Sökning: "Ambivalence"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 160 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Ambivalence.
1. Responsibility and Ambivalence
Sammanfattning : I use the concept of ambivalence—the state of being faced with a choice that cannot be resolved without sacrificing something of value—to approach five contemporary debates in the philosophy of moral responsibility: (1) psychopathy, (2) free will, (3) the emotion of guilt, (4) regret and indirect moral luck, and (5) moral demandingness. Rather than arguing for one theory or another, acknowledging ambivalence paves the way for resolving these debates by reconciling the opposing sides. LÄS MER
2. A Rhetoric of Ambivalence : The Memory World of the Nazi Perpetrator in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones
Sammanfattning : In Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (Les Bienveillantes, 2006), a discrepancy is found between the historical account and the personal story, indicating the major ambivalence that arises from the creation of a historical world (noesis) as opposed to a fictional world (poiesis). This major ambivalence is connected to a range of minor ambivalences (and other elements of uncertainty) that are related to the novel’s treatment of the historical period of World War II in ways that unsettle and defamiliarize the typical standards of Holocaust representations. LÄS MER
3. Värderingskonflikter i praktiken : Hantering av ambivalens vid en neonatal intensivvårdsavdelning
Sammanfattning : At neonatal intensive–care units conflicts between basic values, such as the one between saving life and minimizing suffering, are constantly present. This study focuses on how the ambivalence thus created is dealt with in practice by medical staff, specifically focusing on the significance of contextual factors and how the organisation shapes the process of handling ambivalence. LÄS MER
4. Breakdowns, overlaps and ambivalence : an Actor-network theory study of the Swedish preschool curriculum
Sammanfattning : Within the discipline of early childhood education research, the present study will focus on the Swedish preschool curriculum text, using a sociomaterial approach offered by Actor-network theory (ANT). The study adopts ethnographic methods, foremost participant observations in a preschool, to generate knowledge of how the curriculum text comes to act through moments in the everyday preschool work. LÄS MER
5. Support and Resistance : Ambivalence in Special Education
Sammanfattning : Support and Resistance discusses the interaction between pupils of different abilities and the school organisation. The dissertation has its point of departure in the views of pupils, both those with special support and their classmates. It outlines how school is – and how it should be – in the views of schoolchildren. LÄS MER
