Syftet med mitt arbete är att undersöka hur lärare arbetar med skönlitterärt skrivande tillsammans med sina elever. Använder sig lärarna av någon speciell metod? Jag vill även ta reda på hur eleverna upplever att det är att skriva berättande texter. Vidare vill jag även undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan intresse för läsning och intresse för att skriva berättelser. Med skönlitterärt skrivande avses i det här arbetet att skriva berättelser. För min undersökning har jag använt mig av två olika metoder: intervju och enkät. Jag har intervjuat sex lärare. De lärare jag har valt att intervjua är lärare som är utbildade i ämnet svenska. Enkätundersökningen är gjord med 130 elever i årskurs 3 och 6. Varför jag valt just dessa årskurser är för att jag vet att de har arbetat mycket med texter och framförallt med att skriva berättelser. Eleverna är med andra ord väl medvetna om vad det är för slags text jag ställer frågor om. De intervjuade lärarna arbetar alla efter metoden genrepedagogik och de använder sig på olika sätt av boksamtal i sin undervisning. Det framgår av resultatet att det som är svårast med att skriva berättelse varierar och det kan vara fantasin, strukturen eller att eleverna inte förstå vad de olika begreppen som används inom skrivandet betyder och att det gör skrivandet svårt. Resultatet visar även att det finns en koppling mellan intresset att läsa och intresset/förmågan för att skriva berättelser. Det framkommer också att de elever som läser böcker har en fördel i sitt skrivande när det kommer till uppbyggnad av texten och att få en röd tråd genom hela berättelsen. / The purpose of my essay is to investigate how teachers work with fictional writing together with their pupils. Do teachers use any particular method? I also want to find out how pupils feel about writing narrative texts. My purpose is also to investigate whether there is a connection between interest in reading and interest in writing stories. I am doing my research with pupils of the age 9-12. In my study, fiction writing is referred to as “writing stories”. For my research I have used two different methods: interviews and surveys. I have interviewed six teachers. The teachers are teachers who are educated in the subject Swedish. The survey was conducted with 130 pupils in grades 3 and 6. Why I selected year 3 and 6 is because I know that they have worked a lot with writing stories. The interviewed teachers teach according to the method of genre that means that the text is broken down into smaller parts and the pupils learn how to write different stages in a text. The narrative text has a beginning, a middle, a solution and then the end. The teachers use different ways of book discussions in their teaching. The result shows that what pupils find most difficult in writing stories varies. It may be the imagination, the structure or not understanding concepts that make it difficult. The result also shows that there is a link between the interest to read and the interest/ability to write stories. The teachers say that pupils who read a lot also write better than pupils who do not. The readers often tend to have a better red thread through their own stories.

Bakgrund: Samhälls-och hälsoorienteringen till nyanlända är en av de hälsofrämjande insatserna som bedrivs över hela landet och är även lagstadgad. Trots det etableras det inte på samma sätt eller nivå i varje län och forskning visar för att de nyanlända ska kunna finna möjligheterna att etablera sig bör det finnas ett arbete som förhåller sig till den nivån av behov som krävs. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur aktörer arbetar och upplever samhälls-och hälsoinformation för nyanlända och personer med utomnordiskt påbrå samt vilka förutsättningar finns för att genomföra samhälls-och hälsoinformation på modersmål. Metod: En kvalitativ metod användes för att besvara studiens syfte och frågeställning. Kvalitativa semi-strukturerade intervjuer var studiedesignen som valdes för att smala in data. Urvalet bestod av tio intervjupersoner och alla intervjupersoner är aktörer med olika yrken, som är kopplade till integration och nyanlända. Resultat: Studiens resultat påvisade att befintliga samhälls-och hälsoorienteringen upplevs ge både möjligheter och svårigheter när det gäller aktörerna som arbetar med det och deras upplevelse av nyanlända som deltar. En ständig utveckling, ökade resurser och behovsanpassade insatser krävs för en lyckad samhälls-och hälsoorientering som hjälper till att främja hälsan. Slutsats: Resultatet redogjorde att den befintliga samhälls-och hälsoorienterings insatsen har två olika upplevda perspektiv. Det studerade perspektivet som var aktörerna och det andra var mottagarna av insatsen vilket är de nyanlända. Aktörerna upplevdes ha olika behov, upplevelser och uppfattningar av samhälls-och hälsoorienterings insatsen. Studiens fynd redovisade att samhälls-och hälsoorientering på modersmål kommer att gynna och påverka samhället på ett främjande sätt lika mycket som individen själv, samt att förutsättningarna är positiva trots de olika nivåerna av utmaningar som kan påträffa insatsen. / Background: Community and health orientation to immigrants is one of the health promotion efforts conducted across the country and is also statutory. Despite this, they do not hold the same quality in each county, which is required to give immigrants the same opportunities to integrate themselves in the new contest. Aim: The purpose of the study is to examine how sectors experience social and health information for immigrants and people with non-Nordic ancestry and the conditions for implementation of social and health information in the native language. Method: A qualitative method was used to answer the questions of the study. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were used. The sample consisted of ten interviewees and all respondents are sectors with different professions, that work with immigrant integration. Results: The results of the study show that existing social and health orientation is perceived to provide both opportunities and difficulties in terms of both perspectives, the actors working with it and immigrants participating. Continuous development, increased resources and needs-based efforts are needed for a successful community and health orientation that helps to promote health. Conclusion: The existing social and health orientation has two different perceived perspectives. The studied perspective was the sectors working with the orientation. Each perspective has different needs, experiences, and perceptions of the orientation. The study's findings showed that orientation in the native language will benefit and influence society as much as the individual, and that the conditions are positive despite the different levels of challenges that may be encountered.

