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11. Text, Place and Mobility : Investigations of Outdoor Education, Ecocriticism and Environmental Meaning Making
Sammanfattning : The overall ambition of this thesis is to investigate the approaches taken to environmental and sustainability education in outdoor education and ecocriticism in a Swedish and in an international context, to investigate environmental meaning making and to conduce to the development of analytical methods for empirical investigations of environmental meaning making. Four objectives are formulated. LÄS MER
12. Consistent Inconsistency : The Role of Tension in Explaining Change in Interorganizational Relationships
Sammanfattning : This thesis commences with the notion that interorganizational exchange relationships are dynamic to an unprecedented degree. It is argued that, global production networks have integrated firms into interdependent structures that blur traditional geographical and organizational boundaries. LÄS MER
13. Reading the world through virtual exchange : critical interculturality and glocal awareness in English teacher education
Sammanfattning : Virtual exchange (VE) is a pedagogical approach that connects learners across borders and cultures through online communication technologies. Taking a point of departure in critical social constructivism, this thesis contributes to the VE research field by presenting a collection of studies that explore the intersections of critical interculturality, global citizenship education, and online exchange in English teacher education. LÄS MER
14. The Transcendent Organization : A treatise on consciousness in organizations: theoretical discussion, conceptual development and empirical studies
Sammanfattning : Organizations are human constructs, and unless the organizational analysis takes into account a wider discussion of the relationship between the subject and the object the analysis ends up in relativism, anarchism, and confusion. There is a danger when we make the organization objective to such extent that it is viewed as an entity outside ourselves. LÄS MER
15. Välfärdsektorn, en arena för makt och motstånd : Studier av sjukvård och hemtjänst
Sammanfattning : Today there is a growing interest in research on concrete practice within organizations, which has implications for the understanding of how performance management works. New control ideals are often introduced in an organizational and socially embedded practice, where taken for granted assumptions about what is right and wrong or good and bad actions are already established. LÄS MER
