Search for dissertations about: "reading action research"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the words reading action research.

  2. 1. Death Online in Contemporary Russia : Memory, Forgetting 
and the Connective Presence of Mourning on the Internet

    Author : Katerina Linden; Amanda Lagerkvist; Ylva Ekström; Anna Reading; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; existential media studies; virtual ethnography; death online; digital memory studies; connective presence; Dasein; default amnesia; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the ways in which online technologies transform communal commemoration and grief practices in the Russian-speaking world, and what the existential implications of these changes are for individuals and society. This aim is rooted in the theoretical framework of existential media studies complemented by digital memory studies and death online studies. READ MORE

  4. 2. Reading the world through virtual exchange : critical interculturality and glocal awareness in English teacher education

    Author : Malin Reljanovic Glimäng; Björn Sundmark; Breffni O'Rourke; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Virtual exchange; interculturality; global citizenship education; glocal awareness; teacher education; English; action research; Sustainable studies; Hållbarhetsstudier;

    Abstract : Virtual exchange (VE) is a pedagogical approach that connects learners across borders and cultures through online communication technologies. Taking a point of departure in critical social constructivism, this thesis contributes to the VE research field by presenting a collection of studies that explore the intersections of critical interculturality, global citizenship education, and online exchange in English teacher education. READ MORE

  5. 3. Clearing for Action : Leadership as a Relational Phenomenon

    Author : Lucia Crevani; Monica Lindgren; Johann Packendorff; Janne Tienari; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Industrial organisation; administration and economics; Industriell organisation; administration och ekonomi;

    Abstract : Although leadership is deemed to matter, scholars seldom pay attention to the phenomenon itself, as it is happening. Hence definitions abound, but there is a lack of vocabulary for expressing what leadership is about without ending up talking of individual leaders and/or descriptions of abstract “goodness”. READ MORE

  6. 4. In search of maritime energy management

    Author : Hannes Johnson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; action research; maritime energy management; energy efficiency gap; transdisciplinarity;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with a transdisciplinary research project that concerned the implementation of an energy management system standard -- ISO 50001 -- in two shipping companies. This project was partially succesful insofar as we implemented the standard in one of the two companies. READ MORE

  7. 5. Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design

    Author : Otto Von Busch; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Fashion Design; Hacktivism; Hacking; Heresy; Small Change; Professional-Amateurs; Do-it-yourself; Action Spaces; Artistic Research; Practice-based research;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of a series of extensive projects which aim to explore a new designer role for fashion. It is a role that experiments with how fashion can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many participants as a form of social activism. This social design practice can be called the hacktivism of fashion. READ MORE