Search for dissertations about: "cultural-historical activity theory"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the words cultural-historical activity theory.
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21. Co-developing pest management for organic apple production : combining participatory action research, activity theory, laboratory and field trials in a Swedish context
Abstract : Participatory Action Research (PAR) is an interventionist, action-orientated and transdisciplinary approach to applied research that strives for the collaborative development of any practice together with relevant stakeholders. It enhances the relevance of research to practice by active stakeholder involvement in all research steps, including the spaces in which the practice is conducted, its iterative knowledge construction and the recognition that knowledge exists in practice and is created when attempting to transform reality. READ MORE
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22. Transformation through Integration : An Activity Theoretical Analysis of School Development as Integration of Child Care Institutions and the Elementary School
Abstract : This study analyzes an attempt at integration of a pre-school class, a leisure-time center and an elementary school in Sweden. The integration was organized in the form of Vertical Track which implies a successive development of groups comprising children between six and twelve years old, pre-school teachers, recreation pedagogues, and schoolteachers. READ MORE
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23. Please Be Patient : A Cultural Phenomenological Study of Haemodialysis and Kidney Transplantation Care
Abstract : This thesis examines the practice of haemodialysis and kidney transplantation, the two medical therapies available for persons with kidney failure, from a phenomenological perspective. A basic assumption made in the thesis is that contemporary biomedicine is deeply embedded in the cultural, historical, economic, and political circumstances provided by the particular local, national, and transnational contexts in which it is practiced. READ MORE
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24. Transformation through Integration
Abstract : Abstract This study analyzes an attempt at integration of a pre-school class, a leisure-time center and an elementary school in Sweden. The integration was organized in the form of Vertical Track which implies a successive development of groups comprising children between six and twelve years old, pre-school teachers, recreation pedagogues, and schoolteachers. READ MORE
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25. Support systems in use : for coordination of advanced on-the-ground work activities
Abstract : This dissertation is about support systems in use for coordination of advanced on-the-ground work activities. Focus is given to work in domains of health care and manufacturing. READ MORE