The purpose of this study is to examine a preschool's work to counteract traditional gender roles, which strategies are used and how norms about gender roles are produced and treated. The study also examines whether the preschool has an intersectional perspective in it's gender work, which analyzes how they relate to other categories such as ethnicity, race, class, age and sexuality in their work. I have been observing and conducting four interviews with teachers at a preschool with a gender profile. In my analysis I have used Foucault's theories about discourse and power. The results show that the informants had a high awareness of gender and that the main strategies used were: an individual perspective, seeing the individual and not the sex, and a gender-neutral strategy, removing everything that is gendered, for example, in language and environment. The preschool's work implementing the equal treatment plan (Likabehandlingsplan) allowed them to replace their gender profile, which included discrimination based on forms of ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and age. The results showed some examples of an intersectional perspective, for example, how the preschool worked with sexuality/different family structures and age, but other categories were harder to include, such as ethnicity, race and class. The conclusions I have drawn are that there are risks with these gender strategies. They confirm and reinforce gender roles, and there is a risk that the work is based on a white middle-class heterosexual norm, which means it is based on privileged positions. The work with the equal treatment plan requires an intersectional perspective and a self-reflected approach from the teachers. / Syftet med studien är att undersöka en förskolas arbete med att motverka traditionella könsroller samt vilka genusstrategier som används och hur normer kring genusuttryck produceras och bemöts. Studien undersöker även om förskolan har ett intersektionellt perspektiv, det vill säga hur de arbetar med andra kategorier såsom etnicitet, ras, klass, ålder och sexualitet i deras genusarbete. Jag har gjort observationer och intervjuer med pedagoger på en förskola med uttalad genusprofil. I min analys har jag använt mig av Foucaults teorier om diskurs och makt. Studiens resultat visar att informanterna hade en hög medvetenhet kring genus och att de vanligaste strategierna de använde var ett individuellt perspektiv, att se individen och inte könet, samt en könsneutral strategi, att avlägsna det som anses könat i exempelvis språk eller miljö. Förskolans arbete med sin likabehandlingsplan hade börjat ersätta deras genusprofil, vilket innebar att de även inkluderar förebyggande arbete mot diskriminering relaterat till etnicitet, religion eller annan trosuppfattning, funktionsnedsättning, sexuell läggning, könsöverskridande identitet eller uttryck och ålder. Studiens resultat visar exempel på ett intersektionellt perspektiv, exempelvis hur förskolan arbetade med sexualitet och olika familjebildningar samt ålder. Resultatet visar dock hur det var svårare att arbeta med andra kategorier såsom etnicitet, ras och klass. Slutsatserna jag dragit är att det finns risker med de genusstrategier som jag upptäckte. De riskerar att befästa och förstärka könsroller samt baseras på en vit heterosexuell medelklassnorm, vilket innebär att de baseras på positioner som ständigt privilegieras. Arbetet med likabehandlingsplanen kräver därmed ett intersektionellt perspektiv samt ett självreflekterande förhållningssätt hos pedagogerna.

This study expands on the current literature base that investigates the use of voice recognition software (VRS) as a compensatory strategy for written language difficulties often experienced by postsecondary education students receiving services under the category of learning disabled. The current literature base is limited to one study (Higgins & Raskind, 1995) which found that subjects' writing samples, completed with VRS, had higher holistic scores than the samples completed with a transcriber, and without assistance. While these findings are positive many questions remain unanswered. The research conducted in this dissertation investigated three such questions. The questions and corresponding findings follow. 1. After being trained on VRS will persons, in postsecondary education, receiving services under the category of learning disabled, continue to use it to complete their academic course work? Will they further use the software for purposes other than academic study? Two individuals continued to use the software. One of these two used the software for multiple purposes. 2. Does the ongoing use of VRS, by postsecondary education students receiving services under the category of learning disabled, improve their written performance when assessed with Fry's Readability Graph? Two subjects each submitted three writing samples: one completed without the use of VRS and two completed using VRS. One subject's grade level equivalency went from 4.5 (sample completed without using VRS) to 6.5 (samples completed using VRS). There was no change in the grade level equivalency of the writing samples for the second subject. 3. What are the contributing variables that influence the continued use, or non-use, of VRS by postsecondary education students receiving services under the category of learning disabled? Numerous variables emerged from the data including: time, access to a personal computer, ease of use, personal issues, use of standard English, the specific limitations associated with a persons disability, whether or not the subjects had other compensatory strategies in place, and the acquisition of the skills necessary to use the software. The findings contribute to the field by providing a framework from which to assess who mayor may not benefit from the use of VRS.

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En el presente estudio se investiga la importancia de la comunicación no verbal (CNV) en el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras. En relación con el aprendizaje y la enseñanza de verbos de rutina identificamos un posible problema que surgía durante la enseñanza de ciertos momentos gramaticales cuando estos se introducían de manera exclusivamente lingüística. El objetivo de esta tesina es por tanto analizar y describir cómo podría favorecer al aprendizaje de español como lengua extranjera (ELE) el uso de la gesticulación como estrategia didáctica no lingüística en el salón escolar sueco; ya que este tipo de comunicación no verbal es común entre los hispanoparlantes y hace parte del contexto cultural de la lengua meta. Nuestro estudio nace tras la observación realizada durante las prácticas pedagógicas que tuvieron lugar en Suecia, país en el que la CNV está presente en los planes curriculares. Con base en las observaciones de campo se hizo posible constatar que el docente ante problemáticas asociadas con la comprensión y la fluidez comunicativa, utilizaba inmediatamente el sueco cuando surgía un problema de comprensión (Skolinspektion, 2010). Este tipo de deficiencias podrían ser solventadas mediante el uso de gestos corporales ilustrativos (Cestero, 2017), como una estrategia compensatoria, esto es un conjunto de técnicas de aprendizaje que solventan un problema comunicativo (Rodríguez Ruiz y Merás García, 2005). En nuestro estudio han colaborado seis grupos de alumnos pertenecientes a cuatro escuelas suecas además de los respectivos docentes de cada grupo. También se realizaron encuestas a algunos alumnos y entrevistas a parte del equipo docente. Finalmente, los resultados obtenidos muestran como el aprendizaje de verbos reflexivos es más efectivo cuando se utiliza la CNV como estratégica didáctica en el aula de ELE mejorando también el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. / This study investigates the importance of non-verbal communication (CNV) in learning foreign languages. In relation to learning and teaching routine verbs, we identified a possible problem that arose when, during the teaching of certain grammatical moments, these were introduced exclusively linguistically. The objective of this dissertation is therefore to analyze and describe how the use of gesturing as a non-linguistic teaching strategy in the Swedish school classroom could favor learning Spanish for foreigners (ELE); since this type of nonverbal communication is common among Spanish speakers and is part of the cultural context of the target language. Our study was initiated after the observation made during the pedagogical practices that took place in Sweden, a country where the CNV is present in the curricular plans. Based on the field observations, it became possible to verify that when the teacher faced problems associated with comprehension and communicative fluency, she usually turned to the mother tongue immediately when a comprehension problem arose (Skolinspektion, 2010). These types of deficiencies could be solved through the use of illustrative body gestures (Cestero, 2017), as a compensatory strategy understood as a type of learning technique that solves a communication problem (Rodríguez Ruiz and Merás García, 2005). Six groups of students belonging to four Swedish schools have collaborated in our study in addition to the respective teachers of each group. Surveys were also carried out with some students and interviews with part of the teaching team. Finally, the results obtained show how the learning of reflexive verbs is more effective when the CNV is used as a didactic strategy in the ELE classroom, also improving the teaching-learning process.