Sökning: "modernisation"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 103 avhandlingar innehållade ordet modernisation.
1. Modernisation and marketisation : The Chinese kindergarten in the 1990s
Sammanfattning : This is a study of changes in Chinese kindergarten education in the era of the post-Mao four modernisations. Based on fieldwork carried out in China in 1997, this thesis examined the changes of Chinese kindergarten education at two levels — changes in system (structural change) and changes in educational activities (curriculum and ideological change), especially for the period of the 1990s. LÄS MER
2. Modernisation and farmer-led irrigation development in Africa : A study of state-farmer interactions in Tanzania
Sammanfattning : After years of relatively low investment, irrigation development in Africa has been put back on the policy agenda as a way of increasing agricultural productivity. In spite of existing evidence of farmers’ irrigation initiatives across the African continent, current policy prescriptions still revolve around (large-scale) state intervention. LÄS MER
3. The Past of Present Livelihoods : Historical perspectives on modernisation, rural policy regimes and smallholder poverty - a case from Eastern Zambia
Sammanfattning : This study is an enquiry into the processes shaping rural livelihoods in peripheral areas. The study is situated in the field of livelihood research and departs in the persistent crisis within African smallholder agriculture and in rural policy debates during the postindependence era. LÄS MER
4. Döden, kroppen och moderniteten
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with attitudes towards death and the dead body in Sweden during the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. This was a period of intense social and cultural change, during which Sweden was transformed from an agricultural society to a modem industrial state. LÄS MER
5. Den moderne Ivar Lo-Johansson: Modernisering, modernitet och modernism i statarromanerna
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the modernity of the Swedish proletarian author Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990), as manifested in the so-called 'statare' novels: Godnatt, jord (Breaking Free, 1933), Bara en mor (Only a Mother, 1939), and Traktorn (1943). The dissertation examines, on the one hand, modernisation and modernity as the topoi of these novels, and on the other, how the author relates to the literary tendency that has come to signify the aesthetic modernisation of the 20th century, i. LÄS MER