Syftet med föreliggande studie är att utifrån ett genusperspektiv studera det sociala och musikaliska samspelet i ensembleundervisning på högstadiet och gymnasiet. Studien utgår från ett genusperspektiv där genus ses som en social konstruktion. Datamaterialet består av videoobservationer av tre musiklektioner där ensemblespel stod på schemat. Resultatet visar att eleverna aktivt återskapade könsstereotypa instrumentfördelningar och på så vis befäste den heteronormativa hierarkin. Resultatet visade dessutom ett mer dominant platstagande hos vissa killar i grupperna och ett generellt sett mer understödjande beteendemönster hos tjejerna i grupperna. Diskussionen antyder att ramarna för handlingsutrymme är snävare för tjejerna än för killarna (bland annat i och med kopplingen till de informella läroprocesserna i undervisningen) och erbjuder genuskontraktets regelsystem som möjlig förklaringsmodell för tjejers och killars olika platstagande. / The purpose of this study is to examine, from a gender point of view, the social and musical interaction in ensemble groups during ensemble lessons at secondary levels. The study is based on a gender perspective where gender is seen as a social construction. The data consists of video observations of three separate music lessons where ensemble playing was on the curriculum. The result showed the pupils actively recreating gender stereotypical instrument allocations and, in doing so, consolidating the heteronormative hierarchy. Furthermore, the result showed a more dominant behaviour amongst certain of the boys in the groups, and amongst the girls a predominantly more supporting behavioural pattern. The discussion suggests the space for action for girls being narrower than that for the boys, and presents the set of rules accompanying the gender contract as possible key for understanding girls' and boys' different place-taking.

This study examines processes connected to teacher’s transformation of the Montessori theory and it's described application to a daily practice.  The aim is to create knowledge about what constitutes possibilities and limitations for teachers in their daily work with Montessori education. This does not only refer to what constitutes opportunities and limitations in teachers'  everyday work with teaching, but also to what constitutes opportunities and limitations for teachers to learn at work. The theoretical framework is based on action theory and theories on adult learning and connects to a tradition called workplace-learning in which learning is considered to take place in, but also between, individuals. This approach indicates that the contextual conditions which the teachers were imbedded in are important to identify. The study was conducted in four different Montessori-environments and involved nine Montessori teachers. The methods used were participant observation, interviews, informal conversations and review of teacher produced material and documents. Possibilities and limitations in teachers work were related to if they had access to Montessori materials or not. In work with Montessori materials teachers identified the children's abilities to a greater extent than they did when other materials were in use. This identification directed their interventions. When the teachers did not have access to Montessori material their method often appeared to be the same as “individual work” with the provided material. Furthermore, interventions of the teacher were then significantly often procedural rather than content-related, although the teachers clearly expressed that they wanted to go into a dialogue with children about the treated subject area. The survey therefore contradicts with the opinion that Montessori-teachers withdraw in favor of Montessori materials that sometimes has been brought up by interpreters of the pedagogy. Rather, teachers stepped back when other materials were in use. The study also shows how a prerequisite for a collective development-oriented learning among the teachers was dependent on whether teachers made their own private understanding of the pedagogy available to each other. At times, however, teachers took the use of the materials for granted. Some of the teachers also deliberately refrained from making their personal understanding available to others due to the fact that they then could be seen as a less competent Montessori-teacher. This maintaining of a “false” collective understanding is seen as an expression of an institutionalization of teaching practice which was maintained by sanctions from the environment if the individual didn´t recognize the institutionalization in question. Since teacher’s “space for action” in this way was limited, the institution created conditions that prevented a possible development of the working methods in use. In those cases when conditions for a collective development-oriented learning were more favorable, it was clear that the teachers did not perceive Montessori education as a given method but rather saw it as a "model" for teaching in which the teachers had to interpret and define their own method from. The teachers thus came to take advantage of a potential “space for action” which was not noticed when the pedagogy was seen as a method.

