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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 83 avhandlingar innehållade ordet journeys.
16. Drivers of Children's Travel Satisfaction
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is twofold: Firstly, it explores the reasons parents state for choosing the car to take their children to school; Secondly, it investigates how the characteristics of the journey relate to children’s wellbeing, mood, and cognitive performance. This thesis consists of three papers (Papers I, II, and III). LÄS MER
17. Vägar inom räckhåll : Spåren efter resande i det förindustriella bondesamhället
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the importance of human patterns of movement and interfaces in the local community and the constituents of peripheral forest communities, taking roads and human patterns of movement as the starting point. Questions are raised concerning how people have related to roads and travel - institutionally or flexibly. LÄS MER
18. The Erasmus Learning Journey : Students’ Experiences from a Mobility Period Abroad
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to gain knowledge and understanding of students’ learning through a mobility period abroad. Student mobility is a topic that attracts great scholarly attention internationally and has also gained increased attention in Sweden lately, both in terms of policy aims related to student mobility as well as attracting scholarly interest. LÄS MER
19. Round Trips to Heaven : Otherworldly Travelers in Early Judaism and Christianity
Sammanfattning : In the beginning of the Common Era, a number of religious texts were written recounting heavenly journey adventures. These narratives have come to constitute a recurring theme in research regarding ancient religions. Round Trips to Heaven features several early Jewish and Christian heavenly journey texts. LÄS MER
20. The Old, the New and the Unknown : The continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates early modern ways of looking at the world through an analysis of what the continents meant in three settings of knowledge making in seventeenth-century Sweden. Combining text, maps and images, the thesis analyses the meaning of the continents in, first, early modern scholarly ‘geography’, second, accounts of journeys to the Ottoman Empire and, third, accounts of journeys to the colony New Sweden. LÄS MER