Sökning: "Biographies"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 51 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Biographies.

  1. 1. Informal livelihoods: Womens´biographies and reflections about everyday life : A time-geographic analysis in urban Colombia

    Författare :Åsa Westermark; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; time geography; diaries; biographies; livelihood; women; development; empowerment; gender; informal sector; Bogota; Colombia; Latin America;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the everyday life conditions of low-income women who work mainly in the informal sector in Bogota, Colombia. The work has its point of departure in an analysis of the complex daily lives of two women over an extended time period and from the perspective of the individual. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Seasons of migrations to the North : a study of biographies and narrative identities in US-Mexican and Swedish-Chilean return movements

    Författare :Aina Tollefsen Altamirano; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Return migration; US-Mexican labour migration; Chilean exile in Sweden; desexilio; biographies; circulation; grounded theory; narrative identity;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to examine dynamics and consequences of geographical return movements in two North-South contexts based on migrants' biographies. The thesis examines the consequences of return migration in terms of social mobility, meanings of return and the shaping of identity-place relationships for the subjects of migration. LÄS MER

  4. 3. On the Road to a Software Profession : Students’ Experiences of Concepts and Thresholds

    Författare :Jonas Boustedt; Michael Thuné; Roy Nilsson; Erkki Sutinen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Biographies; class diagram; computer science education; computer science education research; computing concepts; concept map; content analysis; higher education; java interface; learning; object orientation; phenomenography; programming; role-play; software development; software profession; threshold concepts; variation theory; Datavetenskap med inriktning mot datavetenskapens didaktik; Computer Science with specialization in Computer Science Education Research;

    Sammanfattning : Research has shown that there are gaps in knowledge between newly hired and experienced professionals and that some of these gaps are related to concepts, such as the concepts of object orientation. This problem, and the fact that most computer science majors want to work in the software industry, leads to questions regarding why these gaps exist and how students can be better prepared for their future careers. LÄS MER

  5. 4. "sätta flickan i stånd att fullgöra sina husliga plikter" : Fyra märkeskvinnor och flickors slöjdundervisning

    Författare :Eva Trotzig; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Handicraft; Education; History; Sweden; Educational History; Biographies; Educationalists; Women; Girls; Slöjd; Undervisning; Historia; Sverige; Pedagogikens historia; Biografier; Pedagoger; Kvinnor; Flickor;

    Sammanfattning : "sätta flickan i stånd att fullgöra sina husliga plikter" Fyra märkeskvinnor och flickors slöjdundervisning. ("Fit the Girl for her Household Duties". Four Pioneer Women in Girls' Handicraft Education.)This dissertation deals with the development and establishment of girls' handicraft as a school subject in Sweden between 1880 and 1920. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Text och tolkning i svenska författarbiografier : Elin Wägners Selma Lagerlöf, Elisabeth Tykessons Atterbom och Fredrik Bööks Verner von Heidenstam

    Författare :Inger Larsson; Lunds universitets bibliotek; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; history of Swedish literary biography; Keywords: Literary biography; Swedish 20th century biography; Ira B. Nadel; Leon Edel; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; literary theory; biography and theory; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the present thesis is twofold: to examine literary biography as literary text and, on the basis of my findings, to adopt a reasonable perspective on the theoretical debate about the fictionality of such biographies. In my introduction I trace the theoretical developments underlying this metaperspective and supply with an historical survey of literary biography as practised in Sweden. LÄS MER