Search for dissertations about: "ways of knowing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the words ways of knowing.

2. 1. Ways of knowing in ways of moving : A study of the meaning of capability to move

   Author : Gunn Nyberg; Håkan Larsson; Ingrid Carlgren; David Kirk; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Physical Education; capability to move; ways of knowing; knowing how; tacit knowing; Ryle; Polanyi; Schön; Utbildning och lärande; Education and Learning; utbildningsvetenskap med inriktning mot praktiska kunskapstraditioner;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis has been to investigate the meaning of the capability to move in order to identify and describe this capability from the perspective of the one who moves in relation to specific movements. It has been my ambition to develop ways to explicate, and thereby open up for discussion, what might form an educational goal in the context of movements and movement activities in the school subject of physical education and health (PEH). READ MORE

4. 2. Sensing Traditional Music Through Sweden's Zorn Badge : Precarious Musical Value and Ritual Orientation

   Author : Karin Eriksson; Lars Berglund; Dan Lundberg; Rachel Beckles Willson; Martin Stokes; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : traditional music; Sweden; folk music; music auditions; ritual; orientation; sensory ethnography; ethnomusicology; Musicology; Musikvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the multiple and contested spaces of belonging that may be evoked by ritualised musical performance. It makes an ethnographic case study of the Zorn Badge Auditions in Sweden, in which musicians play before a jury in the hope of being awarded a Zorn Badge and a prestigious but also contested title: Riksspelman. READ MORE

5. 3. Supporting knowledge management with information technology : the significance of formal and informal structures

   Author : Karin Dessne; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; knowledge management; km; cscw; cscl; communities of practice; cop; military; lessons learned; experience; learning; knowing; formal; informal; structures; knowing wheel; preconditions; it support; collaborative work; communication; Datalogi; Computer and Systems Science; Teknik;

   Abstract : Knowledge Management (KM) is a relatively young field of research. It has traditionally aimed at managing work in organisations often by the assistance of supporting Information Technology (IT).In this thesis, the definition of KM is expressed as facilitating the intertwined process of learning and knowing in an organisation. READ MORE

6. 4. Engaging Advaita : Conceptualising liberating knowledge in the face of Western modernity

   Author : Pawel Odyniec; Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi; Heinz Werner Wessler; Christiane Schaefer; Stephen Phillips; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Indology; modern Indian philosophy; Advaita Vedānta; brahmajñāna; liberating knowledge; Badrīnāth Śukla; Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya; Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan; History of Ideas; Idéhistoria; Indology with Classical Sanscrit;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a study of modern Indian philosophy. It examines three engaging articulations of the Advaitic notion of liberating knowledge or brahmajñāna provided by three prominent Indian philosophers of the twentieth century, namely, Badrīnāth Śukla (1898-1988), Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (1875-1949), and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975). READ MORE

7. 5. Knowing and the Art of IT Management. An inquiry into work practices in one-stop shops

   Author : Sara Eriksén; Institutionen för informatik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; systems theory; Informatics; IT management; one-stop shops; public service; Knowing; work practice; Informatik; systemteori; Knowing;

   Abstract : New information technology is developing faster than the models, metaphors and methods in use for conceptualizing the sharing and managing of information in organizations, in communities and in society in general. The way we utilize information technology today does not seem to succeed in supporting the everyday work practices through which organizations accomplish their work. READ MORE