Essays about: "democratic schools"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 36 essays containing the words democratic schools.
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21. How Textbooks Teach Rhetoric: : An Analysis of Oral Tasks in TextbooksDeveloped for the English Subject in Swedish Upper-Secondary Schools
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : Rhetoric has been a part of education since ancient Greece and even though it faded away and disappeared for a long time, it was quite recent reintroduced in the Swedish curriculum. This reintroduction is clearly reflected in the European council’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, and in the English subject syllabus in the Swedish 2011 curriculum for upper-secondary school. READ MORE
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22. The Relative Efficiency of Swedish Secondary Schools : An estimation using Stochastic Frontier Analysis
University essay from Umeå universitet/NationalekonomiAbstract : The question of public education is of importance for a society and its citizens as education is contributing to the stability of a democratic society and affects the expected future income levels for the individuals receiving it. A significant share of the Swedish GDP is devoted to the provision of educational services which raises the necessity of monitoring the use of these resources. READ MORE
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23. 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 historiaAbstract : 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
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24. Narrating Me and the Discourse of Being Dealt With : Student’s democratic inclusion and execution of personalagency through the self narrative in art and media education.
University essay from Konstfack/IBIS - Institutionen för bild- och slöjdpedagogikAbstract : This paper is about how students, specifically those who have become marginalized becauseof neuro psychological divergences, depression and one case of narcolepsy, may, by usingself narration in art and media education, promote agency in order to develop the capability ofself advocating. Children must develop a perspective of themselves within society and itssocial structures in order to participate in the discourses concerning themselves as is theirdemocratic right according to the United Nations Conventions of the Rights of the Child. READ MORE
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25. Speaking about Newspeak - Teaching Democracy, Critical Thinking and Language through Nineteen Eighty-Four
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This essay presents how to use George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as a literary intergrated project of teach democracy, critical thinking, English language skills and critical language study in the English 6 EFL classroom in upper secondary school in Sweden. This literary study is done through the lens of critical pedagogy with an emphasis on the way language influences power and helps dominant groups, in both the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as contemporary society, remain in control. READ MORE
