In this study we wanted to have a closer look at how a specific working team of pedagogues in the senior part of elementary school works with student influence through a pedagogical concept created by themselves. We have used qualitative interviews as a method to achieve relevant information from the pedagogues, and from students teached by the same.The purpose of the study was to investigate how the working team, through the concept, pursue real student influence within different school subjects and how the individual student is favored in his/her learning process. Another intention was to find out to what extent the students experience this influence. We also wanted to elucidate the advantages as well as the disadvantages of this concept, and to shed some light on how the informants view the future development of the concept.The result shows that consensus prevails to a large extent among teachers and students regarding the signification of real student influence in the everyday learning situation. It also appears that the students? abilities to exercise influence vary between different school subjects.

The thesis investigates how Uppsala University student nations steward their cultural heritage. The survey targets how student nations manage their cultural heritage, what financial priority they give it, their attitude towards it, and their awareness of it.A qualitative study of semi-structured interviews with representatives from 11 out of 13 student nations in Uppsala was implemented. The theoretical framework is based on the theory of David Lowenthal on the importance of cultural heritage, Susan Pearce?s theory on collecting, and Pierre Bourdieu?s theory on cultural capital. To investigate the importance of cultural objects theories by Ivo Maroevi?, Annette Weiner, and Igor Kopytoff was applied.The survey shows that stewardship of cultural heritage at Uppsala student nations is poor and in need of reform.

The purpose of this study has been to examine and analyze school counselors? experience of collaboration with other professions in the student health team and the preconditions for their work. The study is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with six elementary-, and two high school student counselors in a medium-sized town in Sweden. The theoretical approach being used is: role theory, theory of professions and theory about collaboration. The study´s result shows that the school counselors? experience an unclarity in their job assignments and their role is often described as diffuse and vauge.

The students participating in my development work will work with a process book for handicraft studies. In the beginning of their studies, the students need practical knowledge about the development of the profession itself, but they also need to be challenged and learn how to solve problems on their own which will help them gain a deeper knowledge of the subject.    I focus on open questions to create a process with the students. This process is created when working with Solution-Focused-Education. Through ?assessment for learning? we can help the students to improve their self-assessment and understanding of the learning process.

Due to lack of knowledge about motivation in Swedish for adult immigrants (SFI ), I have chosen to write about motivation. Motivation is a complex concept to understand. It has different meanings depending on what context the term is put in. In this study , you will read about the external and internal motivation . But also about integrative and instrumental motivation.

AbstractStudent democracy as an objective and as a meansEssay in Political Science, D-levelAuthor: Erik LisshammarTutor: Susan MartonDespite attitudes towards student democracy being generally positive, students have almost no influence over their position. This implementation study looks into whether or not students? weak position of power results from something other than a democratising of schools taking priority when student influence is encouraged.With an aim of explaining what is hoped to be achieved and if these intentions are to be spread, the purpose is to investigate to what extent standards concerning student democracy are transferred between institutions. In order to find out, the question is posed of whether their aims for student democracy conform. This overriding question is coupled together with the following four defining research questions:1.

The aim for this essay is to investigate students attitudes to a local schoolboard with student majority to determin the level of functionality, relevancy and interest for this schoolboard among the students in a Swedish gymnasium in Örebro. This is done by distibution of a questionnaire form to a third of the students in the third grade . The results show that the attitudes overall amongst the students are positive, although the level of interest is low. One explanation for this low level of interest could be the lack of information from the school board to the students..

Due to lack of knowledge about motivation in Swedish for adult immigrants (SFI ), I have chosen to write about motivation. Motivation is a complex concept to understand. It has different meanings depending on what context the term is put in. In this study , you will read about the external and internal motivation . But also about integrative and instrumental motivation.

