The purpose of this essay is to illuminate two teachers? communication strategies when dealing with pupils with another first language than Swedish. One of the teachers teaches Swedish as a second language and the other teacher educates one class in most of the subjects such as mathematic, Swedish and social studies. I make an ethnographic study where I make non-participating observations and shorter interviews with the teachers. The observations lie in focus of my study and were made at eight occasions, four lessons with each teacher.My result shows that they have a lot of communication strategies in common, but not all.

The main purpose of this C-essay is to answer the question: What have been the consequences and effects of the merit point system on language studies and the parties concerned (teachers, students and principals) during the school year of 2010/11?The merit point system is the result of a political decision and was implicated for the first time in the Swedish upper secondary school during the school year 2010/2011. Being a completely new phenomenon it is of great interest and importance to study its effects.The study in this essay also aims to verify, falsify or nullify two hypotheses very often referred to in the political discussions regarding the merit point system:The merit point system will replace affection and interest as main reasons for language studies in upper secondary school and cause a rectification amongst the students choices of additional courses.The merit point system will have a segregating effect upon society and make it harder for people to rise in society through education in the future.A verification of these hypotheses would imply the appearance of an increased rectification amongst students as well as an orientation towards an in the future more segregated society.The empiric material has been collected and examined with qualitative as well as quantitative methods (questionnaires and interviews) and belongs epistemologically to the phenomenological and hermeneutical traditions..

Titel: Avhoppare och slutförare - En undersökning kring distansstudenters upplevelse av kommunikation och anledningar till avhopp/slutförandeFörfattare: Martin BirgersonUppdragsgivare: JMG, Göteborgs universitetKurs: Examensarbete i Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation, Göteborgs universitetTermin: Vårterminen 2011Handledare: Jenny WiikSidantal: 35 sidor (11404 ord), inklusive bilagorSyfte: Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur kommunikationen mellan institutionen och studenterna påverkar genomströmningen på distanskursen Massmediekunskap (7,5 hp) och vilka anledningar till avhopp som kan vara påverkbara genom kommunikation.Metod: Kvantitativ enkätundersökningMaterial: Enkätundersökning, kursregisterutdrag och kursmaterial.Huvudresultat: Det visade sig att slutförarna anser sig ha haft en tätare kontakt med institutionen, att de fått regelbunden feedback och är mer nöjda med kommunikationen än avhopparna. Ännu mer kontakt med institutionen och än mer nöjda med kommunikation är studenterna från HT 2010. Detta har dock inte haft någon positiv inverkan på kursens genomströmning, vilket enligt tidigare forskningen kan ses som märkligt. I jämförelse mellan enbart de båda höstterminerna har genomströmningen dock ökat HT 2010. I undersökningens sista frågeställning var den mest intressanta skillnaden mellan HT 2010 och övriga terminer att andelen avhoppare som angett kursupplägg och kursinnehåll som anledning till sina avhopp kraftigt ökat HT 2010, medan andelen som angett brist på motivation som anledning minskat..

Many students in the Swedish and Norwegian compulsory school do not have quali­fi­cation to search for further education. There is a large part of those pupils who have a different native language than the country?s majority language. These students? possi­bi­lities to a fair and equal education is regulated in national laws and regulations of school activity, the so-called governing documents. The purpose of this study is to compare Norwegian and Swedish governing docu­ments regarding education for pupils with another native language.

During the 1960s and 1970s an increased interest in Native Americans can be seen in Sweden, e.g. through the establishment of organizations such as the Indian Club of Sweden. The aim of this thesis is to study the portrayal of Native Americans and its role through Albin Widén, a Swedish author, ethnologist and member of the Indian Club, and his non-fictional works on the Swedish migration to America, Swedish-America and Swedish contacts with Native Americans. The study is divided into four parts. The first part looks at the portrayal of the Native Americans in Widén?s writings, in comparison with Euro-Americans? and Europeans? traditional stereotypic images of a good and a bad Indian.

AbstractSyftet med studien är att få fördjupad kunskap i elevers användande av skriftspråket och hur ny teknik gör det möjligt att vidga språket. Studien är kvalitativ och är en jämförelse av elevers uppsatser i de nationella proven i svenska 1999 och 2010. Vi har sökt efter likheter och skillnader i 44 uppsatser, samt kategoriserat och analyserat olika delar av chatt- och SMSspråket. Detta resultat har vi sedan redovisat i löpande text, med citat ifrån elevernas texter för att öka förståelsen hos läsaren samt sätta in orden i en kontext. Resultatet av undersökningen visar att det fanns spår av chatt- och SMSspråk redan 1999 men att i vissa hänseenden skiljer det sig från de spår vi kan finna i 2010 års texter.

