they think about the causes of stage fright and what youcan do to relieve it. We also wanted to find out how teachers are working to teach students how todeal with stage fright, and how they think that you also could work. As a teacher of music, among other things, the task is to assess and rate the students performancesin music. Several components are based on the students' courage to play on his or her instrument infront of other people.

In the profession of architects there is an element called architectural competitions, where several architects compete in submitting the best solution for a certain task. In this master?s thesis I am studying the competitor?s perspective of an international architectural competition, while at the same time gaining experiences for my future career as a landscape architect. The aim of this thesis is to through an introspection of my own process examine a competitors view of the international architectural competition and how to approach the difficulties concerning international competitions. Through that I hope obtain experience about the international competition as part of the profession of landscape architects and other involved professions. To examine a competitor?s reflection of an international competition, I entered and competed in LE:NOTRE Student Competition, a competition for students where the task was to develop 25 kilometers of complex urban periphery along a chain of natural and artificial lakes in Bucharest, Romania.