Search for dissertations about: "Science Education"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 534 swedish dissertations containing the words Science Education.
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11. Science, Language, and Literacy : Case Studies of Learning in Swedish University Physics
Abstract : This thesis presents an investigation of undergraduate student learning with respect to physics lectures attended in English and Swedish. The work studies three connected areas: student learning patterns, bilingual scientific literacy and disciplinary discourse. READ MORE
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12. Figuring Worlds; Imagining Paths : A Feminist Exploration of Identities in Higher Education Biology
Abstract : Higher education biology is a natural science discipline that is numerically female biased on undergraduate level across most international contexts. In Sweden, Germany, and the UK, for example, more than 60% of all undergraduate students are women. READ MORE
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13. Staging Science : Some aspects of the production and distribution of science knowledge
Abstract : The dissertation presents a phenomenological view on the interaction between science knowledge and prescientific knowledge. Drawing on Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Lévinas the human bodily grounded existence is described, the central feature of this existence being its responsivity to the Other. READ MORE
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14. Taste for Science : How can teaching make a difference for students’ interest in science?
Abstract : The objective of the thesis is to describe and analyse aspects of home background and teaching that may be important for students’ capability and will to participate in science. The purpose is to make explicit how teaching can support students in developing an interest in science and so counter-balance the restricted opportunities some students may have due to upbringing. READ MORE
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15. Becomings of Swedish secondary sexuality education : Enactments in natural science subjects and interdisciplinary teaching about pornography
Abstract : This thesis is about Swedish secondary sexuality education with a particular focus on the becomings of natural science and pornography education. Recent scrutiny of the knowledge area has stressed the need for teaching to include student perspectives, cover more than mere medical and biological knowledge, and be more affirmative. READ MORE