Search for dissertations about: "STUDENTS PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL"

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2. 1. Vocational Teachers’ Professional Competence at the Intersection of Two Regimes of Competence : The case of Sweden

   Author : Sofia Antera; Marianne Teräs; Staffan Nilsson; Helena Rehn; Nokelainen Petri; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; vocational teachers; professional competence; school principals; VET in Sweden; Communities of Practice; yrkeslärare; yrkeskompetens; rektor; yrkesutbildning i Sverige; praktikgemenskap; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : The high demand for vocational teachers in Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Sweden has led to their recruitment in the early stages of vocational teacher studies. Entering into this new community of practice, vocational teachers tend to bring in experience from their previous occupational practice. READ MORE

4. 2. Margins of Prevention : - On Older Adolescents' Positive and Negative Beliefs about Illicit Drug Use

   Author : Patrik Karlsson; Anders Bergmark; Edle Ravndal; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Illicit drugs; adolescents; prevention; margins for change; beliefs; perceptions; expectancies; positive; negative; risk; pleasure; Sweden; Social work; Socialt arbete;

   Abstract : This study explores older adolescents’ positive and negative beliefs about illicit drug use from a preventive perspective. By positive beliefs is meant positive expectancies and benefit perceptions. By negative beliefs is meant negative expectancies and risk perceptions. READ MORE

5. 3. Students’ Reasoning about Learning and Well-being in School : On the epistemic privilege of Swedish early adolescent students

   Author : Ylva Backman; Karin Sporre; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : The recent emphasis on performance in standardized testing of Swedish students is visible in reports from both national and international agencies. According to the reports, there has been a steep decline in the internationally measured performance of Swedish students in school since the 1990s. READ MORE

6. 4. Students’ experiences and perceptions of good teaching practice

   Author : Kyriaki Doumas; Pedagogik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Students’ experiences; in-depth teaching and understanding; approaches; dialogic teaching; involved teaching; literature teaching; physics teaching; phenomenography; contextual analysis; eros pedagogy; upper secondary education; Greek education;

   Abstract : Through in-depth interviews, students’ experiences and perceptions of good teaching practice in literature and physics during one school year were investigated in eight upper secondary classes of the first, second and third years in Greece. Students’ feelings of joy, pleasure and personal meaning in the teaching and learning situation were in focus of the research. READ MORE

7. 5. Motivation, students, and the classroom environment : exploring the role of Swedish students’ achievement goals in chemistry

   Author : Anders Hofverberg; Mikael T. Winberg; Ewa Bergqvist; Ilka Parchmann; Corwin Senko; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Motivation; achievement goals; chemistry; goal structures; epistemic beliefs; autonomous motivation; pedagogiskt arbete; educational work; education; pedagogik; kemididaktik; didactics of chemistry;

   Abstract : The overarching aim of this thesis is to deepen the knowledge about students’ achievement goals in chemistry and how they relate to students’ epistemic beliefs (beliefs about knowledge) and to their perceptions of classroom goal structures (instructional practices that emphasize certain achievement goals). Achievement goals are defined as the purpose behind students’ engagement in achievement behavior. READ MORE