Search for dissertations about: "Curricula"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 88 swedish dissertations containing the word Curricula.

  2. 11. Facets of chemical bonding that enhance or encumber conceptual understanding

    Author : Anders Nimmermark; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; student surveys; chemical bonding; secondary school; tertiary education; coordination chemistry; conceptual understanding;

    Abstract : Chemical bonding is a vast subject, rich in abstract concepts and advanced and less-advanced explanatory models that the learner has to master. In this context, the teaching of chemical bonding at the secondary school level is extremely important, as it has the potential to increase or hinder students’ further understanding of bonding. READ MORE

  4. 12. Reconfiguring Environmental Sustainability in Early Childhood Education: a Post-anthropocentric Approach

    Author : Kassahun Weldemariam; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sustainability; Anthropocentrism; Post-qualitative research; Assemblage; Subjectivity; Affect; Ontology; Epistemology; Agency; Becoming-With; Distributed Agency; Materiality;

    Abstract : The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it explores how the notion of sustainability is conceptualized within early childhood education discourses and how it is manifested in early childhood curricula. Second, the dissertation examines post-anthropocentric possibilities of sustainability within early childhood education. READ MORE

  5. 13. Structure and methods of teaching in economic subjects : a comparative study of six countries towards models for curriculum development

    Author : Olle Westas; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The study aims at exploring international experience about methods of teaching general business/economic subjects and elementary accounting, with a special emphasis on the problem of structure, as to the upper secondary school level. It aims also at comparatively studying this experience and at developing curriculum models, based on the comparison, for structure (defined as the set of fundamental questions applied to the data of the subject for the learner to reflect upon) in teaching learning. READ MORE

  6. 14. Mathematical Reasoning : In physics and real-life context

    Author : Helena Johansson; Mats Andersson; Jesper Boesen; Morten Blomhøj; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Creative mathematical reasoning; Descriptive statistics; Differential item functioning; Figurative context; Imitative reasoning; Mathematical Reasoning Requirements; Mathematics tasks; National tests; Physics tasks; Real-life context; T-test; Upper secondary school; Creative mathematical reasoning; Descriptive statistics; Differential item functioning; Figurative context; Imitative reasoning; Mathematical Reasoning Requirements; Mathematics tasks; National tests; Physics tasks; Real-life context; T-test; Upper secondary school;

    Abstract : This thesis is a compilation of four papers in which mathematical reasoning is examined in various contexts, in which mathematics is an integral part. It is known from previous studies that a focus on rote learning and procedural mathematical reasoning hamper students’ learning of mathematics. READ MORE

  7. 15. A Transnational Study of Criticality in the History Learning Environment

    Author : Sergej Ivanov; Janet Enever; Rodney Jones; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; criticality; transnational; curriculum theory; policy; upper secondary; history; learning environment; comparative; language teaching and learning; språkdidaktik;

    Abstract : This study examines conceptions of criticality and its instruction in the History learning environ- ment in Sweden, Russia, and Australia as evidenced in one sample upper secondary class in each country. To achieve this, data were collected at macro, micro and meso levels. READ MORE