Search for dissertations about: "Compulsory Schooling"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words Compulsory Schooling.

  2. 6. Backstage pedagogy : Compulsory school pupils’ informal social strategies when dealing with formal individual writing assignments for assessment

    Author : Charlotta Rönn; Peter Erlandson; Corrado Matta; Marianne Dovemark; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; assessment; audio-visual recordings; classroom research; curriculum; digital technology; equality of grading; ethnography; formative assessment; grades; informal social strategies; Goffman; National tests; New Public Management; pupil’s perspective; semi-structured interviews; summative assessment; Education; Pedagogik;

    Abstract : Over the last decades, formal schooling has changed towards an enhanced focus on the individual pupil’s achievements. This comprises formative assessment such as visualizing pupils’ learning processes, as well as summative assessment in terms of increased number and importance of National tests. READ MORE

  4. 7. What the Right to Eduation Is, and What It Ought to Be : Towards a Social Ontology of Eduction as a Human Right

    Author : Christian Norefalk; Johan Dahlbeck; Johan Brännmark; Tristan McCowan; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; Human Rights; Social Ontology; Ameliorative conceptual analysis;

    Abstract : During the second half of the 20th century education has been recognized as a human right in several international conventions, and the UN also holds that “Education shall be free” and that “Elementary education shall be compulsory” (UN, 1948, Article 26).The education-as-a-human right-project could be viewed as a good intention of global inclusion in recognizing that all individuals have a right to education in virtue of being humans, and the idea of education as a human right thus has a tremendous global significance. READ MORE

  5. 8. Essays on the Transmission of Human Capital and the Impact of Technological Change

    Author : Adrian Adermon; Mikael Lindahl; Magnus Gustavsson; Markus Jäntti; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; intergenerational mobility; sibling correlations; natural experiment; copyright; music; movies; file sharing; piracy; inequality; job polarization; task-biased technological change; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Essay 1: If grandparents have an independent impact on their grandchildren's schooling, intergenerational correlations estimated using two generations will underestimate the true level of intergenerational persistence in education. Recent research has found such multi-generational effects, but there is still no consensus on whether these estimates are due to a direct impact of grandparents on their grandchildren, or if they arise because of measurement error or model misspecification. READ MORE

  6. 9. Growing up with poor health and managing school : Studies on ill health and young people's educational achievements

    Author : Cristian Bortes; Veronica Lövgren; Mattias Strandh; Per-Åke Rosvall; Stephanie Plenty; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Educational acchievements; Health; Bidirectionality; Family; Parents; Siblings; Register data; Sociology; sociologi; psykiatri; Psychiatry; Public health; folkhälsa;

    Abstract : Aim and objectives: The overall aim of this thesis was to empirically investigate consequences of poor health for children’s educational outcomes in Sweden. A central tenet is that health problems impact not only the afflicted individual but also people in their social and emotional proximity, in particular immediate family members. READ MORE

  7. 10. Mathematics achievement of early and newly immigrated students in different topics of mathematics

    Author : Jöran Petersson; Eva Norén; Gudrun Brattström; Markku Hannula; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; achievement profile; grade 9; mathematics achievement; mathematics education; second language learners; statistics literacy; student as-sessment; matematikämnets didaktik; Mathematics Education;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explore the mathematics achievement of second language immigrants in compulsory school as they continue their schooling in Sweden. Specifically, the thesis aims to generate more knowledge about different sub-categories of second language students, namely newly arrived immigrants, early arrived immigrants and other second language students in compulsory school. READ MORE