The purpose of this study is to investigate teachers 'and students' understanding of why students finish school with incomplete scores and which resources they consider necessary for students to accomplish the goals that are set for the students. Owing to the reuse of pupils and teachers' experiences, this study will highlight significant qualitative aspects of work with students who finish school with incomplete high school grades. Hopefully, will this study be a support and information base in secondary school.The material forming the basis for the report's theoretical assumptions and the basic assumption is based on Lev Vygotsky sociocultural perspective on learning that Olga Dysthe discuss and develop further in his book, Dialog, samspel och lärande.  The present work is based on qualitative research method. I selected this research method because I am interested in getting an understanding of the importance and significance of this research The study applied a qualitative interview format.As a result of the investigation as it has appeared that students difficulties to achieve the goals,depends on several factors, mostly on the student's socio-economic and psychosocial situation they live in. The life situation of the students determines the learning and knowledge process and how they reach their goals.

The aim of this study was to analyze society's efforts for girls who are victims of honorrelatedviolence and oppression. More specifically its aim was to examine what efforts thesociety can offer girls who are exposed to honor-related violence and oppression, and howsocial services and shelters cooperate on issues of honor. We have chosen to focus on girlswho are victims of honor-related violence, but we are aware that even boys and men face thisproblem. The study was conducted using a qualitative approach through interviews. Tocomplete the study we have conducted eight interviews throughout Sweden.

Stress ? ett växande fenomen i ett samhälle som står i ständig utveckling. Den konstanta progression som kommit att spegla vårt nutida samhälle ökar även stressen hos den enskilde individen, vilket enligt vissa forskare kan resultera i stora problem för såväl individen som för samhället. Dessa forskare menar att problematiken gällande stress ökar i samhället och kan i sin tur leda till kronisk stress och andra allvarliga psykologiska samt fysiologiska konsekvenser relaterat till ämnet.  Med den informationsteknologiska utveckling som sker, så ökar även kraven på individen, som stundtals kan ha svårt att hinna med. Detta arbete syftar till att synliggöra de problem som kan uppkomma i samband med stressfyllda situationer, med fokus på våra viktigaste samhällsmedborgare: Skolans elever, vår framtid. Kvantitativa metoder i form av elevenkäter (med viss kvalitativ karaktär) har använts för att undersöka eventuella problem som kan sammankopplas med stress. 87 gymnasieelever på en gymnasieskola i en mellanstor svensk stad fick svara på frågor relaterat till stress.

Stressrelaterad sjuklighet och i dess värsta form utbrändhet, är resultatet av att företagen inte kan hantera den oro som finns och på kort tid har detta vuxit till en folksjukdom. Förutom det mänskliga lidande som stressjukdomarna medför, är deras konsekvenser förödande för samhällsekonomin och företagen. Fenomenet stress kan delvis ses som en reaktion på samhället. Att så många i samhället lider av stress kan tolkas som att man inte riktigt hänger med i de förändringar som skett och vi vet inte riktigt hur stressen skall bemötas. En ökad förståelse och kunskap om hur man underlättar och hjälper varandra i en pressad miljö kan minska risken för att fler individer utsätts för skadlig stress.

The background to this report is the author?s ambition to understand individuals? work situation, how it?s formed in interaction between the individual and factors in the work-setting. Such an ambition is well in line with the concept of Human-Technology-Organization (HTO), a cross-scientific approach that puts a system-oriented perspective on how human, technolog-ical and organizational factors interact within work systems.The aim of this report was to explore managers? work-situation and generate an understanding of it from an HTO-perspective by using an organizational model as a framework for an interview guide and to analyze the work situation from an HTO-perspective following the ques-tions at issue:1. How does the managers experience their work situation?2.

Social work is a social phenomenon, existing in most societies, that has given rise to a multitude of special organizations and professions. For that reason social work is dealing with a complex identity. The purpose of this study is to illustrate how social workers and the scientific discourse interpret the concept of social work. In addition to that the study intends to show similarities and differencies. The research process containes two studies, one based on qualitative interviews with five social workers and the other consisting a surway of academic litterature.

Mind-mindedness refers to the mother?s ability to treat her child as an individual with a mental life of his or her own. In the present study, the purpose is to investigate the relationship between the amount of mind-related comments the mother produces when the child is 9 months of age and the child?s development in language and communication at the age of 15 months. The hypothesis is that the amount of mind-related comments the mother produces has a positive affect on the child?s language abilities as well as his or her ability to initiate joint attention.

