Essays about: "Educational reform"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 42 essays containing the words Educational reform.

  1. 26. The convergence of societal advancement and the education of future sustainability professionals: a solution-oriented approach to place-based environmental changes - A descriptive case study of the Master's course 'Strategic Environmental Development' of Lund University, Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Lindsey Zemler; [2016]
    Keywords : sustainability research education; participatory sustainability research; key competencies; stakeholder engagement; real-world learning; higher education; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Building sustainable, collaborative solutions to contemporary sustainability challenges requires a new generation of future professionals or ‘change-agents,’ the engagement of non-academic stakeholders, and academic facilitation. Educational reform is needed in order to enhance students’ competencies in becoming effective sustainability professionals. READ MORE

  2. 27. Healthcare Reform: A Microcosm and Exploration of New Public Management in China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Baoyue Zhang; [2015]
    Keywords : New public management NPM ; public-private partnership PPP ; new institutional economics NIE ; cost efficiency; resource allocation.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The NPM is considered as an efficacious way to improve effectiveness and efficiency in management control of public health for its market-driven and market-driving characteristics. Theoretically, it is a hybrid of economics and business management in public management. READ MORE

  3. 28. An Organizational Field Analysis about Granting Children Residing in Sweden without Permits their Statutory Right to Schooling

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

    Author : Johannes Jysky; [2014]
    Keywords : “illegal”; irregular immigrant; sans-papier; papperslös; children residing in the country without a permit; undocumented immigrant children; organizational field; right to schooling; public authorities; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The centre of analysis in this research has been the new welfare legislation in Sweden 2013 granting children residing in the country without a permit tuition free and legal access to the Swedish educational system. Methodological triangulation has been used were a quantitative analysis has been made involving efforts taken to identify the number of children in the municipalities of Sweden having a high proportion of the country’s asylum seekers. READ MORE

  4. 29. Global educational reform in a local context : Implementation, resistance, and negotiation of educational reform in Moroccan municipal upper-secondary schools

    University essay from Pedagogiska institutionen

    Author : Charlotta Rönn; [2013]
    Keywords : educational reform; Morocco; languages; English; social class; student-centered learning;

    Abstract : This thesis showed an analysis of what happened when global educational reforms were implemented in a local Moroccan culture context. Through analyzing and deconstructing discourses in policy documents, as well as qualitative interviews with teachers and pupils in municipal uppersecondary schools and comparing these to each other, a picture was given of what happened in the meeting between the new policies and the implementation of them locally; how they were implemented, resisted and negotiated by different parties concerned. READ MORE

  5. 30. Learning environment in Thailand : A case study regarding teaching methods and motivation in a Thai school.

    University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, psykologi och idrottsvetenskap, PPI

    Author : Stina Åkesson; Martina Vallin; [2013]
    Keywords : teaching methods; motivation; Thailand; education; learning environment; undervisningsmetoder; motivation; Thailand; undervisning; undervisningsmiljö;

    Abstract : The aim of our case study is to illustrate what teaching methods the teachers in an elementary school in southern Thailand use and if they motivate the students and in that case, how they do it. In the background we briefly report about Thailand, their school system and their development. READ MORE