With examples from a single classroom situation, several educational moments show what goes on between the teacher and the student. The teacher?s responsibility in the learning process is, with a gesture frozen in the air of the moment, to lead and follow the student in her tentative efforts at seeking knowledge. Initially, it is an attempt to shed light upon the "not yet seen" with a certainty that the student herself possesses the capacity and the aptitude to reach greater insight and clarity in her understanding. The Validation/Feil Method presented in this instructional situation illustrates how best to communicate with elderly people suffering from Alzheimer?s dementia.

Syfte. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka rektorers syn på elevinflytande och uppdraget att verka för demokratiska arbetsformer. Jag ville också undersöka hur rektorerna ser på vilka möjligheter och/eller hinder till elevinflytande som kan finnas och dessutom relationen mellan elevinflytande och det faktum att vi har skoltvång. Utifrån dessa frågeställningar ville jag också försöka ta reda på vilken kompetens och vilka egenskaper lärare kan anses behöva för att arbeta med elevens reella inflytande. Metod.

This study is about the work around festivals and traditions that takes place in multicultural preschools. The purpose of this study is to describe and reflect upon the work around festivals and traditions in multicultural preschools from the view of five preschool teachers who are active in their profession.  The purpose is also to investigate which festivals and traditions that are given attention at preschool and for what reason according to the preschool teachers.The method of research chosen in this study is qualitative in the form of individual interviews with the intention of obtaining and interpreting the descriptions and reflections of the informants around the subject. The results will be analyzed from an intercultural perspective.The results show that all investigated preschools celebrate the traditional Swedish festivals Christmas, St. Lucia?s day, Easter and Midsummer, and that these festivals take up lots of space in terms of time and labor.

Detta är ett försök att skildra den livsåskådningstradition som med utgångspunkt från moderna vetenskapliga resultat söker påvisa ett samband mellan dessa och den urgamla shamanistiska tradition som en gång varit världsomspännande och fortfarande lever i spridda rester av vissa kulturkretsar.Jag har för detta ändamål läst den litteratur som jag här sammanfattar i resultatdelen samt redovisar under rubriken "Diskussion och slutsats" med en religionsvetenskaplig analys och en fenomenografisk genomgång.Min forskningsuppgift är att utifrån ett religionsvetenskapligt perspektiv göra en deskriptiv analys av några centrala arbeten inom det som kallas den nya fysiken och en shamanistisk tradition i anslutning till den.Den röda tråd som jag ser löpa genom denna litteratur påvisar dels utifrån olika förutsättningar annorlunda sätt att uppfatta och förhålla sig till "verkligheten" och dels finns här genomgående mer eller mindre religiösa övertoner. En gemensam nämnare för denna idétradition är även den parallell man ser mellan komplementaritet, dvs. ljusets våg/partikeldualism, och olika medvetandetillstånd. Detta innebär i båda fallen ett överskridande av vår vanliga tids- och rumsuppfattning. Vidare krävs det såväl inom shamanismen som i den kvantmekaniska forskningen att man är en kreativ medskapare, inte en objektiv iakttagare..

The parrot is a common symbol, or even cliché, in Western literature, going all the way back fromancient Greece to the present date, and in many a genre. This study reads the oeuvre of the NobelPrize winner Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) as being closely related to these certain traditions andconnotations of for example religion, satire, and speaking nonsense, in his frequent use of parrotsand their symbolic potentials, in his writing. Furthermore, it is possible to distinguish a movementin Beckett?s use of parrots, from a more or less traditionally use, to one more philosophicallyprofound.Although the parrot graces us with its presence (or at least may be traced) in almost everywork written by Beckett, from the poem ?Whoroscope? (1930) to How It Is (1961), they are onlymentioned sparsely by his interpreters. Therefore, a brief history of the literary tradition of theparrot will be expounded.

Since time immemorial, nature has been conceived of as a female entity. This ancient concept is also a recurring element in contemporary Swedish horror fiction. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the feature of nature in the selected works of Anders Fager, Andreas Marklund and Frida Arwen Rosesund and in what ways these respective depictions rely on a tradition where nature is gendered female. The theoretical starting-point for this comparative study is ecocriticism and its subcategory ecofeminism, which are modes of literary criticism where the role of nature in general, and its female connotations in particular, are appreciated as significant literary features. For executing an analysis that goes beyond what is explicit, the exploration of these three writers? texts also adopts a psychoanalytical perspective.

The parrot is a common symbol, or even cliché, in Western literature, going all the way back fromancient Greece to the present date, and in many a genre. This study reads the oeuvre of the NobelPrize winner Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) as being closely related to these certain traditions andconnotations of for example religion, satire, and speaking nonsense, in his frequent use of parrotsand their symbolic potentials, in his writing. Furthermore, it is possible to distinguish a movementin Beckett?s use of parrots, from a more or less traditionally use, to one more philosophicallyprofound.Although the parrot graces us with its presence (or at least may be traced) in almost everywork written by Beckett, from the poem ?Whoroscope? (1930) to How It Is (1961), they are onlymentioned sparsely by his interpreters. Therefore, a brief history of the literary tradition of theparrot will be expounded.

