Search for dissertations about: "vocational education and training"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the words vocational education and training.

2. 11. Becoming a construction worker : a study of vocational learning in school and work life

   Author : Magnus Fjellström; Ulrika Widding; Joakim Lindgren; Gun-Britt Wärvik; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Vocational education and training VET ; upper secondary school; post-secondary apprenticeship; activity theory; levels of learning; apprenticeship curriculum; woodworker; construction programme; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : This thesis describes and analyses vocational learning in school and workplaces, particularly the vocational learning involved in becoming a construction worker in Sweden. This includes learning the trade in upper secondary school education and a subsequent apprenticeship. READ MORE

4. 12. An evaluation of the adult education initiative relative labor market training

   Author : Anders Stenberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Selection; adult education; wage earnings; labor market training; duration; incidence; unemployment; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of three papers which evaluate the effects of the Adult Education Initiative (AEI) in Sweden relative to the vocational part of Labor Market Training (LMT). Paper [I] studies unemployment incidence and unemployment duration for participants in the AEI relative to LMT. READ MORE

5. 13. Shaped for beauty : Vocational and gendered subjectivities in private education for the beauty industry

   Author : Eleonor Bredlöv; Andreas Fejes; Susanne Köpsén; Elisabet Öhrn; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Vocational Education and Training VET ; subjectivity; adult learning; power; gender; beauty industry; processes of becoming; caring knowledge; Yrkesutbildning; subjektivitet; vuxnas lärande; makt; genus; skönhetsindustrin; blivandeprocesser; omvårdnadskunskap;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to answer the question: How are vocational, gendered subjectivities produced in vocational education for the beauty industry? Drawing on Foucault and poststructural feminist theory, this question is answered in four papers, in which the material consists of beauty-school recruitment and marketing material, interviews with skin and spa therapy students and observations of practical skin and spa therapy training. These are educational arrangements that are closely bound to the economic sector of the beauty industry, and they have remained remarkably unexplored. READ MORE

6. 14. Development of e-Learning Content and Delivery for Self Learning Environment : Case of Selected Rural Secondary Schools in Tanzania

   Author : Suzan Lujara; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; e-learning; secondary schools Tanzania; Participatory action research; learning objects; pedagogics;

   Abstract : The use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in developing countries like Tanzania is considered to be a necessity in order to overcome the challenges that are hindering the country from developing in all sectors and also from reducing the digital divide. As ICT is becoming more and more integrated in societies world wide, its effects are clearly seen i. READ MORE

7. 15. Vocational rehabilitation of unemployed sick-listed people in a Swedish rural area : An individual-level study based on social insurance data

   Author : Sven-Uno Marnetoft; Mittuniversitetet; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Vocational Rehabilitation; Social medicine; Socialmedicin; return-to-work; sick-leave; vocational rehabilitation; unemployment; multidisciplinary; case management;

   Abstract : The long trend of low unemployment and increasing economical growth in Sweden was broken in the early 1990’s. In a short time the rate of unemployment had risen from 1.3% in 1990 to 8.2% in 1993. READ MORE