Mötesplats för alla är konceptet för Mötesplats Ljungdala, som är en mötesplats öppen för alla oavsett bakgrund. Syftet med studien är att öka förståelsen för fenomenet mötesplats, dels ur arrangörsperspektiv och dels ur brukarperspektiv. Studien fokuserar på hur mötesplatsen diskuteras som en del av fritiden och på vilket sätt personal och besökares uppfattningar kring mötesplatsen kan förstås och diskuteras utifrån meningsskapande. Kvalitativa intervjuer med personal och besökare utgör det empiriska materialet i studien. Mötesplatsen diskuteras främst genom spontana möjligheter och organiserade aktiviteter där de organiserade aktiviteterna i den här studien visar tendens på att vara det som motiverar besökare till att ta del av det som mötesplatsen erbjuder. Dialog och motivation lyfts fram i studien som viktiga i meningsskapande för en mötesplats. / The meeting place for all is the concept for Mötesplats Ljungdala, which is a meeting place that is open to all regardless of background. The aim of this study is to gain better understanding of the phenomenon of meeting place, both from the organizing perspective and from the user perspective. The study focuses on how the meeting place is being discussed as part of leisure time and the manner in which staff and visitors' perceptions about the meeting place can be understood and discussed on the basis of meaning. Qualitative interview with staff and visitors is the empirical evidence in this study. The meeting place is discussed mainly by spontaneous opportunities and organized activities in which the organized activities in this study shows tend to be it that motivates visitors to take part of what the meeting place offers. Dialogue and motivation highlighted in the study as important in sensemaking of a meeting place.

Mötesplats för alla är konceptet för Mötesplats Ljungdala, som är en mötesplats öppen för alla oavsett bakgrund. Syftet med studien är att öka förståelsen för fenomenet mötesplats, dels ur arrangörsperspektiv och dels ur brukarperspektiv. Studien fokuserar på hur mötesplatsen diskuteras som en del av fritiden och på vilket sätt personal och besökares uppfattningar kring mötesplatsen kan förstås och diskuteras utifrån meningsskapande. Kvalitativa intervjuer med personal och besökare utgör det empiriska materialet i studien. Mötesplatsen diskuteras främst genom spontana möjligheter och organiserade aktiviteter där de organiserade aktiviteterna i den här studien visar tendens på att vara det som motiverar besökare till att ta del av det som mötesplatsen erbjuder. Dialog och motivation lyfts fram i studien som viktiga i meningsskapande för en mötesplats. / The meeting place for all is the concept for Mötesplats Ljungdala, which is a meeting place that is open to all regardless of background. The aim of this study is to gain better understanding of the phenomenon of meeting place, both from the organizing perspective and from the user perspective. The study focuses on how the meeting place is being discussed as part of leisure time and the manner in which staff and visitors' perceptions about the meeting place can be understood and discussed on the basis of meaning. Qualitative interview with staff and visitors is the empirical evidence in this study. The meeting place is discussed mainly by spontaneous opportunities and organized activities in which the organized activities in this study shows tend to be it that motivates visitors to take part of what the meeting place offers. Dialogue and motivation highlighted in the study as important in sensemaking of a meeting place.

This essay is my term paper submitted in partial fulfillment of my Swedish teaching degree (90hp) inthe ULV project. It is an attempt to understand the concept of inclusion and the degree to which it isbeing practiced in Swedish municipality schools. World Declaration on Education for All wasfollowed by the political acceptance of “one school for all” in educational system and debates inSweden. This was a clear expression of the democratic ambition to create an inclusive school whereevery student had a right to equal and comparable education. Yet the history of special education hasshown that the goal to implement inclusive education has been difficult to achieve. The ideology ofinclusive education is in conflict with the ground realities and the interests and values of theindividuals involved in schooling children which has led to a compromise where “one school for all”has resulted in the persistence of the traditional paradigm where segregated schooling and integrationhas been seen as the appropriate solution.Although there is space for different kinds of solutions to support children of special needs within theconcept of “one school for all”, a positive posture on the part of the personnel would help grounddemocratic inclusive schools where students are not sorted out in terms of their abilities/disabilities,rather one which is designed with pupil diversity in mind, and where the school setting is adapted tochildren´ s needs. Such an inclusive education would be one, which celebrates diversity and isgrounded on the value that differences between students are a resource rather than a problem.

