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Item Att lägga örat mot gatan – en kvalitativ studie av journalistrollen inom public journalism(2017-01-31) Kågström, Agnes; Olsson, Kajsa; Halvarsson, Louise; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation; Göteborg University/Department of Journalism Media and CommunicationThis is a comparative case study that looks at public journalism as an ideal in a Swedish context, and how this ideal affects the journalist role. Public journalism is defined as an ideal where the agenda of the public is dominant and where the ordinary citizen is allowed more space in the news compared to traditional journalism. This should not be confused with citizen journalism where the public produces content independently and outside of the established newsrooms. Public journalism was developed in the U.S. in the 1980s and the idea was to make the citizens engage in society – first and foremost by voting as the interest in politics was generally low at the time. In other areas public journalism was used to increase the social status of socioeconomically deprived areas. In Sweden several newsrooms have tried out public journalism as a method, but not always on a conscious level. However, there’s one exception, and that’s the free local newspaper Södra Sidan in Stockholm. They started as a reaction to the fact that other media didn’t cover what happened in the suburbs of Stockholm in a nuanced way. Very little research has been done on the topic of public journalism in Sweden, therefore our aim was to look at the role of the journalist within this context. Specifically we have studied how the journalists view public journalism in relation to their professional ideals, what challenges they experience and how they relate to the citizens. This study examines two different publications: Södra Sidan and GöteborgDirekt. Both are owned by the same newspaper group, DirektPress. But while the journalists at Södra Sidan has public journalism as a consciously underlying ideal in their work, the journalists at GöteborgDirekt hasn’t. We were keen to examine if, and how, this ideal affected the journalist role. In depth-interviews were made with journalists at Södra Sidan and GöteborgDirekt. To analyse our material we used the theory of professional discourse combined with democratic models based on the philosophy of Habermas. Our result shows that due to a lack of resources on both papers, it was hard to fully live up to the intention of meeting the citizens outside of the office. But it was clear that the journalist role at Södra Sidan was in many ways different from the traditional journalist role. We found that a dominant ideal for the journalists at Södra Sidan was to turn away from the traditional news reporting about crimes and politics, and instead let the citizens set the agenda for what topics to discuss. This could cause ethical dilemmas as it implies that they also need to consider people with anti-democratic values, such as citizens who neglect human rights of refugees. At GöteborgDirekt the approach was more straightforward news reporting even though they also used some methods associated with public journalism in their work. But as the journalists at GöteborgDirekt did not view public journalism as a main ideal, the journalists remained more traditional in their journalist roles.Item Den metakognitiva läraren(2011) Olsson, Kajsa; Göteborgs Universitet/Sociologiska institutionenSyfte Det övergripande syftet för denna undersökning är att studera begreppet metakognition utifrån lärarnas perspektiv och förhållningssätt. För att konkretisera mitt syfte arbetar jag utifrån följande frågeställningar: 1) Hur förhåller sig olika typer av lärare (man/kvinna, nyutbildad/erfaren samt lärare i olika ämnen) till begreppet metakognition? ) Finns det ett samband mellan lärarens förhållningssätt till begreppet och andra aspekter och faktorer av metakognition, såsom träna elevers metakognition och ta hänsyn till denna förmåga vid bedömning? Metod Undersökningen är utformad som en pilotstudie av kvantitativ karaktär med enkät som vetenskapligt redskap. Jag lät 16 lärare från ett högstadium i västra Göteborg, med olika ämnen, kön och yrkeserfarenhet besvara enkäten. Enkäten består av fem frågor som rör lärarnas bakgrund, samt 0 påståenden som behandlar fyra olika kategorier av metakognition. Lärarna förvänts markera på en fyrgradig skala på huruvida de instämmer med påståendena eller ej. Enkätssvaren kvantifierades och olika grupprelaterade medelvärden åskådliggörs i form av figurer. Resultat Resultaten ger vid handen att lärare i allmänhet tenderar att vara relativt positiva till att ta hänsyn till metakognitiva aspekter i betyg och bedömning trots att de uppenbarligen brister i förmågan att aktivt träna sina elevers metakognitiva medvetenhet. Det visar sig även attItem Students' Learning Style and Spelling Ability(2010-10-15) Olsson, Kajsa; University of Gothenburg/Department of Languages and Literatures; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerThere is a connection between students’ learning style and their spelling ability. Good spellers are more likely to be visual, random, deductive and abstract. Furthermore, it is showed that poor spellers are kinesthetic to a higher degree; however it has proved more difficult to define their cognitive learning style as they are likely to be both random and sequential, deductive and inductive.