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Carlhed, Carina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The aim of the study was to analyse enrolment patterns, and study efficiency and completion among students in programmes with professional qualifications, using microdata from Statistics Sweden. The programmes were Architecture, Medicine, Nursing, Law, Social work, Psychology, andEngineering (year 2001-2002, n = 15,918). Using the concepts from…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Gender Differences, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries
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Zarin, Ru; Lindbergh, Kent; Fallman, Daniel – Design and Technology Education, 2012
Widely acknowledged as an archetypal design activity, sketching is typically carried out using little more than pen and paper. Today's designed artifacts however, are often given qualities that are hard to capture with traditional means of sketching. While pen and paper sketching catches the character of a building, it may not equally well capture…
Descriptors: Building Design, Architecture, Animation, Workshops
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Styhre, Alexander – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: Professional communities are capable of maintaining their social status and role in society on the basis of a blend of technical and formal expertise, know-how, and an understanding of the non-professional's demands and expectations. In architectural work, professional expertise largely centres on the visual capacities of the architect,…
Descriptors: Architecture, Visual Perception, Role, Foreign Countries
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Lymer, Gustav – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2009
This study provides an account of how architectural competencies are made visible in the work of critique in architectural education. It shows how critics enact a set of disciplined visual practices through which architectural qualities of proposed buildings become available for competent remark. Particularly prominent among these practices is the…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Architecture, Educational Practices, Art Criticism
Lee, Alison, Ed.; Danby, Susan, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The number of doctorates being awarded around the world has almost doubled over the last ten years, propelling it from a small elite enterprise into a large and ever growing international market. Within the context of increasing numbers of doctoral students this book examines the new doctorate environment and the challenges it is starting to face.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Educational Change, Educational Trends
Berg, Barbro; Ostergren, Bertil – 1977
Included in this report are seven comparative case studies of innovation processes in higher education in Sweden. The purpose of the study is to chart dysfunctions in the system in planning for change, and also to gain more knowledge of the organization by studying it when it has been "disturbed" through introduction of an innovative…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Architectural Education, Area Studies, Art Education