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2. 1. Critical Thinking in Scholarship: : Meanings, Conditions and Development

   Author : Eva Brodin; Lennart Svensson; Åsa Lindberg-Sand; Pedagogik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; critical thinking; scholarship; higher education; hermeneutic phenomenology; epistemology; educational philosophy; history of philosophy; Education; Pedagogik; Theory of science; Vetenskapsteori; Pedagogik; Pedagogics; Pedagogy and didactics; Phenomenology; Hermeneutic Phenomenology; Higher Education; Critical Thinking; Scholarship; Fenomenologi; Pedagogik; didaktik;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the phenomenon of critical thinking in scholarship as regards its meanings, conditions, and development using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. This exploration takes its departure in ancient Greece, following a historical movement of the phenomenon up to present day perspectives on critical thinking, revealing a range of different meanings and conditions. READ MORE

4. 2. Scholarship and Mythopoeia : The ideas of language and myth in the works of Owen Barfield, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien

   Author : Maria Kuteeva; Tony Crowley; Thomas Shippey; Department of English and American Studies University of Manchester; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language; myth; philology; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; English; engelska;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the views adopted by Barfield, Lewis and Tolkien on the phenomena of language and myth as discussed in their academic writing and fiction. Part I (Chapters I and II) focuses on the study of language. READ MORE

5. 3. Learning in Collaboration : Academics’ experiences in collaborative partnerships

   Author : Jan Karlsson; Elsie Anderberg; Shirley Booth; Per Odenrick; Pedagogik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; multidisciplinary; SMARTA; krAft; Sweden; NIWL; holistic learning of scholarship; scholarship; interactive research; service; collaboration; Learning; SMEs; academia; Education; Pedagogik; SMARTA; multidisciplinary; krAft; Sweden; NIWL; holistic learning of scholarship; scholarship; interactive research; service; collaboration; Learning; SMEs; academia;

   Abstract : There is an ongoing debate both in the United States and Europe about the need to develop a broader view of scholarship and the different activities connected with it, including “service to the community”. In Sweden, service takes the form of practice-oriented engagement and collaboration with the surrounding community, as stipulated by Swedish law regulating universities’ activities. READ MORE

6. 4. Pindaric Scholarship between Aristarchus and Didymus : An Edition of the Fragments with Explanatory Notes and a Discussion of Early Pindaric Scholarship

   Author : Pontus Österdahl; Denis Searby; Mark De Kreij; Pär Ola Sandin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pindar; Hellenistic literature; scholia; fragment; commentary; textual criticism; klassiska språk med inriktning mot antik grekiska; Classics with Specialisation in Ancient Greek;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore Hellenistic scholarship on Pindar in the period between Aristarchus and Didymus. Although no ancient scholarly work on Pindar survives in its entirety, the Pindar scholia and other indirect sources show that about a dozen scholars known by name worked on Pindar in the period studied. READ MORE

7. 5. Cultures of Denial : Comparing Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Denial

   Author : Maria Karlsson; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Denial; denialism; genocide; Holocaust; Armenian genocide; 1915; negationism; historiography; scholarship; Bernard Lewis; Arno Mayer; objectivity; genocide studies; revisionism;

   Abstract : This thesis studies the phenomenon of modern genocide denial, focusing in particular on the Western denialist cultures surrounding the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide of 1915.While those denying, rationalizing or trivializing the Holocaust may be completely separated from those engaging in denial of the Armenian genocide, both cultures of denial have undergone similar historical phases and developments. READ MORE