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- Alänge, Sverker, 1951
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How should Quality Management be Taught?
- 1991
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Ingår i: European Journal of Engineering Education. - 0304-3797 .- 1469-5898. ; 16:2, s. 153-157
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The teaching of quality management at Chalmers University is described in detail and there is discussion of some important issues to be considered. Possible developments in quality management for engineers are discussed.
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- Hartman, Per, 1934-
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Skola för ande och hand : en studie av folkhögskolans praktisk-estetiska verksamhet
- 1993
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis focuses on the Swedish folk high school and the work of this type of school in the practical and artistic subject sector. This sector is defined to comprise the subjects history of art, drawing, and male and female craft education. The overall aim is to describe the status of these subjects in the folk high school and what traces the way the folk high school has handled its freedom has left in the subject activities. The study describes the relationship between the subject group and other folk high school activities and how the subject work has taken shape and developed as to organisation and design and what it is that has influenced this development. Elements from comtemporary public discussions on culture and education, if there are any in the subject activities, have also been dealt with. Restrictions as to time have been made by a concentration of the investigation on the situation in the folk high school and the practical and artistic subject group during five school years viz. the school years 1900-1, 1928-9, 1960-1 and 1978-9. The activity of some separate schools during theses periods have been described in close-ups. For each of the four periods the working conditions in this type of school, this subject group and some separate schools have been described.The main object of study of this investigation has been written documents (articles in magazines, annual reports, minutes, teachers' records) which the folk high school actors have produced. For the handling of this historical source material I have applied a functional concept of source. I have also referred to theories in the area of culture and education.Of the practical and artistic subjects the two craft education subjects existed during four, and history of art and drawing during three of the periods. The distribution of courses in the subjects was uneven and meant that some subjects had many and other subjects no elements at all. It was characteristic of the distribution that the practical and artistic activities were separated from the winter courses (the general courses) and were concentrated to special courses During the 1970 period these courses had a considerable increase in numbers. In its large and free scope for lessons the folk high schools gave priority to qualifying subjects. Room was seldom left for the practical and artistic subjects. Typical for teachers of the subject group was that they, to a large extent, had temporary terms of employment.During the studied periods the subject activities lacked elements from the contemporary cultural debate. The subject work in the history of art was carried out in the same unaltered manner. Male and female craft education was changed as to content but retained a similar methodological direction. Drawing, on the other hand, changed both as to content and methods. In the area of pedagogic there were methodological impulses from the externally recruited teachers who introduced working methods from other educational institutions.The relationship between these subjects and other folk high school activities and other organisational circumstances have been of decisive influence for the design and development of this subject group. These circumstances have interacted and resulted in a weak subject debate, a heterogenous teaching-staff and a weak subject identity
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- Johansson, Gunilla, et al.
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Samarbete mellan hem och skola : Erfarenheter av elevers, föräldrars och lärares arbete
- 1993
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main purpose of this study was to shed light upon several questions regarding co -operation between the home and school, based upon earlier research and empirical studies. The study focused on the opportunities and drawbacks as well as on the motives for home and school cooperation. The first section deals with the questions at issues, and the bases the dissertation was dealt with. The second part covers the empirical studies which were carried out within the first three years of the primary school, and in the third part the limitations, most important results, and future research were discussed. The aim of the first section was to identify the starting points for the study, based on earlier research, and to review, via the main body of the study, how co-operation between the home and the school developed. An analysis of the review suggested that the goal formulations of the main body of the paper allowed for opportunities for home and school collaboration. Not only had interesting possibilities come to light, throughout the earlier research, but so too, a number of problems concerning the concrete collaboration between home and school. An very important conclusion, as a result of this review focused on the importance of proceeding from the unit that a class of pupils, parents and teachers represents. The purpose of the empirical studies was to describe and to try to understand why co-operation between home and school developed as it did. A longitudinal study was carried out by means of on-site research in the primary school itself, among pupils in years 1-3. This was proceeded by questionnaires and prestudies of selected classes. The data was collected mainly by means of questionnaires, interviews and written documents. The results showed that parents could function as a valuable resource within the work of the school and that it was relatively easy to take advantage of them, as such. It became clear that pupils, parents and teachers were extremely inventive and resourceful with regard to ideas on cooperation, and indeed on carrying through those ideas. Parents saw themselves and other parents as an important resource for the work of the school. The teacher emerged as a key figure for intensified collaboration. In the concluding discussion the results from the microlevel formed the starting point for the discussion concerning the context of cooperation between home and school at the macrolevel. As a conclusion, the discussion was about collaboration between home and school in terms of some of the effects of cooperation opportunities and obstacles, the interest shown by parents together with the content and forms of collaboration. Here it was pointed out that an important condition for achieving society's objectives was that pupils, parents and teachers together should interpret this in order to connect them to the cultural economic and social reality that was relevant to that particular class.
