Principals as agents in secondary schools shape the meaning of what goes on in the school. To some extent, what happens in the school is a reflection of their beliefs, values and the dominant societal norms. School-community partnerships are a result of competing values, beliefs and visions of what can contribute to the success of the school from the perspective of the principal, the policy of the district school board and the teachers’ interests. School-community partnerships are therefore generally a compromise between the values of the principal and the teachers in the school through nurturing relationships and interpersonal leadership style. This study focused on the role of principals in establishing and maintaining school-community partnerships in an urban district school board in southern Ontario. The study employed qualitative research methods, drawing on two case studies in secondary schools. Data for the study was collected over a period of eight months through in-depth interviews of two principals and sixteen teachers. I used a micropolitical conceptual framework to analyze the principal’s role in school-community partnerships. The conceptual framework contributes to revealing the role of agency in organizations. The study revealed that principals initiate, support, coordinate, approve, allocate resources and evaluate school community partnerships. Through these roles, principals influence how partnerships unfold in the school. Principals’ roles in school-community partnerships are a reflection of the leadership style they enact in schools. The role is indicative of her/his values, beliefs and preference. This insight is important as a variable to how policies are implemented at different levels on the chain of implementation. It confirms other research that have strongly suggested that policies can be implemented best if the principals’ and teachers’values and beliefs are consistent. The implementation of policies are negotiated on daily basis between the principal and the teachers and principals have upper hand in determining their outcome. The result from this study illustrates how the roles of individuals in an organization mirror their values and beliefs and in turn affect how policies are implemented. The presence of school-community partnerships in secondary schools, although mandated by the district school board policy are the result of the role played by principals rather than merely policy provision. The role of the principal that was not clear was evaluating partnerships. There is need for further study to examine the criteria of evaluating partnerships in schools in order to ascertain the total contribution of the same to the success of schools.

Principals as agents in secondary schools shape the meaning of what goes on in the school. To some extent, what happens in the school is a reflection of their beliefs, values and the dominant societal norms. School-community partnerships are a result of competing values, beliefs and visions of what can contribute to the success of the school from the perspective of the principal, the policy of the district school board and the teachers’ interests. School-community partnerships are therefore generally a compromise between the values of the principal and the teachers in the school through nurturing relationships and interpersonal leadership style. This study focused on the role of principals in establishing and maintaining school-community partnerships in an urban district school board in southern Ontario. The study employed qualitative research methods, drawing on two case studies in secondary schools. Data for the study was collected over a period of eight months through in-depth interviews of two principals and sixteen teachers. I used a micropolitical conceptual framework to analyze the principal’s role in school-community partnerships. The conceptual framework contributes to revealing the role of agency in organizations. The study revealed that principals initiate, support, coordinate, approve, allocate resources and evaluate school community partnerships. Through these roles, principals influence how partnerships unfold in the school. Principals’ roles in school-community partnerships are a reflection of the leadership style they enact in schools. The role is indicative of her/his values, beliefs and preference. This insight is important as a variable to how policies are implemented at different levels on the chain of implementation. It confirms other research that have strongly suggested that policies can be implemented best if the principals’ and teachers’values and beliefs are consistent. The implementation of policies are negotiated on daily basis between the principal and the teachers and principals have upper hand in determining their outcome. The result from this study illustrates how the roles of individuals in an organization mirror their values and beliefs and in turn affect how policies are implemented. The presence of school-community partnerships in secondary schools, although mandated by the district school board policy are the result of the role played by principals rather than merely policy provision. The role of the principal that was not clear was evaluating partnerships. There is need for further study to examine the criteria of evaluating partnerships in schools in order to ascertain the total contribution of the same to the success of schools.

