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Knowledge Production at Industrial Research Institutes: Institutional Logics and Struggles for Relevance in the Swedish Institute for Surface Chemistry, 1980-2005
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Bruno, Karl; Larsen, Katarina; van Leeuwen, Thed N. – Research Evaluation, 2017
This article examines dynamics of knowledge production and discourses of basic-applied science and relevance at the Swedish Institute for Surface Chemistry, a semi-public industrially oriented research institute, from 1980 to 2005. We employ a three-pronged method, consisting of (1) an analysis of how the institute articulated its research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Research, Chemistry, Research and Development Centers
Research on Pedagogical Entrepreneurship -- A Literature Review Based on Studies from Finland, Iceland and Sweden
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Dal, Michael; Elo, Janne; Leffler, Eva; Svedberg, Gudrun; Westerberg, Mats – Education Inquiry, 2016
Strategies for entrepreneurship in the educational system are present not only in the Nordic countries, but also in the majority of other Western countries. Linked to these strategies different research efforts have been made. Although the research efforts have a common origin in supranational policies on entrepreneurship, there has been little…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Cross Cultural Studies, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Homework--Is There a Connection with Classroom Assessment? A Review from Sweden
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Strandberg, Max – Educational Research, 2013
Background: The growing interest among researchers concerning how to use assessment to enhance students' learning as well as to improve instruction provided the impetus for this review of teachers' assessment activities related to homework. Purpose and method: The purpose was to bring together and critically examine the evidence in a way that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Homework, Educational Researchers
Women and Research: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Choice in Sweden.
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Ekehammar, Bo – Higher Education, 1985
Information gathered in Sweden concerning student post-high school aspirations, gifted students, work values and choice of continued education, attitudes toward science and research, and perceptions of researchers and research is summarized, and its implications for the distribution of the sexes in graduate study and research careers are…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Females, Foreign Countries, Gifted
The Research Circle--Building Knowledge on Equal Terms.
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Harnsten, Gunilla – 1994
The research circle is a form of cooperation between trade unions and researchers that is spreading all over Sweden and beyond its national borders. The research circles described in this book were arranged jointly by SKAF (Swedish Municipal Workers' Union) and the Uppsala University Department of Education. A research circle is a study circle in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Creative Thinking, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level
Subject Didactic Studies of Research Training in Biology and Physics.
Lybeck, Leif – Swedish Research on Higher Education, 1984
The objectives and design of a 3-year study of research training and supervision in biology and physics are discussed. Scientific problems arising from work on the thesis will be a focus for the postgraduate students and their supervisors. Attention will be focused on supervisors' and students' conceptions of science, subject range, research,…
Descriptors: Biology, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students