Sökning: "Life histories"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 103 avhandlingar innehållade orden Life histories.
1. Historielärares historier : Ämnesbiografi och ämnesförståelse hos gymnasielärare i historia
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this study is to analyse history teachers’ understanding of the school subject history. The aim have also been to uncover what factors the history teachers say have affected their understanding of the school subject. LÄS MER
2. Tomorrow is yesterday: early-life conditions shape ectotherm life histories
Sammanfattning : Life history theory seeks to explain the overwhelming diversity of resource allocation strategies in nature by exploring how evolutionary forces optimise survival and reproduction within an organism’s environment. Central to this theory is that resources are finite, and thus increased investment into one trait may reduce resources available for another trait. LÄS MER
3. Life histories and population dynamics
Sammanfattning : During the last decades there has been a growing interest and attention to random variation in population densities and their causes. It has been shown that even in constant environments (deterministic population growth) the dynamics of populations can display random like behaviour depending on parameter values. LÄS MER
4. Engineering lives : Technology, time and space in a male-centred world
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with engineers. It is an ethnographic study of the life organisation for seventeen engineers with Master's degrees working at two different workplaces, Automobile Inc. and Microchips Inc. The study is based on participant observation and life-history interviews. LÄS MER
5. Fri från narkotika : om kvinnor och män som har varit narkotikamissbrukare
Sammanfattning : The two aims of the study are to describe and analyse: i) how drug abusers have transformed their lives from the time when they did not use drugs, to becoming drug abusers, and finally leaving drugs behind them; and ii) what it means to be socially integrated with one's experience of having been a drug abuser. The study builds on qualitative research interviews with seven women and seven men. LÄS MER