One of sociology´s to assess the effects of political decision. According to sociologist Anders Persson the society is changing, and in that change social fear appear. In the reaction of social fear some people are being excluded. In that more narrow frame for normality laws are created that makes some parents and their children “the other”. Nine years ago the sociologist Eva Kärfve published a book that was very critical to the newborn psychiatrics diagnosing of children as a way of segregating groups in society. I am sad to say but she was right. According to the theory of Howard Becker I use a social interaction perspective to understand and interpret people´s actions. This perspective means that people through their actions creates phenomena in society. Becker´s book Tricks of the trade gives tools to investigate situations in society. The purpose of this study is to through a case study increase the understanding of a parent´s experiences in a case where municipality moved a pupil against the parents will. The method is case study, where the bulk is an interview with a pupil´s parents. The study shows the steps of human interaction that lead to the moving of a pupil against the parents will. The result indicates that the decision of what a violation of the norm is decides if the new law is to be executed. I present the school´s action from a view of the society and conclude with the questions: If we are using laws instead of giving schools economic resources, is that really what we want? If just one child is taken away from his school for the wrong reasons, is that not a case too much? The sociology is supposed to plead people without a voice cause. Reflect a structure of society and elucidate problems according to different theoretic perspectives. For me personally, the area of problem preceded the method. This study had not been what it is without the case. It takes a great deal of courage to invite a stranger to one´s home and talk about painful experiences. In the end I like to purpose that life is for everybody. / 0709902656

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka begreppet rektorns pedagogiska ledarskap och hur begreppet uppfattas av rektorer och lärare. Studiens forskningsfrågor handlar om att kartlägga och jämföra uppfattningarna om begreppet Rektorns pedagogiska ledarskap. Forskning visar att rektorns pedagogiska ledarskap har en betydelse för skolans resultat. Metoden i undersökningen har varit enkät. Det var 53 respondenter som har svarat på enkäten. Enkäten skickades till 3 olika skolor. Informanterna valdes ut från samma skolor, för att de skulle utgå från samma verksamhet. Två versioner av enkäten formades men med samma frågor. Den ena versionen var riktad mot rektorer och den andra mot lärare. det var formuleringarna som skilde dem åt. Frågorna var gjorde som påståenden som respondenten skulle svara på. Resultatet visar att det kollegiala samtalet och lärande har en viktig funktion, visar både tidigare forskning och resultatet i studien. Dessutom är det viktigt att rektor skapar förutsättningar för ett tydligt kommunikationsstrukturer. / The purpose with this study is to analyze principal´s pedagogical leadership and how principals and teachers interpret it. The studies research questions were about surveying and comparing the understanding of the term rektorns pedagogiska ledarskap. Research shows analyze principal´s pedagogical leadership is important for school results. The surveys method has been a poll.  There were 53 respondents who have answered the survey. The survey was sent to three different schools. The informants were chosen from the same schools, because they were supposed to work on the same function. Two versions of the survey were made, but with the same questions. One version was directed to principals and the other was directed to teachers. The difference between the two polls was the formulations. The questions were constructed as statements, which the respondents were supposed to take a stand to. The result shows that the collegial conversation and learning have an important function, showing both previous research and the outcome of the study. Besides, it is important that the principal creates the conditions for a clear communication structure.

