Sökning: "educational debate"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 103 avhandlingar innehållade orden educational debate.
11. Skolan som politiskt narrativ : En studie av den skolpolitiska debatten i Sveriges riksdag 1991 - 2002
Sammanfattning : How do politician talk about the role of school in society, in an era of changing demands and challenges represented by the knowledge society and globalization? The material underlying the study consists of protocols from the Swedish parliament during a decade characterized by many reforms and with both a conservative government and a social democratic. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the contemporary debate on school policy in the Swedish Parliament between 1991 and 2002. LÄS MER
12. I skärningspunkten mellan det globala och det lokala : Tolkningsprocesser och koalitionsbyggande i organiseringen av lokala sociala forum
Sammanfattning : World Social Forum, and the worldwide appearance of regional, national and local Social Forums (SF), is an important part of the movement for global justice. The aim of this thesis is to explore how the SF as a global phenomenon is interpreted and staged locally in Sweden. LÄS MER
13. Vart tog behaviorismen vägen? : Social responsivitet mellan barn och vuxen, hund och människa
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies how humans and other social responsive animals can meet and get together as companion species and what role radical behaviorist B F Skinner’s learning theory and operant conditioning possibly can play in this. Drawing from theories of discourse and discourse analysis, social responsivity and companion species, the thesis analyzes what happens with Skinner’s learning theory when it migrates from one educative context to another. LÄS MER
14. Learning in Collaboration : Academics’ experiences in collaborative partnerships
Sammanfattning : There is an ongoing debate both in the United States and Europe about the need to develop a broader view of scholarship and the different activities connected with it, including “service to the community”. In Sweden, service takes the form of practice-oriented engagement and collaboration with the surrounding community, as stipulated by Swedish law regulating universities’ activities. LÄS MER
15. Conceptualizations of childhood, pedagogy and educational research in the postmodern : A critical interpretation
Sammanfattning : Over the last fifty years the debate between modernism and postmodernism has surfaced in the disciplines of social sciences. Epistemologically, there is a shift away from the concept of a “found” world, “out there”, objective, knowable and factual, towards a concept of “constructed” worlds, thus problematizing postulates based on the autonomous, stable, unified, essentialized, coherent and integrated subject capable of rational action, and opening up spaces for a new understanding of subjectivity that is based on provisionality and contingency. LÄS MER
