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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 40 avhandlingar innehållade orden academic institution.
1. Teaching in an age of complexity : exploring academic change and development in higher education
Sammanfattning : Higher education (HE) has expanded and diversified at an unprecedented rate over the last two decades in response to a rapidly changing educational and political climate. Change and development are omnipresent, a constant part of university teachers’ sociocultural and organisational practice at multiple levels; the micro-level, the meso-level and the macro-level Against this background, the aim of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that influence academic change. LÄS MER
2. Skrivprocesser på högskolan : Text, plats och materialitet i uppsatsskrivandet
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to explore how students in a higher education context handle the writing of their final essay. Applying a sociomaterial approach, the study offers comprehensive case studies of students’ writing processes. LÄS MER
3. The University; A Learning Organization? : An Illuminative Review Based on System Theory
Sammanfattning : There are voices in the research field suggesting that universities should become learning organisations in order to be more competitive and efficient. However, the proposal is mainly based on theoretical and normative discussions rather than on empirical research. LÄS MER
4. Have Money, Will Travel : Scholarships and Academic Exchange between Sweden and the United States, 1912–1980
Sammanfattning : The large-scale transatlantic mobility of students, teachers, and researchers is a twentieth-century phenomenon that has contributed to the reshaping of international cultural, economic, and political relations into the twenty-first century. Through and as part of this development, the United States transformed into a powerful and influential country on the global stage. LÄS MER
5. ”Alla är ju med alla…” : Kamratskapande gruppinteraktioner i skolan
Sammanfattning : Social interaction often takes place in groups. The school class is an important group in which children interact. Children spend a large percentage of their day with their classmates in school and classmates are not only co-workers, but also individuals interacting socially as friends. LÄS MER