SammanfattningDenna uppsats underso?ker hur olika la?rare fo?rha?ller sig till elever som tappar sin koncentrationsfo?rma?ga, inom ramen fo?r skolans undervisningsverksamhet. Fokus ligger pa? hur olika la?rare agerar i bemo?tandet na?r en elev tappar sin koncentration, om det fanns na?gra skillnader i hur la?rare agerar na?r det ga?ller barn med generella koncentrationssva?righeter ja?mfo?rt med barn utan generella koncentrationssva?righeter, samt vilken effekt la?rarens agerande fa?r fo?r den fortsatta undervisningen.MetodDenna underso?kning besta?r av 14 strukturerade observationer, vilket inneba?r att vi pa? fo?rhand vet vilka situationer och beteenden vi vill studera.Teoretiska perspektivDet kategoriska och det relationella perspektivet a?r de tva? perspektiv som denna uppsats kretsar kring. Inom det kategoriska perspektivet anses eleven vara problemet, medan i det relationella perspektivet anses miljo?n vara problemet.SyfteSyftet med underso?kningen a?r att studera hur olika la?rare fo?rha?ller sig till elever na?r de tappar sin koncentration inom ramen fo?r skolans undervisningsverksamhet.ResultatUnderso?kningen visar pa? skillnader i elevers koncentrationsfo?rma?ga i hel- respektive halvklass och eleverna tappar koncentrationen betydligt oftare i helklass.

 Tediousness, fear and boredom are all part of everyday?s life for a student. How can a teacher counteract these feelings of boredom and replace them with a feeling of pleasure of learning? Students have to be motivated and want to go to school every day. By comparing student?s experiences of motivation this essays purpose is to create a theory about factors for motivation in education.

Denna studie syftar till att underso?ka sex fo?rskolla?rares syn pa? arbetet med barn med spra?ksto?rningar och spra?ksva?righeter. Jag valde att intervjua fo?rskolla?rare fra?n tva? olika verksamheter: traditionella fo?rskolor samt spra?kfo?rskolor. Det som intresserade mig a?r vilka arbetssa?tt och hja?lpmedel som erbjuds fo?r barn med spra?ksva?righeter i de olika verksamheterna.

The students participating in my development work will work with a process book for handicraft studies. In the beginning of their studies, the students need practical knowledge about the development of the profession itself, but they also need to be challenged and learn how to solve problems on their own which will help them gain a deeper knowledge of the subject.    I focus on open questions to create a process with the students. This process is created when working with Solution-Focused-Education. Through ?assessment for learning? we can help the students to improve their self-assessment and understanding of the learning process.

Med den relationella ansatsen som grund syftar studien till att unders?ka hur fritidsl?rare arbetar med relationer och omsorg i fritidshemmet f?r att skapa en trygg milj?. Genom en kvalitativ intervjustudie med sex fritidsl?rare unders?ks deras erfarenheter, perspektiv och strategier f?r att skapa en omsorgsfull och st?djande milj?. Fokus ligger p? hur fritidsl?rarna ser p? vikten av att bygga och uppr?tth?lla tillitsfulla relationer med barnen, samt hur de hanterar sv?righeter och utmaningar.

The study aims to investigate student participation as a tool for democratic development in secondary school from a student perspective. Furthermore, students' perceptions of the school's work with student participation in formal and informal contexts are also investigated, with basis in the teaching structure. The results are based on interviews conducted with students who all attend the same class in their last year of high school. Subsequently, an analysis is made based mainly on three different theories: democracy, curricula and sociocultural theory. The result shows that students feel that they are able to practice student participation but the amount of influence they get differs between individuals depending on devotion and commitment.

Syftet med denna uppsats a?r att underso?ka pa? vilka sa?tt facklitteratur avsedd fo?r la?rare och la?rarstudenter i a?mnet svenska som andraspra?k reproducerar den koloniala skillnadsdiskursen. Jag har med sto?d i framfo?r allt postkolonial teori gjort en textanalys av en antologi inom a?mnet andraspra?ksforskning och funnit att den koloniala diskursen oavsiktligt reproduceras genom fo?rmedlingen av en statisk kultursyn, fo?renklande dikotomier och en assimilationsideologi. Min slutsats a?r att detta riskerar att fa? kontraproduktiva konsekvenser fo?r andraspra?ksundervisningen och att la?rare i svenska som andraspra?k beho?ver ett medvetet kritiskt fo?rha?llningssa?tt i sin hela fo?rsta?else av a?mnet. .