Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1985. / Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 445-475).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 436-453).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-386).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-164).

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Singapore Math är ett undervisningssätt i matematik som bygger på hur matematikundervisningen sker i Singapore. Studien belyser hur några lärare i den svenska grundskolan upplever att införandet av Singapore Math har ändrat deras sätt att undervisa i matematik och hur de upplever att elevernas aktiva deltagande påverkas av modellen. De teoretiska utgångspunkter som studien bygger på är matematikämnet och dess läroplan i Singapore samt Lev Vygotskijs sociokulturella synsätt på lärande. I studien gjordes sju kvalitativa intervjuer med lärare i den svenska grundskolan och intervjumaterialet analyserades tematiskt. Resultaten visar att samtliga lärare ser problemlösning som en central del i sin undervisning med Singapore Math och att alla lärare upplever ett ökat aktivt deltagande hos eleverna efter införandet av modellen. Majoriteten av de intervjuade lärarna anser sig lägga ned mer, men inte mycket mer, tid på planeringsarbete efter införandet av modellen.

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In Southeast Asia, many impoverished Indonesian women migrate to Singapore to work as domestic workers in households. Though employers are required to provide domestic workers with food and housing, there have been numerous reports of employers withholding food. This thesis explores the ways in which Indonesian domestic workers navigate towards food security in the context of social relations in their employers’ homes in Singapore. I draw on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2016, where I interviewed Indonesian domestic workers and employers. Not only were the majority of domestic workers experiencing food insecurity, food was additionally symbolically used to denigrate them. Drawing on a concept I term markings, which denotes the process of demarcating social roles through symbols and boundaries, I argue that employers control food in order to produce markings that construct and reinforce relations of inequality in households. These relations around food emotionally and physically shape domestic workers in ways that allow them to know their positions in the household. Despite their subordination, domestic workers use strategies to contest and endure their unequal conditions in Singapore in ways that demonstrate their resilience. This research demonstrates the importance of protecting the food security of migrant women, and advocates for the fair treatment of domestic workers. / Graduate / 2018-12-05