Essays about: "Elite Schools"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words Elite Schools.

1. 1. How to: Build an Elite School : the case of ProCivitas Uppsala

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Anna Barsch; Hanna Swanberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Organizational Identity; Identity Work; Identity Building; Secondary Upper Schools; Elite Schools; Case Study;

   Abstract : In today's competitive educational landscape, schools face the challenge of attracting students who align with their organizational identity. With extensive organizational changes in the Swedish school system, expressing organizational identity has become crucial for demonstrating categorical belonging. READ MORE

3. 2. Elite Education for the People? : Nuances of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in Polish High Schools

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

   Author : Paulina Kucharska; [2023]
   Keywords : Public Education; International Baccalaureate; IB; Internationalization of Education; Educational Trajectories; Educational Strategies; Symbolic Capital;

   Abstract : The International Baccalaureate (IB), a private curriculum associated largely with exclusive education for transnationally mobile upper classes, has recently began to quietly enter public, national education systems, offering its alternative, elite schooling in tuition-free state institutions. This paper explores the nuanced case of Poland, where IB diploma program is offered as one of the tracks within state schools, existing side-by-side and competing with the national curriculum. READ MORE

4. 3. Unveiling Gender Differences - Students’ Socialization Behaviour and Social Networks : A Qualitative Study at Three Elite Business Schools in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Lovisa Ek; Josephine Andersson; [2023]
   Keywords : university; elite business schools; elite business students; socialization; social networks; gender; gender differences;

   Abstract : Inequalities among top positions in the business sector are prominent and have been shown to partly be explained by social networks, which are prone to be built already during college. Social networks are a vital part of one’s socialization process, where gender and socialization, as well as gender and social networks within the fields of business, are insufficiently explored. READ MORE

5. 4. The Right Man for the Job

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

   Author : Ebba Alm; Cecilia Bill; [2020]
   Keywords : Gender; Investment Banking; Occupational Segregation; Social Identity Theory; Stereotype Threat;

   Abstract : The finance industry has traditionally been male-dominated, and despite recent efforts to attract more female applicants, the gender segregation still prevails. The investment banking industry, in particular, is notoriously male-dominated. READ MORE

6. 5. Athletic Dropouts in Swedish Adolescence Female Handball Players

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärd

   Author : Adam Bogren; Kevin Rodenburg Lindholm; [2020]
   Keywords : Athletic experiences; Elite sporting schools; Former student-athletes; Holistic Athletic Career model; Push; pull; anti-push; anti-pull framework.; Atletiska erfarenheter; Elit idrottsgymnasium; Före detta student-atleter; Holistiska karriärsutvecklingsmodellen; Push; pull; anti-push; anti-pull ramverket.;

   Abstract : According to Baron-Thiene and Alfermann (2015), there is a potentially high dropout number within female student-athletes, but they also implicate that only a few studies have focused on adolescent or young adults’ dropout from elite sports. The present study has chosen to explore factors influencing athletic dropout in former female handball players that has studied at an elite sporting school and to explore how the former student-athletes experience their chosen career paths post athletic dropout, using a qualitative post-positivistic and realistic approach. READ MORE