Search for dissertations about: "mainstream schools"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words mainstream schools.

  2. 1. Discourses of Including Students with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD) in Swedish Mainstream Schools

    Author : Ulrika Gidlund; Lena Boström; Jimmy Jaldemark; Liv Lassen; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; emotional and behavioural difficulties; focus group interviews; inclusion; inclusive didactics; Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory; mainstream schools; teachers’ discourses;

    Abstract : When students’ behaviours cause difficulties for their teachers, themselves, and the rest of the class, teachers often construct inclusion as problematic. The overall aim of this study was to contribute to the understanding of teachers’ discourses regarding inclusion of students with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) in Swedish mainstream schools. READ MORE

  4. 2. Learning by hearing? : Technological framings for participation

    Author : Ingela Holmström; Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta; Rickard Jonsson; Tommaso M. Milani; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cochlear implants; deaf; mainstream; participation; communication forms; communities of practice; ethnography; sociocultural; postcolonial; language ideology; Pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : This thesis examines technological framings for communication and identity issues, with a particular focus on Swedish mainstream schools where children with cochlear implants are pupils. Based on a sociocultural perspective on learning, the thesis focuses on how pupils and teachers interact with (and thus learn from) each other in classroom settings. READ MORE

  5. 3. Children with Down syndrome in mainstream schools : conditions influencing participation

    Author : Anne-Stine Dolva; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Inclusion; occupational performance; peer interaction in activities; support;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to identify and explore conditions influencing school participation of children with Down syndrome in mainstream elementary schools. This thesis comprises four studies, and the research was conducted in Norway. READ MORE

  6. 4. Reading acquisition in pupils with visual impairments in mainstream education

    Author : Kerstin Fellenius; Karin Taube; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; pupils; visual impairment; reading acquisition; reading environment; braille display; cerebral visual impairment; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : This thesis is based on five empirical studies of pupils with visual impairments, their reading ability and processes of reading acquisition within the framework of mainstream education in comprehensive schools. The aim of the thesis is to increase our understanding and knowledge of reading acquisition in pupils with visual impairments in mainstream education. READ MORE

  7. 5. Disciplined reasoning : Styles of reasoning and the mainstream-heterodoxy divide in Swedish economics

    Author : Anders Hylmö; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sociology of economics; heterodox economics; styles of reasoning; disciplinarity; quality evaluation; ekonomisociologi; heterodox ekonomi; vetenskapliga stilar; vetenskapliga discipliner; kvalitetsbedömning;

    Abstract : Economics is one of the most influential social science disciplines, with a high level of internal consent around a common theoretical and methodological approach to economic analysis. However, marginalised schools of thought have increasingly unified under the term “heterodox” economics, with their critical stance towards the “neoclassical mainstream” as common denominator. READ MORE