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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 301 avhandlingar innehållade ordet logics.
11. Managing management innovations: Contextual complexity and the pursuit of improvements in healthcare
Sammanfattning : In a context characterised by complexity and conflicting demands, healthcare managers at a meso-level struggle to pursue improvements in the quality and efficiency of care operations. An influential approach on how to pursue improvements is quality management (QM). LÄS MER
12. Logics and politics of professionalism : the case of university English language teachers in Vietnam
Sammanfattning : Set against a changing backdrop of reforms in higher education and English language teaching (ELT), the thesis explores the notion of professionalism for university English teachers in Vietnam: What is defined as professionalism in this particular period of time? How is professionalism constructed in this context?The research approaches professionalism as a critical concept: A list of aspired traits and features are always value-laden and concern the question of power. From this premise, the thesis discusses a “kaleidoscope” relationship between different actors in the making of professionalism. LÄS MER
13. Om historieämnets politiska dimension : diskursiva logiker i didaktisk praktik
Sammanfattning : Today, history education is often a contested issue over which political frontiers are drawn between adversaries advocating fundamentally different visions of what constitutes a desirable curriculum and, by extension, a desirable society. At present, this dimension is in need of increased attention, considering that populist rhetoric has gained a foothold in mainstream politics and that history, as a school subject, continues to serve the purpose of constituting “the people”, often in national and ethnic terms. LÄS MER
14. Negotiating school identities : a multimodal analysis of upper secondary school promotion on the web
Sammanfattning : The research interests of this doctoral thesis are the mediated ways of presenting and promoting Swedish upper secondary schools on the web to attract students. The thesis studies the rationale of schools’ strategically designed attempts to reach out with their educational offers in a highly competitive school market. LÄS MER
15. Relationen styrning och utvärdering : Hur en europeisk utvärderingsidé översätts i Sverige
Sammanfattning : Evaluation is an institutionalized practice in the western public sector with several applications and uses. At the same time, the effectiveness and use of evaluation is seldom demonstrated. This evaluation paradox is due to the fact that evaluation is constrained and shaped in relation to, among others, a political context. LÄS MER
