The purpose of this study is to examine how unaccompanied refugee children living in a care-institution are being prepared for a independent life in Sweden. The study wish to pay attention to how the treatment assistants perceice their work with these children. To create a deeper understanding from the staff's perspective, the study is also focusing on their personal experiences of working with the children. To analyze the results, we have using the theoretical perspectives empowerment and systems theory, so called "systemteorin". The results showed that the treatment assistants are in first place working to build a secure and reliable relationship with the unaccompanied refugee children. The results also show that the staff at the care-institution serves as "extra parents" for the children seeing that they come to Sweden without their biological parents. This also means that the staff are teaching the children everyday skills such as cooking and how to manage an economy, and how the swedish society is formed.

Anotace: Tato diplomová práce se věnuje vzdělávání a přípravou dětí z ústavní výchovy na samostatný život. V teoretické části najdeme především okolnosti a příčiny pobytu dětí v ústavních zařízeních, funkce jednotlivých zařízení a také, jak se této přípravě jednotlivé organizace pro děti s nařízenou ústavní výchovou věnují. Nedílnou součástí je analýza jednotlivých nevládních organizací na území hlavního města Prahy, které děti v tomto směru vzdělávají a pomáhají jim s přechodem do samostatného života. Praktická část se zaměřuje na jeden ze střednědobých vzdělávacích projektů, který umožňuje svým klientům vyzkoušet si úkoly patřící k samostatnému životu v bezpečném prostředí, ještě než ústavní zařízení opustí. Praktickou část tvoří především kvalitativní výzkum provedený metodou rozhovoru, které vycházejí z cílů projektu. Výzkum zjišťuje znalosti a dovednosti klientů, které si během kurzu osvojili. Annotation: This diploma thesis is dedicated to education and training of children in institutional care to independent life. In the theoretical part we can find especially the circumstances and causes why children have to stay in institutions, the functions of individual institutions, as well as the preparation of individual organizations for children in the institutional education pay. An integral part is an...

This thesis focuses on the realist life mode analysis, especially the independent life mode, and the empirical field of entrepreneurship – running a small firm. The aim is to broaden the general understanding for entrepreneurship to include non-capitalistic rationality through application and development of realist life mode analysis. The application of the analysis is done by studying different social phenomena within the field of entrepreneurship. The two phenomena in question are expansion of small firms and trust between an entrepreneur and an employee, and flexibility in small firms. The problem concerning this theoretical application has to do with showing how life mode analysis can be used to explain that entrepreneurship does not have to be about capitalism. The problem concerning theoretical development has to do with identifying social relations and mechanisms that constitute the everyday life of entrepreneurs. The study has been carried out as a qualitative interview study and it is based on the methodology of critical realism. Concerning expansion and trust between an entrepreneur and an employee, my study shows that as an expression of an entrepreneur’s socio centric life mode specific way to interpret reality trust can be an obstacle for employing extra labour-force outside the own firm. Trust can also be an obstacle for an existing relationship to function smoothly if the entrepreneur and the employee live different life modes. However, my study shows that trust can also function as a possible incitement for employment. My conclusion concerning flexibility is that the concept of flexibility, defined with a starting point in the capitalist principles of the economic market, is occasionally misused in literature. My structural perspective shows that not all small firms are driven by these motives powers. Capitalistic small firms do exist and are to be described as flexible, but not all small firms. The size of the firm conditions entrepreneurship in many ways but it does not condition the rationality. My study also shows that the independent life mode as described in the theory so far characterizes simple commodity production and not production of services. Structural changes seem to have resulted in two different life modes for independent entrepreneurs; a commodity specific independent life mode and a service specific independent life mode.