Search for dissertations about: "Western type of education"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words Western type of education.
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1. An Afghan Dilemma: Education, Gender and Globalisation in an Islamic Context
Abstract : Afghanistan has a long history of Islamic education while Western type of education (maktab) is of more recent date. The latter type of education has expanded rapidly recently. However, girls’ enrolment remains low, around 35 per cent.The present study examines children’s, particularly girls’, participation in the two educational systems. READ MORE
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2. Too Hot! : an Epidemiological Investigation of Weather-Related Mortality in Rural India
Abstract : BackgroundMost environmental epidemiological studies are conducted in high income settings. The association between ambient temperature and mortality has been studied worldwide, especially in developed countries. READ MORE
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3. Healthcare-seeking behaviour and management of type 2 diabetes in Uganda : Perspectives of persons with diabetes, traditional healers and healthcare providers
Abstract : Healthcare-seeking behaviour is important as it determines acceptance ofhealthcare and outcomes of chronic conditions, but it has been investigated to alimited extent, and not in developing countries. The overall aim was to explorehow persons with type 2 diabetes seek care to manage diabetes using differenthealthcare providers including the use of complementary alternative medicine andtraditional healers in Uganda. READ MORE
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4. Entrepreneurship in Russia: Western Ideas in Russian Translation
Abstract : Aim of this thesis is to outline, both historically and in our own time, the development of entrepreneurship in Russia, a country where the very existence of the phenomenon has for a long period of time been either denied or confined to the margins of illegality and semi-legality. The primary focus of this work is on the emergence of a new generation of entrepreneurs that came to thrive in the 1990s, the most turbulent but also the most promising years of Russia’s economic, political, and social transformation. READ MORE
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5. Att säkra framtidens skördar : Barndom, skola och arbete i agrar miljö : Bolstad pastorat 1860-1930
Abstract : This study deals with the interpretation and explanation of organized resistance to prolonged compulsory schooling in agrarian settings in Sweden at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. The area of investigation is the four parishes of Bolstad in Western Sweden. READ MORE