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Arbetets syfte är att undersöka hur olika lärare arbetar kring svenska som andraspråks undervisningen och integrationen av de elever som läser svenska som andraspråk. Arbetet är relevant då det på de flesta skolor finns elever i behov av att läsa svenska som andraspråk. Undersökningen gjordes med intervjuer som vald metod. Analysen av de svar som lärarna gav jämfördes med varandra i resultatet. Resultatet visade att samtliga lärare hade mycket lika tankar kring svenska som andraspråksundervisningen och integreringen av eleverna. Samtliga lärare sa att det är viktigt att eleverna känner att de har en klasstillhörighet. De nya eleverna placeras i en klass då de kommer till skolan, även om de till en början är mer på svenska som andraspråksundervisningen än vad de är i klassensundervisningen. Det kom även fram att visa av lärarna vill ha mer kontinuitet i sin undervisning, samt att eleverna även lär sig mycket av sina klasskamrater.

The dissertation is about career in working life – not career solely in the sense of climbing upwards in the organizational hierarchy to management level, but career as the movement that individuals or groups make over time through working life. The focus is on social workers and their professional field. The overall aim is to describe and analyse social workers’ career patterns and careers at the individual level and the motives behind them, and thus to shed light on conditions in the social workers’ field today. Another aim is to describe and analyse how the individual social worker careers interact with gender, with efforts at professionalization at both collective and individual level, and with changes in the organizational conditions for exercising the profession. The empirical material is based on questionnaires distributed to male and female social workers who qualified from the School of Social Work in Lund during the last two decades of the twentieth century and the first years of the twenty-first century. The questionnaires for the male social workers were distributed in 2004. Responses came from 61 men, or 67 per cent of all the men who qualified in 1980–1985, and from 191 men, or 74 per cent of those who qualified in 1993–2003. Questionnaires for all female social workers who qualified from the School of Social Work in Lund in 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2003 were distributed in 2009. The 352 completed questionnaires meant a response frequency of 70 per cent. The questionnaires elicit career paths by getting the respondents to describe through different variables what they have worked with since obtaining their degree as social worker. Interviews with 18 of the men who answered the questionnaire (11 who qualified about 10 years previously and 7 who qualified 5 years previously) provided a deeper understanding of the male social worker career, of men’s career motives, and of what it is like to be a man in the profession of social worker. The women’s career motives have been studied through a questionnaire extended in relation to the one completed by the male social workers. Besides questionnaires and interviews, official statistics are used in the empirical foundation of the dissertation. The studies show that social workers have a broad field of work with flexible career paths, and that both male and female social workers take advantage of this. What characterizes social workers’ career is thus mobility. The many career opportunities also mean that men, who are a sought-after minority in the social worker profession, can refrain from the traditional management career that men who are a minority in professional life are expected to pursue, and can instead choose a horizontal career in attractive parts of the social worker profession that enjoy high status. Furthermore, the studies show that there is an informal career path in the social worker profession that both men and women follow. This means that the largest field of work for social workers – the social services, chiefly the parts that involve the exercise of authority – are an entrance and transit area. The women’s most prominent career motives are the content of the work; autonomy, independence and discretion; opportunities for personal development and the potential to influence and change. The interviewed male social workers’ career motives resemble the women’s. They want a job with freedom, independence, and personal development, where they themselves can steer without too much influence from managers and politicians, and where they also have scope to have a job and simultaneously look after their children. The motive forces in social workers’ careers are thus not those of the traditional career with externally visible attributes.

Denna rapport handlar om män i minoritet i ett kvinnoyrke, närmare bestämt socionomyrket. Rapporten bygger på enkäter ställda till män examinerade från socionomutbildningen i Lund under två perioder, början av 1980-talet och 1990-talet, samt intervjuer med män från sistnämnda grupp. Det framkommer att männens karriärer skiljer sig åt mellan de olika utbildningsgenerationerna. Medan de män som har examen längst bakom sig ofta gjort en vertikal karriär och blivit chefer väljer männen som examinerats under 1990-talet i stället en horisontell karriär. De hittar sin nisch i socionomyrket inom områden med hög intern status där de kan arbeta fritt och självständigt. This dissertation is about men as a minority in a female profession, that of uni-versity-trained social worker. The aim is to illuminate the relationship between work and gender on the basis of career, minority, and masculinity in the profes-sion of social work. By means of questionnaires sent to all the men who trained as social workers in Lund 1980–1985 (the 1980s generation) and 1993–2003 (the 1990s generation) I have charted their careers. Eighteen of the 1990s generation who completed the questionnaire were interviewed to eliciting their own point of view. The results of the questionnaire study show that the men who took degrees in social work in both the educational generations to a large extent started their career in the social services but did not often continue their career there or en-tered this field after the first few years of their career. From the interviews it was found that the parts of the social services to which the men are most negative are those which involve the exercise of authority and the control of people. Those who qualified in the 1980s pursued a career which largely corresponds to the pre-vailing image of the male social worker’s career - many of these men had em-barked on a vertical management career or had left the profession. The 1990s generation displayed a different career development. Whereas the traditional male social worker career goes in a vertical direction and is a matter of formal power and superiority, the modern career goes in a horizontal direction and is a matter of creating an autonomous niche. The niche is not just an expression of a new ca-reer pattern; through the niche it is also possible to preserve a traditional mascu-linity. At the same time, the interviewed men present an alternative masculinity through their choice of profession and their way of reasoning about it. The male social workers can thereby be seen as representatives of a masculinity in a time of change.