Sökning: "Stephanie Plenty"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Stephanie Plenty.
1. Growing up with poor health and managing school : Studies on ill health and young people's educational achievements
Sammanfattning : Aim and objectives: The overall aim of this thesis was to empirically investigate consequences of poor health for children’s educational outcomes in Sweden. A central tenet is that health problems impact not only the afflicted individual but also people in their social and emotional proximity, in particular immediate family members. LÄS MER
2. Effective schools in a segregated landscape : Studies of academic achievement and psychological well-being among adolescents in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Equitable educational opportunities necessitate equitable access to a favourable academic and social school environment. This thesis aims to explore the role of the school as an educational and social arena for the academic achievement and psychological well-being of lower secondary school students in Sweden. LÄS MER
3. Taking Part on Equal Terms? : Associations between Economic Resources and Social Participation among Swedish Adolescents
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contains four empirical studies examining associations between economic resources and social participation among Swedish adolescents. All four studies draw data from a school-based survey covering a nationally representative sample of the 2010 cohort of Swedish eighth-grade students. LÄS MER
4. Motives matter : Intrinsic motivation in work learning and labor market performance
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the importance of individual work motivation for two crucial dimensions of inequality: work learning and labor market performance. The first dimension relates to learning activities at work, and the second to wage attainment and knowledge-oriented task assignment. LÄS MER