Swedish students in the upper secondary school will recieve informaition regarding religion from multiple sources. If we look past the students surroundings like the family, friends or multimedia school is still the primary arena for religous education. Discussions about religion will take place in other lessons than just the subject religion. History is in my opinion the subject closest related to religion and the two makes up for a lot of the values work in swedish schools. Textbooks is still one of the most important tools for education and that makes them important as objects to study.

The parrot is a common symbol, or even cliché, in Western literature, going all the way back fromancient Greece to the present date, and in many a genre. This study reads the oeuvre of the NobelPrize winner Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) as being closely related to these certain traditions andconnotations of for example religion, satire, and speaking nonsense, in his frequent use of parrotsand their symbolic potentials, in his writing. Furthermore, it is possible to distinguish a movementin Beckett?s use of parrots, from a more or less traditionally use, to one more philosophicallyprofound.Although the parrot graces us with its presence (or at least may be traced) in almost everywork written by Beckett, from the poem ?Whoroscope? (1930) to How It Is (1961), they are onlymentioned sparsely by his interpreters. Therefore, a brief history of the literary tradition of theparrot will be expounded.

The parrot is a common symbol, or even cliché, in Western literature, going all the way back fromancient Greece to the present date, and in many a genre. This study reads the oeuvre of the NobelPrize winner Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) as being closely related to these certain traditions andconnotations of for example religion, satire, and speaking nonsense, in his frequent use of parrotsand their symbolic potentials, in his writing. Furthermore, it is possible to distinguish a movementin Beckett?s use of parrots, from a more or less traditionally use, to one more philosophicallyprofound.Although the parrot graces us with its presence (or at least may be traced) in almost everywork written by Beckett, from the poem ?Whoroscope? (1930) to How It Is (1961), they are onlymentioned sparsely by his interpreters. Therefore, a brief history of the literary tradition of theparrot will be expounded.

Teachers in social sciences have a broad subject field to base their education on. This term paper examines, thru interviews, which factors that have an influence on the subjects contents in the A course of Social Sciences at Swedish high schools. Having interviewed four active teachers at three different schools, it shows that control documents like subject- and national curricula have little to say about what kind of subject that should been taught. Teachers seem rather to rely on local collegiate consensus, the textbook, locally prepared control documents, and adjusting to program directions while choosing material. In the final discussion the risk of structuring the subject around the text book is being investigated, along the fact that new locally control documents need to be written even for basic planning structures.

Jag har alltid fascinerats av kaffekannan i silver, hur tydlig den är i sin form och hur den bär på en tradition inom användandet såväl som utförandet. Det finns en tyst överenskommelse hur en kaffekanna ser ut och hur vi betraktar föremål med en tydlig funktion.Ur silversmedens synvinkel fungerar kaffekannan nästan som en ikon. Detta är något som håller på att försvinna i och med att kaffekannan i silver inte används på samma sätt i dag som den gjorde förr..

The purpose of the present study is to investigate mindfulness as a New Age phenomenon in the modern western society. Since a religious phenomenon does not exist in a vacuum, but is dependent on its historical and cultural context, my aim is to give a broad depiction of mindfulness and New Age in its wider context, the historical background and the societal implications of common values, themes and concepts that are frequent in the literature, how mindfulness is presented by the authors of popular literature and also how it is presented in science. In order to bring forward a deeper understanding of New Age and mindfulness? role in the modern western society, my intention is to see how the authors of mindfulness claim validity of their doctrines in the discourse. Mindfulness attracts a wide range of perpetrators and is used in many areas in the society today.

Our experience of the surrounding environment is affected by all of our senses, yet, in Landscape Architecture, by tradition, mostly the visual aspect has been the focal point. In this essay, however, the subject will be the auditory and its interaction with the visual..

Syftet med undersökningen är att få ökad kunskap om hur tre grundskolelärare använder olika medier i matematikundervisningen mot bakgrund av den logocentriska traditionen i skolan. Jag kommer att utgå från följande frågeställningar i min studie: ? På vilka olika sätt gestaltas den logocentriska traditionen i matematikundervisningen i en årskurs 1, 2 och 4? ? Vilka anledningar anger lärare till att de centrala medierna i undervisningen i skolan är de logocentriska uttrycksformerna och inte de kinestetiska, visuella och auditiva uttrycksformerna? ? Hur uppfattar lärare att de visuella, auditiva och kinestetiska uttrycksformerna utvecklas i en logocentrisk skoltradition? Teorin i mitt examensarbete definierar begreppen medier och logocentrisk tradition i matematikundervisningen. Teorin innehåller tidigare forskning om hur den logocentriska traditionen gestaltas i skolan, samt skolans behov av förändring för att motsvara samhällets utveckling. Jag har använt mig av en etnografisk ansats och mina insamlingsmetoder är intervju och observation. Undersökningarna är gjorda på en skola, där jag har besökt tre olika skolklasser i två dagar per skolklass.