Search for dissertations about: "practice turn"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 262 swedish dissertations containing the words practice turn.

2. 1. Thick Nature : Morality and Practice in Swedish Urban Gardens

   Author : María Florencia Langa; Tora Holmberg; Stefan Bargheer; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; nature; urban gardening and agriculture; morality; valuations; practice; urban nature; environmentalism;

   Abstract : Recent studies have shown the way assumptions about nature have blinded us to the classed and racialized morality of environmental activism and the deeply moral nature of our debates about the environment. Moral values and imaginaries that trust in the transformative capacity of nature to improve people, cities and society are ubiquitous in the urban context. READ MORE

4. 2. Knowing in practice : a tool in the production of intensive care

   Author : Ann-Charlott Wikström; Högskolan Väst; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; accounting practices; competence; ethnography; human-human-machine; interaction; intensive care; meaning; morality; technology; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap; Vårdvetenskap; Nursing science; accounting practices; competence; ethnography; human-human-machine; interaction; intensive care; meaning; morality; technology;

   Abstract : The overall aim with the the present thesisi was to find out how intensive care is produced by focusing on the ICU staffs interaction with each other and the technological tools they use. Theoretical perspective draws on socio cultural theory and the concepts accounting practices, moralöity in discourse and workplace research. READ MORE

5. 3. Makers, Materials and Machines : Understanding Experience and Situated Embodied Practice in the Makerspace

   Author : Sophie Landwehr Sydow; Jakob Tholander; Martin Jonsson; Maria Normark; Alexandra Weilenmann; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HCI; making; materials; machines; experience; makerspace; situated practice; embodied interaction; material interaction; maker culture; material turn; digital fabrication; material literacy; machine sensibility; pliable machine; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; informationssamhället;

   Abstract : This thesis explores interaction between humans, materials, and machines, in the context of makerspaces. The concept of making describes a practice that deals with new technologies in combination with craft to create artifacts in physical, digital and hybrid forms. READ MORE

6. 4. New manifestations of the practice-theory dilemma – consequences of ‘the practice turn’ in teacher education

   Author : Sandra Jederud; Per Lindqvist; Johannes Rytzler; Maria Gustavsson; Mälardalens universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; specific practice schools; paired practicum; work-integrated teacher education; spectator knowledge; participant knowledge; boundary crossing; Didactics; didaktik;

   Abstract : This thesis comprises four studies that concern the specific part of practicum  within teacher education, its relation to the university-based components and how new organizational ideas entail different consequences for student teachers’ opportunities for learning the profession. The overall purpose is to analyze policies related to learning in practice and shed light on what implications are involved when reorganizing Swedish teacher education within the ‘practice turn’. READ MORE

7. 5. Skeletal muscle function and energy metabolism in various nutritional states : a clinical study

   Author : Claes Lennmarken; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

   Abstract : The clinical picture of the malnourished patient consists of loss of body fat and lean body mass resulting in weight loss and impaired vital organ function. Weakness and fatigue are often prominent symptoms arising from affected skeletal muscle in these patients. READ MORE