THE CONSTANT IMPROVAL AND REFINEMENT OF THE MOBILE TECHNOLOGY HAVE MADE IT POSSIBLEto use video in settings where such use couldn't be motivated before, due to economicaland practical reasons. The purpose of the study was to identify and explore possiblechallenges in interorganizational use of video during emergency response work. Thiswas done by a case study of a system designed for the use of video in such situations.The study focused on operational challenges for the fire and rescue services and thehealthcare organisations, where the main challenges identified were intended to beanalysed and discussed in terms of design. The empirical results were gathered throughqualitative interviews with representatives from the fire and rescue services and thehealthcare organisations in Göteborg. This material made it clear that contextual aspectsof emergency response work lead to a couple of challenges connected to the use of videoin such situations.

Syftet med det här arbetet är att undersöka barn och stress i förskolan. Vi har inriktat oss på att se hur strukturen i förskolan påverkar barns stress. Det intresserar oss att se om man kan undersöka om barn i förskolan är stressade och ifall det har någon koppling till hur förskolan struktureras upp. En undersökning om hur förskolan är organiserad när det kommer till miljö, aktiviteter, hur uppdelningen av barn och personal ser ut samt hur dagarna planeras upp i förskolan kommer även att presenteras. Vi har med hjälp av observationer på fyra förskolor samt intervjuer med fyra förskollärare försökt undersöka hur förskolans struktur ser ut och hur den påverkar barnen.

In Sweden whenever trains or maintenance workers want access to the railway system, their requests of usage and movements are being supervised, granted and handled by train dispatchers. The profession holds a key role in making the complex railway system work in terms of efficiency, safety and delivering on-time arrivals. This master thesis, delegated by the Swedish Transport Administration, has been carried out at the Division of Human Computer Interaction at Uppsala University and at the train traffic control center in Gävle. The aim has been to map what information the train dispatchers use in order to make safety-related decisions concerning their working goals. And further to describe and analyze how the train dispatchers, visavi their tools and systems in the work domain, gather necessary information.The result indicates a complex, diverse and spread out setting of different programs, procedures and tools that make satisfactory fulfilment of efficiency, safety and punctuality in relation to the time table hard.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine if and how bibliotherapy can be part of ordinary work in Swedish libraries. Questions: what is bibliotherapy and who can work with it? What are the conditions required? What does it mean to people taking part and to libraries? In this study bibliotherapy is delimited to fiction and activities including discussions, excluded are self-help books and the individuals private reading. The study is based on four qualitative interviews with librarian and bibliotherapists in Kirklees, England, partaking in nine bibliotherapeutic sessions and a literary survey, together forming a case-study. Conclusions: There is not a single answer to the question what bibliotherapy is, but if one puts stress on the biblio- part of the word, seeing reading as a normal activity it can be part of library work, whereas the therapy- part should be dealt with by professionals outside libraries.

Att ständigt vara tillgänglig och hantera inkommande e-post under en arbetsdag kan skapaupplevelse av stress. Syftet med studien var att se om skattningen av stressen minskade om enprocedur som liknar traditionell postmottagning tillämpades. Studien genomfördes som ettexperiment på en IT-avdelning. Deltagarna delades upp i en kontrollgrupp som arbetade somvanligt med sin e-post och en försöksgrupp som arbetade enligt instruktion. Studien pågickunder 8 veckor och stressmätning genomfördes vid tre tillfällen, innan start av experimentet,efter 4 veckor och efter ytterligare 4 veckor.

Allt fler kvinnor söker sig till rektorsyrket. Medan yrket har blivit mer kvinnodominerat har även arbetsvillkoren blivit hårdare. Långa dagar med mycket oförutsedda arbetsuppgifter gör rektorsyrket till ett tungt arbete. Studier visar att det fortfarande är kvinnan som tar hand om det mesta i hemarbetet. Tuffa arbetsvillkor och mycket ansvar i hemmet kan leda till långvarig stress.

The background to this report is the author?s ambition to understand individuals? work situation, how it?s formed in interaction between the individual and factors in the work-setting. Such an ambition is well in line with the concept of Human-Technology-Organization (HTO), a cross-scientific approach that puts a system-oriented perspective on how human, technolog-ical and organizational factors interact within work systems.The aim of this report was to explore managers? work-situation and generate an understanding of it from an HTO-perspective by using an organizational model as a framework for an interview guide and to analyze the work situation from an HTO-perspective following the ques-tions at issue:1. How does the managers experience their work situation?2.

Ekonomiska styrsystem används för att kontrollera anställdas prestationer, men att utöva kontroll har dock visat sig öka risken för stress hos anställda. Arbetsrelaterad stress utgör problem för organisationer då det kan leda till ökade kostnader i form av ökad frånvaro och försämrade prestationer. För att förklara arbetsrelaterad stress har stressorerna krav, kontroll och socialt stöd fått störst genomslagskraft. Stressorer är faktorer i omgivningen som kan öka eller minska stressreaktioner hos individer. Syftet med studien är att förklara hur ekonomiska styrsystem påverkar stressorer.