Sökning: "explanation of words"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 31 avhandlingar innehållade orden explanation of words.
1. Teaching and Learning Historical Explanation : Teacher and Student Cases from Lower and Upper Secondary History
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and analyse how teachers and students understand the concept of historical explanation in the context of classroom teaching practices. The thesis is made up of four studies that investigate different aspects of understanding, focusing on either teacher or student understanding as expressed in words and actions. LÄS MER
2. Industrial diversification and innovation : An international study of the aerospace industry
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the process of industrial diversification as a strategy to spur innovation within firms and foster structural change in industry. Diversification is the process by which firms depart from their core competencies to enter new markets and new technologies. LÄS MER
3. Kulturprosten. Torsten Fogelqvist som DN-publicist och folkbildare
Sammanfattning : The dissertation outlines the ideas behind Torsten Fogelqvist's (1880-1941) ambitions as a publicist for Dagens Nyheter and as a public educator. The study also seeks to do justice to a forgotten, or at least not exhaustively analysed, discussion, during the first four decades of the last century, and deals with education, humanism, modernity, cultural heritage, the role of the press and anti-Nazism. LÄS MER
4. Processing Asymmetries of Emotionally Valenced Stimuli
Sammanfattning : The central phenomenon investigated concerns the valence-based process asymmetry found in several earlier studies (e.g. Pratto & John, 1991; Taylor, 1991), where negative stimuli seem to initiate more thorough processing than positive stimuli. This finding was consistent in the three empirical studies forming this dissertation. LÄS MER
5. Socio-cultural viability of international intervention in war-torn societies : a case study of Bosnia Herzegovina
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the ‘socio-cultural dilemma’ facing international peacebuilders in war-torn societies through a case study of the post-conflict process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is done with the help of a typological approach of the grid-group Cultural Theory framework, which defines four social solidarities – or ideal type cultures – of individualism, egalitarianism, fatalism and hierarchy. LÄS MER