Through collecting, gathering and transformation I look at themateriality in bodies of human and animal. The asymmetricalrelation rules we have created to approve our behaviour oftoday. I write this paper with the contradicting approach ofbeing scientific yet sentimental to the meanings of physicalmatter.

Zooarchaeological material from prehistoric settlements usually make up a large amount of the archaeological record. Despite this, research on the material is seldom utilized to its full potential. This is very much the case for the famous iron age settlement at Helgö. Therefore, in this thesis animal bones recovered from building group 4 at Helgö were analyzed using both osteological and taphonomic, as well as spatial variables as a mean to gain a better understanding of various aspects of the settlement and life at prehistoric Helgö. The results from the zooarchaeological analysis provide insight in social activities and practices concerning both human and animal interactions. The animals are found to have been an important part of the lives of the people at Helgö. Both spatial and structural differences in the material reveal various attitudes towards the animals and bring to light a diversity of activities and practices surrounding the settlement and Helgö.

<p>This study examined constructions of horses and means staff working with horses parallel to therapy in institutional care ascribes to horses. A narrative method was used and the theoretical framework was social constructionism. A question was asked to the narratives: How can practice in institutional care be understood through these stories? The result showed different pictures of institutional care. Horses seem to provide a multi-faceted therapeutic tool. Through the horses staff could establish relations built on trust with their clients. The stable-environment and the horses provided healthy recreation and a social competence usable for clients in life. The constructions of horses also seemed related to the means ascribed to them in the daily life of the institution. So far there has been little research about animals in Swedish institutional care. If there are animals in institutions they probably fill some kind of function for social work and therefore the phenomena needs to be further examined. Especially as research claim economical and social benefits in using animals in human health care. Animals have been looked upon as trivial but the academic discipline dealing with relations between animals and humans, anthrozoology, has gained respect and is now considered serious.</p>

<p>Syftet med den här studien syftar till att synliggöra möjliga samband mellan barns umgänge med djur och barnets lärande i ett sociokulturellt perspektiv. </p><p>Genom litteraturstudier analyserades vilka faktorer som påverkar barns utveckling och lärande. Vidare genomfördes en enkätundersökning i 2 klasser i år 6, vilket visade enskilda elevers kontakt med djur. Detta jämfördes med bedömningar av varje elevs lärande, gjorda av en lärare i teoretiska ämnen och en lärare i sociala och motoriska ämnen. </p><p>Resultaten diskuterades utifrån teorier om lärande, barns umgänge med djur samt barns behov att utvecklas psykologiskt, kognitivt och socialt. Genom teorin synliggjordes att barn tillsammans med djur har bättre chanser att erhålla ett starkt självförtroende, samt att de blir vana vid ansvar. Vidare bidrar umgänget med djur till fler kommunikativa situationer samt att barns hälsa främjas. Studier om barns behov visade att dessa fördelar i umgänget med djur torde göra att barns utveckling gagnas. </p><p>Resultat från analysen av enkäterna tillsammans med bedömningarna från lärarna, visar samband som tyder på att tiden barn tillbringar med djur skulle kunna påverka barns lärande positivt. </p> / <p>The purpose of this work is to show possible connections between children’s interaction with animals and the child’s learning in a sociocultural perspective. </p><p>Through literature studies proceeded analyses about what issues affect a child’s development and learning. Furthermore was an opinion poll made to discover the pupils contact with animals in two classes in the sixth grade. This was compared with a review on each pupil’s learning, made by one teacher in theoretical subjects and one teacher in social and mobility subjects. </p><p>The result was discussed from theories about learning, children’s interaction with animals and children’s needs for psychological, cognitive and social development. </p><p>The discussion showed that children together with animals get better opportunities to develop a stronger confidence, and get used to responsibility. It also showed that the interaction with animals also contribute to more communicative situations and a better health for the child. Studies about children’s needs indicated that these advantages could have good influence on the child’s development. </p><p>The results from the opinion-polls together with the teachers reviews, interprets that pupils who engage with animals for a longer period a day could possibly show a higher grade of adequate learning than the ones who didn’t.</p>

