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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 126 avhandlingar innehållade orden Gunnar Life.
1. Getting Ready for Life : Life Strategies of Town Youth in Mozambique and Tanzania
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to explore how and under what conditions life strategies of young men and women unfold in the towns of Masasi in southern Tanzania and Montepuez in northern Mozambique. These towns are located in regions which in their national contexts are perceived as peripheral and rural. LÄS MER
2. ”I don’t believe the meaning of life is all that profound” : A study of Icelandic teenagers’ life interpretation and values
Sammanfattning : What do teenagers recount about themselves and their interpretation of life and values, and what characterises individual teenagers’ perceptions and statements? What is the relation between teenagers’ life interpretation and values and social circumstances? What challenges to school religious education do the teenagers’ perceptions and statements represent? These questions are central to the study Icelandic Teenagers’ Life Interpretation and Values.The purpose of the study was to investigate some central elements in teenagers’ life interpretation so as to discuss the results in terms of social circumstances in Iceland and of school religious education. LÄS MER
3. "For a better life..." : a study on migration and health in Nicaragua
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores and analyses the manifold relations between migration and health, what I call the migration-health nexus, in the contemporary Nicaraguan context. The study is based on fieldwork in León and Cuatro Santos and a mixed-methods approach combining qualitative in-depth interviews and quantitative survey data. LÄS MER
4. On Aircraft Development : managing complex systems with long life cycles
Sammanfattning : Time plays an important role for the development of aircraft. The aircraft has a long life cycle and is composed of many systems with life cycles that sometimes differ with an order of magnitude in relation to the overall system. LÄS MER
5. Epistemology of practice and its consequences in practice : Educating for knowing-in-action in working life
Sammanfattning : Education and competence development are of increased interest in today’s society and organizations, to increase the wellbeing, lifelong learning, and mobility of the labor force, and contribute to companies’ global competition. As a consequence, formal and informal education is growing. LÄS MER