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Showing result 16 - 20 of 4074 swedish dissertations containing the word play.

  2. 16. Dialectics of Negotiagency : Micro Mechanisms in Children’s Negotiation in Play Activity

    Author : Mimmi Waermö; Inger Eriksson; Ylva Ståhle; Viveca Lindberg; Bert van Oers; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; activity theory; agency; breaktime; children; collectividual; cultural historical activity theory; demands; development; double stimulation; enculturation; motives; negotiagency; negotiation; play; transformation; Didactics; didaktik;

    Abstract : This study is about the children in a fourth and fifth grade Swedish primary school class and their play during breaktimes. The study takes the theoretical point of departure in seeing children’s breaktime play as a cultural historical activity. READ MORE

  4. 17. Musical play: Children interacting with and around music technology

    Author : Pernilla Lagerlöf; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Music technology; Swedish preschool; Sociocultural perspective; Interaction analysis; Play; Learning; Participation; Communica¬tion; Early Childhood Education; After-school Centre;

    Abstract : This thesis explores young children and music learning in the ecology of music technologies. The research is a part of an EU project called MIROR (Musical Interaction Relying on Reflection) that had the intention to develop software for music learning designed to promote specific cognitive abilities in the field of music improvisation. READ MORE

  5. 18. Playing at Work : Organizational Play as a Facilitator of Creativity

    Author : Samuel West; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; improvisation; workplace meetings; organizations; innovation; organizational creativity; playfulness; creativity; Play;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how play may benefit creativity in organizational contexts. Play and playfulness have previously been linked to creativity in children and adults, but empirical organizational research is scarce. A widely accepted definition of creativity is that it involves the production of something that is both novel and appropriate. READ MORE

  6. 19. Gaming in Mohenjo-daro – an Archaeology of Unities

    Author : Elke Rogersdotter; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mohenjo-daro; Indus Valley; Bronze Age; Pakistan; play; gaming; play spectra; grounded theory; form and content; Simmel; abduction; logical types; autonomously working systems; Bateson; systems of representation; symbolic capital; deconstruction; nanoarchaeology; reflexive archaeology;

    Abstract : The main question of this thesis concerns the possibility of illuminating the presence and impact of the irrational element that is play in an ancient societal structure. With this question as a lodestar, the investigation has come to concern the development of an alternative way of work that can manage to embrace the positively loaded, ‘fun’ dimension of play. READ MORE

  7. 20. Growing up in a bilingual Quichua Community : Play, language and socializing practices

    Author : Camilla Rindstedt; Karin Aronsson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : Quichua culture; sibling caretaking; language socialization; children s play; bilingualism;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of sibling play and language sociaIization. The concept of language socialization is defined as socialization through language as well as socialization to use language (Schieffelin and Ochs 1986). READ MORE