Bakgrund: Mellan åren 2010 till 2013 tog i genomsnitt tjugoåtta ungdomar varje år sitt liv i Sverige, två tredjedelar av dessa var pojkar. I Sverige är psykisk ohälsa ett av de största folkhälsoproblemen bland barn och ungdomar.  Skolsköterskan är en viktig person för eleverna i deras skolmiljö och kan upptäcka barn och ungdomar med psykisk ohälsa. Syfte: Att beskriva hur skolsköterskan upptäcker och arbetar med psykisk ohälsa hos pojkar på gymnasiet. Metod: Studien genomfördes med semi-strukturerade intervjuer och den insamlade datan analyserades enligt innebördsanalys. Resultat: Fyra innebördsteman framträdde: Att arbeta förebyggande och hälsofrämjande på flera olika sätt, Att skapa en förtroendefull relation till eleven underlättar samverkansarbetet, Att uppmärksamma det sammanhang som eleven befinner sig i och Att ha kunskap om skillnader mellan pojkar och flickors sätt att uttrycka psykisk ohälsa. Slutsats: Skolsköterskorna upplever att de främst upptäcker pojkar som lider av psykisk ohälsa vid det planerade hälsosamtalet. Att det är viktigt att se pojken och ge samtalet tid.  Skolsköterskorna upplever också att det finns skillnader i hur pojkar och flickor uttrycker sin oro, ångest och psykiska ohälsa. / Background: Between 2010 and 2013, on average, twenty-eight young people a year committed suicide in Sweden, two -thirds of whom were boys. In Sweden, mental illness is one of the biggest public health problems among adolescents. The school nurse is an important person who can identify adolescents with mental illness. Aim: To describe how the school nurse discovers and works with mental illness among boys in high school. Method: The study was conducted with semi-structured interviews and the collected data was analyzed according to meaning analysis. Result: Four key themes emerged: Working preventive and health promotion in several different ways, Creating a trusting relationship with the pupil facilitates the collaboration work, To pay attention to the context in which the student is and to have knowledge about differences between boys and girls' way of expressing mental illness. Conclusion: School nurses find that they usually discover the boys who suffer from mental illness at the planned health conversation. That it is important to see the boy and give them time. The school nurses also find that there are differences in how boys and girls express their concerns, anxiety and mental illness.

In this action research, the interactions of seventh grade pre-algebra students in a mathematics classroom shared their explanation and justification processes through group work. Prior to the start of the study students were given a written pre-test to determine current conceptual thinking in mathematics. Over the next nine weeks, the teacher engaged the students in problem solving activities that included reasoning skills, communication and making connections through discussion with their peers. Following nine weeks of written and verbal discourse, students were provided a post-test to determine changes in their conceptual thinking. Overall students' grades, journal writings and test scores showed positive gains with the greatest changes occurring in written explanations of their conceptual thinking in mathematics.

La thèse prend comme objet les enjeux de formation des futurs designers. Au croisement de la sociologie de l’éducation, du travail et des professions, il s’agit de rendre compte des différentes socialisations qui ont conduit des personnes à devenir designer. Il s’agit de comprendre qui et comment des personnes décident de devenir designer aujourd’hui. Cette thèse repose sur une enquête réalisée dans deux institutions de formation qui ont la particularité de se situer au plus haut niveau du champ de l’enseignement supérieur en design : une grande école publique et une grande école privée. D’autre part, il s’agit d’examiner les différentes voies professionnelles qui se dessinent pour les étudiants. Premièrement, à travers l’analyse des caractéristiques sociales des élèves admis dans ces des deux établissements, il s’agit de comprendre les processus communs de socialisation primaire qui ont conduit ces jeunes à s’orienter vers la profession de designer. Ensuite, nous verrons comment ces deux écoles, via leur mode de sélection et leur socialisation secondaire spécifique, s’opposent assez nettement sur la manière de concevoir le métier de designer et la nature des services qu’il peut être amené à accomplir au sein de l’entreprise. La méthodologie mise en œuvre rassemble des observations de longue durée ; une soixantaine d'entretiens réalisés avec des étudiants, des enseignants et des professionnels ; le dépouillement exhaustifs des archives des dossiers scolaires des deux écoles ainsi que les résultats d'une enquête quantitative menée auprès des étudiants en formation en 2010. / The thesis takes for object the training issues of future designers. At the crossroad of education sociology, of work and professions sociology, it consists in accounting the different socializations which led individuals to become designers. It consists in understanding who and how people decide today to become designer. This thesis is based on a survey led in two training institutions which have the particularity to be on the highest level of design superior teaching: one large public school and one large private school. On the other hand, it consists in examining the different professional paths existing for students. First, thought the analysis of the social characteristics of student admitted in these two establishments, it consists in understanding the common processes of primary socialization which led these young people to turn towards the designers profession. Then, we will see how these two schools, thought their selection way and their specific secondary socialization, oppose themselves quite vividly on the way to conceive the designers profession and the nature of the services a designer can be led to accomplish in a company. The methodology gathers long duration observations; sixty interviews carried out with students, teachers and professionals; the exhaustive analysis of the archives of scholar files from the two schools and the results of a quantitative survey led among students in 2010.

