Search for dissertations about: "History"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 3661 swedish dissertations containing the word History.

  2. 1. Uses of History in History Education

    Author : Robert Thorp; Monika Vinterek; Henrik Åström Elmersjö; Stuart Foster; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Uses of history; historical culture; historical consciousness; history education; historical media; textbooks; popular history magazines; history teachers; Historiebruk; historiekultur; historiemedvetande; historieundervisning; historiska medier; läroböcker; populärhistoriska tidskrifter; historielärare; historia med utbildningsvetenskaplig inriktning; history of education; historia; History; historiedidaktik; didactics of history; uses of history; history didactics; historiebruk; Utbildning och lärande; Education and Learning;

    Abstract : This compilation thesis contains an introductory chapter and four original articles. The studies comprising this thesis all concern aspects of how historical culture is constituted in historical media and history teachers’ narratives and teaching. READ MORE

  4. 2. Historyscapes in Alor : Approaching indigenous history in Eastern Indonesia

    Author : Emilie Wellfelt; Gunlög Fur; Hans Hägerdal; Antoinette Schapper; Timo Kaartinen; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Alor; Indonesia; historyscapes; uses of history; history-making; ethno-history; indigenous history; oral traditions; oral history; Historia; History;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with history and history-making practices in Alor, a small island in southeastern Indonesia. As in all of Indonesia, the people of Alor have experienced European colonialism, and after independence, a period of centralised, authoritarian rule under the New Order (1965-1998). READ MORE

  5. 3. History in the Service of Mankind : International Guidelines and History Education in Upper Secondary Schools in Sweden, 1927–2002

    Author : Thomas Nygren; Daniel Lindmark; Bengt Schüllerqvist; Harry Haue; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; history teaching; League of Nations; UNESCO; Council of Europe; curriculum; History; Historia; Subject didactics; Ämnesdidaktik; didactics of history; historia med didaktisk inriktning; historiedidaktik; didactics of history; history and history teaching;

    Abstract : In this study the guidelines of the League of Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe are investigated in relation to Swedish national curricula, teachers’ perceptions of and students’ work in history, from 1927 to 2002.Inspired by John I Goodlad’s notions of curricula and implementation, the formulation of history is studied. READ MORE

  6. 4. Dress Matters : Clothes and Social Order in Tallinn, 1600-1700

    Author : Astrid Pajur; Margaret R. Hunt; Jonas Lindström; Janine Maegraith; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dress history; material culture; seventeenth century; social order; Sweden; Tallinn; social hierarchy; early modern guilds; consumer revolution; fashion; clothing; Historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the relationship of clothes and social order in early modern Europe. The period has often been characterised as inert and immobile, with especially middling and poorer people living in a sartorially drab world, but a number of historians have demonstrated that it was also a period of profound material change, with consumer demand, democratisation of fashion and global trade engendering cosmopolitan sensibilities earlier than thought. READ MORE

  7. 5. Tools of teaching and means of managing : Educational and sociopolitical functions of languages of instruction in elementary schools with Sámi pupils in Sweden, Finland and Norway 1900–1940 in a cross-national perspective

    Author : Otso Kortekangas; Maija Runcis; Jukka Nyyssönen; David Sjögren; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; educational history; cross-national history; Sámi history; Nordic history; indigenous history; language of instruction; elementary schools; Norway; Sweden; Finland; utbildningshistoria; samisk historia; nomadskola; History; historia;

    Abstract : This dissertation contributes to recent research on Sámi education from two different angles. First of all, the dissertation pioneers as a cross-national study of the education of a cross-national population previously mainly studied within different nation states. READ MORE