Search for dissertations about: "epistemological"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 157 swedish dissertations containing the word epistemological.
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1. Mathematics classroom talk in a migrating world : synthesizing epistemological dimensions
Abstract : This thesis is an expedition into and beyond students’ mathematics talk in classrooms framed by migration as a matter of dichotomization betweennamed languages and (in)formal aspects of one fixed mathematics. It is an attempt to make sense of how students grapple with and move about thedivides that those dichotomizations shapes. READ MORE
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2. The structure of knowing : Existential trust as an epistemological category
Abstract : This thesis investigates the structure of knowing, and it argues that existential trust is an epistemological category.The aim of the dissertation is to develop a view according to which all human activity is seen as an activity of a lived body, and in which the understanding of the structure of such activity is regarded as central for the solution even of epistemological problems. READ MORE
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3. Constructive Analysis : A Study in Epistemological Methodology
Abstract : In the present study, it is argued that much of contemporary epistemology has not been conducted in a way conducive to what should be one of its main goals, namely to guide epistemic inquiry in the attainment of our most central epistemic goals. Furthermore, it is claimed that the very reason that epistemology has failed to do so pertains to an entrenched?indeed, in a sense, a literally ancient?but implausible methodology, best understood as the pursuit of definitions by way of intuitions. READ MORE
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4. A preschool that brings children into public spaces : Onto-epistemological research methods of vocal strolls, metaphors, mappings and preschool displacements
Abstract : The interest of this doctoral thesis in early childhood education concerns the discourse on the need to integrate as well as include the youngest children in society. The overall purpose is to produce methodological experimentations on the possibilities of constructing a preschool which facilitates for preschool and preschool children to be present and take place in, and thereby participate in the construction of public spaces, together with other actors and the places themselves. READ MORE
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5. Project Becoming and Knowing Trajectories. : An Epistemological Perspective on Human and Nonhuman Project Making
Abstract : In our ‘projectified’ and ‘knowledge-intensive’ society, industrial projects have been proposed as important “journeys of knowledge creation” or “places for knowledge integration”. To date, such perspectives have mainly used traditional cognitive and contextual theories of knowledge and have thus mostly been focused on human actors and their interaction. READ MORE
