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Abstract Artiklen præsenterer en helhedsorienteret forståelsesramme om hjemløshed og sætter denne i relation til et kvalitativt forskningsstudie, der bygger på dybdeinterviews med fire unge i hjemløshed. Artiklen har særligt fokus på forholdet mellem et individuelt, relationelt perspektiv og et systemisk, strukturelt perspektiv.

ABSTRACT Korgen lyfter [Raising Basket knowledge] is a Swedish national project started by handicraft consultants from three different regions in 2019. The project aims to promote basket making and knowledge by strengthening contemporary basket makers, make the diversity of domestic basket traditions visible and increase the interest of basket making. Through efforts in training, inventory work, seminars, lectures and networking, nationally and internationally, the project has made knowledge available and problem­atized the question of the fragile position of basket making. Among other things, the project has been in­volved in developing shorter courses in basket making and started a basket appeal related to the UNESCOs convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Through a traveling ex­hi­bi­tion, different events as well as high digital presence, the project has reached many people.

AIMS – The purpose of the study is to describe and analyse how cannabis is constructed in Swedish print media and if this has changed over time. Sweden is known for its prohibitionist cannabis policy, but this approach seems increasingly challenged on both international and domestic arenas. It is therefore important to see if and how this international change is mirrored and processed in a key arena such as print media.

In this paper the possibility of an existing bias, due to the order (here by the initial letters of the family names) in which the results of the students are judged, was studied. This would constitute of a dynamic rater effect of harshness, or leniency, towards the performance of these students due to rater fatigue. A substantial dataset, consisting of 12 years of written exams, for a course, for 2512 examinees, was mined and the results analyzed. The evidence points to the fact that the assessment procedure do not favor, or disfavor, the students with family names whose initial letters are placed late in the alphabet.

We now see several good examples of Smart City and Geodesign initiatives around the world. They often depend on BIM & GIS data. However, interoperability is a challenge that must be adressed in a more efficient way. So what is required to take the leap from good examples to broad and mainstream application in urban and regional development? In this article I describe some key success factors for this development, and outline important challenges. I also touch on the V-Con innovation project addressing these challenges.

In this article we examine two different but interconnected problems, which weaken the struggle for and the idea of equal education in the Swedish comprehensive educational system. One of the problems is the increasing segregation of the Swedish comprehensive school. This segregation is characterized socio, cultural and economic difference. In these areas the concentration of children with diverse ethnicity and low income background are high, while in other areas the opposite is true. In this article we focus on the former schools. These schools are characterized as low achieving schools, and schools that are in crisis. The second issue that is intimately connected to the low achieving school that we examine is the disposition and to some extent the composition of the teaching force. We argue that there is a disconnection between the two aspects, and ground the problem in teacher training. We argue that the current teacher education is not constructed to prepare teachers to meet the challenges in multiethnic schools located in socio-economic deprived areas. The article ends with a critical discussion of “low performing school” and the role of teacher education in preparing teachers for schools in segregated areas.

The aim of this article is to examine aspects of democracy derived from participation in so-called research circles, and to discuss participatory and democratic ideas arising in those circles as they relate to perspectives on Early Childhood Education. This paper draws its argument mainly from material recorded from two research circles — one on Gender and the other on New subject didactic challenges in preschool. The analysis was based on the separate data from the two research circles and on a comparison between them. It is a theoretically governed approach based on Klafki’s critical constructive didactics and Biesta’s critical discussion on education and democracy in relation to the rise of neoliberalism. Larsson’s three aspects of democracy in relation to study circles have been used: equal participation, horizontal relations and knowledge that informs standpoints. The diversity between the circles resulted in variations concerning form and content that could be discussed as related to democracy aspects.

This article deals with the notion of the archive in the 20th and 21st centuries, in relation to aesthetical practices that shed light on the phenomenon and the new media technology that changed its preconditions. Examples discussed include artists Christian Boltanski, Susan Hiller, Robert Smithson, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Sophie Calle, as well as theoretical ideas about archives from Michel Foucault and Wolfgang Ernst, among others. The article stresses the need to rethink the archive as well as ideas of cultural heritage, art and literature in relation to new media technologies. The archive in Foucault’s sense forms the point of departure to discuss a change in aesthetical practices on the one hand and in archival practices on the other, which finally is challenged in the age of digital communication.

Mallarmé’s Writing Practice. Meta- and Mythopoetical Dimensions This article investigates Stéphane Mallarmé’s relation to the practice of writing through three of his most important prose texts, ”Villiers de l’Isle Adam”, ”Le Mystère dans les lettres” and ”Crise de vers”, called ”critical poems” by the poet himself. Mallarmé’s concerns with religion and mythology are here coupled with his understanding of the material act of writing on paper. The analysis reveals that Mallarmé’s poetics are deeply concerned with the self-reflexivity of language and the materiality of communication, through which poetry may expose the essential qualities of language that otherwise remain hidden. These aspects should be understood in their media historical context, and taken into account when reading Mallarmé’s oeuvre.

The phenomenon I focus on in this article is the construction of “the competent child”, which has developed from both psychology and later the sociology of childhood and has influenced the Swedish Childhood Education. One purpose of this paper is to investigate the pedagogical signs in this construction of “the competent child” and to contribute to the discussion of the influence of a new understanding of children in a nursery practice. In addition to the theoretical part of the article, I present analysed material from a limited case study. I have chosen a Reggio Emilia-inspired nursery, with its emphasis on democracy and view of children as competent and active, to shed light on the connections between this view and a values education. I also aim to problematise this paradigm of childhood. The methods used in the present study are field notes and video recordings. Material from my case study illustrates how values education is expressed in a child care practice.

The narratives of Swedish women who have converted to Islam bring up issues concerning identity and the multicultural society. These narratives play an essential and urgent role in the larger context of representations of Islam since they are told from a divergent perspective. They reflect not only post-modern aspects of uprootedness and increased reflexivity but also an existential need for stability and continuity. The transcultural identity of these women involves a dynamic process of combining different cultural values in everyday life, which compromises as necessary. Their identities and self-presentations as Swedish Muslims are formed in everyday encounters with friends, relatives and social institutions. It is of importance to study how they experience themselves in these encounters and how they develop social and cultural strategies in a complex world.