I förskolans läroplan (Lpfö18, 2018) framgår att miljön ska vara tillgänglig för alla barn och där fokus ska ligga på barnens samspel med både den fysiska och den sociala omvärlden. Dock beskrivs det inte hur detta ska genomföras av förskollärarna i praktiken där vi utifrån egna erfarenheter upplev stora skillnader i hur förskollärare utformar inomhusmiljön. Syftet med detta arbete är att bidra med kunskap om förskollärares arbete att göra den pedagogiska inomhusmiljön tillgänglig för barnen i förskolans verksamhet. Detta utifrån förskollärares tolkningar av vad policydokument säger om barns tillgänglighet till material och miljö. Genom kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex förskollärare har empiri samlats in och därefter tematiskt kodats, där resultatet visar på fyra kategorier; Förskollärares ansvar att anpassa verksamheten, reflektion och kritiskt tänkande till det egna arbetet, dilemmat mellan det självständiga barnet och säkerhetsriskerna samt kommunala riktlinjer och verksamhetens förutsättningar. Utifrån dessa kategorier har en analys utförts med hjälp av ståndpunkter från policy enactment-teorin, där det blir tydligt att förskollärare tolkar läroplanstexten och därmed anpassar det arbetet i praktiken genom en iscensättning utifrån lokala förutsättningar. Detta resulterar i en slutsats som visar på att förskollärare erkänner ett ansvar att anpassa förskoleverksamheten utifrån både policy och barn. Vidare poängterar förskollärarna att kritisk reflektion över det egna arbetet behövs för att kunna utveckla verksamhetens kvalitet. Slutsatsen visar också på att förskollärarnas visioner om barnens självständighet i inomhusmiljön behövs sättas åt sidan på grund av dels säkerhetsrisker, dels verksamhetens förutsättningar från kommunal nivå. Dessa utgör de val som ligger till grund för hur förskollärarna utformar den pedagogiska inomhusmiljön med utgångspunkt från barnens tillgänglighet.

