Search for dissertations about: "Ethnic minority education"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words Ethnic minority education.
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1. New methods of teaching? : refroming education in Lao PDR
Abstract : This thesis is about the recent education reform in Laos as a global and a local process. When the economy was deteriorating in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), the so called New Economic Mechanism (NEM) was introduced and the country opened up for global donors and markets. This also had an effect on the education system. READ MORE
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2. Between Modern Schooling and Cultural Heritage : Education and Ethnicity in Southwest China
Abstract : Since the late 1970s, China has experienced remarkable socioeconomic development. The trend towards marketisation and modernisation overturned culturally-rooted lifestyles, and more and more ethnic minorities in China have started to regard their traditional cultures as irrelevant to their livelihoods and future and chosen to move away from them. READ MORE
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3. Who can save the unseen? : Studies on neonatal mortality in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam
Abstract : Globally, neonatal mortality has remained basically unchanged for the last three to four decades and every year almost four million newborns die before reaching one month of age. This persistent mortality is related to an invisibility of the newborn child in policies and statistics and a neglect of health care decision-makers, planners and practitioners to deliver a perinatal continuum of care. READ MORE
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4. Inequality in Educational Outcomes : How Aspirations, Performance, and Choice Shape School Careers in Sweden
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
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5. Empirical Essays on Wage Setting and Immigrant Labor Market Opportunities
Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Essay 1: This essay estimates wage assimilation among non-western immigrants in Sweden, controlling for selection into employment by including individual fixed effects. READ MORE