Sökning: "policy konvergens"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden policy konvergens.
1. Interpreting Policy Convergence Between the Left and the Right
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is made up of four essays that address major problems in the policy areas of education and immigration in Sweden and an introductory essay that offers an overarching analysis of the results of the four individual studies. The first three essays analyze the significant decline in quality of elementary and secondary education since the late 1990s from three different angles: the decline in teachers’ working conditions and status (Essay I), the deficiencies in the regulatory framework of Sweden’s system of school competition between public and for-profit providers of education (Essay II), and the prescribed view of knowledge in Swedish schools (Essay III). LÄS MER
2. The Relation Between Digital Technology and Values : Thinking Through Multiple Technologies
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses two topics: technology and values. More specifically, the studied technology is an ensemble of digital technologies that is often referred to as “digitalization,” and the values are gathered from empirical material from the Swedish (digital) government. LÄS MER
3. Reliable and Efficient Distributed Machine Learning
Sammanfattning : With the ever-increasing penetration and proliferation of various smart Internet of Things (IoT) applications, machine learning (ML) is envisioned to be a key technique for big-data-driven modelling and analysis. Since massive data generated from these IoT devices are commonly collected and stored in a distributed manner, ML at the networks, e.g. LÄS MER
4. The Road From Damascus : New Arrival Immigrant Families and The Swedish Preschool
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this doctoral thesis is to examine the perceptions that new arrival immigrant families have of Swedish preschool, and the perceptions of these families as expressed by the Swedish state preschool political discourse over the last fifty-year period. For this purpose, the study uses critical discourse analysis, as proposed by Norman Fairclough. LÄS MER
5. The Interpretation and Translation of Global Ideas into Local Practices : A Study of the Internationalisation of Higher Education in Mozambique
Sammanfattning : Internationalisation and its components, such as curriculum internationalisation and international partnerships, have evolved over time in the context of higher education. In this thesis, such terminologies are addressed as global ideas of internationalisation because internationalisation is described as a global, intentional and inclusive concept in higher education, even though it is understood to have been pursued under coercion and contestation in Africa and elsewhere. LÄS MER