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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 128 avhandlingar innehållade ordet biography.
11. Biografier från gränslandet : En sociologisk studie om psykiatrins förändrade kontrollmekanismer
Sammanfattning : The modern era of psychiatry is predominantly a history of confinement. Individuals suffering from mental disorders were banished to asylums and mental hospitals. During the late twentieth century, however, the Swedish psychiatry was a recurring topic for political debate and the target for numerous reforms. LÄS MER
12. Historielärares ämnesförståelse : Centrala begrepp i historielärares förståelse av skolämnet historia
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on four different aspects of history teachers’ comprehensive understanding of the school subject history. More specifically, the aim is to study the comprehension of the subject as perceived by individual history teachers. LÄS MER
13. Förskjutna horisonter. Livsförändring och lärande i samband med synnedsättning eller blindhet
Sammanfattning : This study is an investigation of life-worlds of severely visually impaired and blind adults. The aim is to understand changes which people undergo when struck by severe visual impairment or blindness, focusing on how people learn to handle their changed life situation. LÄS MER
14. En kvinnoröst i manssamhället : Agda Montelius 1850-1920
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to shed light on the role of female initiative in the accelerating social developments of the late nineteenth century that were eventually to result in Sweden’s modern, democratic welfare state. The method is a biographical study that highlights one of the leading figures of the day, Agda Montelius. LÄS MER
15. You Told Me – work stories and video essays : Verkberättelser och videoessäer
Sammanfattning : You Told Me is a practice-based research project and consists of three video biographies (the Who is…? series), and two video essays (Kumiko, Johnnie Walker & the Cute (2007), Madame & Little Boy (2009), an introduction with a contextualization and methodology of the field, and three essays. The dissertation is an observation and analysis of certain functions and meanings of narration and narratives in contemporary art, as well as being an experiment with roles, methods, actions, and narrative functions in an artistic medium – the video essay. LÄS MER