Search for dissertations about: "intercultural"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 50 swedish dissertations containing the word intercultural.

2. 16. Contact Space: Shanghai : The Chinese Dream and the Production of a New Society

   Author : Johan Vaide; Sociologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Shanghai; China; the People’s Republic of China PRC ; the Chinese Communist Party CCP ; political rhetoric; production of space; spatial theory; urban planning; global cities; Henri Lefebvre; postcolonial studies; nation-building; intercultural communication; Chinese middle-classes;

   Abstract : Within the context of understanding the opening up of the People’s Republic of China and the city of Shanghai, the aim of the study is to explore ‘space’ in Chinese Communist Party rhetoric, Shanghai spatial planning discourse and personal intercultural engagements. By the term ‘space’, the author refers to an understanding of societal production that integrates space as part of the analysis, taking into account the interplay between official statements on nation building, regional and urban planning, concrete built environments and people’s situated understandings of space. READ MORE

4. 17. Impossible Interculturality? : Education and the Colonial Difference in a Multicultural World

   Author : Robert Aman; Andreas Fejes; Stefan Jonsson; Lisbeth Eriksson; Edda Manga; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Interculturality; multiculturalism; intercultural education; policy; postcolonialism; cultural difference; colonial difference; European Union; interculturalidad; delinking; Interkulturalitet; mångkultur; interkulturell utbildning; policy; postkolonialism; kulturella skillnader; koloniala skillnader; Europeiska Unionen; interculturalidad;

   Abstract : An increasing number of educational policies, academic studies, and university courses today propagate ‘interculturality’ as a method for approaching ‘the Other’ and reconciling universal values and cultural specificities. Based on a thorough discussion of Europe’s colonial past and the hierarchies of knowledge that colonialism established, this dissertation interrogates the definitions of intercultural knowledge put forth by EU policy discourse, academic textbooks on interculturality, and students who have completed a university course on the subject. READ MORE

5. 18. The "Other" Recreated : A Relational Approach to East-West Negotiations

   Author : Erika Svedberg; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political and administrative sciences; East-West; Cooperation; negotiation; mirror image; sovietology; objectivity; relational; feminist IR; masculinities; self-reflection; intercultural communication; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Political science; Gender Studies;

   Abstract : This study proposes the relational approach to negotiations to further our understanding of the negotiation relationship. At the center is negotiators' outlook on the other and themselves in East-West cooperation projects. This approach to negotiations is pluralist. Consequently, a number of theories have been utilized. READ MORE

6. 19. The School as a Moral Arena : Constitutive values and deliberation in Swedish curriculum practice

   Author : Katarina Norberg; David Hamilton; Pirjo Lahdenperä; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; Constitutive values; curriculum; moral; schooling; intercultural education; multicultural school; Pedagogik; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : This thesis’ main theme is the relation between school practices and the constitutive values explicitly endorsed in the Swedish national curriculum. It consists of four articles. Article I examines the new educational circumstances in a multicultural society. READ MORE

7. 20. Framing Social Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments: The Influence of Technical and Social Factors

   Author : Ann-Sofie Axelsson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; virtual reality; presence; intercultural communication; communication media; computer games; social interaction; status differences; common ground;

   Abstract : Virtual Reality (VR) for multiple users is a new technology which is increasingly used for diverse purposes such as distributed collaborative work, visualization, and entertainment. Despite this, little is yet known about what kind of social interaction the technology generates. READ MORE