<p>This is a case study of the planning and building of a new IT education facility when thedepartment of Media Technologymoved its operation to Flemingsberg and the main campus, due tothe termination of Campus Haninge at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. The study isbased on a case study an on administrative material from the process such as emailscorrespondences, policy documents, contact reports etc. The material is analysed using qualitativecontent analysis and the different observations done are distilled into four recommendations,aimed at being able to contribute to a improved process in similar future situations, whereverneeded.</p>

This is a case study of the planning and building of a new IT education facility when thedepartment of Media Technologymoved its operation to Flemingsberg and the main campus, due tothe termination of Campus Haninge at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. The study isbased on a case study an on administrative material from the process such as emailscorrespondences, policy documents, contact reports etc. The material is analysed using qualitativecontent analysis and the different observations done are distilled into four recommendations,aimed at being able to contribute to a improved process in similar future situations, whereverneeded.

Durant les dernières années, le Maroc a accordé une attention particulière au développement de ses territoires marginaux via la mise en œuvre d’un ensemble de programmes nationaux et internationaux. Cette dynamique a conduit à une mobilisation de différents acteurs et de différentes ressources autour de projets visant le développement de ces territoires difficiles. Dans ces programmes qui mettent en avant les principes d’équité et de solidarité, une grande attention est accordée à l’amélioration de la condition socio-économique de la femme rurale.Les projets qui mettent en œuvre cette approche genre le font par le biais de l’assistanat à travers de nouvelles organisations sociales : les associations et les coopératives féminines.En effet, les organismes de développement publics ou privés indiquent « aider », parfois « secourir » les femmes rurales en définissant pour elles des modalités de développement personnel à travers les activités génératrices de revenu (AGR) , visant le développement des territoires difficiles via le développement de « Produits de Terroir ».Ces politiques nous ont conduit à interroger les capacités réelles de ces projets à la promotion et à l'égalité en faveur des femmes, en nous appuyant sur la notion de capabilité telle que définie par Amartya Sen en 1985. Notre étude examine pour cela les attentes des adhérentes des coopératives, puis le dépassement de l'assistanat au travers de l’entrepreneuriat féminin. L’enquête porte sur les coopératives féminines exploitant les ressources naturelles telles que l'argan dans plusieurs terroirs marginaux au Sud du Maroc. / In recent years, Morocco has paid particular attention to the development of its marginal territories through the implementation of a set of national and international programs. This has resulted in the mobilization of multiple different actors and resources around projects centered in some of Morocco’s most difficult regions. Many of the projects embody the principles of equality and solidarity, and have thus approached the problem by aiming to improve the socio-economic status of Morocco’s rural women. A large number of the projects that implement this approach do so by providing ‘assisted-aid’ to newly-developed social organisations, such as women’s associations and cooperatives. The policies of these public and private development bodies is to ‘help’, or even ‘rescue’ the rural women, by defining for them a course of personal development through income-generating activities (IGAs). This strategy aims to develop these difficult regions in concert with the development of ‘local products’. These policies lead us to question the real capacities of these programs to promote equality for women. Our approach is based on the concept of ‘capability’, as defined by Amartya Sen in 1985.Our study argues that bettering assisted-aid, is a policy that promotes female entrepreneurship. We have concluded this through investigating how female cooperatives have been able to exploit natural resources, such as argan nuts, in several marginal regions in southern Morocco.

