Search for dissertations about: "Learning Centres"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the words Learning Centres.
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1. Learning Destinations : The complexity of tourism development
Abstract : Our world is becoming increasingly complex, and is rapidly changingwith distances being reduced. Societies today are also in atransition from traditional production industries to increasingreliance on communication, consumption, services and experience. Asone of these emerging ‘new industries’, tourism is part of thismovement. READ MORE
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2. Lifelong learning : The social impact of digital villages as community resource centres on disadvantaged women
Abstract : The overall aim of this research was to enhance the understanding of what affects the social impact of ICT in lifelong learning on disadvantaged women.In contributing to the field of social informatics, this research employs behavioural theories as strategy and analytic possibilities. READ MORE
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3. Networks and Nodes : The Practices of Local Learning Centres
Abstract : This thesis focuses on the practice of local learning centres in Sweden. The aim is to describe and to establish an understanding of relations and the actor-networks that surround the practice. The thesis is based on four different studies. READ MORE
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4. The Missing Link in Learning in Science Centres
Abstract : Science centres have been identified as an important resource in encouraging teenagers to choose higher education in science and technology. This is of interest to society, since there seems to be a problem in getting sufficient numbers to do so. READ MORE
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5. Organising Regional Innovation Support : Sweden's Industrial Development Centres as Regional Development Coalitions
Abstract : This PhD dissertation examines the issues of institutional and policy learning often referred to in discussions about innovation policy in the literature on economic geography of innovation, systems of innovation, and learning regions. A central argument is that in order to enhance OUTknowledge of this learning dimension in innovation policy we need to focus on the level at which much innovation policy is organised and implemented, i. READ MORE