Sökning: "pragmatism"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 123 avhandlingar innehållade ordet pragmatism.

1. 16. Om språkundervisning i mellanrummet - och talet om "kommunikation" och "kultur" i kursplaner och läromedel från 1962 till 2000

   Författare :Ulrika Tornberg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; foreign language teaching and learning; culture; communication; contingent communicative action; democracy; discourse analysis; pragmatism; curriculum theory; Pedagogik; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik; Education;

   Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this study is to clarify the potential of foreign language teaching and learning to contribute to identity-formation and democracy as a real-time experience. Its focus is an analysis of how the current core concepts in foreign language teaching and learning within the Swedish school system, i.e. LÄS MER

3. 17. Embodying Openness: A Pragmatist Exploration into the Aesthetic Experience of Design Form-Giving

   Författare :Ariana Amacker; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Design research; pragmatism; aesthetic experience; form-giving; arts-based learning;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the tension between a reflective view of design and design as an embodied, aesthetic experience. Most research exploring the nature of design follows a tradition of practice-based design research, which aims to empirically establish what constitutes design by studying what designers do and say. LÄS MER

4. 18. Two Quests for Unity : John Dewey, R. G. Collingwood, and the Persistence of Idealism

   Författare :Bruno Hamnell; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Dewey; R. G. Collingwood; Idealism; Pragmatism; Liberalism; Unity; Experience; Practical Knowledge; Intellectual History; History of Philosophy; Anglo-America;

   Sammanfattning : After having dominated philosophical thought in Britain and the United States during the end of the nineteenth century, idealism was in steady decline by the outbreak of World War I. Its ideas and ideals seemed unsuited to face the transition from Victorianism to modernism and the rapid social changes of the post-war era. LÄS MER

5. 19. Förhållandet mellan praxis och teori inom etiken

   Författare :Niclas Lindström; Ulf Görman; Helena Röcklinsberg; Anders Nordgren; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Practice; theory; norms; ideals; principles; moral philosophy; casuistry; discourse ethics; virtue ethics; theocentric ethics; pragmatism; experimental ethics; empirically informed ethics.; etik; etik;

   Sammanfattning : The main question of this thesis is if a practice is right because it is prescribed by an ethical theory, or if an ethical theory is right because it follows from certain practices? I propose the following definitions to illustrate the main alternatives: (1) if a practice is determined by an ethical theory and the ethical theory is not determined by practice, it is possible to speak of a top-down model of ethical thinking. (2) If a theory, conversely, is determined by a practice and the practice is not determined by theory, it can be described as a bottom-up model. LÄS MER

7. 20. Att beskriva rätten : En kommentar till försök att ge en generell beskrivning av rätten

   Författare :Reidar Andreasson; Aleksander Peczenik; Henrik Zahle; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Jurisprudence; Allmän rättslära; allmän rättslära; epistemologi; postmodernism; pragmatism; relativism; rättsfilosofi; skepticism; Jurisprudence; Allmän rättslära;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis suggests that it is reasonable to ask why we should try to give a general description of law. It attempts to turn our attention away from general descriptions of the law, to the approach that has made us present and use such descriptions. LÄS MER