Search for dissertations about: "liberal education"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words liberal education.

  2. 1. Seeing Otherwise : Renegotiating Religion and Democracy as Questions for Education

    Author : Lovisa Bergdahl; Sharon Todd; Robert A. Davis; Richard Smith; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; religion; religious pluralism; subjectivity; difference; cosmopolitanism; cosmopolitan education; deliberative democracy; deliberative education; radical democracy; love; antagonism; freedom; heteronomy; dialogue; conflict; seeing; small gestures; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : Rooted in philosophy of education, the overall purpose of this dissertation is to renegotiate the relationship between education, religion, and democracy by placing the religious subject at the centre of this renegotiation. While education is the main focus, the study draws its energy from the fact that tensions around religious beliefs and practices seem to touch upon the very heart of liberal democracy. READ MORE

  4. 2. Constructing the adult learner : a governmentality analysis

    Author : Andreas Fejes; Staffan Larsson; Ulf Olsson; David Hamilton; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; lifelong learning; adult education; adult learner; governmentality; genealogy; policy analysis; livslångt lärande; vuxenutbildning; den vuxna studerande; styrningsrationalitet; governmentality; genealogi; policy analys; Education; Pedagogik;

    Abstract : Syftet med denna avhandling är att studera hur den vuxna studerande konstrueras genom olika styrningstekniker inom Vuxenutbildning, Folkbildning och Högre utbildning. Vidare är syftet att analysera vad för styrningsrationalitet som både skapas genom och som skapar dessa praktiker. READ MORE

  5. 3. Opening Higher Education: Discursive transformations of distance and higher education government

    Author : Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; distance and IT-based education; higher education; policy analysis; governmentality; discourse; bio-politics; space; self-technology;

    Abstract : This thesis takes as its starting point the 1990s and early 2000s political arguments for a more open and flexible Swedish higher education system. At this time, the issues of accessibility and participation were also brought into the debate by revitalized ideals of distance education. READ MORE

  6. 4. Higher Education for Girls in North American College Fiction 1886-1912

    Author : Gunilla Lindgren; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; Vassar College; liberal-arts education for women; Jean Webster; Julia A. Schwartz; Caroline M. Fuller; Helen D. Brown; Alfred Tennyson s The Princess; education in literature; women s higher education in North America; women s education in fiction; college fiction; college girls; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : Twenty years after Vassar College welcomed the first American female undergraduates in 1865, the experiences of women college students began to be fictionalized in so-called college stories. This thesis shows how higher education is presented in the novels, collections of short stories, and serialized stories for female readers published before the United States was involved in the First World War. READ MORE

  7. 5. A Battle over Children : Nonformal Education in Norwegian Uniformed Children's Organisations, 1910-1960

    Author : Tuva Skjelbred Nodeland; Anne Berg; Esbjörn Larsson; Janne Holmén; Mary Hilson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Youth and childhood; youth movements; social and cultural history; 20th century; civic education; political socialisation; Norway.; Utbildningssociologi; Sociology of Education; Historia; History;

    Abstract : A Battle over Children investigates how children became targets of political education in different uniformed children’s organisations in Norway between 1910 and 1960. Following the introduction of the Scout movement to Norway in 1910, a range of competing uniformed children’s organisations developed. READ MORE