Search for dissertations about: "Sociocultural"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 146 swedish dissertations containing the word Sociocultural.

2. 11. Values in Play – Interactional Life with the Sims

   Author : Louise Peterson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; open-ended games; sandbox games; game play; The Sims; interaction analysis; video analysis; sociocultural theory; fantasy and creativity; role distance; learning; values;

   Abstract : This study arises from pedagogical discussion about learning potential with computer games – more precisely, that one game genre called open-ended (sandbox) games can make players explore the game content in such a way that they learn about a specific content or phenomenon while playing. These arguments are strong in the constructionist tradition but are seldom backed up by empirical results. READ MORE

4. 12. A time and place for everything? : social visualisation tools and critical literacies

   Author : Veronica Johansson; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Critical literacy; Document perspective; enactments of meaning; geographic information systems GIS ; ICT; information activities; inscriptions; interaction; library and information science LIS ; representation; social data; social visualisation tools; sociocultural perspective; Library and information science; Library and Information Science; Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to analyse mutual enactments of critical literacies and social visualisation tools as information resources. The central concept of critical literacies as used here extends and redefines prior critical literacy definitions to denote the pluralistic situated enactments of meaning through which study participants identify, question and transform bias, restrictions and power related aspects of access, control and use in relation to the tools. READ MORE

5. 13. CALL of the Wild : Using language technology in the second language classroom

   Author : Petter Karlström; Robert Ramberg; Teresa Cerratto-Pargman; Philip Hubbard; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer Assisted Language Learning; Human-Computer Interaction; Interaction Design; Language Technology; Sociocultural Theory; Computer and systems science; Data- och systemvetenskap; Man-Machine-Interaction MMI ; människa-maskin-interaktion mmi ;

   Abstract : Technology that analyzes written human language displays compelling possibilities for computer assisted language learning (CALL). Applications may be designed to examine second language students’ free text production in order to suggest improvements, draw attention to selected linguistic elements, provide examples from native language use, etc. READ MORE

6. 14. Musical play: Children interacting with and around music technology

   Author : Pernilla Lagerlöf; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Music technology; Swedish preschool; Sociocultural perspective; Interaction analysis; Play; Learning; Participation; Communica¬tion; Early Childhood Education; After-school Centre;

   Abstract : This thesis explores young children and music learning in the ecology of music technologies. The research is a part of an EU project called MIROR (Musical Interaction Relying on Reflection) that had the intention to develop software for music learning designed to promote specific cognitive abilities in the field of music improvisation. READ MORE

7. 15. Signing and Singing : Children in Teaching Dialogues

   Author : Tina Kullenberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; teaching; children; singing; sociocultural perspective; social interaction; cultural tools; communicative activity type; double dialogicality; signing; music; educational science;

   Abstract : The dissertation examines children’s dialogical sense-making in task-oriented teaching activ- ities, the aim of which is to explore children’s values and ideas in musical learning, in order to investigate how musical knowledge is constructed collaboratively through different levels of dialogicality. Hence, the study addresses the organizational resources and values at stake when children take part in pedagogical dialogues. READ MORE