Browsing by Author "Andreasson, Lisa"

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Global warning? Never heard of it...
(2009) Andreasson, Lisa; Noborg, Therese; Göteborgs universitet/Sociologiska institutionen
Purpose The aim of this Minor Field study is to illuminate the South African learners’ understanding of global warming and how the learners’ context affects his/her knowledge. Central questions in this study are: - How is the acquisition of scientific knowledge formed in the learners’ understanding? - What is causing the misconceptions of scientific knowledge? - What do the learners know about the greenhouse effect and global warming? Method South Africa has a rich diversity of cultures and people, which gives us the possibility to investigate how the context is affecting the learners’ understanding. To carry out this study we have used a triangulation of both quantitative and qualitative methods. According to the natural science approach we used a questionnaire as a quantitative way to measure the learners’ scientific knowledge. To get into the context and to analyze that knowledge, we used the qualitative methods of observations and interviews. This enabled us to get into the aim of this study in more than one perspective. We chose to write our study in English to be able to report the infomation back to our informants. Results Misconceptions concerning carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect and global warming are many and are spread among the learners in our study. Many learners state that the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than the correct one. We can also see confusion in their conceptions of the effects of ozone holes and climate change. An explanation to these answers can be the “popularity” of carbon dioxide. In all schools, both teachers and learners described global warming as a current issue that is discussed in media and by politicians. The process of learning in South Africa is affected by the social circumstances where different perspectives and opinions meet. This interaction is imprinted by the existing knowledge base, which is linked to a specific time, place and history. We illuminate the relationship between learning, knowledge and context. By elucidating potential, opportunity and precondition we get a better understanding of how these factors affect the learners’ learning process.
The Role of the Management Accountant in the Swedish Public Sector An Empirical Study
(2005) Bladh, Anders; Andreasson, Lisa; Göteborg University/Department of Business Administration; Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen
The management accountant has been a part of European corporations since the nineteen seventies when they started to divisionalise, but the profession has been an important part in American corporations for much longer. Of course there had been accountants in European organisations before, but with this rearrangement they had to take on new tasks and to be more future-oriented. In the nineteen eighties, when the profession was still rather young in Europe, both management accounting as a subject and the role of the management accountant attracted substantial attention within the academic and business worlds and several investigations and theories were made to describe the new phenomenon. As for most new phenomena, the interest decreased after a few years, but after a down period the management accountant has now again started to attract attention with new studies as a result. Albeit there to date have been a number of investigations they have typically dealt with corporations within the private sector and very few about the management accountant in the public sector even though he/she is frequent there and the public sector employs a large number of individuals. To change the common focus we have made this study about the role of the management accountant in the Swedish public sector. The purpose of the study is to contribute to the knowledge within the area of management accounting by examining and analysing the role of the management accountant in the public sector. To do this we have studied the management accountant in the central level of the public sector where we examined both central authorities and state owned companies. This was done by sending a questionnaire to role practitioners within the Swedish public sector and then compiling and analyzing the result. When analyzing the result some interesting facts were found. The management accountant in the Swedish public sector devotes a lot of his time to the traditional accounting areas of budgeting and reporting. This implies a role of the management accountant that is more internally than externally focused although he/she to some extent also uses external information and influences others within the organisation in his work. In other words the role has not developed as earlier has been expected. The differences within the three organisations in the public sector investigated are not obvious, but it seems that the role of the management accountant in central authorities is somewhat more developed compared to the role in state owned companies. When comparing the management accountant’s role in the public sector to the private practitioner’s it is seen that they are mainly the same. Although the role in the public sector is slightly more distinct than, and not as influencing on others as the role of the private management accountant.
TRANSPERSONERS UPPLEVELSER AV BEMÖTANDE I HÄLSO- OCH SJUKVÅRDEN -En litteraturöversikt
(2023-03-15) Alsterlind, Frida; Andreasson, Lisa; University of Gothenburg/Institute of Health and Care Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och hälsa
Transperson är ett paraplybegrepp som omfattar individer vars upplevda könsidentitet inte stämmer överens med individens juridiska och biologiska kön. Transpersoner är en utsatt minoritetsgrupp i samhället, som i högre grad än övrig befolkning utsätts för våld och hot. Folkhälsomyndigheten rapporterar att transpersoner i hög utsträckning undviker att söka vård. Statistik visar att transpersoner i hög omfattning lider av psykisk ohälsa och löper hög suicidrisk. Prevalensen av transpersoner ökar både i Sverige och internationellt. Syftet med den här litteraturöversikten är att belysa hur transpersoner upplever bemötande inom hälsooch sjukvård. Litteratur söktes efter i databaserna Cinahl, PsycINFO och Pubmed och en sammanställning av tidigare kvalitativ forskning genomfördes. Sammanlagt valdes tio artiklar med kvalitativ ansats ut efter granskning med SBU:s granskningsmall för kvalitativ metod. Resultatet visade på sex huvudteman; Diskriminering och transfobi hos vårdpersonal, Utsatthet och verbal förnekelse av transpersoners kön, Transpersoners upplevelser av stigmatisering och utlämning från hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal, Brist på kunskap och erfarenhet hos hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal, Rädsla att söka vård på grund av tidigare negativa erfarenheter samt Inkludering genom hälso- och sjukvårdspersonals kunskap och kompetens. Resultatets huvudfynd är att transpersoner har övervägande negativa erfarenheter av bemötande från hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal. Upprepade fynd i studierna är att transpersoner blir bemötta med diskriminering, okunskap och stigmatisering. För att uppfylla lagstadgade krav och etiska riktlinjer för hälso- och sjukvård behöver en institutionell förändring ske i utbildandet av hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal. Utökad kompetens kring transvård och transpersoner är väsentligt. Slutligen behöver hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal förbättra sitt förhållningssätt och bemötande gentemot transpersoner.