Sökning: "Education policy"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 635 avhandlingar innehållade orden Education policy.
11. Vad gör kvalitet med utbildning? : Om kvalitetsbegreppets skilda innebörder och dess konsekvenser för utbildning
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate what linguistic meanings the concept of quality is imbued with in different educational arenas and to discuss the consequences of such meanings for education. From this aim the main research question is: What does the concept of quality do to education and what does education do to the concept of quality? The question indicates an interest in understanding how the concept of quality and education mutually influence each other. LÄS MER
12. Matematiklärares kompetensutveckling online : policy, diskurs och meningsskapande
Sammanfattning : Different forms of professional development online are becoming increasingly common for teachers and the aim of the thesis is to contribute knowledge about online professional development for mathematics teachers and the relationship between professional development, educational policy, and mathematics teaching practice. In the thesis, professional development refers to organized professional development in terms of university courses. LÄS MER
13. Physical education policy and practice : Issues and controversies in Tanzania secondary schools
Sammanfattning : Schools’ decisions to offer Physical Education (PE) is among the possible ways of involving students in physical activity, which has significant effects on students’ health, lifelong participation in physical activities and participation in sport. This thesis explores the factors and the ways they influence secondary schools’ decisions on whether or not to offer PE in Tanzania. LÄS MER
14. Structural Violence as a Constraint to African Policy Formation in the 1990s : Respositioning Education in International Relations
Sammanfattning : This study is a meta-analysis of the manner in which global relations impact on national level policy spaces and policy formation. As the International Financial Institutions tighten their grip through the Structural Adjustment Programmes over African countries, and donors steadily shift their ground and push conditionality beyond economic policy into institutional arrangements, the issue of political sovereignty of African countries, and of indirect rule through aid becomes a key concern. LÄS MER
15. Education, Stratification and Reform : Educational Institutions in Comparative Perspective
Sammanfattning : The main argument of this thesis is that research has to take the institutional character of education seriously. Educational institutions carry considerable weight for outcomes of education and their design is a matter of intense political debate. LÄS MER
