Sökning: "intercultural perspective"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 29 avhandlingar innehållade orden intercultural perspective.
21. När känslorna får styra : om litteraturläsning i en mångkulturell gymnasieklass
Sammanfattning : This licentiate thesis, When emotions are allowed to rule, a study on reading literature in a multicultural classroom in upper secondary school, attempts from a didactic perspective to understand literature reading in the school subject Swedish in the light of a multicultural and changing society. From a socio-cultural perspective, the study illustrates the teacher's choice of literature, the teacher's and the students' attitudes to literature, and the ways of reading that are being negotiated in the common reading and what opportunities for understanding and meaning making that are made available. LÄS MER
22. Tales of transformation: Expatriate encounters with local contexts : A postcolonial reading
Sammanfattning : The thesis examines how and in what sense expatriates are changed and transformed by their intercultural experiences. In doing so it seeks to complement more efficiency-oriented expatriation studies by outlining a relational and contextual view inspired by postcolonialism. LÄS MER
23. The theory of mitigating risk : Information literacy and language-learning in transition
Sammanfattning : This qualitative study explores the information literacy practices of students who were learning a language overseas as part of their undergraduate degree. Constructivist grounded theory and situational analysis were used to examine the information activities of 26 English-speakers from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. LÄS MER
24. A Pedagogical Stance on Internationalising Education An empirical study of Swedish nurse education from the perspectives of students and teachers
Sammanfattning : The development of higher education in the Western countries involves ideas of internationalisation, included in curricular objectives. Policy-makers stipulate internationalisation ideologies, from a politico-economic perspective, where ideas about flows of various cultural elements are incorporated in visionary idealistic terms. LÄS MER
25. Staden, våldet och tryggheten : Om social ordning i ett mångkulturellt samhälle
Sammanfattning : The question of social order often arises during periods of social change. In the late-modern, multicultural, and urbanized societies of today, the question is often posed of how to create order in a society attempting to combine cultural diversity and social cohesion. LÄS MER