Essays about: "how education changes the life"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 42 essays containing the words how education changes the life.

1. 16. Youth Activism: Rebuilding the Future

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet

   Author : Toby Whelan; [2020]
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   Abstract : We're witnessing a worldwide movement of children engaging in activism and driving real change. More than ever, young people are raising their voices and campaigning on social, environmental and political issues that they care about. READ MORE

3. 17. A conflict of lifestyles and battle of time : International students in sustainable development at Uppsala University

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

   Author : Ewa Livmar; [2020]
   Keywords : students in sustainability; Bourdieu; critical thinking; dissonance; cleft habitus;

   Abstract : This investigation has sought to explore and understand how students who come to Sweden to study sustainable development perceive their future and what struggles they face. Underpinned by Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological theories the aim was thus to understand the role of education in sustainable development for international students; by looking at what kind of assets they possess, how struggles can be understood in relation to what assets they have, in what way geographical place might be significant and how changes of values and views of knowledge may affect their views of the future. READ MORE

4. 18. A critical discourse analysis of public-private partnerships in education in Black Africa : A case of basic education in Liberia

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

   Author : Habib Ssenyonjo; [2020]
   Keywords : critical discourse analysis; Fairclough; LFPSs; PPPs; neoliberalism; ‘disaster capitalism’; Black Africa; basic education; structural adjustment programmes;

   Abstract : With many countries in Black Africa immersed in external debts and yet others grappling with effects of civil wars and pandemics, social services such as basic education and primary health care pose challenges to them. To mitigate such shortcomings in the region, innovative ways to provide basic education are sought by the private sector. READ MORE

5. 19. Changing Norms about Life Skills and Sexuality Education through Empowerment: A study of public secondary life skills teachers’ experiences and perceptions in Zanzibar

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Jenny Fristrand; [2019-08-13]
   Keywords : formal sexuality education; Zanzibar; Teachers; Life skills; Empowerment; Human Rights; Norm changing;

   Abstract : Formal life skills education, including topics related to sexuality, was developed in the 1990s to prevent HIV/AIDS as well as a method to strengthen ‘good’ behaviours among students in schools. In Zanzibar, life skills education interventions have duplicated in recent years. READ MORE

6. 20. Decentralized collaboration in a complex environment: an organizational ethnographic study of the collaboration process in Lomma Municipality

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Oscar Björkenfeldt; [2018]
   Keywords : Municipal collaboration; Inter-organizational collaboration; Trade Unions; The Codetermination Act; New institutional theory; Organizational Ethnography; Collaboration agreement; The Codetermination Act MBL ; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The relationship between employer and employee at the Swedish labor market is statutory in the Codetermination Act (1976:560), which declares that negotiations are to be concluded between the employers and affected trade unions before significant organizational changes are made. However, many organizations alternatively choose to terminate local collaboration agreements intended at increasing participation and influence. READ MORE