Sökning: "illiteracy"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade ordet illiteracy.

  1. 1. En bonadsmålare och hans värld. Johannes Nilsson i Breared

    Författare :Elisabeth Berglin; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; painted wall hangings; folk art; imitation; change; hermeneutics; historical reconstruction; biographical method; contextualization; social memory; illiteracy; narratives; genre analysis; revivalist ideas; Kulturantropologi; text; etnologi; ethnology; Cultural anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to find relationships between folk art, an artist's personal life and influential factors originating in the context. Christmas wall hangings by the peasant painter Johannes Nilsson (1757­1827) are the focus of the study. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Runor som resurs : Vikingatida skriftkultur i Uppland och Södermanland

    Författare :Marco Bianchi; Henrik Williams; Anna-Malin Karlsson; Terje Spurkland; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; runes; runic inscriptions; rune-stones; Viking Age; rune-stone custom; rune-carver; runology; literacy; illiteracy; non-lexicality; visual semiotics; multimodality; sociosemiotics; written culture; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : The Viking Age rune-carvers and their readers used runes as a semiotic resource to convey and structure the messages on rune-stones. An analysis of the ways in which this resource is used together with other resources gives us a deeper insight into the relationship between writers and readers and into the written culture in which the rune-stones were produced. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Essays on labor supply, pension policy, and inequality

    Författare :Johan Gustafsson; Gauthier Lanot; Thomas Aronsson; Katharina Jenderny; Spencer Bastani; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; income inequality; labor supply; life cycle; retirement; public pension; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Paper [I] analyzes the dynamic properties of life-cycle earnings in Sweden using microdata. We study the evolution of permanent and transitory earnings inequality over the period 2002--2015. Our data comes from administrative records gathered in the ASTRID database. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Causes and consequences of violence against child labour and women in developing countries

    Författare :Koustuv Dalal; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :Child labour; domestic violence; cost of violence; developing countries.;

    Sammanfattning : Violence against children and women is a serious public health and human rights problem. In low income countries it is closely related to poverty and culture with major social consequences and economic burden for the families. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Literacy and development : A study of Yemissrach Dimts literacy campaign in Ethiopia

    Författare :Margareta Sjöström; Rolf Sjöström; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Adult; education; Development; Education for women; Ethiopia; Evaluation; Literacy; Literacy methods; Motivation; Rural education;

    Sammanfattning : The problem of illiteracy has been the object of many studies during recent decades. In Ethiopia, a country which reports one of the lowest literacy rates in Africa, the Yemissrach Dimts Literacy Campaign (YDLC) was started in 1962. Its activities were concentrated to rural areas and directed primarily towards adults. LÄS MER