Trots att kunskapsområdet EU har en större plats i både grundskolans och gymnasieskolans styrdokument idag har brister i EU- undervisningen uppdagats. Eleverna ges inte tillräckliga kunskaper och går ur gymnasiet med bristande förståelse för EU och sin egen roll som EU- medborgare. Detta väcker frågor kring hur undervisningen om EU ser ut på högstadiet och gymnasiet samt om en kunskapsprogression möjliggörs.Syftet med denna studie är att belysa högstadielärares och gymnasielärares tankar och beskrivning av sin undervisning om EU, för att analysera om deras undervisning möjliggör en progression för elevernas EU-kunskaper. För att möjliggöra en sådan studie har undersökningen genomförts genom kvalitativa intervjuer av fyra högstadielärare och fyra gymnasielärare som alla undervisar i ämnet Samhällskunskap.Studien har utgått från antagandet att undervisningen om EU och kunskapsprogressionen inte är tillräcklig, vilket till viss del bekräftas av studiens resultat. Resultatet visade aspekter som tyder på en likartad undervisning på bägge skolstadier och som därför inte anses leda till en progression. Samtidigt uppmärksammas delar i undervisningen på gymnasiet som tyder på en fördjupning av tidigare tillägnade kunskaper och som därför gynnar en kunskapsprogression, och även faktorer som kan vara anledningar till att kunskapsprogressionen försvåras; så som tidsbrist, stoffträngsel och ointresse hos elever och lärare. Studien visar att antagandet om brister i EU- undervisningen och ett visst missgynnande av kunskapsprogression stämmer men att det också finns möjliga förklaringar till detta. / Despite the fact that knowledge regarding EU plays a larger role today in both steering documents for secondary school and high school has imperfections been identified. The students are not given enough knowledge and finish high school with a lack of understanding of EU and their own role as citizens in EU. This raises questions regarding how the education of the subject is managed in secondary and high school and also if a knowledge progression is made possible.The purpose of this study is to put a light on the thoughts of teachers in secondary- and high schools about their EU education to be able to analyze if their teaching makes a progression of the students’ knowledge possible regarding their knowledge of EU. To make such a study possible the survey was conducted through qualitative interviews of four social science teachers in secondary school and four social science teachers in high school have been made.The study was been based on the assumption that education about EU is lacking and that knowledge progression is not adequate which to a part is proved by the result of the study. The result showed a similar education in both stages which therefore doesn’t point to a knowledge progression. At the same time parts of the education in high school indicates a deepened study of different knowledge areas studied in secondary school which therefore favors knowledge progression, but at the same time progression can be reduced by identified factors like lack of time, “overcrowded” subject areas and lack of interest from both students and teachers. The study shows that the assumption that imperfections exists in EU education and that a degree of limited knowledge progression is true, but it also shows that there are possible explanations to why this may be.

