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Sebrant, Ulla – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2008
In a previous ethnographic study (Sebrant, 2000) a social constructionist view of how social identity is produced among professional groups in Swedish healthcare was developed. Looking at the workplace as an important environment for identity construction suggested that these processes were conditions for learning. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Health Services, Geriatrics
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Aronsson, Gunnar; Bejerot, Eva; Harenstam, Annika – Public Personnel Management, 1999
Swedish professionals (n=3,595) ranked their perceptions of healthy work. There was a great discrepancy between the ideal and the real for work intellectuality (stimulus, independence, encouragement of innovation and initiative). The value of work showed more congruence between ideal and real. Lowest-ranked aspects were being well paid and having…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Private Sector
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Peterson, Richard B. – Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 1976
Describes a cross-cultural study of secondary teachers in Sweden and the state of Washington that investigated the interrelationship of teacher attitudes regarding job satisfaction, professionalism, and collective negotiations. (For availability see EA 507 343) (Author/JG)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Cross Cultural Studies, Job Satisfaction, Occupational Surveys
Brante, Thomas – Studies of Higher Education and Research, 1992
This paper proposes a comprehensive model in which the emergence and growth of various professions in Sweden can be localized and better understood. An opening section offers some remarks about the problem of definition and delineation of the concept of "profession." This section defines professionals as carriers of abstract expert…
Descriptors: European History, Higher Education, Middle Class, Professional Education
Wiren, Eva – 1994
This study is part of an ongoing research project examining women in Sweden who work in traditional female professions. The project aims to investigate women's life patterns in a longitudinal perspective--targeting individuals born in 1948 and covering the years 1961 to 1981/82--with focus on their background, education and work experiences.…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Females, Foreign Countries, Labor Market
National Swedish Board of Universities and Colleges, Stockholm. Research and Development Unit. – 1981
Information on research efforts concerning higher education in Sweden is presented. Questions that have been addressed by the Swedish research program in the past five years have included the long-term social effects of higher education activities, the knowledge traditions of higher education programs, and the conditions of research with and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Cognitive Development, College Role, Educational Benefits
New York State Manpower Advisory Council, Albany. – 1966
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEADERS IN THE FIELDS OF ECONOMICS, EDUCATION, PUBLIC AND WORLD AFFAIRS, GOVERNMENT, MANPOWER UTILIZATION, LABOR, AND INDUSTRY PARTICIPATED IN A CONFERENCE ON MANPOWER UTILIZATION AND TRAINING TO REVIEW TRAINING NEEDS AND PROPOSALS FOR MEETING THEM AT ALL SKILL LEVELS, FROM THE DISADVANTAGED GROUPS TO THE PROFESSIONALLY…
Descriptors: Conferences, Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections
Broman, Ingegerd Tallberg – 1994
This article presents gender perspectives on the formation of the preschool teacher and the formation of a domain for education and child rearing of young children, commenting on the designation of the professional field of education as "female territory." The report uses the results from two Swedish studies: the first dealing with the…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Child Rearing, Content Analysis