This thesis primarily includes a study on whether companies can develop a mathematical activity that supports students' motivation in mathematics. The work was done together with Midroc Electro, a company that pays attention to the difficulty of recruiting and therefore was interested in investigating how the business world would be able to contribute.The thesis can be divided into three stages. The first part comprised by a exploration into research on student motivation regarding mathematics as well as numerous interviews with engineers to see how the research findings did fit with Midroc Electros reality. In these studies it became clear that the student who aims for a profession whose education or work requires math belongs to the group of students who primarily manage their studies in mathematics, that is, those that have the greatest motivation to work hard and complete their studies.Research information and interviews were compared and resulted in the thesis second part, Midroc Challenge. An activity where students primarily came to learn about the engineering profession and secondly how mathematics can be used in the engineering profession.

Syftet med denna studie var att unders?ka n?gra f?rskoll?rares beskrivningar av vilka barn de anser vara i behov av s?rskilt st?d samt hur f?rskoll?rare beskriver att det s?rskilda st?det ska utformas f?r att tillgodose barns varierande behov och f?ruts?ttningar. Dessutom unders?ks hur f?rskoll?rare resonerar kring sitt arbete med att skapa en inkluderande verksamhet. De fr?gest?llningar som studien syftade till att besvara var; Hur beskriver f?rskoll?rarna begreppet barn i behov av s?rskilt st?d? Hur beskriver f?rskoll?rarna deras arbete med att utforma och anpassa l?rmilj?erna f?r barn i behov av s?rskilt st?d? Hur resonerar f?rskoll?rarna kring inkludering i f?rskolan? Studien grundar sig i en kvalitativ ansats med intervju som metod f?r att samla in data material.

The purpose of this study is to provide a description of how mathematics teachers in grades 3 choose to work with mathematics and how it affects of student performance in national tests. The categories I will use are outdoor education, textbooks, learning materials and problem solving. Laboratory materials can be everyday materials and educational materials in which pupils have an abstract understanding of the subject. This survey was conducted through interviews and observations. The survey was also conducted in relation to student performance in national math tests.

The main purpose of this paper is to examine how students in school year nine in the Swedish school come in contact with history outside of the school context. The paper also focuses on, if and how the students consider the contact with history as something different than, or similar to the history education that takes place during school hours, the student´s interest in history will also be examined. To gather the student?s opinions on these subjects, I have done interviews with eight students divided into two groups, with one group consisting of four girls and one group with two boys and two girls. The interviews took place at the students school located in a smaller city in Värmlands län, Sweden.

The authors were curious and asked themselves if teachers are aware of the base of their teaching in various teaching situations. Are teachers at all capable of expressing that in words? One of the reasons that the authors chose the particular issue was because they think teachers have the task to satisfy the needs of all students and therefore they found it interesting to study how various teachers act. The purpose of the study is to observe teachers didactical awareness, and how it can be added to their intentions and actions, as in how they speak about their teaching and how they act in various teaching situations. Methods used in the study were observations and qualitative interviews.

The purpose with my essay was to investigate how genre pedagogy works in a practical manor? I wanted to reach a deeper understanding for the genre pedagogy and to find out if it fits all students. To investigate this issue I have asked following questions:What is genre pedagogy?How do teachers work with different genres in the genre pedagogy?For whom is the genre pedagogy?Is the critic right that Frøydis Hertzberg is proposing about the genre pedagogy formalism? I have been using qualitative methods, to gather my empirical data. I have been using two unstructured interviews and one unsystematically observation, in a third grade class in a school south of Stockholm, with 30% second language students.

Att skriva sig till la?sning, ASL, a?r en metod som mer och mer anva?nds i svenska skolor. Denna metod byter ut pennan mot datorn i den tidiga la?s- och skrivinla?rningen. Eleverna la?r sig la?sa genom sitt eget skrivande.

Title: Ethics in thought and practice ? a qualitative study in how editorial staff at student magazines reason about ethics. (Etik i tanke och praktik ? en kvalitativ studie i hur studenttidningsredaktioner resonerar kring etik)Number of pages: 30 (37 including enclosures)Author: Bianca GidebackTutor: Peder HÃ¥rd af SegerstadCourse: Media and Communication studies CPeriod: Spring 2010University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science,Uppsala University.Purpose/Aim: The purpose of this study is to explore how students that work at student magazines reason about ethics of journalism and how they transform it into practice. By identifying what circumstances in the context of the student magazine that can affect the work this study aim to see if and how this can affect how they conform to ethics of journalism in practical situations.

