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1. Education for Sustainability Leadership : Supporting and empowering agents for sustainability transformations
Sammanfattning : The global challenges of our time are unprecedented and urgent action for transformation is needed of our systems, policies, institutions and ways of thinking. Education of sustainability leaders is one of the key leverage points to achieve this and many claim that learning on an individual, organisational and societal scale is required for society’s successful transitioning towards sustainability. LÄS MER
2. Digital Competence and Ways of Thinking and Practising in Swedish Teacher Education : Experiences by teachers with a foreign teaching degree
Sammanfattning : The Swedish government recognises foreign academic education and the professional qualifications of its immigrants by allocating resources to programmes that bridge the gap between immigrants’ education and the specific requirements for work in Sweden. The context of inquiry for this thesis is teachers with a foreign teaching degree, who come from 57 countries or regions and are studying at four Swedish universities. LÄS MER
3. The unseen in between: Unpacking, designing, and evaluating sustainability-oriented labs in real-world contexts
Sammanfattning : We live in a time of compounding ecological and social change. Given its uncertain and urgent nature, contemporary forms of governance are experiencing tension between controlling the present and nurturing collective capacities to enact transformative change. LÄS MER
4. From Children of the Garbage Bins to Citizens : A reflexive ethnographic study on the care of “street children”
Sammanfattning : The aim of the study on which this thesis is based was to gain an understanding of the life situation of street children in Kenya and to investigate how caring institutions care for these children. A reflexive ethnographic approach was used to facilitate entry into the children’s sub-culture and the work contexts of the caregivers to better understand how the children live on the streets and how the caregivers work with the children. LÄS MER
5. Epistemology of practice and its consequences in practice : Educating for knowing-in-action in working life
Sammanfattning : Education and competence development are of increased interest in today’s society and organizations, to increase the wellbeing, lifelong learning, and mobility of the labor force, and contribute to companies’ global competition. As a consequence, formal and informal education is growing. LÄS MER