Search for dissertations about: "critical thinking"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 113 swedish dissertations containing the words critical thinking.

  2. 1. Critical Thinking in Scholarship: : Meanings, Conditions and Development

    University dissertation from Department of Education. Lund University

    Author : Eva Brodin; Lennart Svensson; Åsa Lindberg-Sand; [2007]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; critical thinking; scholarship; higher education; hermeneutic phenomenology; epistemology; educational philosophy; history of philosophy; SOCIAL SCIENCES Social sciences Education; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Socialvetenskap Pedagogik; HUMANITIES and RELIGION History and philosophy subjects Philosophy subjects Theory of science; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Historisk-filosofiska ämnen Filosofiämnen Vetenskapsteori; Pedagogik; Pedagogics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the phenomenon of critical thinking in scholarship as regards its meanings, conditions, and development using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. This exploration takes its departure in ancient Greece, following a historical movement of the phenomenon up to present day perspectives on critical thinking, revealing a range of different meanings and conditions. READ MORE

  4. 2. Project work, independence and critical thinking

    University dissertation from Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis

    Author : Anders Eklöf; Torgny Ottosson; Lars-Erik Nilsson; Per-Olof Erixon; [2014]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; project work; independence; individualisation; critical thinking; frame analysis; risk; uncertainty; Risk-society; Goffman;

    Abstract : This thesis studies how students do projects in a Swedish upper secondaryschool. The students have to produce products and at the same time provethem self as independent in relation to the teachers, and negotiate therequirements of the project setting and the written instructions within thegroup. READ MORE

  5. 3. On systems thinking in logistics management - A critical perspective

    University dissertation from Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press

    Author : Magnus Lindskog; Martin Rudberg; Mattias Elg; Britta Gammelgaard; [2012]
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Logistics management; Systems thinking; Systems theory; Systems approach; Critical; Interpretive; Actors;

    Abstract : Systems thinking. Systems theory. The systems approach. All these concepts have in various guises been claimed as central to logistics management, since its dawning in the mid twentieth century. READ MORE

  6. 4. Critical Thinking in Scholarship: Meanings, Conditions and Development

    University dissertation from Department of Education, Lund University

    Author : Eva Brodin; [2007]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pedagogy and didactics; Fenomenologi; Phenomenology; Hermeneutic Phenomenology; Higher Education; Critical Thinking; Scholarship; Pedagogik; didaktik;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the phenomenon of critical thinking in scholarship as regards its meanings, conditions, and development using a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach. This exploration takes its departure in ancient Greece, following a historical movement of the phenomenon up to present day perspectives on critical thinking, revealing a range of different meanings and conditions. READ MORE

  7. 5. Newly graduated nurses' perception of competence, critical thinking and research utilization

    University dissertation from Karlstad : Karlstads universitet

    Author : Sigrid Wangensteen; Gun Nordström; Inger S. Johansson; Monica Björkström; Ania Willman; [2010]
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Newly graduated nurses; critical thinking; research utilization; nurse competence; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS Caring sciences Nursing; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN Vårdvetenskap Omvårdnad; Nursing Science; Omvårdnad;

    Abstract : Sigrid Wangensteen has the recent years been engaged in doctoral studies at Karlstad University in combination with teaching at the bachelor program in nursing at Gjøvik Universtity College.This doctoral thesis is focused on newly graduated nurses, their perception of competence, critical thinking dispositions, research use and their experiences of being a nurse during their first year as a nurse. READ MORE