Sökning: "representational practice"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden representational practice.
11. Changing conceptions of literacies, language and development : Implications for the provision of adult basic education in South Africa
Sammanfattning : This study aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the circumstances under which adult education, in particular adult basic education, can support and occasionally initiate participatory development, social action and the realisation of citizenship rights. It traces developments in adult basic education in South Africa, and more specifically literacy and language learning, over the years 1981 to 2001, with reference to specific multilingual contexts in the Northern and Western Cape. LÄS MER
12. Visuella vändningar : Bild och estetik i Kerstin Ekmans romankonst
Sammanfattning : This is a dissertation on how an aesthetics of fiction is formulated at the intersection of, and oscillation between, image-construction and image-criticism in three novels by Kerstin Ekman: En stad av ljus (1983), Händelser vid vatten (1993), and Gör mig levande igen (1996). The purpose of the dissertation is to analyze the movement of this oscillation and demonstrate how it is intertwined, not only with the aesthetic practice characterizing these novels, but also with their interpretation of the past and the contemporary. LÄS MER
13. Stoutwear and the Discourses of Disorder : Constructing the Fat, Female Body in American Fashion in the Age of Standardization, 1915-1930
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines how fashion media discourses created the conditions through which the fat, female body was both known and constructed within the context of the early large-size garment industry in the United States, or what between the years 1915 and 1930 was known as “stoutwear.” Drawing on a wide array of media sources, including women’s and fashion magazines, trade journals, catalogs and style guides, and employing Michel Foucault’s archaeological method, the dissertation examines the productive nature of fashion discourse in the construction and constitution of the fleshy body, or how the discourses of stoutwear brought order to the disorderly, fat, female body. LÄS MER
14. (Not) Representing Cycling : Exploring the subjugation and multiplicity of cycling
Sammanfattning : Cycling is often represented as a symbol of sustainable mobility change. This thesis builds on the argument that even in acclaimed cycling cities possibilities for cycling to become part of transformative change are stifled. LÄS MER
15. LOOK AROUND, WHAT CAN YOU DISCOVER? The science center - a critical space for science student teachers’ development
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to examine the opportunities and constraints on student teachers’ learning of science and teaching science when they work in small groups; planning, implementing, and reflecting upon teaching at the science center. In addition to this aim, this thesis seeks to identify what becomes critical for teacher educators and science center educators when facilitating experiences that enable student teachers to learn, teach, and integrate science didactics theories into practice. LÄS MER
