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2. 1. Greening education : Prospects and conditions in Tanzania

   Author : Valdy Lindhe; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; Environmental education; education for sustainability; frame factors; Education for Self-Reliance; teachers thinking; developing countries; Tanzania; Pedagogik; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : Environmental education in Tanzania after independence takes the Education for Self-Reliance policy as its starting point. This policy dominated the curriculum from 1967 to the 1980s. READ MORE

4. 2. New methods of teaching? : refroming education in Lao PDR

   Author : Kongsy Chounlamany; Bounchanh Khounphilaphanh; Britt-Marie Berge; Ann-Louise Silfver; Marianne Bloch; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : education; reform; new methods of teaching; student-centred education; gender; ethnicity; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Education; pedagogik;

   Abstract : This thesis is about the recent education reform in Laos as a global and a local process. When the economy was deteriorating in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), the so called New Economic Mechanism (NEM) was introduced and the country opened up for global donors and markets. This also had an effect on the education system. READ MORE

5. 3. 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

6. 4. Education and Fertility : Dynamic Interrelations between Women’s Educational Level, Educational Field and Fertility in Sweden

   Author : Karin Tesching; Gunnar Andersson; Ronald R. Rindfuss; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; educational level; educational field; fertility; Sweden; Demography; demografi;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses three aspects of the link between a woman’s educational trajectory and her childbearing behaviour. Special attention is paid to educational field as a further dimension of education next to educational enrolment and educational level. READ MORE

7. 5. Learner support for distance learners : A study of six cases of ICT-based distance education institutions in China

   Author : Shuting Gao; Vinayagum Chinapah; Shangwu Zhao; Chang Zhu; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Learner support; student support; support services; peer support; learner center; collaborative learning; interaction; motivation; critical thinking; creative thinking; deep learning; higher order learning; group learning; small group work; Community of Inquiry CoI ; ICT-based distance learning; Radio and TV University; distance education; Web-based learning; e-Learning; adult education; higher education; International and Comparative Education; internationell och jämförande pedagogik;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on learner support in Chinese distance education. It draws a picture of Chinese modern distance education, covering the major issues in the field of learner support, and small group work as peer support. READ MORE