Search for dissertations about: "Model Development in Education"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 232 swedish dissertations containing the words Model Development in Education.

  2. 1. Teaching in an age of complexity : exploring academic change and development in higher education

    Author : Claire Englund; Anders D. Olofsson; Linda Price; Shirley Booth; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Higher Education; Academic Development; Educational Technology; Conceptions of Teaching and Learning; Cultural-Historical Activity Theory; Change and Development; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : Higher education (HE) has expanded and diversified at an unprecedented rate over the last two decades in response to a rapidly changing educational and political climate. Change and development are omnipresent, a constant part of university teachers’ sociocultural and organisational practice at multiple levels; the micro-level, the meso-level and the macro-level Against this background, the aim of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that influence academic change. READ MORE

  4. 2. Exploring the identity of a group of Assyrian/Syriac young adolescents in Sweden : A mixed-methods study within the discipline of Psychology of Religion and the research field of Identity Development

    Author : Victor Dudas; Önver A. Cetrez; Valerie DeMarinis; Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; identity development; religion; education; best friends; Assyrians Syriacs; Psychology of Religion; Religionspsykologi;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this study was to explore the identity of a group of Assyrian/Syriac young adolescents (N=74; age: 9-15 yrs.) at two schools in Södertälje, Sweden. Being a sequential mixed-methods study, a quantitative phase preceded a qualitative phase. READ MORE

  5. 3. The educational challenge in "education for sustainable development" : qualification, social change and the political

    Author : Helen Hasslöf; Kerstin Sonesson; Margareta Ekborg; Claes Malmberg; Iann Lundegård; Johan Öhman; Malmö högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; environmental education EE ; education for sustainable development ESD ; discourse theory; subjectification; teachers meaning making; functions of education;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as an overarching perspective makes meaningof educational aims and purposes. Sustainable development, as a concept, is by necessity complex, and deals withintegrated dimensions of environmental, social-cultural and economic sustainability. READ MORE

  6. 4. Development and Autonomy : Conceptualising teachers’ continuing professional development in different national contexts

    Author : Wieland Wermke; Viveca Lindberg; Tore West; Karin Rönnerman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Teachers continuing professional development; CPD; Teacher autonomy; Teacher professionalism; Comparative education; Germany; Sweden; Didactics; didaktik;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates teachers’ perceptions of continuing professional development (CPD) in Germany and Sweden with a questionnaire study comprising a total of 711 mainly lower secondary teachers. Three conceptual terms are elaborated and explained. READ MORE

  7. 5. Exploring the dual nature of engineering education : Opportunities and challenges in integrating the academic and professional aspects in the curriculum

    Author : Kristina Edström; Anette Kolmos; Frederik V. Christiansen; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; engineering education; professional education; dual nature; engineering education development; CDIO Initiative; CDIO approach; CDIO Standards; PBL; engineering education research; Carl Richard Söderberg; organisational gravity; institutional logics; Technology and Learning; Teknik och lärande;

    Abstract : Engineering education is both academic, emphasising theory in a range of subjects, and professional, preparing students for engineering practice. Ideally, these aspects are also in a meaningful relationship in the curriculum, but the dual nature ideal is simultaneously a source of tensions. READ MORE