<p>Denna undersökning är gjord med syfte att granska hur fyra svensklärare för grundskolans senare år bedriver sin grammatikundervisning. Detta för att se hur upptäckterna stämmer överens med tidigare rön inom den didaktiska forskning som behandlar ämnet grammatik. Studien lyfter fram definitioner av grammatikbegreppet, tillvägagångssätt och metoder i det didaktiska arbetet samt argument för- och emot grammatikundervisningens existens i svenskämnet. Vidare redogörs för metodval vilka innebär kvalitativa intervjuer utefter modellen ”föreställningskartor” där didaktikens tre huvudfrågor – vad, hur och varför – styr samtalen. Undervisningens resultatdel visar hur svensklärarna förhåller sig till begreppet grammatikundervisning och hur detta kopplas till den didaktiska verksamheten. Slutligen diskuteras det insamlade materialet och jämförs med den teoretiska bakgrunden utifrån de tre didaktiska huvudfrågorna.</p><p> </p> / <p>The aim of this study is to examine how four Swedish teachers, in the late years of compulsory school, teach grammar. The findings of this study are compared and contrasted with previous research in the field.</p><p>The study focuses definitions of the grammar terminology, procedures, teaching methodology and the argument for or against the teaching of grammar in Swedish schools. Furthermore, an account will be given of the research method chosen, namely qualitative interviews based on concept maps, focusing on the three main didactic questions: <em>what</em>, <em>how</em> and <em>why</em>. These interviews show the teachers’ approach to grammar instruction and its connection with didactic activities. Finally the collected material is discussed with reference to the theoretical background and the three main didactic questions.</p>

Denna undersökning är gjord med syfte att granska hur fyra svensklärare för grundskolans senare år bedriver sin grammatikundervisning. Detta för att se hur upptäckterna stämmer överens med tidigare rön inom den didaktiska forskning som behandlar ämnet grammatik. Studien lyfter fram definitioner av grammatikbegreppet, tillvägagångssätt och metoder i det didaktiska arbetet samt argument för- och emot grammatikundervisningens existens i svenskämnet. Vidare redogörs för metodval vilka innebär kvalitativa intervjuer utefter modellen ”föreställningskartor” där didaktikens tre huvudfrågor – vad, hur och varför – styr samtalen. Undervisningens resultatdel visar hur svensklärarna förhåller sig till begreppet grammatikundervisning och hur detta kopplas till den didaktiska verksamheten. Slutligen diskuteras det insamlade materialet och jämförs med den teoretiska bakgrunden utifrån de tre didaktiska huvudfrågorna. / The aim of this study is to examine how four Swedish teachers, in the late years of compulsory school, teach grammar. The findings of this study are compared and contrasted with previous research in the field. The study focuses definitions of the grammar terminology, procedures, teaching methodology and the argument for or against the teaching of grammar in Swedish schools. Furthermore, an account will be given of the research method chosen, namely qualitative interviews based on concept maps, focusing on the three main didactic questions: what, how and why. These interviews show the teachers’ approach to grammar instruction and its connection with didactic activities. Finally the collected material is discussed with reference to the theoretical background and the three main didactic questions.

The present study thesis aims to contribute to increased knowledge about how a shared leadership in the school can be constructed and understood. The study's knowledge object is shared leadership in the school. The study objects are school leaders who work together as well as their ideas about how they jointly construct a shared leadership in the school. In the present study, school leaders refer to the persons at the school who are the head of the teachers and other staff, with the task of leading the school's activities. This can thus be a principal or an assistant principal. The thesis is based on a qualitative study with interviews of school leaders who work together in what can be described as shared leadership. The interviews were conducted in pairs using a technique that in Swedish school development research has come to be called an interview with a performance chart. In the interviews, the school leaders who participated in the study were given the opportunity to jointly design the leadership as they perceived it to be designed whitin their activities. The study describes, analyzes and discusses these social constructions. The starting point for the analysis and the subsequent discussion is linked to previous research on shared leadership and organizational theory's way of managing leadership in relation to the business's need for structures that enable both stability and change. Based on an organizational argument, I discuss how school leaders working in shared leadership distribute tasks among themselves and how this distribution affects work organization and development organization. On the basis of the social constructivist theory as a theory of science in the study, I have found hermeneutics useful to describe how I have interpreted my results. The result shows that the different pairs of leaders lead with different kinds of shared leadership: co-leadership, functional leadership and in some cases even a mixture of these. The time spent on building a shared base for shared leadership influences the form of shared leadership that was constructed. The more time that was devoted to talking to each other and creating a common foundation to stand on, the more the school leaders came to lead together in a so-called co-leadership. Unless joint time was allocated, there was a tendency to divide work tasks between themselves and lead through functional leadership.

The aim of the study is to show how a selected part of the European Language Portfolio, ELP, can support the assessment process for teachers. All the checklists at level A1 and My Language Goals from the Language Biography, a part of the ELP, are implemented and communicated in teaching in a 4th grade class of students. Two teachers are interviewed and both of their classes are compared in the study. One group worked for two weeks with the selected part of the Language Portfolio and the second group followed the regular curriculum for the same period of time. The teachers are interviewed before and after the ELP through support of mind maps. Results show that by using checklists at level A1 and My Language Goals students become aware of their own learning process. The goals presented in the selected part of the ELP may provide opportunities for the teachers to discuss the learning process with the students in the classroom and the students therefore become involved in the learning process. When the Syllabus was clarified for the students it increased their participation and awareness among them. According to the teachers, these are factors that support teachers in the assessment process. / Syftet med undersökningen är att visa hur en utvald del av den Europeiska språkportfolion, ESP, kan utgöra ett stöd i bedömningsprocessen för lärare. Samtliga checklistor på nivå A1 och Mina språkmål, från den Europeiska språkportfolions Språkbiografidel, implementeras och kommuniceras i undervisningen i en elevgrupp med elever i år 4. Informanterna i undersökningen är två lärare i engelska. Deras elevgrupper jämförs efter att den ena gruppen arbetat under två veckor med den utvalda delen av Språkportfolion och den andra efter ordinarie undervisningsplan. Lärarna intervjuas med stöd av föreställningskartor både före och efter projektarbetet. Resultaten visar att genom att använda checklistorna på nivå A1 och Mina Språkmål kan elevernas medvetenhet kring inlärning öka. Kunskapsmålen från checklistorna ger möjligheter till samtal om elevers kunskapsutveckling i den vardagliga verksamheten och eleverna blir på så sätt delaktiga i inlärningsprocessen. Konkretisering av kunskapskraven samt ökad delaktighet och medvetenhet hos eleverna är enligt lärarna faktorer som kan bidra till att underlätta arbetet med bedömningsprocessen.

The aim of this study is to explore how six primary school teachers experience teaching grammar to non-Swedish speaking pupils and how their experiences correspond to theories and previous research on language development and second language acquisition. The method used was semi-structured qualitative interviews combined with mind maps. The result shows that the teachers had revised their view on grammar and adapted their teaching to the immigrant pupils, and in various ways followed the Swedish Education Agency’s recommendations on measure to take to facilitate second language learning, including using genre pedagogy.