Essays about: "Cultural dilemmas"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 essays containing the words Cultural dilemmas.

1. 1. Unheard Women's Voices in Swedish International Higher Education: Personalizing Trajectories of Female Postgraduate Students and Motherhood

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

   Author : Soovin Oh; [2023]
   Keywords : Student mothers; International graduate student mothers; Graduate students; Women in higher education; Narrative study; Learning experience; Intersectionality; Transformative learning;

   Abstract : This study comparatively analyzes the narratives containing six international graduate student mothers’ lived experiences. Stories about intersectional identities and their transformation process through new experiences were reconstructed by the participants as storytellers. READ MORE

3. 2. China's elderly trapped in the digital age : A qualitative study on the elderly in a fourth-tier city

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Siyu Xu; [2023]
   Keywords : Chinese elderly; ICTs; digital divide;

   Abstract : China is moving into an aging society, and the quality of life of the elderly has become a topic of public concern. With the development of ICT technology, China’s digital level is increasing, and there is a digital literacy gap between the young and the elderly, and the intergenerational digital divide is widening. READ MORE

4. 3. Conflicting Right to Rights : Testing multicultural group rights under clashing cultural claims

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Gustaf Lindskog; [2023]
   Keywords : Liberal multiculturalism; multicultural group rights; cultural ownership; minority rights;

   Abstract : The theory of liberal multiculturalism is based on a normative concept of liberalism leading to the implication of recognized cultural minority rights. However, there is no clear depiction of how liberal multiculturalism responds to the case of different cultural groups placing claims over one same excludable resource. READ MORE

5. 4. Exercising freedom of speech: A cultural analysis of the Dawit Isaak Library

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Livia Skåve; [2023]
   Keywords : freedom of speech; free speech; artistic freedom; banned books; the Dawit Isaak Library; library selection; field theory; democracy; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates how freedom of speech is implemented in a Swedish library context, by examining what actions and practices the concept is translated into at the Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö, a library focused on freedom of speech and banned literature that opened at Malmö City Archive in 2020. The aim of the study is to illuminate and clarify discrepancies between the theoretical definition and the physical performance of freedom of speech, and it investigates the dilemmas that may arise there. READ MORE

6. 5. Teaching Tolerance through History: A practice perspective on school trips to the memorial sites of the Holocaust

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Alice Widerberg; [2022]
   Keywords : History; tolerance; the Holocaust; practice theory; memorial sites; European Studies; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This work studies the practice of school trips to the memorial sites of the Holocaust with the aim of investigating how history is used in order to form tolerance among the participating students. The study employs a theoretical foundation of practice theory and literature on the academic debate on learning from the past. READ MORE