Tidigare forskning om elevers läs- och skrivinlärning belyser lärares åsikter av ämnet samt de faktorer som är viktiga för en gynnsam läs- och skrivutveckling, dock saknas elevernas perspektiv och upplevelser gällande sin inlärning. Syftet med studien var att undersöka elevers upplevelser av sin läs- och skrivutveckling och deras tankar kring betydelsen av att lära sig läsa och skriva. Med syftet som utgångspunkt kommer följande frågor att besvaras: Hur beskriver elever betydelsen av att lära sig läsa och skriva? Hur beskriver elever sin egen läs- och skrivutveckling? Hur skiljer sig upplevelser och erfarenheter åt mellan olika elever, som enligt läraren har haft olika individuella förutsättningar i den tidiga läs- och skrivinlärningen? Studien bygger på sex semistrukturerade intervjuer med elever i en årskurs 2, samt en intervju med elevernas klasslärare. Den hermeneutiska teorin och tillvägagångssättet ligger till grund för studien. Resultatet visar att elevers upplevelser och tankar är av stor betydelse, för att lärare ska  ha möjlighet att förstå hur elever upplever sin läs- och skrivutveckling. Det framkommer vissa skillnader i elevernas upplevelser, som kan ha sin grund i deras varierande förutsättningar då läs- och skrivinlärningen påbörjades. Vissa elever menar att vikten av att lära sig läsa och skriva är för att det krävs i det vuxna livet och andra elever anser att det är betydande när de ska läsa eller skriva i skolan, för att ha möjlighet att klara av skolarbetet. Fyra av sex elever har upplevt viss problematik i sin läs- och skrivutveckling och menar att det varit svårt med att stava, skriva långa ord och att läsa mycket text. / Previous research on students' reading and writing learning highlights the teachers' opinions about the subject and the factors that are important for a favorable reading and writing, but is missing the students' perspectives and experiences regarding their learning. The aim of the study was to investigate the students' perceptions of their literacy development and their thoughts on the importance of learning to read and write. With this aim as a starting point the following questions will be answered: How do the students describe the importance of learning to read and write? How do the students describe their own reading and writing development? How do the perceptions and experiences differ between students who, according to the teacher, have had various individual conditions in the early reading and writing process? The study is based on six semi-structured interviews with students in second grade, and an interview with the students' teacher. The base for the study is the hermeneutic theory and approach. The results show that the students' experiences and thoughts are of great importance for teachers to be able to understand how students feel about their reading and writing skills. It reveals some differences in the students' experiences, which may be due to their varying conditions at the beginning of their reading and writing process. Some students believe that the importance of learning to read and write is because it is required in adult life while other students believe that it is significant to be able to cope with school work. Four of the six students have experienced some problems in their literacy development in spelling, writing long words and reading a lot of text.

Today’s sparse cities with for example workplaces located outside the city centre has led to increased travel levels for the inhabitants. The long distance between different attribute has resulted in a car dependency. To achieve the climate goals and a sustainable development it’s important to have a transition to more sustainable travel modes. This essay focus on socially and environmentally sustainable travels to workplaces outside the city centre. The aim of the study is the understand how the geographical location of the workplace affects the travel mode choice. The ambition is to examine the possibilities for environmentally sustainable travel at the same time as the travel also must be socially sustainable and feasible in the individual’s everyday life. This study is conducted in Umeå with a workplace located outside the city centre. The empirical material has been collected through interviews with employees in purpose the understand the individual conditions and travel patterns. The results are then discussed and analysed using, theories and previous research, time-geography, aspects of accessibility and travel mode choice to create an understanding of sustainable travel to workplaces with an external localisation. The results identified challenges linked to long distance, lack of accessibility to use other travel modes and individual constraints. The results shows that individuals have different constraints and opportunities to change their travel mode, but that it is also bound to how much an individual is willing, and able, to sacrifice.

Thesis Career Counseling, as a part of a general system of counseling at high schools, deals with diverse approaches towards professional preparation at high schools. Any help, with making a right decision of choosing a career or continuing in studies, is undoubtedly an important source for each person at high school and has been occupying this distinctive role in education. This thesis is trying to bring about the changing of the position of Career Counselor's within the school system, in a general system of counseling. The goal of this thesis is to cover the various subjects' conception of counselors at high schools and also trying to entitle their targets in connection with reality. At the end there will be given a description and clarification of three different high schools (each with different cultural and social-economic conditions) and their correspondences towards Career counseling in cooperation with the content analyses of the subjects' conceptions of Career counseling.