By making interviews with ten-year-old pupils we tried to analyse how they value, understand and use the portfolio method. We also wanted to know if these results match the aims of the board of education, the school administration and the teachers. Our main questions were: · Whose demands does the portfolio method meet? · What kinds of demands are met? · What does this method mean to the pupils? ·

Our purpose was to examine whether single mothers can be seen as a social issue. How do the mothers themselves experience their own situation to be single parents in contemporary society and how do those who work in society see them as a group? The issues we have studied are: - What is a social issue? - How do single mothers look upon their situation? - How does society see their situation? We hav

Denna uppsats behandlar gravt utvecklingsstördas möjligheter till inflytande genom legal företrädare i enlighet med Lagen som Stöd och Service till vissa funktionshindrade, LSS. Syftet med studien är att belysa hur gode män beskriver sina uppgifter sörja för person och bevaka den enskildes rätt. Studien har genomförts med en hermaneutisk ansats, där kvalitativa intervjuer och en fenomenologisk ana

The purpose of this essay is to examine what children at the age of eleven think about their rights. Do children feel, that they were treated well by adults and are listened to and if adults really respected them? Do children know anything about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child? Our questions at the issue were: What is convention of the Child? What is article 12.1 about? What knowledge

The aim of our essay has been to examine at what point in history the issue of a basic income first came up and the reason why this concept didn't take root in our modern Swedish society, in spite of this being an old idea. Our main questions are: Which are those obstacles and possibilities that show up in the Swedish society regarding the introduction of a basic income? What advantages and di

The main purpose of this essay was to study immigrants and social assistants view on why immigrants go through divorce, and why so many marriages among immigrants end in divorce. Do immigrants seek help when they go through divorce? What kind of methods does the social assistants use when they try to help immigrants with marital problems? Is it possible that shortcomings in the professional method

The purpose of the essay is to describe and analyse the professional’s experiences of the works contents and driving force. The professionals referred to in the essay are all handling dead people in their job. The central questions are: How do the professionals feel about these tasks? What perception do professionals feel that outsiders have about their job? What is the recruitment situation for t

Based on the debate in the media following the SOU (2003:49)-reports different suggestions to strengthen the childs role in the adoption process, we started considering the adoptive parents reactions to all this. Has anyone asked them? What support would they want? The objective of our paper was to present the result of a number of interviews with adoptive parents regarding some of the questions f

The purpose of this survey has been to find the answer to the following three questions: What resources are available in Scania for men involved in domestic violence? Who are these men that will come for help? What type of treatment is available? To do this we have interviewed representatives from the following sources: - the local police department in the north-west region of Scania - the local a

The purpose of this essay has been to look at the phenomenon murder and other crimes in the name of honor, against young female immigrants. We have chosen to look at it from different perspectives of society, to be able to study different possibilities to why it occurs. Our purpose has been to deepen our understanding of what we have chosen to call murder and other crimes in the name of honor. Fur

The purpose of this essay was to examine how Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), working with foreign aid, work to avoid the recipients from being dependent on them as organizations. The main issues were: 1. What does the activity of the NGOs look like in the developing countries? 2. In which way do the people in the recipient countries participate in the projects? 3. What do the organizations

The aim of this study was to examine how ethical conflicts could influence the ways that care staff chose to act. My questions was - How do care staff think they should act in situations where aged persons autonomy either could be supported or limited? - How do care staffs chosen act relate to the Swedish Social Services Act and its intentions? - Is level of education of any importance when it com

The main purpose of this study is to form a picture of what happens in a child's life when their parents separate and how this event is seen through the child's eyes. This study is based on qualitative research methods in which eleven children from six families were interviewed. In addition, the parents were asked a few questions about their custody arrangements and the amount of the coop

The research for this study, concerning trade unions within the maquila industry, has been carried out during a three months period in the Central American country of El Salvador. Fieldwork and research has been financed by the MFS (Minor Field Study) scholarship of SIDA. Research questions used throughout the field study have focused on the possibility of unionization and the role and position of

We wanted to examine what Second Chance School in Malmö is by letting significant actors shed light on their operation. Our goal was to get answers to questions as: Why did the European Union start a network by the name of Second Chance Schools? What criteria does a Second Chance School have to fullfill to be a part of the network? Why did Second Chance School start in Malmö, and how? What is the

I studied the risk of threats and violence towards social workers and how prevention work is organised and performed in a case study. I studied available data and literature on the subject and performed qualitative interviews with three social workers and the head of department of an average sized welfare office in Sweden, and a social worker who had been threatened by a client in another work pla

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of knowledge-based social work as exemplified by the project Barns behov i centrum (BBiC). Questions: What are the central concepts of knowledged-based social work? How has BBiC, identified as a "knowledge project", developed? How do social workers understand knowledge development efforts? Method: Explorative case study (interv

The purpose of this paper was to examine how a special day-school works for children with functional difficulties, such as emotional and social, and for this reason they can´t stay in their ordinary schools. I also wanted to compare a special day-school at a countryside to a special day-school in a city, to see what the similarities and differences were. The schools in my examination were Mangårde

The purpose of this essay is to validate the standardized selfreport questionnaire Children´s Sense of Coherence (CSOC). This questionnaire is sprung from Antonovsky's salutogenic theory and aimed at measuring children's sense of coherence, which is looked upon as an ability to chose the most suitable strategies in coping with problem situations. In order to ensure the validity of this que