Essays about: "gender and control"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 269 essays containing the words gender and control.
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1. How distributional equity affects evolutionarily sustainable landscape management
University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskapAbstract : As the human population rapidly grows, ensuring food availability for everyone will require substantial agricultural intensification in a sustainable manner. This must however be achieved without negatively impacting ecosystems or stakeholders' (e.g. farmers) livelihoods. READ MORE
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2. Confident in my class: A secondary data study of maths motivation and students’ sociodemographic factors in grade three and four in Sweden.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogikAbstract : Aim: This thesis aims to point to how motivation as well as achievement in maths and students’ sociodemographic factors can correlate for grade three and four in Swedish schools. Theory: The two theories used in the thesis are Expectancy-value Theory by Eccles and Cultural Capital by Bourdieu. READ MORE
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3. Acting Woman: Math Performance and Gender Identity
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : In this paper I causally explore whether perceived math ability has an impact on perceived gender identity. I base my experiment on a framework proposed by Akerlof and Kranton (2000), and randomly assign individuals to receive a signal of relatively high or relatively low math ability. READ MORE
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4. Do Football Players Give Female Coaches the Red Card?
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : In Swedish elite football, the skewed gender distribution between coaches is conspicuous, and this thesis aims to investigate one channel as to why there are so few female coaches in this environment. Previous research has found that students evaluate female teachers more critically than male teachers, even in components that they cannot control; might this be the case in Swedish elite football as well? We have conducted a framed field experiment on the teams in the highest football division for players 19 years or under in Sweden. READ MORE
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5. (Em)powering community energy on Gotland : An exploration of energy justice through a case study of "an island in an island"
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : The energy transition raises concerns about local communities' marginalisation in decision-making and ownership models, leading to justice debates. Community energy (CE) gains attention as a pathway towards energy justice (EJ). Drawing on qualitative data collected on Gotland, we examine how the Austerland CE project delivers EJ. READ MORE