Search for dissertations about: "encounter"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 481 swedish dissertations containing the word encounter.
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1. The Parent–Teacher Encounter : A (mis)match between habitus and doxa
Abstract : The aim of the thesis is to study how parents and teachers experience their encounter and how they negotiate their positions in the field of schooling with respect to legitimate knowledge claims about the child and the ideal form of home–school collaboration. The aim is operationalised through the following research questions: 1) How do parents and teachers utilise their social and cultural resources in their encounters? 2) How can certain resources function as forms of capital in relation to different practices in the field? 3) What practices do teachers and parents employ to preserve and/or subvert their relative positions in their encounters? The theoretical framework is grounded in Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice and the main conceptual tools are habitus, capital and doxa. READ MORE
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2. Workplace Learning in Interactive Service Work: Coming to Practice Differently in the Connected Service Encounter
Abstract : We increasingly live in a world where human and digital work and activities are intertwined in so-called digital networks, which implies changes to the skills demanded by human labour. Traditionally, the professional encounter between a service provider and a customer, client or learner has been conceptualised as ‘a game between people’, with little interference from technologies of any sort. READ MORE
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3. Releasing and relieving encounters : Experiences of pregnancy and childbirth
Abstract : The experience of childbirth is an important life event for women, which may follow them throughout life. The overall aim of this thesis has been to describe and analyse these experiences from the women's perspective as well as the encounter between the woman and the midwife, and the possibility that a birth plan might improve women's experience of childbirth. READ MORE
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4. Caregivers' Singing Facilitates Mutual Encounter : Implementation and Evaluation of Music Therapeutic Caregiving in Complex Dementia care Situations
Abstract : Persons with severe dementia suffer from major cognitive impairment, and are in need of considerable caring services. They commonly react with problematic behaviors, such as resistance and aggression in close care (e.g., morning care situations). READ MORE
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5. Towards a shared understanding : Exploring encounters in hospital care from the perspectives of nurses and patients
Abstract : The overall aim of this licentiate thesis was to describe encounters in hospital care from the perspectives of nurses and patients. It focuses specifically on nurses’ views of shortcomings in patient-care encounters in one hospital (I) and the meanings of participation in hospital care as narrated by patients (II). READ MORE
