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This study investigates the relationship between the confidence in the Chinese government and internet usage of Chinese citizens. The number of internet users is large and keeps growing in China, but so does the amount of internet censorship. Previous research has suggested that internet usage tends to make citizens more sceptical towards authoritarian regimes. The aim with this study was to find out if this theory can be proven when studying China. The government's popularity among the people and the effective censorship of the internet makes China a least-likely case. This field should be examined because it is important to find out if citizens using the internet can potentially be of any threat to the world's most powerful authoritarian regime. By using the fourth wave of the Asian Barometer survey, a multiple regression was put together. The attitude towards the government was used as the dependant variable and internet usage as the independent variable with education, income, age, gender and location as control variables. The result shows that internet usage did correlate with respondents being more sceptical towards the government but the effect was not very strong. When including age in the multivariate regression the effect of internet usage halved, although the effect of internet usage remained statistically significant. The result of the study might indicate that internet usage in authoritarian regimes does make people a bit more sceptical towards the government, despite the internet being censored.

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This study examines how teachers present feedback in high school social studies, how students understand said feedback, and how feedback can be a tool to help students achieve their goals.  In order to study subject specific feedback it is necessary to observe how teachers link subject material with assessment in their feedback to students.  Formative assessment, which integrates assessment into classroom workflow and allows students to participate in the assessment process, both communicates information and is a tool to strengthen student learning.  A key facet of formative assessment is constructive feedback.  This study examines constructive feedback in the context of high school social studies.  The results of this study indicate that both of the participating teachers intended that their feedback would develop and strengthen student learning and guide students toward successful goal completion, and that clear and understandable verbal communication is a crucial component of formative assessment. Open and two-way communication between teacher and student throughout the entire assessment process can help students see each lesson as one part of a whole subject.  This type of communication can also improve the relationship building process between teachers and students.  The students wanted verbal and timely feedback so that they knew which steps to take to meet their goals.  It was important to students that they received time to process and help interpreting the feedback given.  One theme that emerged from both teachers was that the ability to analyze, be source-critical, and use social science theories and concepts were the most important aspects of social studies.   The second order's knowledge thus appears to be absolutely central to the social science subject. / I denna studie om återkoppling i ämnet samhällskunskap i gymnasieskolan, studeras både lärares och elevers erfarenheter av återkoppling och hur återkoppling kan vara ett verktyg att nå uppsatta mål. Hur lärarna länkar samman samhällskunskapens ämnesinnehåll med bedömning i sin återkoppling till eleverna uppmärksammas också. Resultatet visar att en tydlig muntlig kommunikation som möjliggör dialog om uppgifter, lägesbild och mål är det som eleverna i studien lyfter som användbar återkoppling och som enligt deras mening är avgörande för att de ska utveckla sitt lärande. När kommunikationen löper genom hela bedömningsprocessen och är en tvåvägs-kommunikation mellan lärare och elev framträder en bild av att allt som görs i undervisningen blir en del i en helhet och att detta skapar en relation mellan lärare och elev som är viktig i processen. Centralt i det samhällskunskapsämne som framträder i studien är lärarnas betoning av andra ordningens kunskaper.

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The purpose with this study is to examine the aspect regarding how teachers gives feedback and how that impact on students motivation. How does verbal and written feedback impact on students motivation and can teachers state that feedback is lowering students motivation or raising it? This study empiricism is based on material from semi-structural interviews with five teachers, all with the teacher certification. Subject that was discussed is social studies grade seven to nine. This work is based on self determination theory that shows the connection between feedback and motivation. Result show that teacher gives feedback to get their students to develop and increase their motivation. Feedback shall be mostly positive and it shows that verbal feedback is more motivational than in writing.

Sexuellt våld, sexuella övergrepp, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, genusteori, postkoloniala teori, / Sexual violence, sexual abuse, Democratic Republic of Congo, gender theory, postcolonial theory

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Denna uppsats undersöker hur kontextuella faktorer påverkar politiska aktörers användning av ”negative campaigning”. Det görs genom att studera hur mycket svenska partier använde sig av strategin under valåren 2014 och 2018 samt hur användningen tog sig till uttryck. Som grund för undersökningen ligger två teorier, oppositionshypotesen och koalitionshypotesen, som menar att partiernas användning av ”negative campaigning” påverkas av om de är i regerings- eller oppositionsposition samt om de har hög eller låg koalitionspotential. För att genomföra undersökningen kombineras en kvantitativ innehållsanalys med en kvalitativ framinganalys. Analysen genomförs på politiska tal som hållits av Socialdemokraterna, Moderaterna, Sverigedemokraterna och Centerpartiet. Resultatet visar att det är vanligare att svenska partier lyfter sig själva istället för att kritisera andra. När ”negative campaigning” väl används är det oftast motståndarnas sakfrågor och inte personliga egenskaper som kritiseras. Sett till mängden ”negative campaigning” använder Sverigedemokraterna strategin i störst utsträckning följt av Socialdemokraterna, Centerpartiet och slutligen Moderaterna. Gällande hur användningen ser ut utmärker sig Sverigedemokraterna genom att kritisera motståndarnas personliga egenskaper i större utsträckning än övriga partier. Utifrån resultatet ses att varken oppositionshypotesen eller koalitionshypotesen stämmer helt i det svenska fallet. Det parti som i störst utsträckning lever upp till de teoretiska förväntningarna från båda hypoteserna är Sverigedemokraterna. Koalitionshypotesen stämmer även in på Centerpartiet. Övriga partiers användning av ”negative campaigning” följer inte av teorierna. Två tänkbara orsaker till att hypoteserna inte stämmer i större utsträckning är den utpräglade blockpolitiken samt konsensusandan som råder inom svenska politik.

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of climate change adaptation policies in vulnerable cities, where the susceptibility to climate change related hazards is of immediate concern. By applying a qualitative text analysis method on the Buenos Aires Climate Change Action Plan, the focus of which is on the formulation of the specific courses of action, goals and targets of the policy programme, the paper aims to investigate how the city of Buenos Aires is addressing present vulnerabilities, as well as strategising for the future impacts of climate change. The main findings of this paper suggest that the issue of high population density together with increasing recurrence of extreme weather events is at the core of the city’s strategy in addressing present vulnerabilities as well as in strategising for the expected environmental challenges. Additionally, the results are related to the literature on adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability as well as previous research on climate change adaptation in cities of the global North, to provide a contextualised analysis of the adaptation policy strategies of Buenos Aires in relation to our current understanding of urban climate adaptation.