Syftet med detta arbete har varit att underso?ka la?rares och skolledares uppfattningar om va?rdet av daglig schemalagd fysisk aktivitet i skolan samt att underso?ka om samma grupper a?r intresserade av att info?ra ett sa?dant arbetssa?tt. I arbetet har en litteraturgenomga?ng av kunskapsla?get avseende effekter av fysisk aktivitet pa? ha?lsa och prestationer i teoretiska a?mnen fo?ljts upp med en enka?tunderso?kning om samma a?mne riktad till la?rare och skolla?rare i en kommun i va?stra Sverige. Litteraturgenomga?ngen har visat att det finns vetenskapligt sto?d fo?r att god fysisk prestationsfo?rma?ga a?r kopplat till goda prestationer i teoretiska a?mnen samt till ett gott ha?lsola?ge.

Sex och samlevnad a?r ett a?mneso?vergripande omra?de som ska genomsyra all undervisning i skolan. Trots detta a?r det fa? la?rare som fa?r na?gon utbildning i a?mnet pa? la?rarutbildningen och omra?det har en tendens att bli la?gprioriterat ute pa? skolorna. Ett antal debatto?rer i media kritiserar den sex- och samlevnadsundervisning som va?l bedrivs och menar att organisationen RFSU har ett fo?r stort inflytande o?ver a?mnets inneha?ll och att konsekvenserna blir en ensidig undervisning.

Jag har i den ha?r uppsatsen beskrivit hur det ra?der en otydlighet i vad begreppen saklighet och allsidighet inneba?r inom skolans va?rld. Jag har framfo?rt ett intresse fo?r hur samha?llskunskapsla?rare ser pa? begreppen och hur de tolkar dem. Jag har sen presenterat tidigare forskning om la?rares uppfattningar och visat att intervjustudier, fenomenografi och grounded theory a?r vanligt inom denna typ av forskning.

AbstractThe purpose of this study has been to find out what attitude fifth graders have towards mathematics. This is done to get a better understanding of student?s feelings regarding about mathematics and what it is that makes mathematics fun or boring. My questions have been: What do the students think is fun, boring and difficult about mathematics? How do students think that a good mathematics teacher should be? Do the students see a difference in the mathematics teaching in easy compulsory school years?To find answers to my questions I have looked into prior research on students attitudes towards mathematics.

Syftet med detta examensarbete a?r att fa? insikt i hur la?rarens ickeverbala kommunikation och actio pa?verkar elevers motivation. Utifra?n en etnografisk arbetsmetod observerades en svenskla?rare pa? en gymnasieskola under fyra lektionstimmar fo?r att underso?ka hur la?raren kommunicerade med sina elever ickeverbalt. Parallellt med observationerna intervjuades ba?de la?raren och eleverna som deltog i underso?kningen.

The aim of this study is to highlight the computer as a learning resource in the education and give us knowledge about how the students uses the computer in year one in a selected High School where one computer per student were introduced in autumn 2011. The aim is also to contribute to the discussion about how the computer can become a natural learning resource for all students in all subjects, including the students in need of special support.How are the High School students using the computer?Are there differences in computer use, whether the student is in academic or vocational program?Are there differences in computer use between boys and girls?Do the student experience that the digital competence is increasing together with if they experience the computer as aid?In what degree do the teachers encourage the students to use the computer?How much do the students use the computer to learn mathematic?The study is based on a survey of all students in year one in a municipal High School.The result of the study is showing that the students first of all use the computer to play music, surf the Internet and to be logged in on social media (eg. Facebook). The students have learned to use the computer for the tasks they need, although the teachers don?t encourage the students to use the computer in any higher means, not in mathematics and not in other subjects.

This paper reports from a study looking at teacher?s and student?s apprehensions regarding rubrics. The idea to research this specific subject stems from our interest in this phenomenon due to our education and curiosity about how rubrics are apprehended and not about how they are used or described. To explore this area we have used empirical material compiled through interviews. The analysis is done by creating categories containing various apprehensions expressed in the material through different characterizations of the phenomenon called rubrics.