Search for dissertations about: "Professional standards"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words Professional standards.

  2. 1. Managerial Dilemmas of a Borderland Position : Professional Standardization in the Swedish School-age Educare

    Author : Richard Andersson; Carl-Henrik Adolfsson; Per Lindqvist; Mette Liljenberg; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; educational reform; educational management; school improvement; school-age educare; sensemaking; professional standards; Pedagogics and Educational Sciences; Pedagogik och Utbildningsvetenskap;

    Abstract : The overarching aim of the thesis is to explore how local school management actors, i.e. school principals and municipal management staff, interpret and enact changes in their organizations following the demands and intentions derived from the teacher certification reform in Swedish School-age Educare. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Development and Use of Standards by Non-state Actors: A Study of the Dynamics of Regulating Sustainability Assurance

    Author : Amanda Sonnerfeldt; Institutionen för handelsrätt; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International standards on assurance engagements; Regulatory Space; Accountancy Profession; Decentred regulation; Standards; Non-state actors; Ustainability; Assurance;

    Abstract : Non-state actors have been increasingly engaged in regulation, operating and setting rules outside of, and parallel to, existing legal institutions. These “alternative to legal rules” have been increasingly influential in domestic law and policy, with growing evidence of them penetrating legal, professional, as well as social orders. READ MORE

  5. 3. 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

  6. 4. Transforming information into practical actions : A study of professional knowledge in the use of electronic patient records

    Author : Thomas Winman; Berner Lindström; Lars Svensson; Anne Moen; Högskolan Väst; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Electronic patient records; professional knowledge; decision making; work integrated learning; standardization; Pedagogik; Pedagogics; Arbetsintegrerat lärande; Work Integrated Learning;

    Abstract : Today, technologies are being introduced into historically established settings, which change the conditions for work as well as for work-integrated learning. In health care, electronic patient records (EPRs) has been implemented during the last decades to serve as a tool for planning, decision making and evaluation of care work. READ MORE

  7. 5. Making standards work : case studies of social and environmental standards in the clothing and catering supply chains

    Author : Ingrid Stigzelius; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Social and environmental standards can function as tools for companies that want to improve their conduct in social and environmental areas in the supply chain. However, relatively little attention has been given to how the adoption of social and environmental standards may influence the actual business practices in the supply chain. READ MORE