Search for dissertations about: "apprenticeship"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the word apprenticeship.

2. 1. Vocational skills formation in communities of practice : Experiences from primary school and the informal economy in Tanzania

   Author : Gunilla Höjlund; Robert Höghielm; Michael Young; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Key words: vocational skills formation; vocationalization; apprenticeship; communities of practice; “legitimate; peripheral participation”; ethnographic approach; primary schooling; informal economy; task; Stadi za Kazi Vocational Skill ; education for self-reliance; boundary objects; artisan; Education; Pedagogik;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between school and working life in Tanzania; what goes on inside school in relation to what goes on outside. The focus is on vocational skills formation by which is understood the process whereby individuals develop skills necessary for everyday life and gainful employment. READ MORE

4. 2. Situating Simulators : The integration of simulations in medical practice

   Author : Ericka Johnson; Boel Berner; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; reconstitution; medical simulators; simulations; situated learning; medical practice; apprenticeship; legitimate peripheral participation; intra-action; agency; medicinsk utbildning; simulering; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Abstract : This study examined the practices of integrating simulators into medical education. Simulators have been observed in use to discern how medical practices are created out of the simulations. Video recordings of the simulations have been analysed, complemented by interviews with instructors and students. READ MORE

5. 3. Of Affliction : The Experience of Thought in Gilles Deleuze by way of Marcel Proust

   Author : Johan Sehlberg; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Ingemar Haag; Catarina Pombo Nabais; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gilles Deleuze; Marcel Proust; Plato; thinking; experience; affliction; temporality; essence; literature; apprenticeship; pathology; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory;

   Abstract : The aim of the present thesis is to explicate the experience of thought corresponding to the critical undertaking characteristic of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy between Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962) and Difference and Repetition (1968), from within the conjunction of Deleuze’s Proust and Signs (1964) and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927). The importance of Proust for the development of Deleuze’s two major themes at the time, the overturning of Platonism and transcendental empiricism, has generally not been sufficiently recognised and investigated in Deleuze scholarship. READ MORE

6. 4. Becoming a construction worker : a study of vocational learning in school and work life

   Author : Magnus Fjellström; Ulrika Widding; Joakim Lindgren; Gun-Britt Wärvik; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Vocational education and training VET ; upper secondary school; post-secondary apprenticeship; activity theory; levels of learning; apprenticeship curriculum; woodworker; construction programme; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : This thesis describes and analyses vocational learning in school and workplaces, particularly the vocational learning involved in becoming a construction worker in Sweden. This includes learning the trade in upper secondary school education and a subsequent apprenticeship. READ MORE

7. 5. Apprentice Cosmopolitans : Social identity, community, and learning among ERASMUS exchange students

   Author : Ioannis Tsoukalas; Christina Garsten; Ivana Macek; Gustav Peebles; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; multisite ethnography; cosmopolitanism; exchange students; mobility; transnational networks; cultural diversity; learning apprenticeship; liminality; transformative experience; life world; social identity; social representations; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : The present dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Erasmus Programme, the European Union’s student exchange programme. This programme has, for the last three decades, resulted in an unprecedented exchange of ideas and people within the European Union, and it has quite radically changed the conditions for, and the appearance of, student life in many European universities. READ MORE