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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden commodification of education.
1. I learn where I am : Decolonial exploration of institutional responses to diversity in Swedish universities
Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle; Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälleSammanfattning : The work presented aims to analyse the dynamics of power and inequality within the Swedish academic space, and to do so considers the growing diversity of the Swedish academic composition, in the light of increasing internationalisation and a more recent commodification of higher education (HE). Through a critical discourse analysis of official documents published by the five largest Swedish universities, concerning internationalisation-oriented strategies, documents promoting equal opportunities and guidelines governing discrimination, I reflect on the spaces reserved for concepts such as diversity, interculturality and equal opportunities. LÄS MER
2. Museum till salu? : En museologisk studie av varufiering och digital utveckling i Hallwylska museet
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskapSammanfattning : This master’s thesis examines the museum as a commodity and the consequences that has on the Hallwyl museum. The museum is a former private palace built in 1893-1898 as the Stockholm home for Wilhelmina von Hallwyl (1844-1930) and her family. LÄS MER
3. Money Matters: A Cultural Analysis of the Experiences and Expectations of American Students in Sweden Regarding Tuition Fees
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiSammanfattning : This thesis analyzes the experiences and expectations of American students conducting full-time master’s studies in Sweden and how their monetary valuation of education, demonstrated through paying tuition, impacts their studies. This thesis additionally aims to explore how students adapt a specific academic habitus during their US educational experiences that they, in turn, bring with them to study in Sweden. LÄS MER
4. The unionisation of precarious workers : representations, problematisation and experiences in Swedish blue-collar unions in the construction and hotel-restaurant sectors
Master-uppsats, Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärdSammanfattning : From the Polanyian perspective on the double movement of labour commodification and self-protection of Society, the aim of this study was to examine how unionists perceive and problematise precarious employment and what are their practices for unionising and thereby securing precarious workers. A double case study was conducted in the hotel-restaurant and construction sectors in Sweden with the participation of blue-collar unionists with diverse backgrounds and experiences. LÄS MER
5. Distributing ‘learning’ for everyone, everywhere
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierSammanfattning : During the past decades, global education policies and practices have experienced a neoliberal turn, which has changed the discourse around education. Instead of being regarded as a public service, education has become loaded with expectations of effective production of the human capital and financial profits. LÄS MER
