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  1. 51. Teaching in an age of complexity : exploring academic change and development in higher education

    Författare :Claire Englund; Anders D. Olofsson; Linda Price; Shirley Booth; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Higher Education; Academic Development; Educational Technology; Conceptions of Teaching and Learning; Cultural-Historical Activity Theory; Change and Development; pedagogik; 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. 52. Att bli miljömedveten : Perspektiv på miljöhandbokens textvärld

    Författare :Elinor Adenling; Kerstin Holmlund; David Hamilton; Leif Östman; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; miljömedvetenhet; miljövänlig livsstil; discourse analysis; ecological modernization; governmentality; risk society; diskursanalys; handböcker; ekologisk modernisering; styrbarhetsmentalitet; risksamhälle; environmental consciousness; environment-friendly life-style; handbooks; Education; Pedagogik;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is the study of environmental consciousness as a discursive educational project. The empirical material consist of 18 environmental handbooks that have been published in Sweden during the years 1976-2007 of which 13 appeared between 1988 and 1995. LÄS MER

  3. 53. Läraren och läsundervisningen : En studie av åldersintegrerad pedagogisk praktik med sex- och sjuåringar

    Författare :Astrid Ahl; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; reading instruction; visible and invisible pedagogy; mixed-age education; whole language approach; basal reading approach;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about reading instruction in six mixed-aged classes, called child schools, with six and seven year old children. The overall questions of this study were: How did the teachers in child schools organise work in general and reading instruction in particular? How did they handle for example the increasing range of variation concerning knowledge and skills that goes together with increasing variation of age? With respect to reading the investigation also examined the content of reading instruction and the extent to which teachers took into account those factors that, according to reading research, are important for the acquisition of reading skills? Overall the research aimed to examine how the reading ability of the pupils developed during their first years at school. LÄS MER

  4. 54. The care of children : A cross-national comparison of parents’ expectations and experiences

    Författare :Anna-Lena Almqvist; Mikael Nordenmark; Thomas P. Boje; Christine Roman; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Childcare; Cross-national comparison; Family; Family policy; France; Gender; Parental leave; Qualitative studies; Role expansion theory; Role stress theory; Sweden; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : As a point of departure, this thesis is motivated by the big changes which have taken place in most Western European countries since the 1970s, with an increase in female labour market participation and, to some extent, men’s increased share of the domestic work. There is also a debate as to whether France, having a fairly extensive family support,should be categorised as closer to the Scandinavian countries or together with countries with more restrictive family policy such as Italy and Germany, and thus belonging to the conservative regime cluster as defined by Gösta Esping-Andersen. LÄS MER

  5. 55. Etniska relationer i arbetslivet : teknik, arbetsorganisation och etnisk diskriminering i svensk bilindustri

    Författare :Gunnar Augustsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ethnic discrimination; technology; work organization; the car industry; recruiting; leadership; workers collectives; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : The goal of this study is to understanding ethnic discrimination by employing a complex theoretical approach which allows for an understanding of ethnic relations and ethnic discrimination as a social process. The study includes a case study at Volvo Torslandaverken in Gothenburg, and focuses on ethnic discrimination against the background of both structural conditions and situational factors. LÄS MER