The purpose of the project is to, with the help of relevant course literature, knowledge obtained from previous courses and with the help of supervisor and colleagues, produce a concept suggestion of how the front lamp to a combat vehicle could be designed. The purpose is also, with the help of meticulous documentation and structured work, to do a project that it will possible to continue working on and eventually construct a prototype from. The methods that were used during this project were for example WBS, scrum board, Gantt-schedule and elimination matrix. The project started with a planning phase where the project plan and time schedules were set up. Then was the pilot study which is used to gather the knowledge needed to carry out the project. The information gathered in the pilot study were then summarized in a criterion matrix in the product specification. These criterions were then used in the concept selection phase as guidelines when generation ideas and develop concepts. After the concept selection three concept were chosen and presented for the employer and, in conjunction with the employer, it was decided to combine these concepts into one. 3D-models were then done with the help of CAD (Computer Aided Design) to illustrate this combined concept and associated material selection and manufacturing methods were done. The conclusion of this project was that the amount of innovative ideas and solutions were limited since the product is regulated by military standards and criterions from customers. Therefore, the outcome of the project is similar to previous versions, which is unfortunate, since the goal with the project were to come up with new and innovative concepts of how to design the front lamp. But even though this concepts design looks like the old design, it has few completely new things to it that haven’t existed in previous versions. It was also realized how much time you save during the project if you do a detailed planning at the start of the project and how valuable it is to be structured in the work process. Further work that is needed to be done on the project before the production of a prototype are calculations of the cost to manufacture and produce the product, strength calculations of the stress concentrations etc., and drawings of the product. The components of the front lamp, i.e. horn, lamps, sensors etc., also need to be selected in accordance with the criterion matrix. / Syftet med detta projekt är att, med hjälp av relevant kurslitteraturer, kunskap från tidigare kurser och med hjälp och stöd av handledare och kollegor, ta fram ett konceptförslag på hur frontlyktan till ett stridsfordon skulle kunna bli designad. Syftet är också, med hjälp av noggrann dokumentation och strukturerat arbete, att göra ett projekt som det är möjligt att fortsätta arbeta på och till slut kunna producera en prototyp ifrån. Metoderna som används i detta projekt är till exempel WBS, scrum board, Gantt-schema och eliminationsmatris. Projektet började med en planeringsfas där projektplanen och tidsplaner var gjorda. Sen gjordes förstudien för att tillhandahålla tillräckligt mycket information för att kunna genomföra projektet. Denna information summerades sedan i en kriteriematris i produktspecifikationen. Dessa kriterier användes sedan som riktlinjer vid idégenerationen och vid utveckling av koncept i konceptfasen. Efter konceptfasen valdes tre koncept att presenteras för arbetsgivaren och, i samråd med arbetsgivaren, valdes det att kombinera dessa koncept till ett. 3D-modeller gjordes sedan i CAD (Computer Aided Design) på detta koncept för att illustrera konceptet. Materialval och tillverkningsmetoder valdes också. Slutsatsen av detta projekt är att det var begränsande att utveckla innovativa idéer och lösningar till denna produkt eftersom produkten var styrd av militärstandarder och kundkrav. På grund av detta blev resultatet av projektet likt tidigare versioner, vilket är olyckligt, då målet med projektet var att utveckla en nya och innovativa koncept på hur designen av frontlyktan skulle kunna vara. Trots att designen är snarlik tidigare versioner, så har ändå detta koncept vissa funktion som är helt nya för produkten. På slutet av projektet var det också tydligt hur viktigt det är att göra en detaljerad planering vid starten av projektet och hur värdefullt det är att vara strukturerad i sitt arbete. Fortsatt arbete som måste göras innan en prototyp kan tas fram är en kostnadsanalys, hållfasthetsberäkningar och ritningar på konceptet. De olika komponenterna i frontlyktan måste också väljas, i enlighet med kraven i kriteriematrisen.

The present study is the result of research collaboration where participating teachers and a researcher have jointly analyzed and reflected over experiences from professional training and professional work in order to develop an understanding of skills and knowledge that are relevant to the professional development and professional lives of teachers. The focus is on four female primary school teachers’ stories. Certain things run through these stories. They are (i) a quest for professional development, (ii) a strong commitment to teaching and (iii) an ongoing identity-building process. The overall purpose of the thesis is to identify and describe these processes and thus contribute meaningful knowledge to the debate on teacher professional development within the Swedish educational landscape. Two questions have been particularly important. These are: – What individual and structural conditions and processes appear to be important for professional development and career choice? – Which key events and turning points can be identified in teachers’ lives and work, focusing on the early years of the occupation and how can these be understood? The professional life stories have a chronological structure and they have been organized around three time periods. One of these is The Road to the profession, including teachers’ stories about their background, school experiences, past professional life and what has influenced them to take the step to become a teacher, and experience from their education. The second is the first years in the profession. This is the period covering the first three years of working life after teacher education. It depicted a diversity of experience and the experience of strenuous and stressful work situations in which new teachers, with high aspirations, confronted at times unanticipated work assignments and challenging conditions for which they did not always feel fully prepared. However, as well as these tensions of development there also appears to be a period of intense and stimulating knowledge development in which the teachers experienced opportunities to put their ideas about education, development, cooperation and educational projects to the test. Through this they say that they developed professionally in a way that strengthened their professional identity. The continuing work history period is the third period. It includes experience from the three year period following the first years in the profession. Here the teachers describe a process of establishment at each workplace, where the teachers’ continuing quest for educational development and change is in the fore, as is an aim toward further professional development and greater stability in the professional role. / <p>Disputationen sker fredagen den 17 december 2010, kl 13.15, Hörsal D203, Högskolan i Borås, Allegatan 1</p>

