Search for dissertations about: "Symbolic play"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the words Symbolic play.

  1. 1. Gaming in Mohenjo-daro – an Archaeology of Unities

    Author : Elke Rogersdotter; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mohenjo-daro; Indus Valley; Bronze Age; Pakistan; play; gaming; play spectra; grounded theory; form and content; Simmel; abduction; logical types; autonomously working systems; Bateson; systems of representation; symbolic capital; deconstruction; nanoarchaeology; reflexive archaeology;

    Abstract : The main question of this thesis concerns the possibility of illuminating the presence and impact of the irrational element that is play in an ancient societal structure. With this question as a lodestar, the investigation has come to concern the development of an alternative way of work that can manage to embrace the positively loaded, ‘fun’ dimension of play. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Psychoanalytic Situation as a Play Situation: Exploration of a multi-faceted clinical situation

    Author : Rolf Künstlicher; Arvid Löfberg; Peter Fonagy; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Asymmetry; Play; Psychoanalytic Method; Psychoanalytic Situation; Symbolic Room; Repetition Compulsion; Third area; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : The research question was stirred by observations that the set-up of the clinical situation seems to contain elements that have a deep impact on the patient. I found that the clinical situation shows important similarities to the space for play that children negotiate when they want to immerse themselves in mutual phantasy play. READ MORE

  3. 3. Between Old and New Rome : Armenian and Bulgarian Contacts with the Papacy around 1204

    Author : Jonas Thungren Lindbärg; Helena Bodin; Linn Holmberg; Alexander Beihammer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bulgaria; Cilician Armenia; Cultural Semiotics; Cumans; Empire; Ethnicity; Frontier; Innocent III; Rome; Symbolic Power; The Byzantine Commonwealth; The Fourth Crusade; The Latin East; Vlachs; idéhistoria; History of Ideas;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine the use of symbolic power at the establishment of the Second Bulgarian Empire and the Cilician kingdom of Armenia, and to further explore and discuss problems of language, translation, ethnography, legitimacy, culture and distinctions between “East” and “West” through these cases. Despite their geographical distance and diverse histories, these regions are united through a past of Byzantine domination and by their entering into unions with the Roman Papacy at this time. READ MORE

  4. 4. The Emotional Community of Social Science Teaching

    Author : Katarina Blennow; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Science Education; SOCIAL STUDIES; Civics; Citizenship education; Emotions; Education; Emotional communities; symbolic boundaries;

    Abstract : Some of the most pressing concerns of our time, such as crises connected to migration, the welfare state, international law and terrorism, are part of the Swedish upper secondary school subject Social Science. This means that Social Science teaching easily generates intense emotions, sparks of which are lit in the encounter between the students, the teacher, and the specific content of the school subject Social Science. READ MORE

  5. 5. Dialogues on the Net - Power structures in asynchronous discussions in the context of a web based teacher training course

    Author : Annette Johnsson; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; minority; cultural background; sex; ethnicity; gender; age; socio-economic; dialogicity; web based; computer based; CMC; net based; asynchronous; CSCL; teacher education; power structures; dialogues; Group work; team work; symbolic capital; group work;

    Abstract : The general aim of this thesis is to investigate the interaction processes that occur in group dialogues when teacher students work in small groups, using net based asynchronous dialogues to solve a problem in the area of environmental sustainability. More specifically, the interest is to determine whether students’ net based dialogues give rise to patterns of dominance/subordination similar to those observed in face-to-face situations. READ MORE