Search for dissertations about: "Maria Törnqvist"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Maria Törnqvist.

  2. 1. Forming EU-professionals : Geopolitical and Symbolic Hierarchies at the College of Europe

    Author : Sara Lindberg; Mikael Börjesson; Maria Törnqvist; Andreas Melldahl; Muriel Darmon; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Europe; Internationalisation; Higher Education; Socialisation; Geopolitical Hierarchies; Utbildningssociologi; Sociology of Education;

    Abstract : The aim of the thesis is to understand how international educational processes and practices enable the formation of student dispositions related to Europe and the EU labour market. The College of Europe, located in Bruges, Belgium, is a postgraduate independent private institution. READ MORE

  4. 2. Turning Privilege Into Merit : Elite Schooling, Identity, and the Reproduction of Meritocratic Belief

    Author : Max Persson; Stina Bergman Blix; Maria Törnqvist; Sam Friedman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; elites; elite schooling; identity; ideology; meritocracy; meritocratic belief; justification; privilege; inequality; exclusion; inclusion; belonging; non-belonging; school segregation; socialization; reproduction; frame analysis; identity frames; meritocratic frame; privilege frame; ethnography; Sweden; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : Previous research on meritocratic ideology and elite adolescent identity has mainly approached it from the outside, understanding meritocratic identity as a rhetorical cover to justify privilege. Through a frame analytic approach this study nurtures a phenomenological insider perspective, exploring through a one-year ethnography how adolescents at an elite high school experience, negotiate and perform identity in the tension between the school’s institutional definition of identity and their everyday life as young adults. READ MORE

  5. 3. Playing with the Global : Family Dynamics and International Education in a Marketised Preschool Landscape

    Author : Jennifer Waddling; Emil Bertilsson; Håkan Forsberg; Maria Törnqvist; Agnès van Zanten; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology of education; international preschools; preschool choice; parenting cultures; family dynamics; Utbildningssociologi; Sociology of Education;

    Abstract : The surge in popularity of international schools around the world has extended to the domain of Early Childhood Education and Care. In the past few decades, international preschools have be­come more commonplace in marketised educational contexts. READ MORE