Search for dissertations about: "critical constructivism"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words critical constructivism.

2. 6. Conditional Progress: Technical Rationality and Wicked Problems in Nuclear Waste Management

   Author : Hannes Lagerlöf; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; nuclear waste management; science and technology studies; critical constructivism; sociology; technical rationality; reification;

   Abstract : While various states and enterprises have produced nuclear power for decades, that is, demonstrated the functionality of the nuclear fuel cycle from uranium mining to power production, the waste that is simultaneously produced has been provisionally stored awaiting a safe solution. Still, no country has implemented such a solution. READ MORE

4. 7. Understanding China’s Rise : Competing Online Identity Discourses behind Short-term Changes in Foreign Policy

   Author : Nicholas Olczak; Karl Gustafsson; Shaun Breslin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; China; foreign policy; North Korea; Southeast Asia; the South China Sea; rising powers; international relations; security; the Internet; critical constructivism; identity; mixed methods; discourse; Lacan; 中国，国际关系，外交，朝鲜; International Relations; internationella relationer;

   Abstract : China has undergone a remarkable rise in the past four decades, its economy and material power growing substantially. These developments have led to several interlinked debates about how we should understand this rise. READ MORE

5. 8. Reading the world through virtual exchange : critical interculturality and glocal awareness in English teacher education

   Author : Malin Reljanovic Glimäng; Björn Sundmark; Breffni O'Rourke; Malmö universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Virtual exchange; interculturality; global citizenship education; glocal awareness; teacher education; English; action research; Sustainable studies; Hållbarhetsstudier;

   Abstract : Virtual exchange (VE) is a pedagogical approach that connects learners across borders and cultures through online communication technologies. Taking a point of departure in critical social constructivism, this thesis contributes to the VE research field by presenting a collection of studies that explore the intersections of critical interculturality, global citizenship education, and online exchange in English teacher education. READ MORE

6. 9. Nihilism, Art, and Technology

   Author : Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Staffan Carlshamre; Arnfinn Bö-Rygg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; nihilism; art; technology; avant-garde; architecture; critical theory; Martin Heidegger; Walter Benjamin; Ernst Jünger; Mies van der Rohe; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : The thesis investigates the role of technology in the formation of the artistic avant-garde, along with various forms of philosophical reflection on this development, with a particular emphasis on Heidegger. Setting out from an analysis of three paradigmatic cases in the interplay between art and technology—the invention of photography, the shift from Futurism to Constructivism, and the interpretation of technology in debates on architectural theory in the 1920s and ’30s—it proceeds to a discussion of three philosophical responses to this development, those found in Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and Ernst Jünger, all of which share a certain avant-garde sensibility and a notion of art as a response to nihilism. READ MORE

7. 10. A production of diversity : appearances, ideas, interests, actions, contradictions and praxis

   Author : Vedran Omanović; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; diversity; ethnography; critical theory; dialectic view; social-historical process;

   Abstract : A history of two management concepts, valuing diversity and managing diversity, has its cultural and historic origins in the U.S., or, more exactly, in the management/organizational literature produced in the U.S. READ MORE