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Dance as Democracy among People 65+
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Andersson, Ninnie; Ferm Almqvist, Cecilia – Research in Dance Education, 2020
This study sheds light on dance as democracy among people 65+. The article presents a study that is part of the project Age on Stage, in which elderly people were offered to express themselves through dance as an aesthetic form of expression. Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir are applied as philosophical lenses. Elderly people's participation…
Descriptors: Dance, Democracy, Older Adults, Program Descriptions
The Cosmopolitan Engineering Student: An Analysis of a Recruitment Campaign for KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
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Kingdon, Patricia – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2018
This paper presents a study that seeks to examine the messages conveyed in one of the initiatives that have been initialized in order to make young people interested in pursuing engineering studies at technological universities. The study is a case study of the web-based advertising (recruitment) campaign KTH from the Inside designed for KTH Royal…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Metropolitan Areas, Foreign Countries, Technology Education
"The Feelings Have Come Home to Me." Examining Advertising Films on the Swedish Website of El Sistema
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Kuuse, Anna-Karin; Lindgren, Monica; Skåreus, Eva – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2016
The purpose of this study is to analyze how the music educational program of El Sistema Sweden is advertised and legitimized through moving images. The films are a major part of the information on the Swedish national website of El Sistema and are supposed to contribute to the picture that the organization and its founders wish to market. The use…
Descriptors: Music Education, Program Descriptions, Advertising, Web Sites
BoomTown Music Education and the Need for Authenticity--Informal Learning Put into Practice in Swedish Post-Compulsory Music Education
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Karlsen, Sidsel – British Journal of Music Education, 2010
The article reports on a 2-year higher education music programme for young rock musicians in Sweden called BoomTown Music Education. The pedagogical philosophy behind this programme is developed from the findings of two Swedish music education researchers, and the programme exemplifies how knowledge about popular musicians' learning strategies in…
Descriptors: Community Development, Music Education, Informal Education, Music
Day Care: Other Countries.
Hjartarson, Freida; And Others – 1975
This collection of 5 bilingual papers on day care programs in foreign countries (China, the Soviet Union, and 3 Scandinavian countries) is part of a series of papers on various aspects of day care published by the Canadian Department of Health and Welfare. Each paper is presented in both English and French. Paper I considers day care services in…
Descriptors: After School Day Care, Child Care, Day Care, Delivery Systems
Learning from Adult Education Programs in Foreign Countries.
Peterson, Richard E. – 1980
This paper sketches major programs for adult education in Sweden, the Soviet Union, France, and England and considers several policy implications for adult education in the United States. The first section examines the reforms in Swedish public education designed to facilitate social equality, with special emphasis on the study circle. A…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education