Syftet med den här studien syftar till att synliggöra möjliga samband mellan barns umgänge med djur och barnets lärande i ett sociokulturellt perspektiv. Genom litteraturstudier analyserades vilka faktorer som påverkar barns utveckling och lärande. Vidare genomfördes en enkätundersökning i 2 klasser i år 6, vilket visade enskilda elevers kontakt med djur. Detta jämfördes med bedömningar av varje elevs lärande, gjorda av en lärare i teoretiska ämnen och en lärare i sociala och motoriska ämnen. Resultaten diskuterades utifrån teorier om lärande, barns umgänge med djur samt barns behov att utvecklas psykologiskt, kognitivt och socialt. Genom teorin synliggjordes att barn tillsammans med djur har bättre chanser att erhålla ett starkt självförtroende, samt att de blir vana vid ansvar. Vidare bidrar umgänget med djur till fler kommunikativa situationer samt att barns hälsa främjas. Studier om barns behov visade att dessa fördelar i umgänget med djur torde göra att barns utveckling gagnas. Resultat från analysen av enkäterna tillsammans med bedömningarna från lärarna, visar samband som tyder på att tiden barn tillbringar med djur skulle kunna påverka barns lärande positivt. / The purpose of this work is to show possible connections between children’s interaction with animals and the child’s learning in a sociocultural perspective. Through literature studies proceeded analyses about what issues affect a child’s development and learning. Furthermore was an opinion poll made to discover the pupils contact with animals in two classes in the sixth grade. This was compared with a review on each pupil’s learning, made by one teacher in theoretical subjects and one teacher in social and mobility subjects. The result was discussed from theories about learning, children’s interaction with animals and children’s needs for psychological, cognitive and social development. The discussion showed that children together with animals get better opportunities to develop a stronger confidence, and get used to responsibility. It also showed that the interaction with animals also contribute to more communicative situations and a better health for the child. Studies about children’s needs indicated that these advantages could have good influence on the child’s development. The results from the opinion-polls together with the teachers reviews, interprets that pupils who engage with animals for a longer period a day could possibly show a higher grade of adequate learning than the ones who didn’t.

This study examined constructions of horses and means staff working with horses parallel to therapy in institutional care ascribes to horses. A narrative method was used and the theoretical framework was social constructionism. A question was asked to the narratives: How can practice in institutional care be understood through these stories? The result showed different pictures of institutional care. Horses seem to provide a multi-faceted therapeutic tool. Through the horses staff could establish relations built on trust with their clients. The stable-environment and the horses provided healthy recreation and a social competence usable for clients in life. The constructions of horses also seemed related to the means ascribed to them in the daily life of the institution. So far there has been little research about animals in Swedish institutional care. If there are animals in institutions they probably fill some kind of function for social work and therefore the phenomena needs to be further examined. Especially as research claim economical and social benefits in using animals in human health care. Animals have been looked upon as trivial but the academic discipline dealing with relations between animals and humans, anthrozoology, has gained respect and is now considered serious.

Efter att vi kommit i kontakt med en tidningsartikel som handlade om barn som läste för en specialtränad hund, väcktes vår nyfikenhet för möjligheten att använda sig av djur i undervisningssyften. Vår utgångspunkt är att studera hur barn kan träna upp sina läsfärdigheter. Avgränsningen i studien innebär att vi har för avsikt att studera yngre barns, i årskurs 2, upplevelser av att läsa högt för ett djur. Vi valde att göra en kvalitativ undersökning i form av intervju, där 6 elever intervjuades, eftersom vi var intresserade av att studera elevers uppfattningar och tankar kring att läsa för ett djur. I resultatet har det framkommit att när eleverna talade om läsupplevelsen beskrev de att de fann det roligt att läsa för sin hund. Någon beskrev att det var samma som att läsa för föräldrar eller lärare och någon svarade att det var svårare att läsa för hunden då den inte kan hjälpa till vid uttal eller felläsning. Eleverna gav svar som pekade på att användandet av ett djur kan påverka lärmiljön positivt. Den litteratur vi tagit del av menar att barn ser djur som vänner och att de lätt kan skapa relationer till dem, samt att djur har en lugnande inverkan på barn vilket även bekräftas genom intervjuerna. I litteraturen framkommer det att djur är viktiga kommunikationspartner för barn. Inom det sociokulturella perspektivet betonas lärandet i ett socialt samspel. Vår slutsats är att närheten till djur, till vilket barn har en nära relation, kan utgöra en lustfylld metod för läsfärdighetsträning. / Since we came in contact with a newspaper article about children who were reading for special trained dogs, our curiosity for how we could use animals in teaching purposes was awaken. Our starting point is too study how the children can train theirs reading training skills. We delimited our study to the younger children, in second grade, and their experiences of reading aloud to an animal. We chose to do a qualitative study there we used interviews; we interviewed sex students, because we were interested to study the students understandings and thoughts about reading for an animal. In the result we saw that when the students talked about the reading experience they all mention that it was funny to read to their dog. Someone described it like it was the same as reading for the parents or teacher and some answered that it was harder to read to the dog because the dog couldn´t help with pronunciations or wrong readings. The students gave answer that pointed towards that animals can affect the teaching environment positively. The literature that we reed means that children see animals as their friends and they can easily create a relation to the animals. Animals have a calming effect on children which we got confirmed through the interview answers. In the literature it emerged that animals are important communication partners for children. Within the socioculturel perspective emphasizes the learning within a social interaction. Our conclusion is that closeness to animals, to which the children have a close relation to, can make content method to the reading training skills

