Sökning: "horizon of expectation"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden horizon of expectation.
1. Lärdomar av folkmord : Undervisning och lärande som historisk tolkning och orientering
Sammanfattning : The overarching purpose of this dissertation is to explore possible ways of designing history teaching about genocides to enable learning that develops both knowledge of the history of genocides and the students’ ability to use history for orientation in everyday life. Previous research shows that there is disagreement about what characterises a desirable learning outcome from studying genocides. LÄS MER
2. Mellan erfarenhet och förväntan : Betydelser av att bli vuxen i ungdomars livsberättelser
Sammanfattning : Avhandlingen undersöker hur 21 unga människor inom ramen för längre intervjuer berättar om och reflekterar över sina liv. Ungdomarna har intervjuats som 15-, 17-, 22- och 25-åringar. Intervjuerna analyseras som livsberättelser, ett teoretiskt och metodolo-giskt perspektiv som fokuserar deras sätt att tolka och skapa mening i sina egna liv. LÄS MER
3. The Making of Resistance : Brazil’s Landless Movement and Narrative Enactment
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the story of Brazil’s Landless Movement: its historiographical prequel, its narrative components, its modifications, its enactment. The study derives from a non-essentialist understanding of the resistance agent, here construed as political subject – a collective of individuals, contingently unified in a specific political struggle, not necessarily representing a mutual material need, nor a common identity. LÄS MER
4. Interrogation of Nucleic Acids by Parallel Threading
Sammanfattning : Advancements in the field of biotechnology are expanding the scientific horizon and a promising era is envisioned with personalized medicine for improved health. The amount of genetic data is growing at an ever-escalating pace due to the availability of novel technologies that allow massively parallel sequencing and whole-genome genotyping, that are supported by the advancements in computer science and information technologies. LÄS MER
5. Transactions in cyberspace : the continued use of Internet banking
Sammanfattning : In the last decade, more and more service providers have realized the advantage of self-service technologies (SSTs), and, therefore, the number of SSTs has grown at an enormous rate. The infusion of SSTs is dramatically changing the nature of the service encounter because it allows (or forces) consumers to produce their own service encounters by interacting with machines rather than by interacting with a firm’s service personnel (Lee and Allaway, 2002). LÄS MER
