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North-South Partnerships as a Strategy for Internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions: Experiences in Sweden and Mozambique
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Charnaldo Jaime Ndaipa – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Partnerships are understood to be one of the strategies for internationalisation of higher education institutions. In recent years, there has been a slight shift in trends, with diversifying partnerships among African universities and with countries that do not have colonial ties. These include the USA, Canada and Scandinavian countries, among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Global Approach, Educational Strategies
Response and Responsibility: Fabrication of the Eco-Certified Citizen in Swedish Curricula 1962-2011
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Hillbur, P.; Ideland, M.; Malmberg, C. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
This article addresses the fabrication of the eco-certified citizen, an ideal--rather than real--citizen constructed through requirements of both needed knowledge and a kind of personhood, with specific qualities. The societal demands of knowledge-response to environmental problems are studied, as well as the student's (future citizen's)…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Political Influences, Citizenship Responsibility
Different Moves, Similar Outcomes: A Comparison of Chinese and Swedish Preschool Teacher Education Programmes and the Revisions
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Vong, Keang-ieng Peggy; Hu, Bi Ying; Xia, Yan-ping – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
A Chinese and a Swedish preschool teacher education programme were examined in search for commonalities and differences of the curriculum decision-making considerations involved in the respective programme revision process. Findings include: (1) the two programmes have shifted orientations and become similar, yet there was no fundamental…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Quality, Preschool Education, Correlation
U 68--A Study in the Origins of the Reform of Higher Education. R&D for Higher Education.
Ruin, Olof – 1977
In Sweden recent education policy has been aimed at the reform of higher education. This study is concerned with the political decisionmaking process in which a variety of public demands were articulated and reconciled in legislation for reform. It has three purposes: (1) analysis of this decisionmaking process; (2) reconstruction of the higher…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Decision Making, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
From Cultivation to Education: A Study of the Development of the Swedish Universities from a Traditional Cultural Institution to a Rational Educational Institution. R&D for Higher Education, 1980:9.
Svensson, Lennart – 1980
The history of the Swedish universities and their roots in various traditions are traced. Attention is directed to the historico-sociological theory concerning the development and transformation of the Swedish universities from a traditional cultural institution to a rational educational institution. Six themes are covered: a general historical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, College Role, Decision Making, Economic Factors
Employee Participation in Sweden.
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Lind, Olof – Employee Relations, 1979
After describing Sweden's economic and political background, the author discusses its industrial democracy--workers' participation in management--and labor legislation, particularly the Act on Employee Participation in Decision-Making effective January 1, 1977. Contrasts beliefs in the unions' possible stranglehold of industry in co-determination…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Decision Making, Developed Nations, Economic Climate