Syftet med studien är att, utifrån ett livsvärldsperspektiv, utforska högstadieelevers erfarande av mening i musikundervisningen i skolan. Vilka upplevelser av mening beskriver högstadieeleverna och vilken roll beskrivs läraren ha i dessa upplevelser? Undersökningen är kvalitativ och bygger på semistrukturerade intervjuer med tre högstadieelever. Tidigare forskning visar på att musik redan under antiken hade en terapeutisk avsikt och verkade som läkande kraft. Den kan också vara ett betydelsefullt och användbart material när identitet skapas och uttrycks som ung vuxen. Den svenska skolan ska främja alla elevers utveckling och lärande. Den avgörande faktorn för om kunskap bibehålls eller glöms bort är meningsfullheten i en undervisningsmiljö. Lärarens uppgift är att möjliggöra kunskapsinhämtning och organisera arbetet så att eleven får använda och utveckla hela sin förmåga. I resultatet presenteras huvudtemat varande i ett ”fritt rum” och strukturen byggs upp av meningsenheterna utveckling, gemenskap, skapande och läraren som förebild. Eleverna i den föreliggande studien upplever musikundervisningen som ett varande i ett fritt rum där det finns möjlighet att testa nya saker utan rädsla för att misslyckas. Eleverna upplever att de genom undervisningen utvecklas både som musiker och i sin identitet. I samspel med klasskamrater under musikaliska aktiviteter byggs en gemenskap som är viktig för eleverna. Mening skapas också när eleverna får utrymme för eget skapande och när de får stöttning och uppmuntran från en lärare. / The purpose of this study is to, from a lifeworld perspective, explore high school students’ experience of meaning in music teaching in school. What experiences of meaning do the high school students describe and what role is the teacher described to have in these experiences? The survey is qualitative and based on semi-structured interviews with three high school students. Previous research shows that music, already in the antiquity, had a therapeutic purpose and acted as a healing force. It can also be an important and useful material when identity is created and expressed as a young adult. The Swedish school shall promote the development and learning of all students. The decisive factor for whether knowledge is retained or forgotten is the meaningfulness of a teaching environment. The teacher’s task is to enable the acquisition of knowledge and organize the work so that the student can use and develop their entire ability. The result presents the main theme of being in a “free space” and the structure is built up by the units development, community, creation and the teacher as a role model. The students in the present study experience music teaching as being in a free space where there is an opportunity to try new things without fear of failure. The students experience that through the teaching they develop both as musicians and in their identity. In collaboration with classmates during musical activities, a community is built that is important to the students. Meaning is also created when students are given space for their own creativity and when they receive support and encouragement from a teacher.

Background: The elderly Chinese group is growing in Sweden but no studies about their experiences of being cared for were found. In order to meet the elderly Chinese need for care, it is necessary to understand their perspectives of being cared for. Aim: To describe the meaning of the experiences of being cared for by elderly Chinese immigrants in a Swedish context. Method: For this phenomenological study, open-end interviews were carried out with 7 informants originally from Mainland China and Hong Kong. Result and Conclusion: For the elderly Chinese in Sweden, ‘being cared for’ means being involved in a caring community, to have a mutual relationship with someone who can see and understand their needs. In such a relationship, they felt that they were included and respected. They were being treated as valuable with a genuine manner. They had a feeling of satisfaction, happiness, peacefulness, closeness, togetherness, and wholeness when ‘being cared for’. For these elderly Chinese immigrants, informal care was indispensable even when they were receiving formal care. They wished that their family could show concern and formal caregivers could understand and give space to the informal caregivers on caregiving.

The purpose of this study has been to describe and understand the meaning of adult children´s experience of growing up in a family with addiction. The study is based on a lifeworld phenomenological approach where the adult children have been the focus. The data collection consisted of five open interviews, where the adult children gave their experience of their childhood. The result of the study shows that adult children all have experienced the sense of shame/stigma, de-prioritized, a dysfunctional everyday life, a body that reacts and a body that remembers. This has led to various challenges and consequences while growing up, the adult children have handled this differently according to their own abilities and circumstances. It has also resulted in challenges in adulthood, which also have been handled differently depending on the person. Based on the results, it has been possible to understand the importance of preventive work towards families where there is an addiction problem. Something that further needs continuous research to prevent dysfunctional upbringing.

Denna studie har studerat och jämfört hur elever i språklig sårbarhet och undervisande lärare på gymnasiesärskolan och gymnasieskolan beskriver främjande faktorer för kunskapsutveckling i undervisningen. Studien använder en kvalitativ tolkande- och livsvärldsfenomenologisk ansats. För att besvara forskningsfrågorna har semistrukturerade intervjuer och observationer använts med två elever och två lärare från gymnasiesärskolan och två elever och två lärare från gymnasieskolan. Intervjuerna belyser informanternas beskrivningar av främjande faktorer för kunskapsutveckling i undervisningen. Resultaten visade att elevers och lärares erfarenheter av vad som utgör kunskapsutveckling i undervisningen både korrelerar och skiljer sig åt. Både elever och lärare värderade student-lärarrelationen som en viktig aspekt för elever att engagera sig och utvecklas mot kunskapsmålen. Lärare i gymnasiesärskolan värdesatte gruppens storlek för att kunna individanpassa undervisningen och stötta elever i språklig sårbarhet att utvecklas mot kunskapsmålen. I linje med en universell design för lärande, tenderade lärare på gymnasieskolan att organisera sin undervisning för att bli mer inkluderande. Resultatet visade också att lärarnas och elevernas berättelser på gymnasiesärskolan och gymnasieskolan visade olika perspektiv på inkludering i undervisningen. På gymnasiesärskolan blev det tydligt att en främjande faktor för kunskapsutveckling för elever i språklig sårbarhet var att eleverna differentierades, medan gymnasieskolans lärare och elever lyfte fram att undervisningen behövde differentieras för att stötta elever i språklig sårbarhet. / This study has examined and compared how students with language difficulties and their teachers in Swedish upper secondary special needs school and Swedish upper secondary school describe their learning development in the classroom. The study has used an interpretative- and lifeworld phenomenological approach.  To answer the research questions, semi structured interviews have been conducted with two students and two teachers from an upper secondary special needs school and two students and two teachers from an upper secondary school. The interviews have shed light on the informants’ experience of which factors promote learning development in the classroom.  The results show that students’ and teachers’ experiences of what constitutes learning development in the classroom both correlates and differ. Both students and teachers valued the student-teacher relationship as an important factor in students getting involved in instruction and reaching learning objectives. For the teachers in the special needs school group size played an important role in individualizing instruction. In line with universal design for learning, teachers in the upper secondary school tended to organize their instruction to be more inclusive. The results also presented two different perspectives on inclusive education to support learning development for students with language difficulties. In upper secondary needs school learning development is dependent on differentiation of the students, while learning development in upper secondary school depends on differentiation of instruction in the classroom.