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This study investigates the roles local religious communities took and how they balanced their religious and social role, as well as their critical voice in the support of refugees in Sweden during the so-called refugee crisis of 2015. Interviews were held with representatives from Christians and Muslim local congregations in a large Swedish city. Through the exploratory approach, this study can show that the local congregations acted and functioned in a manner strongly connected to how they view their role in society. In other words, the actions taken during a state of emergency by religious communities seems to be a representation of how they view their role in a state of normality. Three ideal types were identified; Emergency Responders, Community-based Continuers and Spiritual Integrators. The difference in how they combine the religious and social role, as well as the critical voice, clearly illustrates the complexity in presenting religious communities role in civil society in a unified manner.

Den här studien tar sin utgångspunkt i det ökade intresset för religionens roll i utvecklingssamarbeten. Syftet är att undersöka hur tre trosbaserade organisationer (TBO) resonerar kring att arbeta rättighetsbaserat, både teologisk men också i relation till de olika värderingssammanhang de rör sig i. Där värderingar som betonas i rättighetsbaserat arbete (RBA) kan skilja sig från de värderingar som är centrala i mer religiösa kontexter. Resultaten från intervjustudierna med Erikshjälpen, Svenska kyrkans internationella arbete och Pingstmissionens Utvecklingssamarbete (PMU) visar att de flesta informanterna är positiva till att arbeta rättighetsbaserat. De motiverar RBA teologiskt utifrån sin tro. Samtidigt menar flera av informanterna att det rättighetsbaserade perspektivet är komplext, bland annat genom att vara för individfokuserat. Genom olika strategier framgår det hur informanterna förhåller sig till de olika värderingssammanhangen de rör sig i, där de bland annat anpassar RBA till den lokala kontexten och samtidigt kompletterar med den kristna tron. Resultatet visar att det både finns de som inte anser att det finns några spänningar mellan de olika värderingssammanhangen samtidigt som andra menar att det trosbaserade och det rättighetsbaserade perspektivet bör separeras helt. Studien visar att det finns en stor vilja hos organisationerna att arbeta med en överlappande attityd som strävar efter att finna vägar och kompromisser mellan de olika värderingsammanhangen.

E-learning applications are used both during school and at leisure and must be designed for both scenarios. Gamification and serious games, which is about implementing game design into other types of applications, are important concepts for this purpose. This qualitative study contributes knowledge in this area by evaluating a digital application that teaches driving theory. The purpose was to analyze the technologies driving motivation based on game mechanics, theoretical framework and analytical model. The study is based on qualitative interviews and the authors' own observations. The result indicates that users of the application are strongly motivated by the desire to pass the theory test, which means that the game mechanics that drives intrinsic motivations lose much of its significance. Therefore, the choice of playing techniques should be based on the purpose of the application and the balance between the extrinsic and intrinsic motivations to learn. Validerat; 20150621 (global_studentproject_submitter)