Search for dissertations about: "Pedagogy and didactics"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 54 swedish dissertations containing the words Pedagogy and didactics.

2. 16. A preschool that brings children into public spaces : Onto-epistemological research methods of vocal strolls, metaphors, mappings and preschool displacements

   Author : Christine Eriksson; Hillevi Lenz Taguchi; Monica Sand; Maggie MacLure; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; early childhood education; onto-epistemological research methods; site-specific art practices; construction of public space; vocal strolls; vocal mappings; displacements; metaphors as methods; democratic participation; Early Childhood Education; förskoledidaktik;

   Abstract : The interest of this doctoral thesis in early childhood education concerns the discourse on the need to integrate as well as include the youngest children in society. The overall purpose is to produce methodological experimentations on the possibilities of constructing a preschool which facilitates for preschool and preschool children to be present and take place in, and thereby participate in the construction of public spaces, together with other actors and the places themselves. READ MORE

4. 17. Critical Thinking in Scholarship: : Meanings, Conditions and Development

   Author : Eva Brodin; Lennart Svensson; Åsa Lindberg-Sand; Pedagogik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; critical thinking; scholarship; higher education; hermeneutic phenomenology; epistemology; educational philosophy; history of philosophy; Education; Pedagogik; Theory of science; Vetenskapsteori; Pedagogik; Pedagogics; Pedagogy and didactics; Phenomenology; Hermeneutic Phenomenology; Higher Education; Critical Thinking; Scholarship; Fenomenologi; Pedagogik; didaktik;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the phenomenon of critical thinking in scholarship as regards its meanings, conditions, and development using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. This exploration takes its departure in ancient Greece, following a historical movement of the phenomenon up to present day perspectives on critical thinking, revealing a range of different meanings and conditions. READ MORE

5. 18. (Re)harmonising the Academy: Integrating life-long learning and science communication in Swedish higher education

   Author : Maria Cervin-Ellqvist; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; self-regulated learning; science communication; metacognition; life-long learning; policy; higher education; generic skills; academic scholarship;

   Abstract : Higher education today performs a complex system of functions with a variety of goals and expectations, including research, teaching, and disseminating research to the surrounding society. It is however not always clear what these functions should entail, and how they should be played out. READ MORE

6. 19. Present absences : Exploring the posthumanist entanglements of school absenteeism

   Author : Linnea Bodén; Eva Reimers; Ann-Marie Markström; Maggie MacLure; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; school absenteeism; digital registration; software; practices; posthumanism; skolfrånvaro; digitala system; registrering; praktiker; posthumanism;

   Abstract : The aim of the study is to explore how school absenteeism as a material-discursive phenomenon is produced in the practices of humans and nonhumans, when absences and presences are registered and managed through digital technologies. How is the phenomenon of school absenteeism produced when absences and presences are digitally registered? How does the phenomenon of school absenteeism emerge when both human and nonhuman entanglements are included in the apparatuses of knowing?Through a posthumanist approach, the study engages empirically with two types of software for the registration of absences and presences at three Swedish schools. READ MORE

7. 20. Vocational English in policy and practice

   Author : Katarina Lindahl; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Vocational; English; policy enactment; upper secondary education; education policy; teachers’ influences; VOLL; Bernstein; framing; horizontal and vertical discourse; classification; Utbildning och lärande; Education and Learning; Vocational; English; policy enactment; upper secondary; education; education policy; teachers’ influences; VOLL; Bernstein; framing; horizontal and vertical discourse; classification;

   Abstract : The aim of this licentiate thesis is to examine how, and in what ways, vocational English is a part of English language teaching in the Building and Construc­tion Programme in Sweden, and what the influences are for such pedagogy. The main research question is how policy documents relate to the views of teachers and their educational practice regarding vocational English. READ MORE