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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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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:
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."

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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
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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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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