Sökning: "A Shift Between Worlds"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden A Shift Between Worlds.
1. In Real Life (Or Elsewhere) : om kreativa processer och parallella verkligheter i dokumentärfilm
Sammanfattning : Reality isn’t what it appears to be. Contexts are not always clear and visible. People don’t always say what they really mean. And they don’t always mean what they say. LÄS MER
2. De länkade orden : Den digitala arenans dynamik
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to explore freedom of speech and aspects of credibility related to the Internet. The phenomenon freedom of speech is seen and examined principally from a communicative perspective. Theoretically the thesis is based on three key concepts: Internet, freedom of speech, and credibility. LÄS MER
3. Understanding regional dynamics of vulnerability : a historical approach to the flood problem in China
Sammanfattning : Throughout its long history, China is among the world's most flood-prone and consequently the most experienced countries in coping with floods. This is a dissertation about developing a historical approach for understanding regional dynamic change of vulnerability to flood hazards in the Chinese context, and providing an analytic base for the country's shift of its flood management strategy from the current predominant and prevalent flood control approach to a broader and more comprehensive risk management paradigm. LÄS MER
4. Attitudes towards starting small business : youth and local authorities in a changing labour market?
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to examine the extent to which a local authority can change the attitudes of its youth, away from public sector employment to the development of small business, through education. Traditionally the region of Norrbotten has favoured the public sector. LÄS MER
5. Conceptualizations of childhood, pedagogy and educational research in the postmodern : A critical interpretation
Sammanfattning : Over the last fifty years the debate between modernism and postmodernism has surfaced in the disciplines of social sciences. Epistemologically, there is a shift away from the concept of a “found” world, “out there”, objective, knowable and factual, towards a concept of “constructed” worlds, thus problematizing postulates based on the autonomous, stable, unified, essentialized, coherent and integrated subject capable of rational action, and opening up spaces for a new understanding of subjectivity that is based on provisionality and contingency. LÄS MER