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Theory-Driven Methods for Practical Entrepreneurship: Hypothesis Testing in Entrepreneurship Education
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Gifford, Ethan – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
This account of practice focuses on an augmented Customer Development methodology which the author adopted for a module in a Master's program in Entrepreneurship at a Swedish business school. The article details the techniques underlying this augmented methodology, and the journey toward its implementation. By conceptualizing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Entrepreneurship, Business Schools
The Cooling of a Swede--Part of an EUSO CSI Challenge
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Pendrill, Ann-Marie – Physics Education, 2021
This paper presents preparations, execution and reflection on results for the physics part of a CSI task for the European Union Science Olympiad 2010, taking place at the University of Gothenburg. The participants were required to make a graph of the cooling of a swede ("Brassica napus"), as a proxy for the cooling of a murder victim,…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Universities, Graphs
Offering Research Education for In-Service Language Teachers
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Bardel, Camilla; Erickson, Gudrun; Granfeldt, Jonas; Rosén, Christina – Language Teaching, 2017
Since 2008, the Swedish government has launched occasional offers of funding for graduate schools aimed at practising teachers. The fundamental purpose of this initiative is to enhance quality in the Swedish school system by implementing what is stated in the Education Act, namely that education at all levels should be based upon scientific…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Educational Finance, Evidence Based Practice, Foreign Countries
Reflection and Remarks on the Conversation "The Past, Present and Future of the Nature of Science Research" with Norman Lederman
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Tasar, Mehmet Fatih – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2007
The conversation between myself and Professor Lederman took place in Malmö, Sweden on August 25, 2007. The purpose of the conversation was to elaborate on the past, present and future of nature of science research and also to provide insights for beginning researchers. In this text I am providing the questions about which we talked and my…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Research, Reflection, Foreign Countries
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
Knowledge Traditions in Higher Education. R and D for Higher Education.
Bergendal, Gunnar – 1980
Issues pertaining to knowledge traditions that are important to the reform of higher education in Sweden are considered. While nonacademic parts of higher education (e.g., vocational/technical, nursing) account for more than half of its admissions, it is suggested that thinking regarding higher education in recent years has used the ideals of the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Role, Educational Change, Educational History