Search for dissertations about: "Educational inequalities"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 55 swedish dissertations containing the words Educational inequalities.

  2. 1. Education, Stratification and Reform : Educational Institutions in Comparative Perspective

    Author : Marcus Österman; Joakim Palme; Karl-Oskar Lindgren; Jan Teorell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Detracking; Education; Educational institutions; Educational inequalities; Education policy; Educational reform; Educational systems; Equality; Political economy; Political Parties; Social Trust; Tracking; Vocational education; Vocational training; Varieties of Capitalism; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : The main argument of this thesis is that research has to take the institutional character of education seriously. Educational institutions carry considerable weight for outcomes of education and their design is a matter of intense political debate. READ MORE

  4. 2. Participation and performance in primary schooling : a study of equality of educational opportunity in Mauritius

    Author : Vinayagum Chinapah; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mauritius; Primary Education; Educational Equality; School Participation; Scholastic Performance; Learning Environments; LISREL Method; PLS Method; Latent Variables; Path Analysis;

    Abstract : The aim of the study is to examine the extent to which policies formulated to ensure equality of educational opportunity have been implemented at the primary school level in Mauritius.Universal free primary education was achieved during the early 1970s. READ MORE

  5. 3. Carleman type inequalities and Hardy type inequalities for monotone functions

    Author : Maria Johansson; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Matematik; Mathematics; Mathematics Education; Matematik och lärande;

    Abstract : This Ph.D. thesis deals with various generalizations of the inequalities by Carleman, Hardy and Polya-Knopp. In Chapter 1 we give an introduction and overview of the area that serves as a frame for the rest of the thesis. READ MORE

  6. 4. Inequality in Educational Outcomes : How Aspirations, Performance, and Choice Shape School Careers in Sweden

    Author : Frida Rudolphi; Jan O. Jonsson; Michael Gähler; Anthony Heath; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; achievement; aspirations; attainment; educational choice; ethnic inequality; performance; social origin; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : This thesis examines different aspects of educational inequalities, drawing on the notion that inequality in educational attainment depends on two separate mechanisms: that children from advantaged social backgrounds perform better at school (primary effects) and tend more than others to choose to continue in education given performance (secondary effects). Study I shows that the long-term decrease in social class inequality in the transition from compulsory to academic upper secondary education since the middle of the mid-20th century up to the late 1990s, seems to be related to both declining primary and secondary effects. READ MORE

  7. 5. Inequalities in Health : the Importance of Material/Structural Factors and Psychosocial Resources

    Author : Fredrik Granström; Margareta Kristenson; Anu Molarius; Peter Garvin; Urban Janlert; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Socioeconomic inequalities in health are well-documented in most countries. Health differences have been shown to follow a gradient, where health status in average is somewhat poorer for every lower level in the social hierarchy. Notably, the welfare state Sweden is no exception. READ MORE