Fysisk aktivitet kan genomföras genom exempelvis lagidrott vilket genererar psykiska, fysiska och sociala vinster i relation till hälsa. Som lagidrottsutövare under en pandemi har utmaningar uppstått som kräver att idrottsverksamheter behöver anpassa sig vilket också påverkar utövarna. Handboll är en sport som bedrivs inomhus med fysisk kontakt som till följd av Covid-19 pandemin både pausats och stängts ned. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur handbollsspelare upplever möjligheten att vara fysiskt aktiv under en pandemi och huruvida detta påverkar motivation i relation till lagidrotten. I studien har en kvalitativ metod tillämpats genom ett målstyrt urval där sex handbollsspelare i Västmanland intervjuades genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Insamlade data transkriberades och analyserades genom en manifest innehållsanalys. Resultatet visar att det finns upplevda möjligheter till fysisk aktivitet under Covid-19 pandemin som krävt en individuell träningsomställning och detta har möjliggjort mer tid till annat. De upplevda hindren är begränsad tillgänglighet att utöva handboll och mindre kollektiv träning som har bidragit till bristande motivation till lagidrotten. Slutsatserna visar att den sociala vinsten lagidrott genererar upplevs meningsfull vilket pandemin begränsat. Möjligheter och hinder har gjort att handbollsspelare ifrågasätter varför de tränar så mycket när det inte finns något att träna för vilket också påverkar motivation till sporten. / Physical activity can be performed through for example team sports which generate mental, physical, and social benefits in relation to health. As a team sport athlete during a pandemic, challenges have arisen that require sports activities to adapt, which also affects the athletes. Handball is a sport that is played indoors with physical contact which as a result of the Covid- 19 pandemic has both been paused and shut down. The aim of the study is to investigate how handball players experience the opportunity to be physically active during a pandemic and whether this affects motivation in relation to team sports. In the study, a qualitative method was applied through purposeful sampling where six handball players in Västmanland were interviewed through semi-structured interviews. The collected data were transcribed and analyzed by manifest content analysis. The results show that there are perceived opportunities for physical activity during the Covid- 19 pandemic that required an individual training adjustment, and this has enabled more time for other things. The perceived barriers during a pandemic with limited accessibility to practice handball and less collective training have contributed to a lack of motivation to team sports. The conclusion shows that the social winning teams sport generates, and which is perceived as meaningful, has been limited during the pandemic. Opportunities and barriers have made handball players questioning why they train so much when there is nothing to train for, which also affect motivation for the sport.

Previous research emphasizes the importance of the psychosocial work environment among healthcare professionals and indicates a strong link between perceived poor psychosocial work environment and ill health. Nursing staff's psychosocial work environment is characterized by a high level of stress, which reduces their control at work and leads to work situations that are characterized by tense work. To ensure a good working environment, various laws and regulations are established that employers must ensure that they are complied with. The employer is responsible for creating a safe and stress-free working environment with good working conditions where there is the opportunity for action and control. The Covid -19 pandemic places demands on healthcare in Sweden like never before and has caused changes in work at both individual and organizational level. There are clear indications that the working environment and health have deteriorated during the Covid pandemic, however, the research testifies to a knowledge gap as the problem area is limited with Swedish studies. The purpose of this study is to examine nurses experiences of their psychosocial work environment and health during the Covid-19 pandemic. A qualitative research method has been used. Selection methods are partly goal-oriented selection and partly snowball selection method. Data collection has taken place through semi-structured interviews and a manifest content analysis has applied. The results show that the assistant nurses experience a poor psychosocial work environment during the pandemic, which is characterized by deteriorating working conditions and recovery opportunities, poorer control, increased work-related stress and higher demands. Furthermore, the assistant nurses feel that the managers are lacking in their role and that the assistant nurses lack direct cooperation with their managers. However, the results indicate improved collaboration between colleagues. In addition, the work is driven by the duty to work. In summary, the assistant nurses experience a perceived poor psychosocial work environment and health during the Covid-19 pandemic overall.

Syftet med mitt arbete är att undersöka hur några grundskoleelever ser på elevinflytande och sin egen möjlighet att påverka i skolan, samt hur denna möjlighet gestaltar sig. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med åtta elever från två olika skolklasser i skolår sex på en grundskola i Sverige, har jag undersökt vilken uppfattning eleverna har om elevinflytande. Resultatet visar att eleverna räknar med ett väldigt begränsat inflytande i skolan. Min slutsats är att de inte har det inflytande som de verkligen har rätt till enligt Skollagen och Lpo94. / The purpose of my paper is to investigate how some pupils in the comprehensive school look upon student influence and their own possibilities to have any influence at school, and how this possibility takes shape. With the aid of qualitative interviews with eight 6th graders from two different classes at a comprehensive school in Sweden I have investigated how the pupils view the matter of student influence. The results show that they expect to have very limited influence at school. My conclusion is that they do not have the amount of influence they are entitled to according to Skollagen, and Lpo 94.