The new Swedish Companies Act allows Swedish companies to issue two instruments that were previously prohibited: mandatory convertibles and participating debentures. The aim of the thesis is to conduct a cross sectional study of Swedish corporate hybrid securities, especially in the light of the new Companies Act. The cross sectional study also includes areas such as credit rating, accounting and tax. The thesis concludes that it is possible, under Swedish law, to issue corporate hybrid securities that qualify for both high equity credit and tax deductible interest payments. The use of certain hybrid provisions are, however, restrained by Swedish company law.

The purpose of this essay was to examine pupils who leave the Swedish nine-year compulsory school system without reaching the requirements for the Swedish senior high school, and then to compare with those who reach the requirements. I used the following questions to help me reach this purpose:- Where in life are those pupils who reached the requirements for the Swedish senior high school?- Where in life are those pupils who did not reach the requirements for the Swedish senior high school?- What differences are noticeable between these two groups?The method that I used to examine these questions was to send out a questionnaire to the pupils. I also tried to make an explanation to the results with the help of Erwin Goffmanns theories.The result of this essay shows that there is not a big difference between the two groups. They both did equally well after they finished the Swedish nine-year compulsory school..

This is a bachelor thesis that studies and discuss the question: How can we develop our individual narrative technique with sound design in a Swedish drama production? We have done research and empirical studies. We have analyzed movies to get an idea how we use the sound design in Swedish drama productions today. We have produced a movie that gives sound the biggest part. Key words: Swedish drama production, narrative technique, sound design.

This thesis examines Swedish composers' modes of work and production within the Swedish film industry. It starts off with a historical overview treating live music in early silent film, the conversion to sound and the Swedish production climate until present time. The analysis consists of contemporary empirical studies; interviews with people writing music for film, TV and commercials. The musician's perspective is in focus but directors and other film workers are heard as well. The situation for female composers in a male-dominated industry is also discussed.

The purpose of this study is to examine if Muslims and Jezidier from the Middle East experience changes in them self when they live in Sweden and how they feel about apply for work in the Swedish labour market. The study uses the individualistic - collectivistic dimension to describe the differences between the Swedish culture and the participants home culture. A phenomenological, theoretical and methodological approach has been followed, with self-reports as the instrument for data collection. The information where analysed through the softwares MCA - Minerva and Sphinx-Lexica. The analyses show many different outcomes.

Att enskilda politiker och partier väljer att använda sig av sociala medier i valsammanhang blir allt vanligare. I denna uppsats granskades de svenska riksdagspartiernas twitteranvändning inför det svenska riksdagsvalet 2010. Genom en social- och innehållsmässig analys kring twitteranvändandet kunde enskilda partiers kommunikationsmönster anas. Den sociala analysen baserades på relationen mellan en användares följare och följande, den innehållsmässiga på de taggar nätverkets mikroblogginlägg märkts med.Bland annat identifierades två partier med en ren tvåvägskommunikation, och ett parti med en klar envägskommunikation. Två av de undersökta partierna hade även tendenser till att rikta sin kommunikation mot en inre grupp av politiska twittrare.

On the 17th of January 2002 the Swedish government presented a bill to theSwedish parliament, proposing ways of strengthening the Swedish democracythrough reforms for increased elements of participatory democracy. A publicreport on the state of the Swedish democracy had been released two years earlierwith similar enthusiasm for participatory democracy. However, the participatoryideals of these two documents were strongly criticised by a group of scholars.The aim of this thesis is to analyze and compare the arguments articulatedbetween the years 2000 and 2002 by the actors mentioned above, and to examinetheir relation to arguments concerning political participation, articulated bythinkers from previous times. By classifying the arguments into different groupsdepending on their content I find that both parties in the Swedish argumentationfocus on the effects of participatory democracy on political equality, on theefficiency of the political decision-making and the quality of the decisions beingmade, and finally on the personal character of the citizens. Among the argumentsarticulated by thinkers from previous times, similarities with the Swedishargumentation can be seen as well as important differences.

This thesis examines art exhibitions, literature events and music events in public libraries in Sweden. The aim is to study which event occurs most in the libraries in Sweden. I also examine who takes responsibility for the events, who the libraries engage, how much the events cost, and how often the libraries have the events. I also study Swedish cultural politics in purpose to see if the libraries follow the aims and directions decided by the Swedish government. One aim of the Swedish culture politic is to give every citizen in Sweden the same possibility to experience culture, no matter where they live.

This paper deals with the use of Internet at Swedish public libraries. The author asks whether public libraries should or should not limit access to information available on the Internet. Starting from the American discussion, concerning Internet at public libraries, the author shows the Swedish attitudes. The paper demonstrates that many Swedish public libraries have adopted rules forbidding retrieval of certain kinds of information, such as hard-core pornography and racist propaganda. The persons in charge of such actions claim that public libraries should provide high-quality educational literature and should not spread mass-produced, provocative information.