Search for dissertations about: "adult education"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 221 swedish dissertations containing the words adult education.

  2. 6. Literacy and development : A study of Yemissrach Dimts literacy campaign in Ethiopia

    Author : Margareta Sjöström; Rolf Sjöström; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Adult; education; Development; Education for women; Ethiopia; Evaluation; Literacy; Literacy methods; Motivation; Rural education;

    Abstract : The problem of illiteracy has been the object of many studies during recent decades. In Ethiopia, a country which reports one of the lowest literacy rates in Africa, the Yemissrach Dimts Literacy Campaign (YDLC) was started in 1962. Its activities were concentrated to rural areas and directed primarily towards adults. READ MORE

  4. 7. The past and the future in the present : Kenyan adult immigrants' stories on orientation and adult education in Sweden

    Author : Joyce Kemuma; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; Life hi stories; narratives; habitus; wage employment; educational and occupational experiences; Pedagogik; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to find out how adult migrants with biographical experiences from Kenya orient themselves in Sweden.Taking an individual perspective (how individuals orient themselves as opposed to what the state does to deal with a group of immigrants), and by using life (hi)story approach and reconstructing experiences on how individual adult immigrants orient themselves, this dissertation analyses the role educational and working experiences from Kenya play in the way the participants orient themselves. READ MORE

  5. 8. Formal education and adult earnings : a longitudinal study on the economic benefits of education

    Author : Ingemar Fägerlind; Stockholms universitet; []
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  6. 9. Essays on Inequality and Education

    Author : Erika Ekström; Per-Anders Edin; Peter Fredriksson; Arne Bigsten; Paul Gregg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Income distribution; Discrimination; Namibia; Vocational education; University enrolment; Unemployment; Adult education; Wage earnings; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of an introduction and four self-contained essays.Essay I examines the contribution of socio-economic variables to Namibian income inequality. I examine the extent to which total income inequality is due to within-group inequality or between-group inequality. Income inequality in Namibia ranks among the highest in the world. READ MORE

  7. 10. The "strangers" among us : The social construction of identity in adult education

    Author : Ali Osman; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Adult education; ethnicity; culture; multiculturalism; social constructionism.;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to critically examine the labelling practices in the multicultural discourse in two adult education settings. The theoretical perspective used in order to understand and interpret the actors' labelling practices is social constructionism. READ MORE