Search for dissertations about: "social studies of childhood"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 289 swedish dissertations containing the words social studies of childhood.
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1. Play, Culture and Learning : Studies of Second-Language and Conceptual Development in Swedish Preschools
Abstract : This dissertation studies how second-language and conceptual development emerge through interactions in Swedish preschool environments. It studies how types of interaction, such as play, can scaffold children toward such developments. READ MORE
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2. Towards a minor bilingualism : Exploring variations of language and literacy in early childhood education
Abstract : The aim of this compilation thesis is to explore variations in bilingualism with the help of everyday specific situations at a Spanish-Swedish early childhood institution in Sweden, and by means of a ‘material-semiotic theorizing’. This means that material and semiotic elements are treated equally and entwined. READ MORE
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3. Production and Products of Preschool Documentation : Entanglements of children, things, and templates
Abstract : The objective of the present study is to produce knowledge about how children, things, documents, computers, teachers, templates and other entities take part in and produce documentation in preschool systematic quality development work. The thesis asks questions about how and what is produced as quality in preschool documentation. READ MORE
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4. Negotiating normality and deviation : father's violence against mother from children's perspectives
Abstract : The aim of this study is to contribute to understanding of how children try to understand and interpret their own father and his (possibly) violent actions against their mother in relation to their general conceptualizations concerning fathers and violence. A general social psychological and interactionist approach is related to the children’s selves as the organizing and experiencing structures, the family as the arena for experiences and communicative interaction, and society as a structure of norms and general ideas. READ MORE
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5. Children’s Work in Sweden : A part of childhood, a path to adulthood
Abstract : Föreliggande arbete är en etnografisk studie av barn, barndom och arbete i Sverige. Studien var förlagd till två samhällen, ett på landsbygden och ett nära en stor svensk stad. I studien undersöks hur barndom konstrueras i dagens Sverige. I studien används ett barnperspektiv och fokus är på barnens definitioner av arbete. READ MORE