Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis: Recent submissions
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Investigating and Validating Spoken Interactional Competence: Rater Perspectives on a Swedish National Test of English
(2018-11-13)This thesis aims to explore different aspects of validity evidence from the raters’ perspective in relation to a paired speaking test, part of a high-stakes national test of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in the Swedish ... -
Barns och lärares aktiviteter med datorplattor och appar i förskolan
(2018-10-19)This doctoral thesis aims to examine how preschool children and teachers interact with tablets and apps, and contribute to a critical discussion about the role of digital technologies in preschool. The thesis consists ... -
Student experience of vocational becoming in upper secondary vocational education and training. Navigating by feedback.
(2018-09-27)This doctoral thesis explores student experience of vocational becoming, particularly the navigational role of feedback in the process for Swedish upper secondary vocational students. Vocational becoming is explored as ... -
Vem och vad kan man lita på? Ungdomars förhållningssätt till budskap om mat och ätande utifrån ett forskarinitierat rollspel.
(2018-09-12)In everyday life, adolescents are exposed to multiple messages about food. There is an abundance of information to process and handle, which can lead to confusion and anxiety. The overall aim with this thesis was to develop, ... -
Regnbågsungar: Familj, utbildning, fritid
(2018-08-29)In this thesis, rainbow children’s experience in private, institutional and public spaces is examined. More specifically, the aim is to explore if and how social conflict arises on the basis on their queer kinship ... -
Self-similarity in the foundations
(2018-05-24)This thesis concerns embeddings and self-embeddings of foundational structures in both set theory and category theory. The first part of the work on models of set theory consists in establishing a refined version of ... -
Physical Activity among Adolescents in a Swedish Multicultural Area - An Empowerment-Based Health Promotion School Intervention
(2018-05-22)The overarching aim of the present thesis was two-fold. The first aim was to describe and critically reflect upon the experiences of developing and implementing an empowerment-based school intervention, focusing on food ... -
Food, body weight, and health among adolescents in the digital age: An explorative study from a health promotion perspective
(2018-04-16)The overall aim of this thesis was to explore adolescents’ relationship with food, body weight, and health communication in online digital media, as well as how adolescents experience participating in a health ... -
Lärarperspektiv på läsförståelse. En intervjustudie om undervisning i årskurs 4-6.
(2018-04-04)Abstract Title: Teacher perspective on reading comprehension. An Interview Study on Education in Grades 4-6 Author: Lena Eckerholm, 2018. Language: Swedish with an English summary. ISBN: 978-91-7346-959-3 ... -
Moraliskt arbete i förskolan. Regler och moralisk ordning i barn-barn och vuxen-barn interaktion.
(2018-03-27)At a general level, the present thesis addresses the situated and practical character of morality in everyday life. More specifically, this study investigates moral work-in-interaction between children, and between children ... -
”Fullständigt otillförlitlig, men absolut oumbärlig”. En historiografisk undersökning av projektet Svensk Stad
(2018-03-19)This dissertation is a historiographical study of the research project Svensk stad (Swedish Town). The project, lead by the professor in Art History Gregor Paulsson (1889-1977), included about 20 members and was conducted ... -
Gymnasielärares mentorshandlingar. En verksamhetsteoretisk studie om lärararbete i förändring
(2018-02-23)This thesis sheds light on Swedish teachers’ work in upper secondary school during times of restructuring. The aim of the study is to examine what teachers try to accomplish in their activities besides classroom teaching, ... -
Education for Sustainable Food Consumption in Home and Consumer Studies
(2018-02-08)Education as a means to enable sustainable food consumption has gained increasing recognition as a vital means to decrease current burdens upon both natural resources and human health. In response, the Swedish compulsory ... -
Extremisten i klassrummet - perspektiv på skolans förväntade ansvar att förhindra framtida terrorism
(2018-02-02)In this thesis the development of strategies and action plans for prevention of violent extremism (PVE) in the Swedish educational system is analysed. Sweden had its first national action plan for PVE-work adopted in ... -
Det tillåtande och det begränsande. En studie om pojkars syn på studier och ungdomars normer kring maskulinitet
(2018-01-24)Girls preform generally better than boys in school. In many schools the dominant norms of masculinity are a hinder for boys to preform in school. Schools with a dominating “anti school culture” or a “effortless achievement ... -
All There Is: On the Semantics of Quantification over Absolutely Everything
(2017-12-22)This thesis concerns the problem of providing a semantics for quantification over absolutely all there is. Chapter 2 argues against the common view that Frege understood his quantifiers in Begriffsschrift to range over all ... -
Training to become a master mariner in a simulator-based environment: The instructors’ contributions to professional learning.
(2017-12-14)In higher education programs that aim to prepare students for professional performance in safety-critical work activities, the introduction of simulators is seen as a fundamentally restructuring of the ways in which ... -
Digital technologies as support for learning about the marine environment: Steps toward ocean literacy
(2017-11-27)Over the last century the ocean has been negatively impacted by human activities. In order to continue benefitting from marine services and goods, and the qualities afforded to human life through the ocean, citizens need ...