Search for dissertations about: "multicultural education"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words multicultural education.

2. 1. Democracy, education and citizenship : towards a theory on the education of deliberative democratic citizens

   Author : Klas Roth; Christer Fritzell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; deliberative democracy; democratic education; deliberation; citizenship education; educational theory; philosophy of education and political theory.; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : The present thesis suggests ideas for a theory on the education of deliberative democratic citizens in a multicultural society in terms of what I have called Eddemcit. It involves a) an ideal view of democracy in communicative and discourse-ethical terms, b) a comprehensive view of an autonomous citizen, c) two conditions for deliberation in terms of opportunity and freedom, d) a core value in terms of conscious social and cultural mediation, e) democratic principles as heuristic devices, f) an understanding of democratic deliberation in terms of intersubjectivity, processes and the better argument. READ MORE

4. 2. Learning Motivation in International Primary Schools : The Voices of Children

   Author : Sheila Brooks; Holger Daun; David Phillips; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; learning motivation; learning contexts; primary education; international school education; transnational cultures; multicultural education; student perceptions; International education; Internationell pedagogik;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this study is to contribute to a greater understanding of learning motivation in primary school education. Particular emphasis is given to investigating how various contextual or situational aspects of the classroom/school environment affect motivation. READ MORE

5. 3. It's who you know and what you know : exploring the relationship between education and prejudice in adolescence

   Author : Lena Werner; Mikael Hjerm; Ingemar Johansson Sevä; Maureen A. Eger; Pieter Bevelander; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anti-immigrant attitudes; education; critical thinking; multicultural education; teacher qualification; intergroup contact theory; secondary transfer effects; friendship; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : Background: Previous studies have consistently identified an association between higher levels of education and lower levels of anti-immigrant sentiment, but the underlying reasons for this relationship remain unclear. Therefore, this research aims to help explain why education matters for attitudes toward immigrants. READ MORE

6. 4. Between Modern Schooling and Cultural Heritage : Education and Ethnicity in Southwest China

   Author : Wei Wang; Pedagogik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Modern schooling; Cultural heritage; Ethnic minority education; Teacher; Teacher education; Teacher educator; Multicultural education; Internal Orientalism; Xishuangbanna 西双版纳 ; Qianjiang 黔江 ; Dai 傣族 ; Tujia 土家族 ; China;

   Abstract : Since the late 1970s, China has experienced remarkable socioeconomic development. The trend towards marketisation and modernisation overturned culturally-rooted lifestyles, and more and more ethnic minorities in China have started to regard their traditional cultures as irrelevant to their livelihoods and future and chosen to move away from them. READ MORE

7. 5. The Oral University. Attitudes to music teaching and learning in the Gambia

   Author : Eva Saether; Musikhögskolan i Malmö; []
   Keywords : 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