Missbruksproblematik är ett globalt samhällsproblem som kräver insatser, särskilt från verksamheter som socialtjänsten. Missbruk i kombination med psykisk ohälsa är komplextoch utmanande för individen. Det innebär att socialsekreterare, vårdpersonal och behandlare behöver samverka för att uppnå effektiv behandling. Studien syftar till att förstå socialsekreterares och behandlares upplevelser av samverkan, gällande klienter som lider av dubbbelproblematik i form av psykisk ohälsa och missbruk. Detta är en kvalitativ studie som använder sig av sociala representationer, handlingsutrymme och makt som teoretiska utgångspunkter. Genom sju semistrukturerade intervjuer samlades data in för att vidare analyseras utifrån de teoretiska utgångspunkterna i den tematiska analysen.Resultatet visar att de intervjuade socialsekreterarna och behandlarna upplever att samverkan är hjälpsam och nödvändig för personer med missbruk och dubbelproblematik. Trots detta framhålls det svårigheter med samverkan när yrkesverksammas åsikter kring insatser skiljer sig åt. Det framkommer otydligheter gällande ansvarsområden, där socialsekreterare och behandlare upplever att klienter flyttas mellan psykiatrin och socialtjänsten. Det visar även att socialsekreterare upplever hinder inom ansvarsområden vid början av ärendet, medan behandlare uttrycker liknande utmaningar under pågående behandling. Resultatet visar att behandlares handlingsutrymme verkar vara mer flexibelt än socialsekreterares vid val av metoder och strategier. Några faktorer som påverkar socialsekreterarnas handlingsutrymme är ekonomiska ramar, politiska begränsningar och brist på resurser. Avslutningsvis lyfter studien i sin helhet förståelsen för hur samverkan kan påverkas av olika faktorer, men även hur det kan påverka yrkesverksammas möjligheter att hjälpa klienter. / Substance abuse is a global societal issue that requires efforts, especially from social services. Substance abuse in combination with mental illness is complex and challenging for the individual. This means that social secretary, therapists and psychiatry need to cooperate to achieve effective treatment. The study aims to understand social workers and therapist experience of collaboration regarding clients who suffer from co-morbidity in form of mental illness and addiction. This is a qualitative study that utilizes social representations, space for action and power as theoretical foundations. Through seven semi-structured interviews. data is collected and further analyzed based on the theoretical foundations in thematic analyses.The results indicate that the interviewed social workers and therapists perceive collaboration as helpful and necessary for individuals with substance abuse and co-morbidity. Although, it appears difficulties with collaboration when professionals have differing opinions on interventions. Difficulties in collaboration are highlighted regarding responsibilities where social workers feel that clients are shifted between psychiatry and social services. The study's results showed that therapists appear to have more flexible space for action than social workers in choosing methods and strategies. Some factors affecting social workers' space for action are financial constraints, political limitations and lack of resources. In conclusion, the study highlights overall understanding of how cooperation can be influenced by various factors but also how it can impact the roles of professionals.

This essay discusses the relationship between the employees at Swedish municipalities working at labor market units and their participants. The aim is to understand how their big room for action affects how they see their role and what this does to the help they are able to give the participants. The aim is also to give insight into how other organizations play a role in the creation of trust between the participants and the employees. This is done by breaking down the aim in two different questions: Question 1: How do the employees in labor market interventions view their service based on their room for action within the business and how does this affect their relationship with the client? Question 2: How do the employees use their room for action to help the participants orient themselves in the authority landscape? The data has been collected using a qualitative method and interviews with ten employees at four municipalities have been conducted. The theories used are aspects from the following theories: emotion sociology, professionalism and grassroots bureaucrats. The main findings are that the employees use their own personal life and personalities to make connections with the participants. They go outside of the realm of their job if they think it will help the participants and every employee makes a distinction in where to draw the line regarding what is part of their job.

Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt die Konzeption und Erprobung eines Lehrkonzeptes für die Reflexionsarbeit in pädagogischen Handlungsfeldern vor. Um den Erfolg des Seminars und das Erreichen der Lernziele zu gewährleisten, wurden die Studierenden zu einer größtenteils interaktiven Erarbeitung des Lernstoffes sowie zur Aufarbeitung eigener Denk- und Handlungsmuster motiviert und angeleitet. Neben der Entwicklung einer reflexiven Haltung war das Ziel zudem, den Teilnehmenden ein Bewusstsein für die Chancen und „Risiken“ der Selbst- und Fremdreflexion in der pädagogischen Praxis zu vermitteln.

