Search for dissertations about: "pro Education"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the words pro Education.

2. 1. Object oriented quality in introductory programming education

   Author : Marie Nordström; Jürgen Börstler; Michael Kölling; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Object orientation; Programming; Novices; Teaching; Education; Computer science; Datavetenskap; datavetenskapernas didaktik; didactics of computer science;

   Abstract : Examples are important when we attempt to learn something new. To learn prob-lem solving and programming is an acknowledged difficulty. READ MORE

4. 2. Exploring changes of conceptions, values and beliefs concerning the environment : A longitudinal study of upper secondary school students in business and economics education

   Author : Caroline Ignell; Shu-Nu Chang Rundgren; Cecilia Lundholm; Peter Davies; Jeppe Læssøe; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; environment; sustainability; interdisciplinary; longitudinal study; conceptual change; prices; externalities; values-beliefs-norms; climate change solutions; upper secondary school students; business and economics education; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : This thesis examines students’ understanding of economic aspects of global environmental problems. The first aim is to identify and characterise changes in business and economics students’ conceptions of negative environmental effects and pricing goods and services. READ MORE

5. 3. The Erasmus Learning Journey : Students’ Experiences from a Mobility Period Abroad

   Author : Natalie Nielsen; Camilla Thunborg; Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg; Song Ee Ahn; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; student mobility; internationalization of higher education; learning; transformation; biographical perspective; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to gain knowledge and understanding of students’ learning through a mobility period abroad. Student mobility is a topic that attracts great scholarly attention internationally and has also gained increased attention in Sweden lately, both in terms of policy aims related to student mobility as well as attracting scholarly interest. READ MORE

6. 4. Language policy from below : Bilingual education and heterogeneity in post-apartheid South Africa

   Author : Peter Plüddemann; Christopher Stroud; Nancy Hornberger; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; bilingual education; mother tongue; language policy from below; heterogeneity; multilingualism; language ideology; South Africa; tvåspråkighetsforskning; Bilingualism;

   Abstract : The present thesis on bilingual education, with its foci on linguistic heterogeneity and language policy 'from below', covers the first 15 years in the officially multilingual new South Africa. The post-apartheid era has seen South Africa's pro-multilingual Constitution and the language-in-education policy for schools being sidelined in favour of an English-oriented mindset. READ MORE

7. 5. In Search of the State : An Ethnography of Public Service Provision in Urban Niger

   Author : Gabriella Körling; Sten Hagberg; Christian Lund; Mathieu Hilgers; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; the state; public services; healthcare; education; development; Niamey; Niger; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This study explores public health and education provision in Niamey, the capital of Niger, by merging the ethnographic study of public services with an anthropological analysis of the state and of local politics. Based on anthropological fieldwork carried out in a group of neighbourhoods in the periphery of Niamey, the study highlights the political dimensions of public service provision in a local arena where international development interventions and national plans meet local realities and where a wide range of actors and institutions, dis-courses, meanings, and practices are mobilized in the offering of and the regulation of access to public services. READ MORE