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- Milsta, Margaretha, 1948-
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Målstyrning och mellanchefers arbete - hierarki, delaktighet och tillfälligheternas spel : en fallstudie av ett privat företag och en offentlig förvaltning
- 1994
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study deals with how goal steering is perceived and experienced at intermediate levels in two organizations, a private firm and a public administration. More specifically, the following three questions are posed: Firstly, how do middle managers perceive and experience goal steering in relation to: (a) what the goals are and what functions they perform; (b) involvement in the formulation and detailed specification of goals in the organization; (c) control of the activity; (d) evaluation of the achievement of goals in terms of the results obtained. Secondly, what possible similarities and differences are to be found between the two cases on the point of how middle managers perceive and experience goal steering, and how can these similarities and differences be interpreted and explained. Thirdly, how do the empirical results compare with the normative models and theoretical perspectives applied and with previous research on goal steering and managerial work. In this study, goal steering is examined from the point of view of three different perspectives addressing three different ways of looking at organized activity, namely a rationalistic perspective, a learning perspective and an institutional perspective. Consequently, organizational theory are, together with theories of and research on managerial work, used as a theoretical framework for the study.The empirical results show that goal steering can be difficult to put into practice. The picture of goal steering which emerges in this case study can be elucidated by means of the concepts of hierarchy, involvement and the effect of random factors. The findings of the study show that there are more similarities than differences between the two cases on the point of how goal steering is perceived and applied at the middle management level. A question posed above was whether different perspectives of organizational theory could contribute to an increased understanding of how middle managers perceive and work with goal steering. One conclusion that can be drawn from the results is that the phenomenon of goal steering means different things in different theoretical presentations, something else at the ideological level in the organizations studied and something different again in practical action.
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- Persson, Ulla-Britt, 1941-
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Reading for understanding : an empirical contribution to the metacognition of reading comprehension
- 1994
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Fifty-three Swedish students in grade 5 and 8 were the subjects of this study. They were either good or poor comprehenders, as defined by a combination of a reading test and teacher ratings. Data collection was made primarily by means of a semi-structured interview; students were also asked to read and recall three texts with different structures. Questions covered text comprehension, reading and general learning strategies, self-concept, awareness of text and cognitive functions, conceptions of learning and reading. Poor and good readers seem to differ in the way they process text information and monitor their cognitive functions. What characterises good readers is their ability to organise their knowledge and use it appropriately. Their cognitive and metacognitive abilities are well integrated, whereas the pattern of functions in poor readers seems distorted - a good cognitive ability is not backed up by an equally good metacognitive or monitoring ability, and vice versa. Poor readers are less confident than good readers; they regard themselves as poor learners and their verbal responses are less elaborate. Often their decoding is not automatic, leaving less capacity for comprehension. The gap between good and poor readers widens from grade 5 to grade 8, as more independent reading is expected. The younger students believe they will improve, the older students have lost interest in studies. Instead they have learned to keep their two lives separate: one in school, one outside.
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- Sahaf, Ali Reza
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Language, identity and social behaviour : a sociocultural approach to the study of the concept "will" on the effectiveness of the "how's" and "why's" of bilingualism
- 1994
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The study is theoretically and empirically a multidisciplinary survey of the problems surrounding the issues of bilingualism in multicultural multiracial communities. The main purpose is to explore the influence of the synergy effects of the socio-cultural forces both on the quality and the outcome of minority language education in Sweden. The overall design of the study is qualitative in approach and is rooted in three overlapping categories namely serendipitous research, curriculum-centred research and hypothesis - testing research. The developed conceptual model is tested by using three techniques, i.e., observation in-depth interview and essay-type tests.Twenty eight Iranian students of different age groups integrated in the Swedish school system and thirty five home-language teachers were subjects to this study. In order to investigate the long-term effects of the macro-dimension level factors of the majority population in Sweden on the micro-dimension level factors of the minority, the subjects were observed and interviewed in their working contexts for three subsequent years. Essay test were administered to twenty upper-secondary Iranian students towards the end of the third year of observation. In line with the research approach, the analysis of qualitative data is presented in a multi-level procedure.The theory behind and the methods used in the study led to an investigation of factors affecting not only the process and the achieved results of the minority/immigrant instructional programmes but also the minority individual's conception of the reality and his/her macro-cosmic and micro-cosmic perceptions. The results obtained by the analyses of the data confirm the identification of the interdependency of language, co-existence an equilibrium with the ecosystem. Mini-culture or communicative culture which emerged as a product of the synergy effects of different socio-cultural systems, is a reliable predictor for immigrant/minority individual's degree of integration in or isolation from the majority community. They may be categorised as total dissociates or the contrapoise, partial dissociates or the unipoise and those who have maintained their equilibrium with their ecosystem or the unipoise.
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- Bergendorff, ., et al.
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Inlärning kräver trygghet
- 1994
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Ingår i: Att lära efter plugget. - Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Haslestad, Anders
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Riksantikvarens middelalderprosjekt - innhenting av gammel kunnskap om trekonstruksjoner : Tema: Utbildning
- 1994
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Ingår i: Kulturmiljövård. - Stockholm : Riksantikvarieämbetet. - 1100-4800. ; :2-3, s. 86-89
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Riksantikvarens medeltidsprojekt syftar till att ge hantverkare utbildning i arbetet med kulturhistoriskt värdefulla byggnader. Den kunskap som byggs upp kring det medeltida byggnadsbeståndet är giltig även för andra äldre byggnader. Det har också visat sig att byggnadsvården kostnadsmässigt kan konkurrera med nybyggandet och att nybyggandet kan ses som en förnyelse och vidareutveckling av det traditionella sättet att bygga.
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- Sandström, Hans, 1943-
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Byggnadshyttan Mälsåker - Tema: Utbildning
- 1994
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Ingår i: Kulturmiljövård. - Stockholm : Riksantikvarieämbetet. - 1100-4800. ; :2-3, s. 91-95
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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