The main purpose of this study is to examine the interaction between educators and children during reading aloud and how the educators recognize this. The study is qualitative and the empirical material was gathered through observation and interview methods. Interviews were done with three teachers, and they were observed on five occasions. The children’s age is 4-5 years. The results show that teachers have a good knowledge of reading alouds importance for young children's language development and reading aloud is seen as an educational activity, but may have different purposes depending on the situation. The result also shows that the teachers clearly recognize children's linguistic stimulation in reading aloud.

(English version) Title: Characteristic of the Czech kiteboarding population Objectives: The main goal of this thesis is research of available sources concerning to the topic and analysis and detailed characteristic of the Czech kiteboarding population. Methods: Research of this thesis was based on questionnaires which were collected between kiteboarders and following analysis of collected information. Questionnaire has 20 topics, which were given to respondents who already have experiences with kiteboarding. The questions in the research were made to give one answer or select one of the options. It was collected 200 questionnaires at total. Main methods used in this work are: analysis, synthesis, induction. Results: On the base of research were confirmed given hypothesis. Which are: 1. We assume that at least half of the kiteboarding population think that kiteboarding is dangerous. 2. More than half of the respondents started with kiteboarding on their own. In diploma thesis which is about relatively young and developing sport were collected and analyzed important figures on sample of kiteboarding population. Keywords: Kiteboarding, snowkiting, powerkiting, landkiting.

I en värld som ständigt förändras och utvecklas kan det finnas ett pågående tryck hos organisationer att behålla värdefull kunskap men även att identifiera var kunskap saknas och åtgärda detta. Arbetet med detta hos organisationer kallas ofta för ”kompetensförsörjning”. Syftet med denna studie är att identifiera hur arbetet med kompetensförsörjning i vissa fall kan se ut för HR-medarbetare och chefer i en offentlig verksamhet. Studien är kvalitativ och innehåller tidigare forskning gällande Human Resources och kompetensförsörjning . I studien har fyra halvstrukturerade intervjuer genomförts med fyra respondenter som alla arbetar med HR inom offentlig sektor. Därefter har data blivit tematisk analyserat för att ge form till de olika teman som återfinns i resultatet. Resultatet påvisar att både HR-medarbetare och chefer är delaktiga i arbetet med kompetensförsörjning, men att cheferna ofta tilldelas utvalda ansvarsområden och att HR-medarbetare har det övergripande ansvaret och fungerar som en specialistfunktion. Slutsatsen påvisar att både HRmedarbetare och chefers olika kunskaper är viktiga beståndsdelar i kompetensförsörjningen men även att det finns alternativa arbetssätt som skulle vara önskvärda om tid och möjlighet funnits.

Since the second half of the 20th century in Asia is evident the emergence of the new centers of economic growth. The success of the Asian newly industrialized countries is followed by different in character but also dynamic development of the Asian newly industrialized countries of the second generation. The growing economic powers in Asia as also in global measures are China and India. The importance of these countries in the context of the global economy will be likely to increase. However, these countries face many typical for developing countries constraints of the economic and social development. This paper describes the European Union's approach to development cooperation with the states of South and Southeast Asia, its application, effectiveness, and in particular the importance of modern optimal growth of these countries for the future of the EU in terms of its growth and sustainable development.

Colleges and universities continually seek to foster the leadership development of undergraduate students through curricular and co-curricular opportunities and experiences. This study examined the effects and potential contributions of participation in campus-based leadership trainings on college students' leadership development with special consideration for gender and racial background. To better understand the relationship between campus-based trainings and leadership development, data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNS) was utilized. The WNS was a multi-institutional, longitudinal dataset made up of 47 four-year colleges and universities from 21 states throughout the United States. This study mark's one of the first multi-year, multi-institution longitudinal studies to investigate the relationship between campus-based leadership trainings and leadership development. The results of the study pointed to several over-arching themes. The first theme was that a student's background and leadership experience prior to college matter. Next, a student's curricular success matters, and influences their leadership gains throughout all aspects of the SCM. The interactions students have with peers who are different from themselves matters. Leadership development opportunities need to be intentionally designed. Finally, campus-based leadership trainings offer a potential programmatic option for institutions to help develop their students as socially responsible leaders, regardless of backgrounds and other experiences.