Sökning: "epistemic practice"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 46 avhandlingar innehållade orden epistemic practice.
16. Child (Bio)Welfare and Beyond : Intersecting Injustices in Childhoods and Swedish Child Welfare
Sammanfattning : The current thesis discusses how tools for analysing power are developed predominately for adults, and thus remain underdeveloped in terms of understanding injustices related to age, ethnicity/race and gender in childhoods. The overall ambition of this dissertation is to inscribe a discourse of intersecting social injustices as relevant for childhoods and child welfare, and by interlinking postcolonial, feminist, and critical childhood studies. LÄS MER
17. Explaining everyday problem solving
Sammanfattning : How well can we explain natural occurrences of cognitive behaviours given the theoretical frameworks available to us today? The thesis explores what has to be assumed in cognitive theory in order to provide such an explanation, in contrast to being able to predict behaviour under controlled circumstances. The behaviours considered are all of the type described as involving higher level cognition or being representation hungry. LÄS MER
18. Building international institutions for environmental protection : The case of Baltic Sea environmental cooperation
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses upon the ambiguity in international environmental law and practice, between, the principle of sic utere tuo ut alienum non iaedas, also referred to as the solidarity principle, and the sovereignty principle. Accordingly, the international regime for environmental protection could, on the one hand, be regarded as promoting policies out of concern for the common good, but on the other hand; the sovereignty principle restricts the possibilities for such policies. LÄS MER
19. Entreprenörskapets tysta(de) röster : En narrativ studie om kvinnor som delar sitt liv med en man som är entreprenör
Sammanfattning : Entrepreneurship has come to play a crucial role in developing our society, as has gender equality. However, some conflicting aspects of these two political priorities have to date been overlooked. LÄS MER
20. Schooling Emotional Intelligence Through Narrative and Dialogue. Implications for the education of children and adolescents
Sammanfattning : Abstract The point of departure for this study is the author's experience as educator in a residential home for children (age 6-14) with social-emotional problems, in Italy, between 1980 and 1989. One important element of the pedagogical approach was the use of narratives (personal, of others, of fiction) to prompt children's interest/ motivation to reflect about issues of personal concern. LÄS MER