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THESES SUBMITTED
FOR MASTERS AND "HOVEDFAG" DEGREE
in alphabetic order by author.
Dear students and recent graduates.
On this page you are
given an opportunity to post the title of your thesis, as well as a short
summary of max. 75 words. You can also give your contact address, in order for
people to get in touch with you if they want more information. Both work in
progress and finalised theses are appreciated.
Please, send the title,
summary and your e-mail address by e-mail to linegr@ulrik.uio.no
We
wait for your input!
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B
Name: |
Heidi Biseth |
Institution: |
University of Oslo, Institute for Educational
Research |
Address /phone number: |
Bertramjordet 20, 1251 Oslo
Phone: +47 95 99 53 13
/ +47 21 92 35 85 |
E-mail: |
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Thesis title: |
Language issues in Education influenced by Global
Trends and Democracy: A case study from South Africa. |
(Expected) year of completion: |
(Expected) Year of completion: 2005 |
Summary: |
"English is a world language increasingly used as the
language of instruction in schools, even though it is not the mother tongue of
the students. The result is often to the detriment of students? academic and
cognitive development. National unity in post-apartheid South Africa is to be
created by fostering acceptance of linguistic diversity and equality. This
study tends to take a closer look at how different global trends and democracy
influence the language situation in education." |
C
Name: |
Sahadat Hussain Chaudhury |
Institution: |
Oslo University College, Faculty of Education |
Address /phone number: |
Room 526, Aker Studenthjem, Trondheimsvn. 245, 0586
Oslo |
E-mail: |
sahadat2001@yahoo.comor
SahadatH.Chaudhury@stud.lu.hio.no
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Thesis title: |
Meanings and practices of literacies by the
adult 'illiterates' in rural Bangladesh |
(Expected) year of completion: |
2002 |
Summary: |
Literacy-illiteracy divide is a social construction.
These terms are relative to the context. A literate person in one area could
very much be an illiterate in another area. Despite this reality we continue to
categorise a group of people or a community as illiterate according to our own
perceptions and assumptions. Luckily there is a growing interest among
researchers on seeing the issues of literacy and illiteracy as social practices
deeply rooted in culture, politics, and the life itself has now been observed.
However, this shift from an autonomous view of literacy to an ideological view
has remained very much at the rhetoric level in the so-called developing
countries including Bangladesh. Planners and policy makers are still running
after the autonomous model of literacy as if such and such percentage of
literacy is a prerequisite for economic lift off of a particular country. I
thought 'enough is enough' and now its time to bring the rural people into the
centre of the stage to give them enough space to present some parts of their
lives, their experiences, their perceptions, their practices, and their local
strategies before us. Back in 1997 while doing a short course on literacy at
the Reading University in England, a grafitti on Reading buses attracted my
attention where a dog was saying the following: "I don't need literacy to eat,
sleep and bark all the day. Whats your excuse?" I believe its time now to
search for some 'excuses'. Planners have their own excuses, the researchers
have their too. The rural people now will speak for themselves and present
their own excuses. This study is hoping to shed some light on some hitherto
unknown and dark areas of literacy and illiteracy. |
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E
F
Name: |
Liu Fengshu |
Institution: |
University of Oslo, Institute for Educational
Research |
Address /phone number: |
Olav M. Troviksvei 11, H 0112, 0864 Oslo |
E-mail: |
fengshu416@hotmail.com |
Thesis title: |
Parental Expectations of the Single Child in
the Nuclear Chinese Family--Girls as Single Children and Boys as Single
Children. |
(Expected) year of completion: |
2002 |
Summary: |
This study explores parental expectations as a function
of the combined effects of the sex of the child and the single-child status in
present-day urban China. It seeks to understand parental expectations of the
child by taking into consideration such factors as the parents' social economic
status and the social and economic changes that have taken place in China in
the past two decades. |
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Name: |
Maria Ines Zuniga Siu |
Institution: |
University of Oslo, Institute for Educational
Research |
Address /phone number: |
Olav M. Troviksvei 4, H0208, 0864 Oslo |
E-mail: |
mi_zunigasiu@lycos.com |
Thesis title: |
Languages and Education for Empowerment in a
Multilingual and Multicultural Country |
(Expected) year of completion: |
2002 |
Summary: |
This thesis examines the reality of the indigenous
children living in the dispersed, poor and culturally diverse rural areas in
the Peruvian highlands and their right to education in their mother tongue, the
educational system and the recent efforts towards a better education for the
indigenous rural primary school children and the educational goals regarding
bilingualism. |
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