Search for dissertations about: "intercultural perspective"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words intercultural perspective.

2. 1. Flexibility in knowing school mathematics : In the contexts of a Swedish and an Indian school class

   Author : Ingrid Dash; Pedagogik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mathematics education; compulsory school; Sweden; Orissa; India; flexibility in knowing; modes of knowing; authorship; agency; phenomenography; contextual analysis; intercultural perspective;

   Abstract : A central question in mathematics education research concerns understanding. The main objective of the present thesis has been to obtain insights into flexible modes of knowing in school mathematics in two school class contexts, and how these relate to modes of being a learner in these contexts, with specific focus on learners’ flexible ways of discerning parts and delimiting wholes, and how they understand part- and whole-relationships while doing mathematics. READ MORE

4. 2. Internationalisation at home? Home and international students' integration into engineering education

   Author : Becky Bergman; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; engineering education; international students; intercultural group work; home students; integration; intercultural competence; internationalisation at home;

   Abstract : Internationalisation is a strategy for over 90 percent of universities and student mobility is a key part of that strategy. At the same time, home and international students do not tend to mix. READ MORE

5. 3. Pedagogy of Heuristic Contexturalisation: Intercultural transmission through cross-cultural encounters

   Author : Hai Chun Lin; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pedagogy and didactics; transmission; theme; reconstruction; pedagogy; enculturation; culture; cognition; Acculturation; awareness; Pedagogik; didaktik; acculturation;

   Abstract : The present study is designed to analyze the effects of the ongoing cultural globalization. It utilizes as its empirical setting two special programmes called the International Master's Programme (the IMP,) directed by Lund University in Sweden. READ MORE

6. 4. Musical Attunement : The concept and phenomenon of Stimmung in music

   Author : Erik Wallrup; Jacob Derkert; Amalia Collisani; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Peter Trawny Trawny; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; music; philosophy of music; attunement; mood; aesthetics; affectivity; listening; phenomenology; hermeneutics; romanticism; twentieth-century music; India; intercultural philosophy; Martin Heidegger; Theodor W. Adorno; Stimmung; Musicology; musikvetenskap;

   Abstract : The principal aim of the study is to establish a new perspective on the affectivity of music. It is concerned with an everyday relation to music; that of listening for the mood, for the attunement. Despite its everyday character, this kind of listening has not been given due attention in music studies. READ MORE

7. 5. The Choreography of Gender in Traditional Vietnamese Music

   Author : Thanh Thuy Nguyen; Lärare (Musikhögskolan); []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gender; Gesture; Traditional music; Intercultural music; Choreography;

   Abstract : This Ph.D. project in artistic research is concerned with the function of gesture in traditional Vietnamese music. Building on gender analysis of musical performance in TV shows, and further on autoethnographic inquiry throughout the artistic projects, the artistic output articulates a critical understanding of these practices. READ MORE