The aim for this study is to describe what previous work-related experiences Special Education teachers in mathematics have about their professional role and how these experiences can be understood based on professional theories. The focus with these professional theories is to observe the status of the occupation and two different ideal-types of control of the profession. The aim for this study is also to contribute with knowledge about how the Special Education teachers express the expectations and challenges they encounter in mathematics education. Digital surveys and qualitative interviews were the methods used for collecting data of which 63 answers from the survey were collected and 12 interviews were conducted. The main results show that the experiences of the special education teachers in this study are scattered. It shows that their status and how the profession is controlled is affected by surrounding factors. It can show that the profession is under construction. Hopefully will the thesis contribute with new knowledge to newly educated Special Education teachers about the expectations and challenges in their new occupational role.

The aim of this study has been to, from a comparative perspective examine how the use of western models in Chinese advertising are perceived by chinese exchange students living in Sweden. The scientific approach in this study has been both with semiotic picture analysis and qualitative interviews. The study's empirical material has consisted of pictures of white models in fashion magazines published in China for example Vouge China. These pictures were presented to the respondents during the interviews, and questions were asked about them and the answers is also a part of this study's empirical material. The theoretical perspectives used in this study is based on theories about whiteness, stereotypes and occidentalism. The results in the study has shown that the whithe models are presented with high status both in the semiotic picture analysis and the qualitative interviews. It has also shown that the respondents prefer asian models over white in advertising in China, especially with products conected to the body and that the white stereotype is almost described identiaclly by all the respondents. Finally the result has found that the ethnicity is connected to picture enviroments, in that way if it is a white model it should be a western enviroment.

Employable humanists. A qualitative study on humanist students' views on employability. The crisis of the humanities is a controversial debate in the media and within academic settings. Because of lack of request for humanists in the labor market, the question of humanistic skills and employability is becoming increasingly important. The concept of employability importance not only echoes within the economic discussions, but also on everyday agenda in the academic world and takes a large part in the communication between the university and the students. It is therefore important to get answers to the question whether there is conformity in the interpretation of this concept between the university and the students. The aim of this desk study is to examine how the concept of employability has its significance in the academic communication and how the responsibility for employability is portrayed. This is done by studying how the concept of employability is formed and how the responsibilities outlined in texts from Career Center at the University of Umeå, and by comparing study results with the students' perceptions of the concept of employability and responsibility. The study has a qualitative disposition and consists of two main methods: qualitative interviews with focus groups to explore students' views, and critical linguistic analysis of texts with a focus on metaphor analysis and syntax analysis which are also supplemented by the multimodal text analysis. Results of this study indicate that the concept of employability takes a central part of the university’s communication. There are many common starting points in the interpretation of the concept and the responsibility between the university and students. Both the Career Center at Umeå University and students believe that actual knowledge, skills, experience as well as network forms the meaning of the concept of employability, and has a big importance in the student’s position on the job market. However, because the students look at the use of the concept of employability in the texts as acceptance to the social ideological perception of the individual as objects, there is some criticism of the use of the term employability in the university’s communications.