This master essay starts with the author having an encounter with two 14-years old boys who claim that they are Nazis. In a school project where the pupils made films about norms in the society they made a film with a clearly racist and homophobic message. As a freelance artist the author was a part of a school development program in aesthetic learning, and the assignment in the actual school was supposed to teach the pupils about norms and how they effect people on an everyday basis. All the films fulfilled this purpose, but the actual film did something more: it revealed the zerotolerance rule in this particular school as a norm that silenced not only these boys, but also any pupil having a different opinion than the teachers. The situation described took place in a classroom in primary school in the area of Stockholm some years ago and even though the film was never shown to anybody that could be offended except the author herself, the author left the school with a feeling of total failure, and two questions craving for answers: Why couldn’t she, nor the teachers, find the time and space to meet the boys, taking their invitation to discuss the zere-tolerance-norm seriously? And what role did the fact that the school had a “zero-tolerance-for-racism rule” play in the cultivation of the boy’s feelings of exclusion and in the way the teachers treated their obvious need for recognition as sane and (soon-to-be) grown up men? Using Hannah Arendt’s ideas of action as the fundament of the investigation, the author poses questions about what space for action there is in the daily work of a teacher today, but also what happens when there is no room for action, when we become the blind administrators of homo faber. The method of the study includes 1) a dialogue seminar with teachers from elementary school, 2) examples and reflections from the author’s own teaching practice at the teacher education and 3) a philosophical investigation focusing on the concepts of aesthetic experience, aesthetic learning, not-knowing and unlearning. In dialogue with Sarah Ahmed, John Dewey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Rancière, Cusanus and Jonna Bornemark, she further tries to understand what role the film, as an aesthetic experience, played in the example with the Nazi boys. Is there a radical possibility in art that can create space for action in Arendt’s sense? Further, in dialogue with the poet Wiszlava Szymborska, the clown Nalla Laanela, and two novelists; Rachel Cusk and Albert Camus, she tries to understand the possibilities that lie within aesthetic learning when it comes to re-thinking the role of the teacher aiming for a sustainable approach to teaching and learning in a society where teachers work themselves sick. / I inledningen till denna masteruppsats möter författaren två fjortonåriga pojkar som säger att de är nazister. I ett skolprojekt där eleverna skulle göra kortfilmer som gestaltade samhällsnormer gjorde de här pojkarna en film med ett tydligt rasistiskt och homofobiskt budskap. Författaren hade, i egenskap av frilansande konstnär inom skolutvecklingsprogrammet Skapa och Lära, uppdraget att leda eleverna i arbetet med filmerna och syftet var att eleverna skulle lära sig något om de olika normer som påverkar oss människor varje dag. Alla filmer uppfyllde syftet, men denna film gjorde något mer: den fick den här specifika skolans noll-tolerans-mot-rasism-regel att framstå som en norm som tystade inte bara de här två pojkarna, utan alla elever med –ur lärarnas perspektiv -avvikande åsikter. Den ovan beskrivna situationen utspelade sig i ett klassrum i Stockholmsområdet för ett antal år sedan och även om filmen aldrig visades för någon som hade kunnat ta illa upp –förutom författaren själv –lämnade författaren skolan med en känsla av totalt misslyckande och två frågor ringande i öronen: Varför kunde inte hon, och ingen av lärarna i skolan, ta sig tid att möta pojkarna genom att ta deras inbjudan till samtal om noll-tolerans-normen på allvar? Och vilken roll spelade det faktum att skolan hade en noll-tolerans-mot-rasism-regel i kultiverandet av pojkarnas känslor av exkludering och i lärarnas hanterande av deras uppenbara behov av erkännande som sunda, snart vuxna unga män? Med utgångspunkt i Hannah Arendts idéer om handlandet ställer författaren frågor om vilket handlingsutrymme lärare i dagens skola har, men hon undersöker också vad som händer när det inte finns något handlingsutrymme, när läraren blir en blind administratör, en homo faber. Metodologiskt använder sig författaren av 1) ett dialogseminarium med lärare från grundskolan, 2) exempel och reflektioner från hennes egen lärarpraktik, och 3) en filosofisk undersökning med fokus på begreppen estetisk erfarenhet, estetiska lärprocesser, icke-vetande och av-lärande. I dialog med Sarah Ahmed, John Dewey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Rancière, Cusanus och Jonna Bornemark, försöker hon vidare förstå vilken roll filmen som en estetisk erfarenhet spelade I exemplet med de två nazistpojkarna. Finns det en radikal potential i konstnärliga uttryck som kan skapa handlingsutrymme i Arendts mening? Vidare,i dialog med poeten Wiszlava Szymborska, clownen Nalle Laanela, och två romanförfattare; Rachel Cusk and Albert Camus, försöker författaren utröna vilka möjligheter som kan rymmas i estetiska lärprocesser vad gäller att tänka om (om-tänka) lärarrollen med målet att finna ett hållbart förhållningssätt till undervisning och lärande i ett samhälle där lärare arbetar sig sjuka.