Essays about: "meaning of education"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 149 essays containing the words meaning of education.
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16. Barriers in the Initial Acceptance Phase to Life-Cycle-Assessment : A Case Study of a Swedish Manufacturer
University essay from Jönköping University/JTH, Logistik och verksamhetsledningAbstract : Purpose: Sustainability and sustainable manufacturing has grown in importance in recent years, and more legislation and demands are put on organizations to show how their operations affect the environment. Life cycle assessment is a proactive and efficient sustainability tool to report a company’s effects on the environment. READ MORE
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17. A phenomenographic study embracing the "wickedness" of education as sustainable development: Mapping the qualitatively different ways in which South-East European immigrants in Sweden understand the concept of Sustainable Development
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogikAbstract : Aim: This research is situated in education as sustainable development. It, therefore, aims to embrace the ‘‘wickedness’’ of sustainable development by allowing for qualitatively different ways of understanding to emerge from the participants’ descriptions. READ MORE
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18. EDUCATION SERVING THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS?! An interview study of the educational foundations, challenges and opportunities in Auroville, India
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk professionAbstract : Auroville, in India was created to become a living laboratory for a new way of living and being on Earth. In this context, education in Auroville has a specific purpose. READ MORE
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19. Learning with fire, water and sun: A post-qualitative inquiry into Swedish friluftsliv education
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk professionAbstract : Aim: The aim of this study was to empirically investigate the emerging material-discursive entanglements between humans and more-than-humans within Swedish friluftsliv education, and argue for the ways in which these create didactical and pedagogical opportunities for teachers and students to contribute to a more sustainable world. Theory: The research was theoretically framed within a new materialist ontology focusing on the entanglement between matter and meaning and the configuration of phenomena as material-discursive (Barad, 2007). READ MORE
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20. BIOPHILIC VALUES AS PATHWAYS TO NATURE CONNECTEDNESS IN UPPER SECONDARY STUDENTS AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk professionAbstract : Aim: The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of activating the five biophilic values of emotion, contact, meaning, beauty, and compassion to increase upper secondary students’ nature connectedness and thereby their pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. Theory: The study was mainly based on the theory of the five biophilic values as pathways to nature connectedness; while also drawing on experiential learning theory, and the EYE for Sustainability Learning Tool. READ MORE
