Sökning: "academic field"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 232 avhandlingar innehållade orden academic field.
1. Mot lärdomens topp : Svenska humanisters och samhällsvetares ursprung, utbildning och yrkesbana under 1900-talets första hälft
Sammanfattning : This dissertation employs Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of capital and field alongside Robert K. Merton’s notion of accumulation of advantage to study how different types of assets affect career trajectories in the humanities and social sciences. LÄS MER
2. New professionals and new technologies in new higher education? : Conceptualising struggles in the field
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the practices and positionings of two groupings of professionals in UK higher education, ‘educational developers’ and ‘learning technologists’. It investigates the emergence of the groupings, and their professional paths and respective approaches to supporting teaching and learning. LÄS MER
3. Incentives in Education and Moral Behavior in Groups
Sammanfattning : This thesis uses field experiments, lab experiments, and theory to study questions that are relevant to the fields of education and behavioral economics.The first paper, Threshold Incentives and Academic Performance, begins with the observation that students often face incentives to reach performance thresholds. LÄS MER
4. 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
5. Languages and Linguistic Exchanges in Swedish Academia : Practices, Processes, and Globalizing Markets
Sammanfattning : Based on four separate studies, this thesis deals with Swedish academia and its dwellers, with an eye toward accounting for matters of languages and linguistic exchanges. The perspectives and thinking-tools of Pierre Bourdieu form the basis of the main leitmotif, albeit extended with insights from linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics. LÄS MER