This study explores the role of `community' within a university campus Learning Community (LC). With a cohort-based structure, an LC exists to enhance student learning through peer cooperation and participation, however the scope of what constitutes community within these cohorts is not currently understood. This study investigates the roles of individual reciprocity, communication, need, time, and physical environment in community building, utilizing qualitative interviews and observations of a 30 member LC over the course of two academic years and a four-week study abroad experience in Panama. Through this, the vital roles of the orientation period and programming staff are revealed and should be considered in order to generate more effective LCs with stronger cohort communities.

The purpose of this thesis is to find out how gender roles are described in musical lyrics written for children. I used gender theories that describe how stereotypical gender roles are displayed in music and these theories were later compared with the songbooks I studied. The thesis is a qualitative study to detect masculine and feminine related differences in the texts. After having read, analyzed and compared over 200 songs I found that the stereotype notions of masculinity and femininity is reflected in songs. Society has transferred in this way normative values on to the children through the songs that teachers choose to sing in schools. / Syftet med denna studie var att ta reda på hur könsroller beskrivs i musiken och visorna för barn. Jag använde genusteorier som beskriver hur stereotypa genusroller uppstår och genom att pröva dessa teorier i relation med sångböckerna, försöka finna svar på mina frågor. Studien är en kvalitativ studie för att upptäcka skillnader mellan maskulinitet och femininitet i text. Efter att ha läst, analyserat och jämfört över 200 sånger fann jag att stereotypa föreställningar om vad som är manligt och kvinnligt återspeglas i visorna. De normativa värderingar som samhället har idag överföras på detta sätt vidare till barn genom de sånger vi väljer att sjunga i skolan.

In a rapidly changing world there open new challenging perspectives to look at a lot of scopes in a new, untraditional angle. Modern digital technologies and especially computerisation enables music teachers and pupils to expand their horizon on expression, make new conditions for spreading creativity, open unlimited possibilities for deeper knowledge in music and other art trends. Thus music education becomes more appealing and effective. Using modern technologies for creating music it is easy to motivate high school students to experiment on music and surrounding sounds, inspire and realise ideas, try themselves in the process of creating music. Aim of the work - to analyse in academic and practical aspects high school students‘ creativity expression in the process of computer-based music creation. Object of the work – teaching high school students to create music by computers. In order to ascertain the attitudes of senior forms pupils and music teachers to computer-based composition an empirical research was performed. The aim of the research was to find out how senior pupils evaluate computer-based music creation and how to make computerised music teaching more effective. This was achieved by using these methods: a) qualitative – interview with senior pupils and survey of pupils and teachers, b) quantitative – statistical data, percentage. After performing the empirical research a new academic background was laid on how to use the peculiarities of a computer-based... [to full text]

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The purpose is to increase awareness of the importance of staff engagement in the work environment and how the organization works to engage employees to want to participate actively in the work environment. The questions we seek answers to in this study is the following: What affects the staff to engage in the work environment from a management perspective Are there external factors that affect the organization and the individual's engagement to work with the working environment? We have create a model that is based on recent research to define our definition of engagement. The model contains four factors : Clarity, Advocacy opportunities, resources and feedback. The method we have used to answer the purpose in this study is ten qualitative interviews with persons with work environment responsibilities. The result shows that the engagement regarding work environment is important to get the employees to actively participate. To get the engagement from the employees the organizations need to provide, clarrity, advocacy opportunities, resources and give mutual feedback. External factors such as high and low season affect the organization's work environment, but not the individual engagement regarding work environment.

It has been shown that in today’s society, businesses will need to consider not only selling products or services, but also experiences in order to fulfil customers’ increasing demand for more stimuli in purchase situations. Additionally, brick and mortar retailers will need to respond to the increased use of online sales channels through finding ways of attracting customers to their stores. One way of responding to both trends can be to practise Experience Marketing and thereby offer holistic, stimulating and memorable customer experiences at every purchase situation. With this insight, this thesis will investigate which specific factors that are perceived as important when creating successful in-store experiences. From this, the aim is to create a framework based on customers’ perceptions that can be useful for brick and mortar retailers when implementing experience marketing. Five propositions of what factors to include in order to create successful experiences are presented. These are tested and further developed through both quantitative and qualitative research. The empirical investigation results in the creation of a final suggested framework including the supported propositions, one new Additional Factor and several suggested subcategories within each factor. The final framework suggests following factors as important when creating successful experience marketing: Store Environment, Employee Characteristics, Senses and Additional Factor.

This thesis uses an exploratory case study design to chronicle the shifts, recognition, and implementation of programs, tools and policies designed for high need federally sentenced women in Canada that were created after 1990, in accordance with or opposed to the gender specific principles outlined in the Creating Choices (1990) report. The body lens is used as an analytic tool to deconstruct eleven of the most pertinent documents regarding policy and strategy for high need women offenders that were implemented by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) personnel and the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) over the past twenty years. Coding of a wide range of documents reveals that despite appearing to be rhetorically progressive, CSC’s attempt at creating a women-centered mental health strategy uses contradictory disciplinary techniques that control and restrain the bodies of federally sentenced women in hopes of normalizing the behaviours of high need women. The policies imposed by CSC for high need women offenders fail to make any substantial changes in women’s prison reform and resulted in a different form of regulation and control. High need women offenders are imprisoned in their own bodies.

För att mångfalden av människor i arbetslivet ska kunna tillvaratas, uppskattas och erkännas krävs ett organisationsklimat ochettledarskap som möjliggör detta. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur ett meningsskapande kring mångfald kommer tilluttryck inom Sveriges Television, då produkten ska nå en mångfaldig publik.Sveriges Television är ett public service-företag vars uppdrag är att nå ut till tv-tittare i hela Sverige, vilket förutsätter en mångfaldig produkt. Åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts med anställda på Sveriges Television. Intervjuerna har transkriberats och resultatet hartolkats utifrån Piagets konstruktivistiska lärandeteori och Mezirows teori om transformativt lärande. Våra viktigaste resultat visar att det som upplevs som meningsskapande kommer till uttryck i relationen mellan det som anses värdefullt och det lärande som de anställda får ta del av. Det är engagemanget för mångfaldsfrågor och på vilket sätt det talas om mångfald som gör det värdefullt. Förutsättningar för lärande kan vara att organisationen stödjer mångfaldsarbetet och medarbetarna har en öppen syn för olikheter.

In this paper we examine what security is to the individual and how the individual creates and maintains security in their work. The purpose of this paper is to study how the creating of security in working life is performed. We conduct six semi-structured qualitative interviews with permanent employees in the private sector and we encode our material using thematic analysis. We analyze our material and illustrate our problem area on the basis of Anthony Giddens's theory of ontological security and give examples of how security and creating of security is performed at the empirical field with previous studies in the research area. Our survey shows that security for the individual at work seems to be about having continuity in everyday life, financial stability, a permanent employment, a challenging and fun job and a family in good health and good living. Furthermore, the survey shows that the individual creates and maintains security in their work with both practical and mental coping strategies. These are: continuity, codetermination, stable finacial basis, social network, irreplaceability, improve skills and meaningful work. Finally, we conclude that the process of creating security is based on the individual's subjective understanding of job security and that continuity is fundamental for security.

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