Search for dissertations about: "Educational inequality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 49 swedish dissertations containing the words Educational inequality.

2. 1. 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

4. 2. Exploring socioeconomic inequality in educational opportunity and outcomes in Sweden and beyond

   Author : Victoria Rolfe; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; inequality; socioeconomic status; opportunity to learn; student achievement; teacher characteristics; TIMSS; PISA;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis aims to explore Sweden’s achievement gap in international assessment and how this may have developed in the context of a network of educational inequalities. Theoretically grounded in the Model of Potential Educational Experiences (Schmidt, Raizen, Britton, Bianchi, & Wolfe, 1997), the thesis investigates how the relationship between the intended and attained curriculum is moderated by actions at the classroom level. READ MORE

5. 3. Differentiation, didactics and inequality: How rich and poor populations are educatied for sustainability

   Author : Linus Bylund; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; biopolitics; didactics; differentiation; ESD; geography of education; inequality; ; education for sustainable development;

   Abstract : In recent decades, education for sustainable development (ESD) has gained prominence as an urgent educational imperative. Although ESD is championed by UNESCO as contributing to a just, and sustainable future, the question remains open whether it is possible to address all of humanity in a just and equitable manner in a highly unequal world. READ MORE

6. 4. Inequality, Health, and Smoking

   Author : Gustav Kjellsson; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Health Inequality; Inequality measurement; Smoking; Survey Methods; Health survey; Hospitalization; Recall error; Recall periods; Concentration index; bounded variables;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of five self-contained, yet related, research papers, which all contribute to the economic literature on socioeconomic differences in health and health related behavior. The first two papers provide a compass in the discussion of how to measure health inequality and, more specifically, how to adjust measures and concepts when moving from an unbounded income variable to a bounded (or binary) health variable. READ MORE

7. 5. Inequality and Uneven Development in Ghana

   Author : Prince Young Aboagye; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cocoa; Inequality; Education; Expenditure; Fiscal Capacity; Taxation;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the extent and evolution of income and educational inequality, as well as governments’ tax and expenditure policies and their implications for inequality in Ghana over the long-term. The results of the dissertation are presented in four-thematically related papers. READ MORE