Search for dissertations about: "career transition"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words career transition.

2. 1. Social representations of career and career guidance in the changing world of working life

   Author : Ingela Bergmo-Prvulovic; Christina Chaib; Mohamed Chaib; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : Career; career development; career guidance; career guidance practice; educational and vocational guidance; guidance counselling; changing world of working life; European policy; lifelong learning; human resource strategies; human resource profession; social representations; document analysis; free associations method; qualitative content analysis; subjective career; objective career;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the meaning of career as a phenomenon and its implication for career guidance. In 1996, career as a phenomenon was more or less considered to be an obsolete or even extinct phenomenon. Since then, career guidance has received increased attention along with the increased interest in lifelong learning strategies. READ MORE

4. 2. Swedish student-athletes’ within-career transitions

   Author : Sverker Fryklund; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : within-career transition; achievement sport; thematic content analysis; student-athlete; career assistance; dual career;

   Abstract : Syftet med föreliggande forskningsprojekt var att undersöka upplevelser av karriärövergångar hos elitidrottande studenter, på högsta nationella nivå, som strävar efter att etablera sig även på internationellt högsta nivå inom sin idrott, samtidigt som de börjar studera vid universitet/högskola och så småningom tillägnar sig en examen. Semistrukturerade intervjuer användes för att kartlägga och undersöka de elitidrottande studenternas upplevelser. READ MORE

5. 3. Approaching the future : a study of Swedish school leavers' information related activities

   Author : Frances Hultgren; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; information seeking; career guidance; young people; transition;

   Abstract : The focus of the thesis is on how school leavers deal with the flood of information, advice and expectations that are directed towards them at a structurally induced turning point in their lives. With a departure point in Giddens’ claim that people select and interpret information on their own terms as a means of preserving coherent narratives of self-identity, stories of information seeking were examined as a means of gaining insight into how young people living in late modernity face its tensions and dilemmas in the ways in which they seek and use information. READ MORE

6. 4. Generations in motion : The transition in Hungary and the democratic change of regime, 1987-94

   Author : Annika Eliasson; Sociologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; political change; political sociology; Historical sociology; Hungary; change of regime; generations; transition; Sociologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation explains the transition - the change of political system from a one-party state to a multi-party system - in Hungary as the result of a generation change, where different generations with different historical experiences either lost or gained political capital. It also includes a review of what consequences the changes in the political field had for the intellectual and economic fields. READ MORE

7. 5. Lived transitions : experiences of learning and inclusion among newly arrived students

   Author : Jenny Nilsson Folke; Nihad Bunar; Karin Aronsson; Dympna Devine; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; lived transition; newly arrived students; post-migration ecology; lived school career; imagined school career; inclusion exclusion; in line out of line; in place out of place; embodied experiences; temporality; Child and Youth Science; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how newly arrived students experience conditions for learning and inclusion in their lived transitions within the Swedish school system. The thesis deploys an ethnographic approach combining interviews with participant observation. READ MORE