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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 168 avhandlingar innehållade orden policy higher education.
11. 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
12. Formbara människor : Högre utbildning och arbete som utsnitt ur läkares och civilingenjörers levnadsbanor
Sammanfattning : Fokus i denna avhandling utgör läkares och civilingenjörers kunskaps- och identifikationsprocesser under utbildning och arbete – vilka studeras som utsnitt ur levnadsbanor. Syftet är att beskriva och tolka relationen mellan högre utbildning och arbete, dels utifrån föreställningar i forskning och policy, dels utifrån människors subjektivitet, vardagserfarenheter och liv. LÄS MER
13. Critical Thinking in Scholarship: : Meanings, Conditions and Development
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the phenomenon of critical thinking in scholarship as regards its meanings, conditions, and development using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. This exploration takes its departure in ancient Greece, following a historical movement of the phenomenon up to present day perspectives on critical thinking, revealing a range of different meanings and conditions. LÄS MER
14. Kritiskt tänkande som utbildningsmål : Från modernistisk filosofi till policy för högre utbildning
Sammanfattning : The goal of critical thinking in higher education is paradoxical, since it implies a form of education that both directs the student towards a pre-defined goal, and commands the student to be autonomous. This paradox is studied in four contexts, as to investigate what pedagogical contradictions the goal of critical thinking generates, and how they transform pedagogical thinking. LÄS MER
15. Upper Secondary Education: Access, Choices and Graduation
Sammanfattning : Essay I: We study how Swedish high school students match with programs given their skill endowments at the time of choosing. Using detailed administrative data on high school admissions and earlier school achievement, we construct a multidimensional measure of program match quality, reflecting the extent to which students select into programs with skill requirements that align with their skill portfolio. LÄS MER