This study is based on discussions among Swedish brass teachers about teaching other brass instruments than their main instrument. Why do some choose to teach only with the help of their main instrument while others use their secondary instruments as well? What are the advantages and disadvantages and how do they look upon other ways of thinking in this matter?In addition, the study examines brass teachers? views on the balance between pedagogical and instrumental skill, as well as their views on teaching sound, technique and expression in relation to the age of the Student.A questionnaire was used and anwered by 24 teachers with teaching experience in municipal music schools ranging from 7 months to 35 years. The results indicate that pedagogical skill is always important, whereas the importance of instrumental skill increases as the Student gets older and more experienced. The advantage of teaching with the help of the main instrument is that one always keeps a high musical and technical level.

The Swedish school law says that Students who need special education should have all the support they need to reach the qualification that is set up. The arrangements have to be written down in an Individual education plan (IEP). Before the IEP is set up there has to be an investigation about what kind of support and measures the Student needs to reach the qualification that is set up. The aim of this study is to examine Student?s participation in school and in the progress with their own IEP.I have accomplished a qualitative study by interviewing eight Students during the letter part in the nine-year school.

The main purpose of this study is to investigate how Student nurses seek and use information and libraries. Furthermore, I want to know how they think information can be used in their future occupation. Seven Student nurses were included in the study. A qualitative method with personal interviews was used. The analysis of the empirical material was made according to a socio-cultural perspective.

The main purpose of this Master?s thesis is to contribute to anincreased understanding of Student teacher?s informationseeking for their studies. The role of cognitive authorities andapproaches to the critical evaluation of sources are taken intoaccount as well as what Student experiences of informationseeking imply for their future profession. The study takes asociocultural perspective and the empirical material is based oninterviews with six Student teachers at the end of theireducation. The interviews have been analysed with a departurepoint in the research questions to the following themes; seekingand finding information, critical evaluation of sources and,analysing and using information.The major findings concern the teacher Students? emphasis onthe importance of the critical evaluation of sources and theirscepticism towards Internet use, both for their own studies aswell as for their future pupils.

Syftet med mitt arbete är att undersöka hur några grundskoleelever ser på elevinflytande och sin egen möjlighet att påverka i skolan, samt hur denna möjlighet gestaltar sig. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med åtta elever från två olika skolklasser i skolår sex på en grundskola i Sverige, har jag undersökt vilken uppfattning eleverna har om elevinflytande. Resultatet visar att eleverna räknar med ett väldigt begränsat inflytande i skolan. Min slutsats är att de inte har det inflytande som de verkligen har rätt till enligt Skollagen och Lpo94..

The purpose of this paper is to juxtapose the theories of learning that are reflected in Student?s perspectives of the learning log with that of the pedagogical intentions of the curriculum in order to examine the discrepancy between the experienced and the intentional learning objectives. The paper is divided into two sections. The first section is a literature survey on theories related to the learning log and the curriculum. The second part is constituted by three semi-structured group interviews concerning Student´s views on the learning log.

 This degree project deals with an Android application that has been made available to Kristianstad Student Union. The main objective of this work was to create a communicative simplicity between Students and Kristianstad Student Union at Kristianstad University. The second objective was to try and make the application entertaining, based on interviews with users..

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to investigate what prompts Student nurses to seek information required to their educational tasks and how they evaluate and utilize that information. The questions addressed in this thesis regard how information retrieval becomes part of Student nurses? social practice; which physical and intellectual tools Student nurses make use of in their education; and which mediating resources they use to perform their tasks. Roger Säljö?s sociocultural approach provides the theoretical framework for this thesis.

The purpose of this study is to examine the Swedish national Student organizations attitudes towards school food and the school food debate between 1957-1982. The previous research on the subject maps the historical background and development of the school meal, but lacks a contemporary Student perspective from the chosen time period, not least on a deeper and more political level. The theoretical starting points in the study concern organizations and their influence on public authorities as well as Student influence. These theoretical frameworks are used to describe the conditions for the currently active national Student organizations; Elevf?rbundet and SECO, in the political arena.

My purpose for this essay is to examine what factors are considered to have high influence on motivation to study and what measures can be taken to enhance Student?s motivation to study from a Student perspective. The main source of theory for this study has been the classification of motivational factors that has been based on Herzberg?s twofactortheory with complementary theoretical sources. The study is based around two research methods, one survey together with complementary Student interviews. The empirical material consists of 118 completed surveys together with nine Student interviews. The study?s results have found that Students find the main source of rising motivational level originates from the professional role of the teacher. Additionally the Students find the main source of subsiding motivational level originate from rising level of stress and uninspiring teachers.

This research is about how the educators view the best way to help multilingual Students develop their understanding for mathematics. The aim of the study is to identify the different aspects from the teacher?s point of view of this new approach of teaching: what are the limitations versus the opportunities? The study is limited to a multicultural school in Stockholm and to the experience of a few class teachers and mother tongue teachers.A qualitative approach was used and the interview was selected as the method to collect the data. Three class teachers as well as three mother tongue teachers were interviewed about their experiences. The interviews were recorded and transcribed word by word.There have been discussions about the skills in mathematics in multilingual speaking Students, and that their greatest obstacle of understanding mathematics is that they are being taught in another language than their own mother tongue.

The purpose of this study is to illustrate how three schools work with special education needs, what they consider is special education needs and what measures they put in for the Student to achieve the goals. I will also study how the evaluation and the follow-up of the individualized education program work at the schools.The empirical material consists of all active programs in grades 7, 8 and 9, together with and interviews with special education teachers and the principal at each school. The results are compared with similar previous researches and analysed by two dominant perspectives of school difficulties.The result shows that it is mainly the critical perspective that dominates the individualized education program. The Student is the carrier of the problem and is excluded in many cases from the other Students in the class. These measures are different compensatory accommodations for the Student in order to catch up with other Students..

This study is about how Students view the effects teachers have on their self-esteem and self-confidence. The theoretical background covers the consequences of success and failures, and the interaction between Students and teachers, in regards of self-esteem and self-confidence. The purpose of the study was to examine what had in-fluenced the Students? self-esteem and self-confidence in the interaction with teachers. To reach the goal of the study, several qualitative interviews were made with the following questions as base:? Which factors does the Student consider to be of importance for their self-esteem and self-confidence in the interaction with teachers?? How does the Student feel that these factors were affected concerning their self-esteem and self-confidence?During the analysis and systematization of the transcribed interviews, five factors emerged that effects self-esteem and self-confidence.

The purpose of this thesis is to show Students? information behaviour in everyday life and towards the Student Union of Borås. Methods of active information seeking and more random information encountering as well as information ignorance are of interest. The study focused on three issues; the first was to examine what information behaviour the Students presented while acquiring information in their everyday life. The second was to find out what information behaviour the Students had to acquire information from the Student Union of Borås.

This study is about how Students view the effects teachers have on their self-esteem and self-confidence. The theoretical background covers the consequences of success and failures, and the interaction between Students and teachers, in regards of self-esteem and self-confidence. The purpose of the study was to examine what had in-fluenced the Students? self-esteem and self-confidence in the interaction with teachers. To reach the goal of the study, several qualitative interviews were made with the following questions as base:? Which factors does the Student consider to be of importance for their self-esteem and self-confidence in the interaction with teachers?? How does the Student feel that these factors were affected concerning their self-esteem and self-confidence?During the analysis and systematization of the transcribed interviews, five factors emerged that effects self-esteem and self-confidence.