The literature identifies perceptions of data quality as a key factor influencing a wide range of attitudes and behaviors related to data in organizational settings (e.g. decision confidence). In particular, there is an overwhelming consensus that effective customer relationship management, CRM, depends on the quality of customer data. Data warehouses, if properly implemented, enable data integration which is a key attribute of data quality. The literature highlights the relevance of formulating problem statements because this will determine the course of action. CRM managers formulate problem statements through a cognitive process known as enactment. The literature on data quality is very fragmented. It posits that this construct is of a high order nature (it is dimensional), it is contextual and situational, and it is closely linked to a utilitarian value. This study addresses all these disperse views of the nature of data quality from a holistic perspective. Social cognitive theory, SCT, is the backbone for studying data quality in terms of information search behavior and enhancements in formulating problem statements. The main objective of this study is to explore the nature of a data warehouse's customer relationship data quality in situations where there is a need for understanding a customer relationship problem. The research question is What are the inner and inter construct associations of the quality of data warehouse customer relationship data for problem enactment? To reach this objective, a positivistic approach was adopted complemented with qualitative interventions along the research process. Observations were gathered with a survey. Scales were adjusted using a construct-based approach. Research findings confirm that data quality is a high order construct with a contextual dimension and a situational dimension. Problem sense making enhancements is a dependent variable of data quality in a confirmed positive association between both constructs. Problem sense making enhancements is also a high order construct with a mastering experience dimension and a self-efficacy dimension. Behavioral patterns for information search mode (scanning mode orientation vs. focus mode orientation) and for information search heuristic (template heuristic orientation vs. trial-and-error heuristic orientation) have been identified. Focus is the predominant information search mode orientation and template is the predominant information search heuristic orientation. Overall, the research findings support the associations advocated by SCT. The self-efficacy dimension in problem sense making enhancements is a discriminant for information search mode orientation (focus mode orientation vs. scanning mode orientation). The contextual dimension in data quality (i.e. data task utility) is a discriminant for information search heuristic (template heuristic orientation vs. trial-and-error heuristic orientation). A data quality cognitive metamodel and a data quality for problem enactment model are suggested for research in the areas of data quality, information search behavior, and cognitive enhancements.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gina Tamburrino.pdf: 815895 bytes, checksum: 86f20820850cb0fbeab1d4f5ee52fe5a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-25 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This thesis results from an effort to penetrate questions regarding impasse that is formed and transformed in the relationship between the analyst and the analysand. The clinical work is understood and organized taking into consideration an intersubjective vertex, thus the concept of analyzing field is forged to demonstrate the analyst s implication in the formation and transformation of the shared unconscious fantasy. The highlight of the research is the presentation of the hypothesis that, in certain moments, the analyst s mind presents a dysfunctional quality in order to receive, to sustain and to prepare the field for the production of the analyzing pair. In these moments, the shared unconscious fantasy transforms itself into shared resistance: bulwarks , chronic enactments and acute enactments; the important thing to be investigated is how this kind of configuration is formed and how it transforms itself, always considering the dialectic impasse ↔ possible transformations. Besides it interests us the fact that the dysfunction in the analyzing field isn t always generated by the difficulties of a disturbed patient, it can also be caused by a disturbed analyst that, in such cases, becomes the main responsible for the functional inversion of the field to the detriment of the analysand. The main focus of this study is, above all, how the analyst wanders in the analyzing field beyond the non-analyzed questions / Esta tese resulta de um esforço no sentido de penetrar questões em torno dos impasses que se formam e transformam no encontro entre analista e analisando. O trabalho clínico é considerado e organizado dentro de um vértice intersubjetivo, de modo que o conceito de campo analisante é forjado para abordar a implicação do analista na formação e transformação da fantasia inconsciente compartilhada. Um ponto de grande importância, auge desta pesquisa, é a apresentação da hipótese de que em certos momentos a mente do analista apresenta uma qualidade disfuncional para receber, conter e elaborar a lavoura do campo, e, portanto, as produções da dupla analisante. Nesses momentos a fantasia inconsciente compartilhada se transforma em resistências compartilhadas: baluartes, enactments crônicos e enactments agudos. Importa investigar como essas formações se dão e como se transformam, sempre atentando para a dialética impasses↔transformações possíveis. Para além disso, há um interesse sobre o fato de que o disfuncionamento do campo analisante nem sempre está revestido das dificuldades impostas por um paciente perturbado, mas que o analista é que se encontra perturbado e determina, em grande medida, a inversão do funcionamento do campo em desfavor do analisando. É, sobretudo, sobre esse aspecto que este desenvolvimento se debruça, isto é, como se move o analista no campo analisante para além das questões não analisadas

<p>This study was undertaken among teachers in different schools of Sweden and among several teachers with experience in teaching drama during February and March 2006. The aim was to explore what the beneficial aspects of working with drama outdoors are and simultaneously to examine any problems that may appear and what kind of activities the teachers believe are more conducive to outdoor settings.</p><p>Qualitative research methods were used for this study. An open questionnaire was sent to eight drama teachers for their opinion on doing drama activities in outdoor environments. Also, activities recommended for using in outdoor settings were prepared and send to several teachers, some of whom had previous experience working outdoors. They were asked later in an open questionnaire to evaluate the relative success of the activities they managed to do and the positive aspects and problems they encountered in doing the activities in outdoor settings. Additionally, some unstructured observations of two different groups took place in two elementary schools. </p><p>The research reveals that in general terms, the teachers encountered many beneficial outcomes of using drama activities in outdoor environments and they encountered some problems as well. </p><p>This study demonstrates the relative success and benefits of drama activities in outdoor environments and addresses some common problems that may appear. It contains a variety of drama activities that can be useful to teachers who are interested in working with drama in the outdoors. The discussion includes some recommendations for teachers.</p>

