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  1. 6. Se – än lever jag! : Livsåskådning och lärande i livets slutskede

    Författare :Caroline Krook; Göran Linde; Valerie de Marinis; Ersta Sköndal högskola; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Learning; view of life; existential questions; coping with illness; existential situation; hermeneutic method; cancer patients; palliative care; support; view of life counselling; life narratives; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the study has been, by adopting a view of life and a learning perspective, to reach an understanding of the way in which cancer patients in a palliative care context understand and cope with their existential life situation. I asked the following questions: 1) How does their personal view of life influence the patients’ understanding and coping with the illness and existential life situation? 2) What existential questions are central to the patients? 3) What is personal learning all about? 4) What prerequisites are important for fostering the patients’ personal learning? Interviews focusing on narratives were conducted with ten patients who have an incurable cancer disease. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Existentiella konfigurationer : Om hur förståelsen av livet tar gestalt i ett socialt sammanhang

    Författare :Caroline Gustavsson; Anders Gustavsson; Annika Ullman; Peder Thalén; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Existential configurations; young adults; meaning-making; existential themes; life questions; life-view; life-interpretation; hermeneutic approach; Existentiella konfigurationer; unga vuxna; meningsskapande; existentiella teman; livsfrågor; livsåskådning; livstolkning; hermeneutik; pedagogik; Education;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis contributes to the research field of education, or more specific to the field of religious education. The aim of the thesis is to interpret how young adults of today describe and understand their lives, with a specific focus on existential themes, and furthermore, to develop useful concepts that can help us understand individual meaning-making in a social and cultural context. LÄS MER

  4. 8. The Sociality of Gaming : A mixed methods approach to understanding digital gaming as a social leisure activity

    Författare :Lina Eklund; Karin Bergmark; Lars Udehn; Mia Consalvo; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Digital games; video games; computer games; online gaming; gender; sociality; social relationships; social interaction; everyday life; MMO; World of Warcraft; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is an exploration of the practice of social digital gaming, using a mixed methods approach with complementary data and analytical methods. The main themes are the prevalence and meaning of gamers’ experiences of social gaming and the underlying structures limiting or assisting social gaming, both material and social. LÄS MER

  5. 9. In search of meaning in opera : an opera singer's approach to the dialectics of words, music & myth in opera from Monteverdi to Verdi

    Författare :Gunnel Bergström; Richard Bark; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; myth; tension between words and music; hermeneutics; vocal action; teatervetenskap; Theatre Studies;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to show that the opera singer's art is to transmit word and music into vocal action. It is assumed that opera, like all the arts, communicates myth. Of the stage arts opera is unique in that it expresses mythic metaphors through a combination of words and music. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Från nationsbyggare till global marknadsnomad : Om medborgarskap i svensk utbildningspolitik under 1990-talet

    Författare :Maria Olson; Gunnel Colnerud; Tomas Englund; Lisbeth Lundahl; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Swedish education policy; 1990s; society centered; consumer oriented; citizenship; citizen roles; nation-orientation; globalization-orientation; ”we” identity; nomad; Svensk utbildningspolitik; 1990-talet; samhällscentrerat; konsumentorienterat; medborgarskap; medborgarroller; nationsorientering; globaliseringsorientering; vi-identitet; nomad; Pedgogical work; Pedagogiskt arbete;

    Sammanfattning : I den här avhandlingen är intresset riktat mot svensk utbildningspolitik och medborgarskap. I tider av globalisering, och med ett etablerat svenskt medlemskap i Europeiska unionen, har det nationella policyskapandet kring utbildningens medborgardanande funktion hamnat under ökat tryck. LÄS MER