As a teacher today, you have a task to give your students good knowledge and give them great possibilities to reach their goals. But as a teacher, you also have a task to raise your students to be good democratic citizens.  For this essay, my purpose has been to investigate how three teachers in Social science, about their attitudes regarding democracy and how this is practised in teaching.  During my study, I have been able to identify that their attitudes to democracy and its practical use, are similar in most ways. For example, they all together share the view, that democracy is an important thing to teach.  They are practicing democracy in the classroom, for example by letting students influence the way work areas are built and what kind of examinations they would like to have. This way of working in the classroom is based on discussion and by doing so, the students have an opportunity to share their views with their teacher. This is a deliberative perspective, making it possible for students to develop to the democratic citizen.  This way of teaching, implies that the teacher's attitudes to democracy is based on a form of democracy which is called deliberative democracy. But is deliberative democracy easy to achieve in a complex environment?

In this study Learning study has been carried out as a model for skills development focusing teaching and learning processes for music teachers within the Community School of Arts. The model rests on variation theory to improve teaching and learning. The design of a Learning study consists of three video filmed lessons interwoven with continious monitoring and planning through collagiate dialogues. Work with Learning study starts from the choice of a certain aspect of knowledge, the learning object, and the identification of several critical aspects based on the pupil's current level of understanding. In the teaching situation, the teacher provides variation patterns to support the pupil’s learning.. The design of the model in this study is modified with a view to a better fit with the subject of music, and the context of teaching in the School of Arts. Starting from the cultural-psychological perspective on learning and a phenomenographic inspired method, this study aims to describe the participating teachers’ learning through their Learning study. The teachers have experienced a development of knowledge in themselves as well as in their pupils. They have assimilated a language for reflecting on the process of teaching. Reflected experience has made the didactic interaction in the teaching process visible. The collegiate dialogue has contributed to the development of more variation in the tools used for teaching. Learning study is therefore found be a useful tool in the development of music teaching in the context of Community School of Arts when enough time, continuity and a qualified coach are provided.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur gymnasieelevers aktivitetsmönster påverkas i samband med studier hemifrån genom fjärr- och distans. En kvantitativ, deskriptiv studie utfördes för att samla in data genom en egenkonstruerad enkät. Det var totalt 10 frågor och enkäten skapades med inspiration från det arbetsterapeutiska instrumentet bedömning av anpassningar i skolmiljön (BAS). Studien tillämpade en blandning mellan ett bekvämlighetsurval och snöbolls urval. 37 gymnasieelever deltog i studien. Data analyserades i mjukvaruprogrammet Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS), resultat presenterades genom deskriptiv statistik. Resultatet visar att gymnasielever föredrar studier i skolan över studier genom fjärr- och distans. Det framkommer att deltagarna spenderar mer tid på studier utöver lektioner (läxor, inlärning, uppgifter etc.) när de studerar genom fjärr- och distans än vad de vanligtvis gör när de studerar i skolan. Slutsatsen för studien är att fjärr- och distansstudier har en påverkan på gymnasieelevers aktivitetsmönster. / The purpose of the study was to investigate how high school student’s patterns of activity is affected in connection with studies through distance from home. A quantitative, descriptive study was performed to collect data through a self-designed questionnaire. There was a total of 10 questions and the questionnaire was created with inspiration from the occupational therapy instrument assessment of adaptations in the school environment (BAS). The study applied a mixture between a convenience selection and a snowball selection. 37 high school students participated in the study. Data was analyzed in the software program Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS), results were presented through descriptive statistics. The results showed that high school students prefer studies in school over studies through distance. It appears that the participants spend more time on studies in addition to lessons (homework, learning, assignments, etc.) when they study by distance than they usually do when they study in school. The conclusion is that distance studies have an impact on high school student’s patterns of activity.

Syftet med vår kunskapsöversikt är att undersöka vad forskningen säger om hur lärare i årskurs F-3 använder sig av laborativ undervisning och utomhuspedagogik samt huruvida elevers lärande främjas genom arbetssätten. Frågan har undersökts genom systematiska databassökningar, vilket genererat en mängd olika artiklar. Dessa har noga granskats och genomgått tre urval. Forskningens resultat visar att lärares användning av laborativ undervisning och utomhuspedagogik inte är tillräcklig eller obefintlig, vilket grundar sig i oro och obekvämhet. Trots det visar forskningen att elevers lärande främjas när lärare vågar och väljer att använda sig av arbetssätten. Vår slutsats är således att lärare behöver tro på sin egen förmåga och skapa de bästa förutsättningarna för sina elever i enlighet med styrdokumentens krav. Avslutningsvis har slutsatsen dragits att det finns ett behov av mer forskning kring området.