Essays about: "democratic competence"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words democratic competence.
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1. Civil society organizations in a complex institutional landscape : Investigating institutional logics in Swedish civil society organizations work with social impact measurement
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : The role of civil society has been discussed frequently as of the last decades, and with growing influence of new public management and related market-oriented reforms in public sector, civil society organizations have become welfare service providers too. As part of this development, social impact measurement has been a way for financers to prove and private actors to invest in social change. READ MORE
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2. Beyond the Fossil Era - potential for a pedagogy of sustainability
University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi; Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : Education has the potential to play a critical role in the sustainable transformation of society which is needed to limit the consequences of the multiple ecological crises society is facing. While this has been recognised internationally at least since 1992, not a lot has been done within the Danish educational system to address issues of climate change, biodiversity loss, and sustainability within education policies and practice. READ MORE
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3. Interventions to prevent Gender-Based Violence in Democratic Republic of Congo : A driving force for the empowerment of women and girls?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a widespread international public health and human rights issue that disproportionately affects women and girls. In humanitarian crises all forms of GBV are exacerbated, and especially during conflict where GBV in some settings affects 70 per cent of women. READ MORE
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4. THE USE OF PROGRAMMING AS A TOOL FOR DESIGN BASED LEARNING IN BIOLOGY A classroom experiment in a 5th grade class
University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologiAbstract : The purpose of education is to prepare students for the future. The goal of integrating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) into education is to develop scientific and technological knowledge in students, to prepare them for an advanced technological and democratic society, and to broaden their perspective of how to use, create, and make decisions about technology, and not less important, to prepare them for their future jobs (Honey, Pearson, and Schweingruber, 2014; Eng lish and King, 2015; Holbrook, 2017; Lachapelle et al. READ MORE
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5. Is the EU barking up the wrong tree? - A study on Swedish stakeholders' perspectives on the means and conditions for establishing a more coordinated European agenda on forests
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Forests are becoming an increasingly important tool for the EU in its fight against climate change following the introduction of the Union’s Green Deal and the recent Forest Strategy for 2030. However, since forest policy in itself is not an EU competence, but instead a national competence decided and managed by the individual Member States, this makes any attempts from Brussels to shape forest policies in a certain direction a sensitive matter, not least for forest-rich Sweden. READ MORE
