Sökning: "Political Science Education"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 155 avhandlingar innehållade orden Political Science Education.
1. The University and the Demand for Knowledge-based Growth : The hegemonic struggle for the future of Higher Education Institutions in Finland and Estonia
Sammanfattning : In recent decades, Higher Education Institutions have been reformed worldwide so that they may exert a greater influence in the production of knowledge within Knowledge-based Economies (KBEs). This transformation is often explained in terms of how advanced capitalist economies need to secure a prosperous future within post-Fordist capitalism. LÄS MER
2. 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
3. Translating Popular Education : Civil Society Cooperation between Sweden and Estonia
Sammanfattning : By their very nature, attempts by civil society organizations to promote democracy abroad involve cooperation and contact across the borders of nation states. The dissemination of the ideas and practices of the promoters is often essential; in the case of Swedish democracy promotion, popular education or folkbildning has been important. LÄS MER
4. The Challenge of ‘Stateness’ in Estonia and Ukraine
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to examine the influence of the international actors i.e. the OSCE, Council of Europe, EU and Russia, on policy and legislative adaptation in two post-Soviet countries since 1991. These are Estonia and Ukraine. LÄS MER
5. Don't be late for school again : Essays on education and support for democracy
Sammanfattning : An extensive body of work has found that countries with relatively educated populations are more likely to be democratically governed. Further, a large body of work argues that education is associated with a host of individual-level factors, such as political participation and democratic values, which provides a micro-level mechanism to explain the link between education and democracy. LÄS MER