Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis: Recent submissions
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In search of Dionysos. Reassessing a Dionysian context in early Rome
(2010-05-18)In the present study the possibility of an early appearance of the god Dionysos and his sphere in archaic Rome, in the decades around 500 BC, will be examined. In early scholarship, rooted in the 19th century, the phenomenon ... -
Kramar, kategoriseringar och hjälpfröknar. Könskonstruktioner i interaktion i förskola, förskoleklass och skolår ett
(2010-05-07)In the present study, gender constructions are analysed, as they appear in a preschool, two preschool classes and one class in the first grade. The analysis is based on observations of the interaction that takes place ... -
Promoting dietary change. Intervening in school and recognizing health messages in commercials
(2010-04-19)The purpose of this thesis was to examine influences on dietary change among children and adolescents with particular emphasis on individual factors, the school setting and food marketing. The Theory of Planned Behaviour ... -
Anglo-French Relations and the Acadians in Canada’s Maritime Literature : Issues of Othering and Transculturation
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2010)Anglo-French relations have had a significant influence on the fiction created in Canada’s Maritime Provinces. The 18th century was a period of colonial wars. Contacts between the English and French in Canada were ... -
Slöjdlärares förhållningssätt i undervisningen
(2010-04-07)Avhandlingsarbetets syfte är att synliggöra slöjdlärares skilda förhållningssätt i undervisningen. Hur lärare genomför sin undervisning och agerar i förhållande till sina elever påverkar vad eleverna ges möjlighet att lära. ... -
Towards an interlanguage of biological evolution: Exploring students´ talk and writing as an arena for sense-making
(2010-01-22)The aim of this thesis is to explore what is involved when learning science, by focusing on students’ appropriation of the school science language. The aspiration is to explore relations between, on the one hand, ... -
Old Testament Apocryphal Images in European Art
(2010-01-04)This dissertation deals with representations in European art from the Old Testament Apocrypha. The OT Apocrypha are books of the Bible which are not part of the Hebrew Canon. Four Books from the Apocrypha have been ... -
Meningen med genusforskning så som den framträder i forskningspolitiska texter 1970-2000
(2009-11-25)The thesis analyse how Gender Studies is written about in Swedish research policy documents 1970–2000. Underlying assumptions and presumptions are scrutinised, as well as terminological changes and conceptual displacements over ... -
Poiski Rusi nevidimoj. Kitezskaja legenda v russkoj kul'ture. 1843-1940
(2009-11-20)This doctoral dissertation examines the legend of the invisible city of Kitezh, its development and the role that it played in Russian culture between the years 1843 and 1940. It was during this period that the original ... -
Handdockans kommunikativa potential som medierande redskap i förskolan
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Doft i bild. Om bilden som kommunikatör i parfymannonsens värld
(2009-09-11)This study evolves around advertising and image communication, especially concerning the image of scent, as in perfume. The image of scent is discussed from the perspective of how fragrance is depicted in advertising. Since ... -
Skolans mötespraktik - en studie om skolutveckling genom yrkesverksammas förståelse
(2009-09-06)The practical work in a school and the interpretation processes of professionals form the focus of this study, the aim of which is to understand school development through the professionals’ own understanding. The collaborative ... -
Participles in Time. The Development of the Perfect Tense in Swedish.
(2009)This thesis concerns the syntactic-semantic development of the perfect tense from a construction with possessive HAVE and a tenseless participial complement. Both participles and auxiliary are assumed to have internal ... -
Church Slavonic books in Sweden : Gothenburg and Skara : catalogue
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2009)The Church Slavonic books in Gothenburg University Library (GUB) have been catalogued according to the subject but not the language. Since many of these books are rare and of great interest to scientists in the field ... -
Lojalitet och motstånd - anställdas agerande i ett föränderligt hemtjänstarbete
(2009-08-31)This thesis aims to shed light on the dynamics and the complexity in the relationship between power and resistance in labour, from an employee-perspective. This is done by describing and analyzing how a group of employees ... -
Food for Thought. Communication and the transformation of work experience in web-based in-service training
(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2009-08-31)The background of the present study is an interest in the use of digital technologies for in-service training activities in industry. Globalization, international competition and transnational production are elements ... -
Barns tidiga lärande : en tvärsnittsstudie om förskolan som miljö för barns lärande
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2009)The main aim of preschool is to promote children’s learning, implying that its quality is an important aspect to study. However, despite a long preschool tradition and a preschool system that is nearing completion, we ... -
Genus i förskola och skola : förändringar i policy, perspektiv och praktik
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2009)I denna antologi presenteras några resultat från de undersökningar som genomförts inom projektet Förändrade köns-/genusordningar i skola och utbildning: Policy, perspektiv och praktik. Projektet har pågått under åren 2003 ... -
Läsförmågan bland 9-10-åringar. Betydelsen av skolklimat, hem- och skolsamverkan, lärarkompetens och elevers hembakgrund
(2009-05-19)Title: Reading skills among 9-10 year olds. The importance of school climate, collaboration between school and home, teacher competence and pupils’ home background Language: Swedish, with summary in English Keywords: ...