Search for dissertations about: "School competition"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 94 swedish dissertations containing the words School competition.
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1. School Choice, School Performance and School Segregation : Institutions and Design
Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained chapters. The first chapter, Are Parents Uninformed? – The Impact of School Performance Information on School Choice Behavior and Student Assignment, is co-authored by Elsisabet Olme. We investigate the effects of school performance information on school choice behavior and student assignment. READ MORE
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2. Negotiating school identities : a multimodal analysis of upper secondary school promotion on the web
Abstract : The research interests of this doctoral thesis are the mediated ways of presenting and promoting Swedish upper secondary schools on the web to attract students. The thesis studies the rationale of schools’ strategically designed attempts to reach out with their educational offers in a highly competitive school market. READ MORE
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3. Icons of New Public Management : four studies on competition, contracts and control
Abstract : Public organizations have undergone major changes over the past few decades. The umbrella term used to characterize these changes in the style of public administration is ‘New Public Management’ (NPM). READ MORE
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4. School Leaders' View on Market Forces and Decentralisation : Case Studies in a Swedish municipality and an English County
Abstract : The overall aim of this study is to describe and analyse some of the consequences of market forces and decentralisation in the educational systems of Sweden and England.Since the 1980s, many countries have restructured their educational systems and introduced decentralisation and market forces. READ MORE
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5. Creativity in the School Context
Abstract : The main aim of the present investigation was to highlight middle childhood creativity, and the children’s perspective on creativity, in contrast to many, if not most, studies that investigate creativity from an adult perspective and a scholarly definition. This dissertation consists of two quasi-experimental studies, and one interview study. READ MORE