Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis: Recent submissions
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Ungdomars matval – erfarenheter, visioner och miljöargument i eget hushåll
(2012-05-28)The aim of this thesis is to increase the knowledge of how young people, who have recently formed their own household, reason about and present their food choices. The study sheds light on the process the young people ... -
Spaces for Solidarity and Individualism in Educational Contexts
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El uso de combinaciones de palabras con que en un corpus de aprendices suecos de español como lengua extranjera
(2012-05-07)Previous research in phraseological studies has approached the difficulties that learners of foreign and second languages have to produce word combinations derived from idiomatic- or phraseological principles. Using the ... -
Bodies of vital matter : notions of life force and transcendence in traditional southern Italy
(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1999)The aim of this study is to investigate beliefs and practices relating to vitality, illness and death in traditional Southern Italy. My prime argument is that many of these beliefs and practices relate to just a few ... -
L3 Motivation
(2012-03-01)The purpose of this thesis was to study secondary school students’ motivation to learn a second foreign language in addition to English. In addition to the empirical investigation of L3 motivation over a program of study ... -
Pluripotent circulations : putting actor-network theory to work on stem cells in the USA, prior to 2001
(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2006)When researchers in 1998 presented stem cells produced from embryos this led to heated debates in the US. Should taxpayers’ money fund this research or should it remain within the private sector? While most studies have ... -
Euskaraz : lengua e identidad en los textos multimodales de promoción del euskara, 1970-2001
(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2008)Much research has been done on the complex and often conflictive relationship between language and identity in different geographical settings. But little attention has been paid to the – mainly visual – campaigns that ... -
The Halland model : a trading zone for building conservation in concert with labour market policy and the construction industry, aiming at regional sustainable development
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Gymnasieungdomars livstolkande
(2012-01-16)This thesis describes and analyses views of life and religion, as a component of „view of life‟, among young people in a Swedish upper secondary school that in the words of the young people themselves is „multicultural‟. ... -
Byggnaden som kunskapskälla
(2012-01-10)Buildings are indeed mute, yet many historians and architects claim that they can nevertheless speak. The challenge is to understand their language. This thesis examines the building as a source of knowledge. Setting out ... -
The birds in the Iliad. Identities, interactions and functions
(2012-01-04)As the topic of this study embraces and entwines what is routinely divided into two separate categories, “nature” and “culture”, the birds in the Iliad challenge modern scientific division and in some ways, our thinking. ... -
Undervisning och lärande i naturvetenskap - Elevers lärande i relation till en forskningsbaserad undervisning om ljud, hörsel och hälsa
(2011-12-19)The aim of this thesis is to contribute to increased understanding of students’ learning about sound, hearing and auditory health. Concerning the health issue, researchers have highlighted the growing problem of loud sounds ... -
Curriculum in the Era of Global Development - Historical Legacies and Contemporary Approaches
(2011-12-08)In the last decade there has been an avalanche of policies and political rhetoric worldwide, stressing the importance of equitable and sustainable global development. The Swedish Government’s response has been the inception ... -
Ansvar för matematiklärande. Effekter av undervisningsansvar i det flerspråkiga klassrummet
(2011-10-07)The aim of the thesis is to contribute to knowledge about crucial conditions for students' mathematics learning, and more specifically what role mathematics teaching plays in that process. Also taken into account is the ... -
Skicklig läs- och skrivundervisning i åk 1-3: Om lärares möjligheter och hinder
(2011-09-26)This study focuses on teachers’ opportunities and obstacles to perform skillful reading and writing instruction. It’s about the ability to accurately identify where students are in their reading and writing process and to ... -
In-Between: Contemporary Art in Australia. Cross-culture, Contemporaneity, Globalization
(2011-09-23)This study emerges from the question: what is contemporary art, and mainly what criteria constitute contemporary art in a globalized art world in general? Thus, the focus of this dissertation is on the postcolonial context ... -
Samtal om barn och pedagogisk dokumentation som bedömningspraktik i förskolan - En diskursanalys
(2011-09-12)The preschool, nowadays an intergral part of the educational system, is to be found within a welfare state and a knowledge economy, within a society characterized by the idea of lifelong learning. As a conse-quence of this, ... -
Ansvar for egen læring. Intensjoner og realiteter i en norsk videregående skole
(2011-05-26)Education policy in Norway is currently emphasizing personal flexibility, responsibility and freedom of choice for learners. Concepts are modern, but also derive from traditions of progressive education. Pupils’ responsibility ...