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Det övergripande syftet med min avhandling är att undersöka lärares syn på psykisk hälsa. Utgående från syftet har följande forskningsfrågor utarbetats: 1. Hur definierar lärare begreppet psykisk hälsa? 2. Hur arbetar lärare för att främja den psykiska hälsan hos elever? 3. Hur upplever lärare det främjande arbetet? Utgående från syftet valdes en fenomenografisk forskningsansats. Kvalitativa intervjuer användes som metod för att samla in datamaterialet. Respondenterna är fem lärare som är verksamma i årskurs 1–6. Undersökningens resultat visar att lärarna har en ganska homogen definition på vad psykisk hälsa är. Lärarna främjar elevernas psykiska hälsa genom olika främjande program, främjande av relationer mellan eleverna, genom att vara uppmärksamma och konsekventa som lärare, träning av social kompetens och ett gott samarbete mellan hemmet och skolan. Lärarna upplever det främjande arbetet som en viktig och utmanande och till viss del givande del av skolvardagen.

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The aim of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the learning experiences of upper secondary school students in a virtual learning environment. The focus of the study is younger students aged 16–18. Virtual learning environments are defined as collaborative, interactive and communicative digital environments. The main research question was to distinguish the meaning of learning given by the participants. Did the participants perceive learning potential in the virtual learning environment, and if so, what signifies learning potential? Sub-questions were: What enhances learning? What might inhibit learning in a distance course? How do the participants relate to their role as distant learners? Four upper secondary schools in Finland took part in the study. Thirteen upper secondary students were interviewed after a distance course in social studies. During the analysis, four main categories were identified: responsibility, freedom, time and communication. A constructivist approach to learning was adopted while analysing the interviews, and the categories were understood through cognitive, affective and social dimensions of learning. The implications of the study are that a student-centred pedagogy and a social constructivist course design have the potential to motivate students to interact to learn, while the software, such as Second Life, Google+ and Wikibooks, offers them the possibility to do so. The study introduces an empirically supported concept, virtual learning. Virtual learning assumes an active learner who manages different learning spaces while communicating with people and metacognitively assessing the learning process. At the same time, students get used to the virtual and everchanging nature of information and knowledge.

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Purpose – This paper aims to marry Michael Porter’s industrial cluster theory of traded and local clusters to Richard Florida’s occupational approach of creative and routine workers to gain a better understanding of the process of economic development. Design/methodology/approach – Combining these two approaches, four major industrial-occupational categories are identified. The shares of US employment in each – creative-in-traded, creative-in-local, routine-in-traded and routine-in-local – are calculated, and a correlation analysis is used to examine the relationship of each to regional economic development indicators. Findings – Economic growth and development is positively related to employment in the creative-in-traded category. While metros with a higher share of creative-in-traded employment enjoy higher wages and incomes overall, these benefits are not experienced by all worker categories. The share of creative-in-traded employment is also positively and significantly associated with higher inequality. After accounting for higher median housing costs, routine workers in both traded and local industries are found to be relatively worse off in metros with high shares of creative-in-traded employment, on average. Social implications – This work points to the imperative for the US Government and industry to upgrade routine jobs, which make up the majority of all employment, by increasing the creative content of this work. Originality/value – The research is among the first to systematically marry the industry and occupational approaches to clusters and economic development.