<p>Efter att vi kommit i kontakt med en tidningsartikel som handlade om barn som läste för en specialtränad hund, väcktes vår nyfikenhet för möjligheten att använda sig av djur i undervisningssyften. Vår utgångspunkt är att studera hur barn kan träna upp sina läsfärdigheter. Avgränsningen i studien innebär att vi har för avsikt att studera yngre barns, i årskurs 2, upplevelser av att läsa högt för ett djur. Vi valde att göra en kvalitativ undersökning i form av intervju, där 6 elever intervjuades, eftersom vi var intresserade av att studera elevers uppfattningar och tankar kring att läsa för ett djur. I resultatet har det framkommit att när eleverna talade om läsupplevelsen beskrev de att de fann det roligt att läsa för sin hund. Någon beskrev att det var samma som att läsa för föräldrar eller lärare och någon svarade att det var svårare att läsa för hunden då den inte kan hjälpa till vid uttal eller felläsning. Eleverna gav svar som pekade på att användandet av ett djur kan påverka lärmiljön positivt. Den litteratur vi tagit del av menar att barn ser djur som vänner och att de lätt kan skapa relationer till dem, samt att djur har en lugnande inverkan på barn vilket även bekräftas genom intervjuerna. I litteraturen framkommer det att djur är viktiga kommunikationspartner för barn. Inom det sociokulturella perspektivet betonas lärandet i ett socialt samspel. Vår slutsats är att närheten till djur, till vilket barn har en nära relation, kan utgöra en lustfylld metod för läsfärdighetsträning.</p> / <p>Since we came in contact with a newspaper article about children who were reading for special trained dogs, our curiosity for how we could use animals in teaching purposes was awaken. Our starting point is too study how the children can train theirs reading training skills. We delimited our study to the younger children, in second grade, and their experiences of reading aloud to an animal. We chose to do a qualitative study there we used interviews; we interviewed sex students, because we were interested to study the students understandings and thoughts about reading for an animal. In the result we saw that when the students talked about the reading experience they all mention that it was funny to read to their dog. Someone described it like it was the same as reading for the parents or teacher and some answered that it was harder to read to the dog because the dog couldn´t help with pronunciations or wrong readings. The students gave answer that pointed towards that animals can affect the teaching environment positively. The literature that we reed means that children see animals as their friends and they can easily create a relation to the animals. Animals have a calming effect on children which we got confirmed through the interview answers. In the literature it emerged that animals are important communication partners for children. Within the socioculturel perspective emphasizes the learning within a social interaction. Our conclusion is that closeness to animals, to which the children have a close relation to, can make content method to the reading training skills</p>

This study focuses on the use of animals in social work from the perspective of social workers. The purpose of this study is to examine social workers’ experiences of animal assisted social work and how social workers view the integration of animals in various fields of social work. The research is based on a qualitative method and four semi-structured interviews were conducted with social workers. The theories incorporated in the study are Attachment Theory and Sense of Coherence (SOC). The following results are presented: Social workers are considered to have a more comprehensive understanding of clients compared to their associates who do not hold a degree in Social Work. The Social Work Programme prepares you for work in various roles in numerous work places and the social workers claim to sympathise with the many aspects which affect clients. Some of the positive aspects of incorporating animals in social work include opportunities to experience the outdoors and exercise when spending time with the animals but also the additional satisfaction of being able to offer clients these benefits. The social workers are aware of potential safety risks in handling and associating with the animals and these safety risks appear to have a negative impact on animal assisted social work. According to the social workers, animal allergies can be minimized and should not be the focal point. SOC and its three components – Comprehensibility, Manageability and Meaningfulness have been applied to the social workers experiences of animal assisted social work and their experiences shared indicate that animals can hold properties of an attachment figure. Animals have a calming effect on clients, and assist in the connection between social worker and client.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2002. / Härtill 6 uppsatser.