Essays about: "Ethnographic Case Study"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 147 essays containing the words Ethnographic Case Study.

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. Vaccine development during a pandemic : A case study of an academic research group in Sweden and their vaccine(s) against SARS-CoV-2

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Anna Tarnovskaya; [2023]
   Keywords : vaccine development; COVID-19; discursive practices; situational analysis; grounded theory; DNA vaccine;

   Abstract : This ethnographic study examines the multiple ways in which a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 disease and infection is known in an academic research group in Sweden. This academic research group has been working to develop a vaccine since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. READ MORE

4. 3. Don't Fall! A Case Study on Market-scoping For Early-stage Technologies and the Role of Sensemaking

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

   Author : Julia Klingestam Lundqvist; [2023]
   Keywords : Market-scoping; early-stage technologies; dynamic capabilities; sensemaking; high tech;

   Abstract : Effectively managing uncertainty requires flexibility and strategic trade-offs, even so for firms basing their product-offer on early-stage technologies. Managers' role in strategic decisions have previously been overlooked, focusing more on predetermined market spaces based on technology, firm, and industry characteristics. READ MORE

5. 4. Telling a different story: Farming resilience in hay-milk farms in Salzburg province

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

   Author : Julia Fritzsche; [2023]
   Keywords : farming resilience; Salzburg; hay-milk farming;

   Abstract : Foregrounding relations and processes in resilience thinking has the potential to enable more holistic analyses and account for complexity, which could lead to more resilient actions, interventions, or ways of being. The concept of farming resilience builds on a process-relational understanding of resilience and thus offers a move away from more substance-based understandings of resilience as outcome. READ MORE

6. 5. Crafting Textile Knowledges : A decolonial study of the Iku/Arhuaco material culture in the archives of the National Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg (Världskulturmuseet)

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

   Author : Stefanía Castelblanco-Pérez; [2023]
   Keywords : material culture; indigenous heritage; object-based research; ethical stewardship; decoloniality; arhuaco; Iku; cultura material; patrimonio Indígena; investigación objetual; administración ética; decolonialidad; arhuaco; Iku;

   Abstract : The return of objects that belong to ethnographic collections to their places of origin is one of the topics of discussion that, despite not being new, has been gaining more and more relevance today. Taking the Iku indigenous craft collection in the archives of the National Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg as a case study, I pursue to develop an object-based methodology that increases and deepens the understanding of the notion of ethical stewardship, while joining current debates on indigenous heritage and decoloniality. READ MORE