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- Nilsson, Per A., 1957-, et al.
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Swedes Studying Abroad – as Tourists?
- 2020
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Ingår i: World Journal of Education. - Canada : Sciedu Press. - 1925-0746 .- 1925-0754. ; 10:5, s. 98-107
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The number of students temporarily studying in another country to receive a post-secondary education has grown significantly since the 1970s. This study aims to learn more about what attracts Swedish outbound students when studying abroad. What are the popular study destinations? Can data reveal touristic preferences? Descriptive statistics from the Swedish Board of Student Finance are used, making it possible to scrutinize studying abroad on an aggregate level over a period of two decades. The results show that English-speaking countries are attractive to Swedish outbound students. Places growing in popularity are the countries of Poland, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Singapore, and China, as well as the region of Hong Kong in particular. However, more than 50 percent of outbound students study in Europe. In these troubling and uncertain times, we are living in, with COVID-19 and other crises hampering worldwide travel, it is difficult to predict the long-term effects on mobility.
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- Blom, Thomas
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Fyra nyanser av kunskap
- 2005
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Ingår i: Geografiska Notiser. - Lund : Geografilärarnas riksförbund. - 0016-724X. ; :2, s. 97-101
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Blom, Thomas
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Medeltidens charterturister
- 2004
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Ingår i: Populär historia. - 1102-0822. ; :6, s. 70-71
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Blom, Thomas, 1961-
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Utbildningslandskapets regionala och lokala strukturer
- 2015
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Ingår i: Geografiska Notiser. - Linköping. - 0016-724X. ; 73:4, s. 154-163
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Nyligen presenterade Universitetskanslerämbetet en rapport (2015) som visar på att det alltjämt råder stora skillnader mellan olika län och mellan olika kommuner i landet avseende ungdomars benägenhet att påbörja högskolestudier. Syftet med föreliggande artikel är därför att sätta ljuset på det svenska utbildningslandskapets regionala strukturer utifrån ett utvecklingsperspektiv,med referens till de tre ovannämnda rapporterna som belyser utbildningssituationen från 1980-och 1990-talet. Synen på kunskap och utveckling utifrån ett regionalt perspektiv är således ännu idag ett angeläget område att fokusera, även om vi kan konstatera att intresset bland ungdomarna att skaffa sig en högre utbildning relativt sett ökat. Vi kan samtidigt konstatera att de regionala skillnaderna i många avseenden ännu kvarstår. Mina empiriska exempel är hämtade från Värmland då de tidigare studier genomfördes där och därmed kan en jämförelse övertid ske. Problematiken som här belyses ärdock inte unik för Värmland utan har en relevans i många regioner i landet.
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- Dzin, Amela, 1979-
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Kunskapssyner och kunskapens vyer : Om kunskapssamhällets effektiviseringar och universitetens själ, med exempel från Karlstads universitet
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation deals with the multi-faceted phenomenon of knowledge conceptions. The aim is to describe the meaning of “academic knowledge” in today’s knowledge society from the perspective of “education” (a term used here in relation to the ‘liberal arts’ tradition as used in the English language or in German ‘bildung’) and “commodisation”. These two perspectives create a field of tensions in higher education. The study analyses the flow of knowledge in the process of commodisation - partly through a network of relations between societally-relevant actors, partly through career geography. The actors studied are: the state, the university, the university departments and the graduates/students. The research ‘design is a descriptive case study of Karlstad University during the years 1997-2007. The theoretical approach combines two perspectives; commodisation of academic knowledge and career geography. Commodisation is studied by the developments in higher education seen from a wider national and international perspective. Career geography entails both a geographical mobility and a social mobility of the students. The results show that there are different conceptions about academic knowledge from the different actors. Two different perspectives of commodisation of academic knowledge have been found, one from the “top down” perspective and one from the “bottom up” perspective. The top down perspective means that commodisation is driven mostly by the state and then is followed by the university and the university departments. In the bottom up perspective, commodisation is driven by the students. Furthermore, the results from the study of the Swedish state reveal an increasingly clear commodisation of academic knowledge with emphasis on economic growth, regional development and international competition. However, Karlstad University’s and the university departments’ view of knowledge differs somewhat from that of the state’s, and aims instead to combine ‘commodisation of knowledge’ with ‘knowledge as education’ in its efforts to be a ‘learning university’. It is also shown that students appreciate this combined view. On a general level, the main argument from this dissertation is that it is necessary to place more attention on how to obtain a balance between the commodisation of academic knowledge and knowledge as “education” in today’s higher education system.
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- Andersson, Lennart, et al.
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Higher Education as a Means to Sustainable Development in Marginal Regions
- 2002
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Ingår i: Jussila, H. Majoral, R. and Cullen B. (Eds.) Sustainable Development and Geographical Space. Issues of population and education in marginal areas. - Aldershot. England : Ashgate Publishing Limited.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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