Search for dissertations about: "reading for life"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 81 swedish dissertations containing the words reading for life.

2. 1. Reading for Life : Three Studies of Swedish Students’ Literacy Development

   Author : Ulla Damber; Stefan Samuelsson; Mats Myrberg; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Literacy; fiction; second language learning; the deficit discourse; scaffolding; Läsning; skönlitteratur; andraspråksinlärning; bristdiskurs; stöttning; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore school classes with a higher level of achievement in reading than could be expected, with regard to socio-economic background factors and language background. What do those classes practice? Which attitudes towards reading and schooling do those children and their teachers display? The teacher and the classroom environment are in particular focus. READ MORE

4. 2. Reading bones : Stone Age hunters and seals in the Baltic

   Author : Jan Storå; Jan Ekman; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : Epiphyseal fusion; Harp seal; Marine mammals; Neolithic; Pitted Ware culture; Ringed seal; Seal hunting; Seasonality; Taphonomy; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Abstract : This is a study of hunters and seals in the Stone Age in the Baltic. The ambition has been to develop and utilize methods for osteological analyses of archaeological seal bones. The main aims of the zooarchaeological analyses have been to study seal hunting strategies and the formation processes of the faunal remains. READ MORE

5. 3. The Making of a Reading Society : Developing a Culture of Reading in Rwanda

   Author : Pierre Canisius Ruterana; Ingrid Andersson; Monica Sandlund; Karin Aronsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Reading culture; oral tradition; emergent literacy; Rwanda; students’ literacy experiences; responsibility for early literacy; children’s literature;

   Abstract : Following a growing concern among education stakeholders about the lack of a reading culture and low literacy levels among Rwandans in general and university students in particular, the aim of this thesis is to increase the awareness of Rwandans about the development of a reading culture and early literacy. To achieve this aim, four studies with participants representing different experiences related to reading culture were performed. READ MORE

6. 4. Women's varying life careers and shifting life-patterns : a study of Swedish women born in 1948

   Author : Eva Wirén; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; life-career; life-pattern; difference; representation; longitudinal; quantitative; text; stories; Bourdieu; post-structural theories; deconstruction; feminism;

   Abstract : This study is about a generation of Swedish women's varying life-careers and shifting lifepatterns. As empirical base for the study is used a longitudinal data material collected at the two main time-points, in 1961 and in 1980. The purpose of the study is twofold. READ MORE

7. 5. Children with Cochlear Implants : Cognition and Reading Ability

   Author : Malin Wass; Björn Lyxell; Birgitta Sahlén; Birgitta Larsby; Anita McAllister; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Cochlear implants; children; working memory; phonological skills; lexical access; reading ability; Cochleaimplantat; barn; arbetsminne; fonologiska färdigheter; lexikal aktivering; läsförmåga.; MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

   Abstract : The present thesis investigated cognitive ability in children with severe to profound hearing impairment who have received cochlear implants (CIs). The auditory stimulation from a cochlear implant early in life influences most cognitive functions as a consequence of the plasticity of the brain in the young child. READ MORE