Search for dissertations about: "Helen Melander"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Helen Melander.

  2. 1. Trajectories of Learning : Embodied Interaction in Change

    Author : Helen Melander; Fritjof Sahlström; Ann-Carita Evaldsson; Lorenza Mondada; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; learning; interaction; situated cognition; embodiment; conversation analysis; Education; Pedagogik; Pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : This dissertation is about learning as changing understanding in social and situated activities. It takes part in the development of a reconceptualization of learning initiated within participationist perspectives. Multiparty interaction in situated activities is a primordial site for the exploration of human action and cognition. READ MORE

  4. 2. Nurturing a heritage language : Language-centered practices in mother-child interactions in multilingual families

    Author : Olga Abreu Fernandes; Ann-Carita Evaldsson; Helen Melander Bowden; Mathew Burdelski; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; language-centered practices; language learning environments; multilingual children; family interaction; family language policy; heritage language maintenance; language socialization; bilingual literacy; multimodal interactional analysis; Russian; Pedagogik; Education; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : Situated within research on language socialization and family language policy, this thesis explores how young children (2–4 years old) learn their heritage language in multilingual, transnational families, and how multilingualism becomes an integral part of family life. It draws on video-ethnographic fieldwork in three bi/multilingual families in Sweden with preschool-aged children where the mothers speak Russian and the parents aspire to raise children multilingually. READ MORE