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  2. 1. Digital technologies as support for learning about the marine environment: Steps toward ocean literacy : Digital technologies and ocean literacy

    Author : Geraldine Fauville; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; digital technologies; social media; ocean literacy; communication; science education; environmental education; sociocultural theory;

    Abstract : Over the last century the ocean has been negatively impacted by human activities. In order to continue benefitting from marine services and goods, and the qualities afforded to human life through the ocean, citizens need to be informed about their relationship to the ocean and their own impact on it, that is they need to be ocean literate. READ MORE

  4. 2. Planning in Interplace? On Time, Power and Learning in Local Activities Aiming at Social Inclusion and Sustainable Development

    Author : Jenny Stenberg; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; sustainable development; triggers for learning; suburban; phronesis; time; communicative planning; double-loop; social exclusion; interplace; power;

    Abstract : SUBURBAN METROPOLITAN areas in Sweden built in the sixties and seventies are often considered exposed areas and are consequently involved in interventions aimed at dealing with problems such as unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. This thesis focusses on how urban planning is related to this social problem. READ MORE

  5. 3. Urban Planning Participation: Linking Practice and Theory

    Author : Björn Malbert; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; sustainable urban development; complexity; local Agenda 21; shared-power situations; urban design and planning; reflective practice and research; strategic choice approach; uncertainty and conflicts in urban planning; communicative planning theory; participatory decision-making; tasks and roles of planners; planning methodology;

    Abstract : Continuing efforts to apply, at the local level, the Agenda 21 mandate of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, in 1992, provide good illustrations of problems typical in contemporary public planning and decision-making in many European countries. The claims for participatory decision-making and the coordination of decision and action among diverse actors and stakeholders constitute challenges to established public planning systems. READ MORE

  6. 4. Food for Thought. Communication and the transformation of work experience in web-based in-service training

    Author : Mona Nilsen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; in-service training; food production industry; quality assurance; computer-mediated communication; chat interaction; digital technologies; appropriation; mediation; communicative strategies; framing; footing; hybrid learning activity;

    Abstract : The background of the present study is an interest in the use of digital technologies for in-service training activities in industry. Globalization, international competition and transnational production are elements that currently transform work practices and work organizations. READ MORE

  7. 5. Group work and physics – characteristics, learning possibilities and patterns of interaction

    Author : Maria Berge; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; higher education; phenomenography; conversation analysis; multi-theoretic perspective; science education; engineering education; physics education; group work; variation theory; positioning theory;

    Abstract : This thesis explores group work in physics at university level. The guiding research interest is what happens in the students’ interactions during such (instructional) activities, focusing both on the physics content and group dynamics. READ MORE