Search for dissertations about: "intercultural education"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words intercultural education.

2. 1. What Role of God and National Curriculum in School life? : A Comparative Study of Schools with a Muslim Profile in England and Sweden

   Author : Åsa Brattlund; Holger Daun; Geoffrey Walford; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Islamic school; Muslim; Muslim school; Primary school; comparative study; International Education; independent school; school leader; intercultural; confessional school; faith school; religious education; confessional; school head; islamiska skolor; muslim; muslimska skolor; grundskolor; jämförande studie; internationell pedagogik; interkulturell; konfessionella skolor; religiösa skolor; skolledare; International education; Internationell pedagogik; internationell pedagogik; International Education; comparative; islamisk skola; muslimsk skola; grundskola; friskola; fristående skola; konfessionell skola; religiös skola; religionsundervisning; konfessionell; Didactics; didaktik;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of principles and ethics that dominate four schools with a Muslim profile, two in Sweden and two in England.The specific objectives of the study are:  to examine educational policies with regard to primary schools with a confessional orientation in Sweden and England; to compare two primary schools with a Muslim profile in Sweden with two such schools in England; and in these four schools to describe and examine the manner in which school heads, teachers and other staff deal with the encounters between the values found in the national curriculum of Sweden and England respectively and the principles and ethics embodied in their private philosophy of life; to describe and examine the views of school heads, teachers and other staff on school leadership and any educational, ideological or personal role model they emulate; to describe and examine the expectations and views of parents with regard to the school with a Muslim profile; and describe the views of the pupils regarding their schools and the norms and values in school and; finally, to examine the attitudes of some local authority politicians in Sweden to MP schools. READ MORE

4. 2. The Oral University. Attitudes to music teaching and learning in the Gambia

   Author : Eva Saether; Musikhögskolan i Malmö; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; multicultural; Music education; intercultural; orality; jali; the Gambia; Pedagogik; Pedagogy and didactics; Teacher education; didaktik; Lärarutbildning;

   Abstract : The present study seeks to examine attitudes to teaching and learning among jalis in the Gambia. Although this is the main focus, the horizon of which the study is carried out, analysed and discussed, is the development of music teacher education in Sweden during the last three decades, and of which I have been a participant. READ MORE

5. 3. The School as a Moral Arena : Constitutive values and deliberation in Swedish curriculum practice

   Author : Katarina Norberg; David Hamilton; Pirjo Lahdenperä; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; Constitutive values; curriculum; moral; schooling; intercultural education; multicultural school; Pedagogik; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : This thesis’ main theme is the relation between school practices and the constitutive values explicitly endorsed in the Swedish national curriculum. It consists of four articles. Article I examines the new educational circumstances in a multicultural society. READ MORE

6. 4. Internationalisation at home? Home and international students' integration into engineering education

   Author : Becky Bergman; Chalmers University of Technology; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; engineering education; international students; intercultural group work; home students; integration; intercultural competence; internationalisation at home;

   Abstract : Internationalisation is a strategy for over 90 percent of universities and student mobility is a key part of that strategy. At the same time, home and international students do not tend to mix. READ MORE

7. 5. Enhancing intercultural communication in teaching chinese as a foreign language : An action research study

   Author : Wei Hing Ip; Shui Duen Chan; Xu Shi; Yuet Hung Cecilia Chan; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Intercultural communication; Chinese as a foreign language education; language acquisition; action research; flipped classroom approach; culture in language learning; Intercultural Studies; Interkulturella studier;

   Abstract : Over the past few decades, the rapid development of information communication technology, internationalization and globalization worldwide have required a shift in the focus of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) towards competence in intercultural communication in which the role of culture in the acquisition of CFL and in the pragmatic use of the language is emphasized and promoted. However, most of the current research in this academic area remains only on a theoretical level. READ MORE