Essays about: "citizenship education"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 56 essays containing the words citizenship education.

1. 21. How Do International Students Perceive Social Integration? An Ethnographic Study.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Marie Therese Shayne; [2016]
   Keywords : Social Integration; Adjustment; Goffman; Dramaturgy; Putnam; American Pluralism; American societies; Stereotypes; Social Norms; Visual Methodology; Photography; Sociology; International Students.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The study examined how international students perceive social integration. The University of Houston, Texas was used as a case study. The study was based on a symbolic interactionism. READ MORE

3. 22. A 'welfarist' political economy of skills? : A study of Sweden's vocational education and training system, as an arena för welfare policies, 1946-1991

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Ekonomisk historia

   Author : Alexander Lindqvist; [2016]
   Keywords : Economic History; Vocational Education and Training; Sweden; Varieties of Capitalism; Power Resources Theory;

   Abstract : This study takes its starting point in the problematic relationship between skills and welfare policies. It poses Sweden’s vocational education and training (VET) as a case which has seen the kind of tripartite efforts that might help us better understand the dynamics underlying a highly developed mixture of social citizenship and efficiency. READ MORE

4. 23. Lighting a fire of change? : characterizing the learning process in a German non-formal education for sustainability network and examining the outcomes

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Christiane Andrea Mössner; [2016]
   Keywords : education for sustainability; non-formal; sustainability science; learning process; agent of change; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Bildung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE) wird als vielversprechender Ansatz zur Lösung von Nachhaltigkeitsfragen angesehen. Resultate sind nicht zufriedenstellend aufgrund des Fokus der Wissensvermittlung im formalen Bildungssektor. Gründe hierfür sind der Einfluss wirtschaftlicher und politischer Interessen auf den formalen Sektor. READ MORE

5. 24. From Refugees to Citizens: What Happens to Livelihoods? – A Study of How New Tanzanians Utilize Their Citizen Rights

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Åsa Ljusenius; [2016]
   Keywords : protracted refugee situation; local integration; citizenship; citizen rights; sustainable livelihoods framework; new Tanzanians; Old Settlements; Ulyankulu; Tanzania; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to find out how attaining citizenship had affected livelihood opportunities and strategies among the approximately 200,000 Burundian refugees who after more than 40 years in exile became Tanzanian citizens in late 2014. It is a case study of local integration and development, analysing the situation for new Tanzanian citizens through the sustainable livelihoods framework. READ MORE

6. 25. The impact of children on emigration : A study of EU-15 migrants in Sweden

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Andreas Raneke; [2016]
   Keywords : Intra-EU; emigration; family; children; integration;

   Abstract : The freedom of movement within the European Union is one of the pillars in which the EU is built and is encouraged as a mean to create a European citizenship. Even though economic reasons for moving within the union are most common, other reasons such as family or education is important in migration decisions. READ MORE