Sökning: "Alternative conceptions"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 53 avhandlingar innehållade orden Alternative conceptions.
1. Conceptions and artefacts : Children's understanding of the earth in the presence of visual representations
Sammanfattning : The studies in this thesis explore children’s understanding of the earth when presented with visual representations. The conceptual understanding is related to cognitive contexts as well as the physical and cultural state. Pictures and models, as communicative tools, are associated with both cognition and culture. LÄS MER
2. Design And Body : Exploring Conceptions Of The Body In Fashion Design Processes
Sammanfattning : The human body has been considered to be an active element and is a common starting point of fashion design processes. However, during these processes, understanding of the body and how it is used to design is often confined by the body’s standard spatial and structural characteristics. LÄS MER
3. Ethical and normative reasoning on climate change : Conceptions and solutions among students in a Chinese context
Sammanfattning : Previous research in environmental education and learning has mainly concerned students’ understanding of natural scientific knowledge, whereas research on the influence of other knowledge in learning environmental issues is marginal. Also, the interest in most studies investigating students’ natural scientific knowledge has been to capture constraints in students’ understanding, hence investigations of students’ meaning making are rare. LÄS MER
4. Understanding Opioid Therapy in Chronic Pain : Assessment, Lived Experience and Conceptions
Sammanfattning : The overarching aim of this thesis was to improve the understandings of opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) by examining the feasibility of different assessment methods of substance use, and opioid use disorder (OUD), and exploring the sense-making of opioid therapy in CNCP. Methods: In study I, the reliability of the Addiction Severity Index Self-Report form (ASI-SR) was assessed by the agreement (intraclass correlation (ICC)) between the composite scores (CS) of the ASI interview and the ASI-SR, internal consistency of the CS subscales measured with Cronbach’s α, and sensitivity and specificity of the alcohol and drug CS’s, using Receiver Operating Characteristics analyses. LÄS MER
5. Making science come alive : Student-generated stop-motion animations in science education
Sammanfattning : The availability of digital technology in classrooms does not only increase the possibility for teachers to present content in new visual and dynamic ways. This technology also offers students the opportunity to become cocreators of content in science classrooms. LÄS MER