Search for dissertations about: "education of biology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 swedish dissertations containing the words education of biology.

  2. 1. Figuring Worlds; Imagining Paths : A Feminist Exploration of Identities in Higher Education Biology

    Author : Katerina Pia Günter; Annica Gullberg; Ingrid Ahnesjö; Karin S. Lindelöf; Maria Berge; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Biology Education; Communities of Practice; Discourse Analysis; Feminist Science Studies; Figured Worlds; Gender; Higher Education; Science Education; Science Identity; Genusvetenskap; Gender Studies; Pedagogik; Education; Biologi; 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

  4. 2. Staging Science : Some aspects of the production and distribution of science knowledge

    Author : Piotr Szybek; Pedagogik; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; hermeneutics; phenomenology; philosophy of education; history and philosophy of science; ethical and political aspects; science curriculum; school science; Education; science education; life-world; Pedagogy and didactics; Pedagogik; didaktik;

    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

  5. 3. Bilingual subject-specific literacies? Teachers’ and learners’ views and experiences of two school languages in biology, civics, history and mathematics : Case studies from the Swedish upper secondary school

    Author : Ylva Sandberg; Tore Nilsson; Inger Lindberg; Liss Kerstin Sylvén; Jenny Wiksten Folkeryd; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Teacher and learner cognition; CLIL; subject-specific literacies; språkdidaktik; Language Education;

    Abstract : This licentiate thesis investigates teachers’ and students’ cognitions of bilingual subject-specific literacies. The thesis builds on three different studies, referred to as case studies, conducted in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) study programmes in the Swedish upper secondary school. READ MORE

  6. 4. Students’ meaning-making of epigenetic visual representations : An exploration within and between levels of biological organization

    Author : Annika Thyberg; Konrad Schönborn; Niklas Gericke; Clas Olander; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Biological organization levels; Genetics education; Learning progression; Meaning-making of epigenetics; Secondary school; Visual representations; Yo-yo reasoning; Biology; Biologi;

    Abstract : This thesis explores lower secondary students’ meaning-making of epigenetic visual representations within and between biological organization levels. Data obtained from five focus group discussions where students indicated and reasoned about eight epigenetic visual representations were explored. READ MORE

  7. 5. Integrated and Subject-specific : An empirical exploration of Science education in Swedish compulsory school

    Author : I. Maria Åström; Karl-Göran Karlsson; Lars Owe Dahlgren; Björn Andersson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Science education; international studies; PISA; curriculum integration; Education; Pedagogik; Subject didactics; didactics of natural science;

    Abstract : This thesis is an explorative experimental study in two parts of different ways of organising Science education in the Swedish context. The first study deals with the question if students attain higher scores on test results if they have been working with integrated Science compared to subject-specific Science i.e. Biology, Chemistry and Physics. READ MORE