This study was undertaken among teachers in different schools of Sweden and among several teachers with experience in teaching drama during February and March 2006. The aim was to explore what the beneficial aspects of working with drama outdoors are and simultaneously to examine any problems that may appear and what kind of activities the teachers believe are more conducive to outdoor settings. Qualitative research methods were used for this study. An open questionnaire was sent to eight drama teachers for their opinion on doing drama activities in outdoor environments. Also, activities recommended for using in outdoor settings were prepared and send to several teachers, some of whom had previous experience working outdoors. They were asked later in an open questionnaire to evaluate the relative success of the activities they managed to do and the positive aspects and problems they encountered in doing the activities in outdoor settings. Additionally, some unstructured observations of two different groups took place in two elementary schools. The research reveals that in general terms, the teachers encountered many beneficial outcomes of using drama activities in outdoor environments and they encountered some problems as well. This study demonstrates the relative success and benefits of drama activities in outdoor environments and addresses some common problems that may appear. It contains a variety of drama activities that can be useful to teachers who are interested in working with drama in the outdoors. The discussion includes some recommendations for teachers.

The following project will consist in the study and examination of the concepts and theories that lie in the domain of political theory. The enquiry into the dimensions and complexities of the socio-political organization and the political substance of individual human agents will be conducted with the intellectual assistance of the postmodernist turn of thought. I will interrogate and develop a specifically Foucauldian reading of international politics and the emerging global world order as well as situate Foucault's insights and theorizing in a cosmopolitan framework, which calls for a progressive re-conceptualization of the dimensions of power and the modalities of state-citizen autonomy, and sovereignty. The thesis will proceed through five stages of analysis: (i) examination of freedom and self-creation as foundational and fundamental to the cosmopolitan citizenship; (ii) investigation of governmentality, power and the role of personal and political resistance in shaping new horizons of political order (iii) development of a structural approach to cosmopolitan democracy; enhanced by (iv) decoupling of identity from citizenship, and prompted by (v) an inquiry into and recalibration of the political space and sovereignty of states and political agents. I will contend for a conception of citizenship, illuminated by a postmodernist lens of analysis, set in a cosmopolitan framework and premised upon a notion of a layered and constituted dialectic, as the most adroit model for a re-articulation of the spirit of democratic qua cosmopolitan citizenship in the world of increasingly displaced loyalties, porous identities, and atrophied civic commitments. The study aims to inquire into the possibilities of meaningfully addressing the fundamental question in political theory, that of: how is the state to be organized in an era of globalization accompanied by an unprecedented compression of space and time, and re-spatialization of socio-economic and political relations. The thesis will conclude with a synthesis of proposed theoretical assumptions that are to serve as the structural basis and philosophical guidance for the institutionalization of measures conducive to the enactment and perpetuation of cosmopolitan consciousness and cosmopolitical practice.

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There are two ways of understanding assemblages of humans and non-humans inspired by actor-network theory (ANT): consolidation and fluidification. ANT argues that both subjects and objects take shape as a result of assemblages of numerous heterogeneous ingredients. There is, however, some disagreement over how these subjects and objects travel far and endure while staying the same. On the one hand, ‘consolidation’ suggests that heterogeneous materials should be consolidated into networks so that the integrity of assemblages remains while subjects and objects relocate. On the other hand, ‘fluidification’ suggests that fluid-like adaptation may be more feasible, although the integrity of subjects or objects may be at stake. The thesis investigates this tension between the two modes of assemblage via a historical and ethnographic study of milkfish farming in Taiwan and an examination of unsuccessful efforts to export them to mainland China. This study first explores the mutual formation of milkfish and milkfish farming and argues that not only are the physical characteristics of milkfish shaped alongside the socio-technical transformation of the milkfish assemblage, but the fish also act as an agent involved in the shaping of milkfish assemblage. Secondly, this study draws attention to how an industrial version of milkfish as a bulk commodity takes shape as well as how it is enacted so that it becomes the dominant reality for milkfish. It is argued that, paradoxically, this version of reality is maintained through fluidification, in which human actors compromise with enacted multiplicities of milkfish. Thirdly, this study turns to the milkfish export scheme. Set up under the auspices of the Chinese government in 2011, milkfish were exported to Shanghai. But milkfish failed to find a market in Shanghai, and so the export scheme was terminated in 2016. This study first reveals that the material characteristics of ‘ready-made’ milkfish are not easy to integrate into local ways of cooking and eating. Moreover, the fish are excluded from adaptation, while the scheme was adapted in practice to suit the requirements of various other actors brought together by the scheme. This thesis suggests that the lower the demand for milkfish in China, the higher is the need for such an export scheme in Taiwan, but that such a scheme will most likely take the form of continued ‘consolidation’, keeping the export of unsalable fish going while bringing minimal changes to the status quo of milkfish assemblage. Overall, this study of milkfish argues for the co-existence, in tension, of consolidation and fluidification. That is, neither mode of assemblage is in opposition to nor replaceable by the other. The implications for material politics of this study include not only a need to make visible the work of ‘purification’ that keeps both subjects and objects apparently separate from one another, and from others within each realm, but also a need to highlight efforts to erase other possible modes of assemblage, in which the formation of objects and of object-oriented collectives are embedded differently.

Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur fritidshemslärare tolkar sitt uppdrag gällande kränkande behandling, diskriminering och trakasserier utifrån policydokument som handlar om dessa ämnen och lokala bestämmelser. Studiens frågeställning är: Hur tolkar fritidshemslärare uppdraget om kränkande behandling? Studien genomfördes med fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer med sammanlagt sex respondenter, indelade i två par-intervjuer och två enskilda intervjuer. Studiens respondenter är alla fritidshemslärare från tre olika skolor. Fyra av respondenterna arbetar på fritidshem med elever i förskoleklass och lågstadiet, medan de resterande två respondenterna arbetar på en av skolornas fritidsklubb med elever på mellanstadiet.  Empirin tolkas med teorin policy enactment för att med dess hjälp tyda hur fritidshemslärare tolkar sitt uppdrag gällande kränkande behandling, diskriminering och trakasserier.  Resultatet visar hur fritidshemslärare tolkar uppdraget gällande kränkande behandling, diskriminering och trakasserier olika beroende på deras verksamheters lokala institutionella faktorer, kulturella och sociala faktorer som påverkar policysaktörernas tolkningar av policydokument. Resultatet visar även hur lokala bestämmelser på skolorna kan påverka fritidshemslärarnas tolkningar av policy som i nästa led påverkar hur de kontextualiserar policyn i respondenternas skolverksamhet som också kan komma att påverka deras tolkning av sitt uppdrag gällande kränkande behandling, diskriminering och trakasserier.

Den 1 juli 2019 fick digitalisering en ny innebörd med förtydligade mål i den reviderade utgåvan av Läroplan för förskolan. I och med denna implementering är syftet med studien att undersöka hur verksam personal gördigitaliseringspolicy i verksamheten och vilka svårigheter de kan finna med arbetet inom ämnet. Policy enactment-teorin har varit utgångspunkten i studien, som på svenska översatts till “att göra policy”.  Studien utgår från en kvantitativ undersökning i form av enkäter som har skickats ut till verksam personal på förskolor runt om i Sverige där 239 personer deltagit. Enkätsvaren har kategoriserats och analyserats efter tre olika idealtyper som benämns som troende, ambivalenta, och icke troende. Majoriteten av respondenterna ställer sig positiva till digitalisering i förskolan, men trots detta kan de flesta sätta ord på någon eller några nackdelar med ämnet. Resultaten visar på en mångfald i görandet av digitaliseringspolicy i förskolan, bland annat på grund av personalens eget intresse och personliga värderingar kring ämnet. Resultatet visar även på att kompetensbrist hos personal kan stå som hinder för görandet av digitaliseringspolicy i förskolan, vilket kan skapa en stor variation i hur digitala medel används i förskolor runt om i Sverige. Detta kan leda till ett glapp i undervisningen, och gör att barn kan bli påverkade av personalens egna personliga värderingar och åsikter, vilket är någonting som Läroplan för förskolan inte förespråkar.