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Typescript (photocopy) / x, 342 leaves ; 30 cm / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dept. of History, University of Adelaide

Typescript (photocopy) / x, 342 leaves ; 30 cm / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dept. of History, University of Adelaide

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Dept of History, University of Adelaide. / Typescript (photocopy).

This study examines the practical application of Oxford Idealism to education reform and the adult education movement. According to Idealist philosophy, enlightened and active citizenship was the cornerstone of a participatory democracy. This thesis thus explores how Oxford Idealists used the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) to pursue the aim of cultivating good citizenship and forming a common purpose for the future society they wished to see emerging. The WEA, founded in 1903, embodied the Idealist vision by promoting its two-fold practices: first, it organised university tutorial classes to foster mutual learning and fellowship between intellectuals and workers; second, it campaigned for a state-funded 'educational highway', from nursery to university, so that every citizen would have the opportunity to receive the kind of liberal education which had hitherto been limited to upper and middle classes. By exploring the development of the dual initiative, this thesis examines the achievement and limitations of the Idealist project. In particular, it investigates whether and how this pursuit, in the long run, contributed to the rise of professionalism, a trend which has been ascribed to the efforts of Idealists but which in many ways contradicted the ideal of participatory democracy. In so doing, this thesis explains why the influence of Oxford Idealism-this highly moralistic philosophy which inspired a generation of intellectuals and politicians and lent a distinctive flavour to British public policy at the beginning of the twentieth century-gradually ebbed in the public domain.

This thesis deals with social media and their use in sport. The main objective is in the first part to describe the concept of social media and their types, and consequently their use by individuals in sports, sports clubs and the organization of sporting events. In the second part is the main objective to determine whether physical educational associations and sports clubs in the Central Region using social media and if so, what kinds of social media. This finding is based on own research with a focus on certain factors that can usage of social media affect. The two main objectives are followed by two additional goals. The first is to compare the use of social media in the USA and the Czech Republic, the other is creation of social network page on Facebook for physical educational association Sokol Vysoký Újezd.

Samhällets förväntningar på anställdas ständiga utveckling och behov att stå ut på arbetsmarknaden har ökat betydelsen av individers självstyrda lärande. Syftet med studien är att skapa större förståelse för självstyrt lärande och dess villkor för nyckelpersoner, det vill säga anställda som är ensamma om att utföra sitt arbete inom sin arbetsplats. Studiens resultat har analyserats och diskuterats utifrån en teori om individuella villkor för lärande och organisatoriska villkor för lärande. Den kvalitativa fallstudien har utförts inom ett studieförbund genom analys av dokument, intervjuer med nyckelpersonerna själva och avdelningschefer. Studien bygger främst på nio semistrukturerade intervjuer, fem med nyckelpersoner och fyra med chefer. Resultatet visar att nyckelpersonerna lär sig självstyrt genom tre tillvägagångssätt; att söka information, prioritera och styra sitt arbete samt genom samspel med andra. De viktigaste villkoren för lärande visade sig vara de sociala och digitala villkoren, arbetsuppgifternas lärandepotential, vidareutbildning samt kulturella villkor. Studiens slutsats är att informationssökande, prioritering och styrning av arbetet samt lärande genom samspel med andra är ett självstyrt lärande. De olika villkoren kan delas upp i villkor på en arbetsplats- samt organisatorisk nivå. Villkoren har olika effekt på tillvägagångsätten för självstyrt lärande. Slutligen pekar studien på att organisationens fokus bör skifta från ett lärande genom utbildning till lärande som sker inom det vardagliga arbetet eftersom det är så nyckelpersonerna anser att de lär sig mest. / Society's expectations about how employees should constantly develop and stand out on the labor market has increased the importance of individual’s self-directed learning. The purpose of this study is to contribute to a greater understanding of self-directed learning and its framework for people who have a key role in the organization. The results of the study have been analyzed and discussed based on a model of self-directed learning and conditions for workplace learning more generally. This qualitative case study has been carried out in an adult educational association in which a few employees maintain a key role due to their specific functions in their respective departments. The study is built on nine interviews, five with key employees and four with the managers, in conjunction with documents regarding the adult educational association. The results show that key employees learn primarily by searching information through intranet and internet, by prioritizing and managing their work and by interacting with others. The most important learning conditions shown are both social and digital conditions, learning potential of the tasks, further education and cultural conditions. In conclusion, learning by searching information, by prioritizing and managing work tasks and learning by interaction with others makes for a self-directed learning process. The different frameworks in the study have been divided into the dimensions of the workplace and the organization as a whole. Furthermore, these different frameworks impact the learning methods in different ways. Lastly, the study indicates that the organizational focus should shift from learning by formal education to the more everyday learning, since it was shown to be what the key employees practiced the most.

<p>The culture center studied has gone from being organized by enthusiasts and ideals, to being institutionalized with a educational association responsible for the management. The questions discussed are – how this change affects the active people in the house and what consequences these changes make for the institution of the house and for the regular management.</p> / <p>Kulturhuset som studeras har gått från att med eldsjälar och idealism vara ett fritt drivit replokalshus, till att bli en tydlig institution med ett studieförbund som sköter driften. Uppsatsen behandlar frågor om hur denna förändring påverkar de aktiva i huset och vad dessa förändringar får för konsekvenser, både för huset som institution och för den praktiska driften. </p>

The culture center studied has gone from being organized by enthusiasts and ideals, to being institutionalized with a educational association responsible for the management. The questions discussed are – how this change affects the active people in the house and what consequences these changes make for the institution of the house and for the regular management. / Kulturhuset som studeras har gått från att med eldsjälar och idealism vara ett fritt drivit replokalshus, till att bli en tydlig institution med ett studieförbund som sköter driften. Uppsatsen behandlar frågor om hur denna förändring påverkar de aktiva i huset och vad dessa förändringar får för konsekvenser, både för huset som institution och för den praktiska driften.