Bakgrund. Föräldrar till barn som har cancer upplever en livssituation som präglas av osäkerhet och oro och de ställs inför sociala och känslo­mässiga utmaningar. Jämfört med föräldrar till friska barn, upplever de också högre stress och drabbas i större utsträckning av posttraumatiska stres­symptom. Trots att information om barnets sjukdom är ett centralt behov för föräldrarna, upplever de otillfredsställelse med den information som ges. Syfte. Syftet med denna avhandling var att inom barnonkologisk vård beskriva vårdares och föräldrars upplevelser av information, studera deras inbördes interaktion samt beskriva upplevelser och effekter av en intervention för personcentrerad information till föräldrar. Metod. I delstudie I–III användes fokusgruppintervjuer (I, II), individ­uella intervjuer (II, III) och deltagande observationer (III). Deltagarna bestod av 20 vårdare (I), 14 föräldrar till barn med cancer (II) respektive 25 vårdare och 25 föräldrar (III). Data analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys (I, II) och diskurspsykologi (III). I delstudie IV testades en intervention för per­son­cen­tre­rad information på åtta föräldrar med hjälp av en experimentell single-case-design. Data samlades in med kvalitativa intervjuer och internetenkäter. Upplevd stress, kroppsliga symptom på stress, ångest, nedstämdhet och tillfredsställelse med information var utfallsmått. Resultat. I delstudie I bestod resultatet av två teman: anpassa mängden information till föräldrarnas behov, som handlade om skillnader i hur mycket information som gavs till föräldrarna utifrån vårdarnas bedömning av föräldrarnas behov, och navigera i en vag struktur, som handlade om brister i ansvar, miljö, tajming och språk när informationen lämnades. I delstudie II konstruerades två teman. Känna sig bekräftad som en viktig person handlade om att föräldrarna kände sig trygga, kunde hålla hoppet uppe och fick stöd från andra föräldrar. Temat var mer framträdande under behandlingens tidiga skeden. Det andra temat var känna sig som en objuden gäst vilket handlade om att kännas övergiven vid viktiga milstolpar, att tvingas tjata sig till information och att belastas av att själv behöva informera andra inom sjukvården. I delstudie III använde vårdarna tolkningsrepertoarer som var barn-, föräldra- eller familjeorienterade, vilket avspeglade deras primära fokus i interaktionen. Föräldrarna använde tolkningsrepertoarer som talesperson, observatör eller familjemedlem. Hur dessa kombinerades inbördes påverkade interaktionen. I delstudie IV erfor föräldrarna stor tillfredsställelse med den per­son­cen­tre­rade informationen och upplevde att de hade nytta av att på egen hand få diskutera barnets sjukdom och ställa frågor de annars inte skulle ställt. Interventionen visade ingen effekt på stress eller kroppsliga symptom på stress, ångest och nedstämdhet. Slutsatser. För att förbättra information till föräldrar som har barn med cancer är det en central uppgift att bedöma hur mycket och vilken information som ska ges vid varje tillfälle, att uppmärksamma att föräldrarna kan ha andra informationsbehov än barnet och att möten med föräldrarna ska ske i lugn och ro samt att organisera vården så att ansvaret är tydligt. I synnerhet bör det ske förbättringar kring det som föräldrarna upplever som viktiga milstolpar under barnets sjukdomstid. Interventionen för per­son­cen­tre­rad information uppskattades av föräldrar som har barn med cancer men effekten på föräldrarnas psykosociala välbefinnande behöver utforskas ytterligare. / Background. Parents of children with cancer experience a life situation characterised by uncertainty and worries, and they face ongoing social and emotional challenges. Compared to parents of healthy children, they also experience increased levels of perceived stress and they suffer to a greater extent from post-traumatic stress symptoms. Even though information about the child’s disease is crucial for parents, they still experience low satis­faction with the information given to them. Aim. The aim of this thesis was to, within the field of paediatric oncology care, describe health care professionals’ and parents’ experiences from infor­mation, study their joint interaction and describe experiences and effects from an intervention based on person-centred information to parents. Methods. For study I–III, focus group interviews (I, II), individual inter­views (II, III), and participant observations (III) were used. Participants were 20 health care professionals (I), 14 parents of children with cancer (II) and 25 health care professionals and 25 parents (III). Data were analysed by qualitative content analysis (I, II) and discursive psychology (III). In study IV, an intervention for person-centred information was tested on 8 parents using a single-case experimental design. Data were collected with qualitative interviews and web questionnaires. Outcome measures were perceived stress, physical symptoms from stress, anxiety, depression, and satisfaction with information. Results. In study I, the analysis resulted in two themes, Matching the amount of information to the parents’ needs, which dealt with differences in the amount of information provided to parents according to the health care professionals’ assess­ment of parental needs, and Navigating through a vague structure, which was about shortcomings in responsibilities, setting, timing, and language when parents were informed. In study II, two themes were constructed. Feeling acknowledged as a person of significance was about feeling safe and secure, having one’s hopes supported and getting relief from other families. This was accentuated early in the treatment trajectory. Feeling like an unwelcome guest was about feeling abandoned at important milestones, feeling forced to nag for information and being burdened by informing others. In study III, the health care professionals used interpretative repertoires that were child, parent, or family oriented, which mirrored the primary focus of the inter­action. Parents used repertoires as a spokesperson, an observer, or a family member. The combination of the repertoires steered the interaction. In study IV, parents reported a high satisfaction with the person-centred information intervention and perceived benefits from having their own time to discuss the child’s disease and pose questions that they otherwise would not have an opportunity to ask. No effects from the intervention were demon­strated on perceived stress, physical symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depressive mood. Conclusion. To improve information to parents of children with cancer, a central task is to assess the amount of and what information given to parents, pay attention to possible differences in infor­mation needs between parents and children, as well as to organise the care so that the respon­si­bilities are clear and that parents are met in a calm setting. Improvements at important milestones during the illness period should be pri­ori­tised. A person-centred information inter­ven­tion is perceived as bene­ficial by parents, however, its effect on perceived parental stress has further to be investigated.