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Multicultural literature can sometimes act as a window, a mirror or a sliding glass door that introduces people to different worlds that are real or unreal, familiar, or strange. Through these windows, the reader gets an insight into the lives of others, inviting readers to reflect on their views and environment. The purpose of this study is to understand how teachers include and work with multicultural literature for grades 4-6 in the Swedish subject, and how they describe and use multicultural literature in their teaching to endorse tolerance and critical consciousness. The study is based on a mixed-method approach, using a quantitative survey and a qualitative interview for indepth knowledge. The theoretical framework in this study is based on the intercultural perspective that includes central concepts such as interculturality, the intercultural pedagogical perspective, intercultural learning and intercultural competence. In summary, the result shows that there is a deficit of knowledge in how teachers can use multicultural literature in their teaching but also how they can work with intercultural learning. Based on the results from both the survey and the interviews, there is a good understanding among the respondents regarding the beneficial effect of including multicultural literature and the multicultural perspective in teaching, especially when choosing children's literature. However, there is a certain insecurity and inexperience of how to work with multicultural literature or intercultural learning, which reflects the scarcity of multicultural literature to students. Mainly because of poor access of what is classified as good quality multicultural books, but also because it is time-consuming to find the right books and activities, and a lack of a deeper intercultural pedagogical competence in the respondents.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur pedagoger i fritidshem resonerar kring elevinflytande. Mer specifikt analyseras hur sju pedagoger upplever att elevinflytande integreras i undervisningen. Tillgång till skola har funnits i Sverige sedan 1000-talet då kyrkan stod som källan till kunskap. Dagens fritidshem har sitt ursprung från 1800-talets arbetsstugor där barn skulle lära sig ett hantverk och komma ifrån tiggeri. Fritidshemmet ska vila på en demokratisk grund och eleverna ska få både omsorg och lärande. Alla elever ska mötas med respekt, nyfikenhet och öppenhet för att lära och utvecklas tillsammans. Fritidshemmet styrs av Barnkonventionen, Skollagen och Läroplan för grundskolan, förskoleklassen och fritidshemmet, där undervisningen ska utgå från elevernas intresse, behov och erfarenhet. Svenska forskare skriver om elevinflytande, hur eleverna görs delaktiga på fritidshemmet. Empirin till denna kvalitativa studie har tillkommit genom sju intervjuer med pedagoger i fritidshem. Teorin som används till analysen av empirin är barndomssociologi med begreppen barnperspektiv, barns perspektiv och makt. Resultatet visar att respondenterna tycker att det är viktigt att eleverna får göra sin röst hörd och att deras tid på fritidshemmet är värdefull. Trots det kan respondenterna se att vissa elever upplever att deras röst inte blir hörd, då deras val inte var det som majoriteten valde. Pedagogerna använder ett barnperspektiv i verksamheten då de utgår från vad de tror att eleverna vill lära om. / The purpose of this study is to investigate how educators in leisure time centers reason about student influence. More specifically, how seven educators feel that student influence is integrated into teaching si analysede. Access to school har existed in Sweden since the 11th century when the church stood as the source of knowledge. Today’s leisure time centers have their origins in 19th-century workhouses where children would learn a craft and get away from begging. The leisure center must rest on a democratic foundation and the students must receive both care and learning. The leisure time center is governed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the School Act and the Curriculum for primary school, pre-school and leisure time center, where teaching must be based on the students' interests, needs and experience. Swedish researchers write about student influence, how students are made to participate in the leisure time center. The experience for this qualitative study has been gained through seven interviews with educators in leisure time centers. The theory used for the analysis of the empirical evidence is childhood sociology with the concepts of child perspective, children's perspective and power. The results show that the respondents think it is important that the students are allowed to make their voices heard and that their time at the leisure time center is valuable. Even so, the respondents can see that some students feel that their voice is not being heard, as their choice was not the one chosen by the majority. The educators use a children's perspective in the activities as they start from what they think the students want to learn about.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to advance the knowledge on value co-creation in new product development (NPD) in the context of slow fashion, with specific emphasis on investigating the interest of slow fashion consumers to engage in the NPD process and brands' perspective regarding this. Via exploring the value co-creation phenomena in the slow fashion industry context, this study also intends to apply and discuss the suitability of currently available value co-creation theories for the slow fashion context. Methodology: This research employed an explanatory design with an deductive approach. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were applied using a self-administered online questionnaire for slow fashion consumers and semi structured interviews with two slow fashion companies. The questionnaire and interview questions were designed according to the subjects that emerged from a theoretical background constructed for the study. Findings: The consumers of slow fashion indicated a large interest for participation in value co-creation (VCC) activities in new product development (NPD), however on a low level of customer empowerment, mainly just giving suggestions and voting on design ideas by the brand. This wasn’t much affected by the customer typology or perceived relationship to the brand, however, the internalised extrinsic motivation lifted the contribution interest slightly. The two interviewed companies indicated to be interested to empower the customers to the same extent as the customers were mainly willing to. The companies saw the possibility to cater better for the customer needs as the main benefit, however, simultaneously they were concerned of the customers’ awareness regarding the garment quality factors or the lead times of the industry. Practical implications: The paper presents the current interest of the slow fashion consumers to participate in in VCC in NPD revealing their customer typology and perceived relationship to a brand as well as their motivations and barriers, which can be utilised by slow fashion brands when considering implementation of VCC in NPD. Originality/Value: The study represents an unexplored area of VCC in NPD research expanding knowledge by investigating the interest of slow fashion consumers to engage in the NPD process and the brands' perspective regarding this.

Civic teachers in Swedish upper secondary schools are facing a more challenging job than ever due to the current polarized political climate. They are expected to teach about controversial issues whilst keeping the classroom at peace and at the same time allowing each student the opportunity to express their opinion. This research overview strives to explore how teachers teach and deal with controversial topics in civic studies. How can teachers work with controversial issues in the classroom? And what does previous research say about this work? In order to answer these questions a literature search has been done and previous research and empirical material has been analyzed. The findings show different approaches, such as denying the controversy or presenting different perspectives of the controversy, when teaching controversial topics in the classrooms. The results of this research review also presents different perspectives from both teachers and students on the subject, teachers’ dilemma as well as pedagogical tools that can be beneficial for students’ development. The findings also show that there is no clear answer or manual that teachers can follow or be guided by when teaching about and dealing with controversial issues. However, depending on one's goal of the lesson, one can strategically use a certain approach in order to try and reach a certain outcome.

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