It has become a norm that most learners from rural areas drop out of the school system early, and become beneficiaries of the welfare system at an early age to establish factors that could be contri buting to the low academic performance among grade 12 learners. The study examined the role of the principal, SMT and teachers in contributing factors of poor performance in grade 12 learners in rural high schools. A qualitative investigation at three publ ic high schools in the Maleboho done. Data were collected by means of document analysis and in-- West Circuit was depth interviews. The study revealed that learners and teachers are managed by ineffective management and support by SMT, challenges with teachi ng and learning, lack of parental involvement, the new progression policy of the department and ineffective leadership by Head of Departments. Recommendations were made on how SMT and teachers might solve these problems in the future. iv / Polelo ye o e lego melomong ya batho ke gore ge o bona ngwana yo monnyane a boputse lesea, tseba gore o tswa dinagamagae fao tlala e ikepetsego ka medu Barutwana ba fao ba bona pelego e le lehumo la ka pejana la go ikhweletsa tshelete ya mmuso ya mphiwafela. Se se theosa seriti sa thuto, kudu seemo sa dipoelo tsa marematlou. Go rothisa dinala ga dihlogo tsa dikolo, dihlogo tsa dithutwana dikolong, le barutwana go bonala e le bona bahlodi ba mpherefere wow a dipoelo tsa go nyamisa tsa marematlou. Dinyakisiso tseo di tseneletsego ka ngalaba ye, di dirilwe dikolong tse tharo tseo di phagamego, tseo di abago thuto ya batho ka moka sedikothutong sa Maleboho Bosubela (MalebohoWest). Barutwana, barutisi le ditokomane di somisitswe go hwetsa dikarabo tsa maleba dinyakisison g tseo. Go hweditswe tseo di latelago. Barutwana le barutisi ba hlahlwa ke bafahlosi bao ba se nago bokgoni bjo bo tibilego thutong. Batswadi bao ba se nago maikemisetso thutong ya bana ba bona. Melawana ya thuto yeo e nyefisitswego, ya go fetisetsa barut ya ka pejana. wana mephatong Go hloka maitemogelo ga hlogo ya thuto ka mosomo wa gagwe. Ditshisinyo tseo di ka thusago go hlomola naga mootlwa mo thutong ya ban aba rena yeo e tsenetswego, di laeditswe ka botlalo. / Swi hundzukile ’ ntolovelo leswaku vadyondzi vo tala va le matiko xikaya va tsika xikolo eka malembe ya le hansi ya dyondzo, va hola mudende wa mfumo va ha ri vatsongo; lexi xi nga xin wana xa swivangelo swa mbuyelo wa le hansi wa vadyondzi va giredi ya khume mberhi. Tsalw a leri ri langutisile xiavo xa nhloko ya xikolo, vufambisi bya xikolo na vadyondzisi eka mbuyelo wa le hansi wa giredi ya khume mbirhi eka swikolo swa he henhla swa le matiko xikaya. Vukambisisi byi endliwile eka swikolo swa mfumo swi nharhu swa le henhla eka xifundzantsongo xa dyondzo xa Maleboho Vupeladyambu. Vuxokoxoko bya tsalwa leri byi kumiwile hi ku lavisisa ematsalweni ni ku burisana na vanhu vo karhi. Ku na mintlotlo yo tala hi tlhelo ra dyondzo, ku nga: vufambisi bya swikolo, vatswari a va khum beki hi tlhelo ra dyondzo ya vana va vona ’ ni polisi ya mapasiselo ya vadyondzi. Tsalwa leri ri humesile swibumabumelo leswi nga tirhisiwaku hi vufambisi bya swikolo nga tirhisiwaku hi vufambisi bya swikolo kun we ni vadyondzisi ku ololoxa mintlontlo ya dyo ndzo. / Educational Management and Leadership / M. Ed. (Education Management)