Search for dissertations about: "Qualification"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 52 swedish dissertations containing the word Qualification.

2. 6. The institutionalisation of validation and the transformation of vocational knowledge : The case of admission into Vocational Teacher Education in Sweden

   Author : Maria C. Johansson; Per Lindqvist; Lazaro Moreno Herrera; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agency; competence; institutional arrangements; institutional conditions; institutionalisation; validation; vocational knowledge; qualification framework; Pedagogics and Educational Sciences; Pedagogik och Utbildningsvetenskap;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to understand the validation of vocational knowledge prior to entry into vocational teacher education in Sweden with regard to conceptions and understandings of vocational knowledge, and also to understand how institutional conditions, such as ideas of how to organise validation, influence the content and form of the validation practice. From this aim the following research questions were developed: What ideas about the organisation of validation stand out in the policy and practice of validation? What conceptions and understandings of vocational knowledge is the organisation of validation built on and what do they entail? Who has the agency to describe and decide upon vocational knowledge in the policy and practice of validation? What institutional arrangements appear in the practice of validation?To conduct the studies in the thesis a multimethods approach was adopted, combining policy analysis and interviews. READ MORE

4. 7. It's who you know and what you know : exploring the relationship between education and prejudice in adolescence

   Author : Lena Werner; Mikael Hjerm; Ingemar Johansson Sevä; Maureen A. Eger; Pieter Bevelander; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anti-immigrant attitudes; education; critical thinking; multicultural education; teacher qualification; intergroup contact theory; secondary transfer effects; friendship; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : Background: Previous studies have consistently identified an association between higher levels of education and lower levels of anti-immigrant sentiment, but the underlying reasons for this relationship remain unclear. Therefore, this research aims to help explain why education matters for attitudes toward immigrants. READ MORE

5. 8. Physical and psychosocial occupational strain

   Author : Gunvor Gard; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Physiotherapy; Sjukgymnastik;

   Abstract : This monography thesis is based on five empirical studies of physical and psychosocial occupational strain in working life. The first three studies concern the working environment of crane couplers. READ MORE

6. 9. Academic Performance in Swedish Ninth Grade Students Treated for Brain Tumours

   Author : Malin Lönnerblad; Eva Berglund; Klas Blomgren; Ingrid van’t Hooft; Lisa Thorell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; School performance; academic performance; brain tumour; academic grades; national tests; delayed graduation; theoretical subjects; practical and aesthetic subjects; specialpedagogik; Special Education;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate how children in Sweden treated for brain tumours performed in their ninth year at school compared with matched controls. The studies investigated grades and results from national tests in the theoretical subjects of Swedish, English, and mathematics; grades in the practical and aesthetic subjects of art, crafts, music, home and consumer studies, physical education and health; and the frequency of delayed graduation and qualification for school years 10-12 (corresponding to upper-secondary school or high school). READ MORE

7. 10. Comparative Studies of Vocational Education and Training

   Author : Hrvoje Kap; Ola Sjöberg; Christian Helms Jørgensen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; vocational education and training; educational programme; comparative; life chances; rights; contracts; opportunity; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : The thesis consists of an introduction and three studies, which are comparative sociological and institutional analyses of a number of countries' publicly regulated vocational education and training systems at upper secondary and post-secondary level. Official regulation of programme content and curricula - the main empirical material - is interpreted, and focus is directed on aspects which distinguish between, among others, general and vocational elements of teaching, learning and training. READ MORE