Essays about: "Bildung"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the word Bildung.

  1. 1. Bildung in the language classroom. Reading literature to stimulate young people's desire to learn English

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Lärarutbildningsnämnden

    Author : Thomas Mellen; [2023-08-01]
    Keywords : reading; literature; bildung; didaktik; professional self-determination;

    Abstract : The power of reading literary texts to stimulate language learning, critical thinking and communicative competence is well established, yet young people are reading less literature than they did ten years ago. The aim of my research is to find out what teachers and other educational professionals can do in order to support young people to take up the habit of regular deep reading. READ MORE

  3. 2. Students' Influences on Sustainability Education : Going Beyond Listening to Students' Voices

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Silvio Niessner; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : While many actors agree that higher education plays a key role for a sustainability trans- formation of our society, there is no consensus on how higher sustainability education should look like. In this discourse, the students’ perspectives are currently underrepre- sented and their participation rarely goes beyond passive consultation, which means that they cannot have any real influence. READ MORE

  4. 3. Protective factors for resilience in children living in refugee camps : A systematic literature review from 2010-2021

    University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, CHILD

    Author : Carmen Kaar; [2021]
    Keywords : refugee children; refugee camp; protective factors; resilience; intervention;

    Abstract : Refugee children and adolescents living in refugee camps are a vulnerable population, at high risk for developing mental health disorders, behavioural problems and experiencing violence or trauma. However, not all children exposed to these stressors of displacement show negative outcomes; several refugee children and adolescents show adaptive functioning and resilient outcomes. READ MORE

  5. 4. "It's the Englishness" : Bildung and Personality Forming as Postcolonial Criticism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Johan Nyoni Triyono; [2020]
    Keywords : Tsitsi Dangarembga; Nervous Conditions; Frantz Fanon; Homi K. Bhabha; Colonialism; Postcolonialism; The mirror stage; The master and slave dialectic; Identity formation; Zimbabwe; Rhodesia;

    Abstract : Through a close reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, this essay shows the key links between the novel and Frantz Fanon’s major works. In addition to providing a deeper understanding of Dangarembga’s narrative as a whole, it takes into particular consideration the em­bedded criticism of colonialism in the text. READ MORE

  6. 5. A Critique of the Learning Brain

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Joakim Olsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Learning Brain; Learning; Cognitivism; Representational Theory of Mind; Computational Theory of Mind; Mentalism; Mind-Brain Identity; Computer Analogy; Scientism; Anthropological Holism; Enactivism; Intentionality; Intentional Action; Phenomenology; Philosophy of Mind; Cognitive Science; Capabilities; Practical Knowledge; Bildung; Wolf Singer; Kurt W. Fischer; Jerry Fodor; Vincent Descombes; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Elizabeth Anscombe; Evan Thompson;

    Abstract : The guiding question for this essay is: who is the learner? The aim is to examine and criticize one answer to this question, sometimes referred to as the theory of the learning brain, which suggests that the explanation of human learning can be reduced to the transmitting and storing of information in the brain’s formal and representational architecture, i.e. READ MORE