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  1. 1. It depends on herself/himself. : Parental Involvement in Education regarding Children Education in a Chinese Township High School

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

    Author : Ting Huang; [2023]
    Keywords : educational expectations; educational strategies; small-town China; cultural production;

    Abstract : This thesis is the first qualitative study of parental involvement in education regarding students in one key township high school in an undeveloped small town in southern China. This thesis aims to examine parental expectations and strategies in the voices of parents. READ MORE

  3. 2. “It was a free and healthy job” : timber floating on the river Ångermanälven in the 20th century

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Olivia Forssén; [2023]
    Keywords : timber floating; forest history; women in timber floating; interviews; historical records;

    Abstract : The exploitation of northern Sweden's forests began in about the 1830s and continued expanding northwards over the following decades. A key factor that enabling the exploitation of these forests was the natural infrastructure, such as the network of rivers, creeks and flooding during the summer, which made it possible to float timber from the forests to the sawmills on the coast. READ MORE

  4. 3. Agency in the Warsaw Ghetto : An Intersectional Analysis of the Daily Life, Survival, and Death of Elderly Jews

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Janika Raisch; [2022]
    Keywords : Holocaust; Genocide; Warsaw ghetto; Second World War; Nazi; Nazis; Poland; Warsaw; Jews; Polish Jews; Ghettoisation; Ghettoization; Ghetto; Ghettos; Jewish council; Jewish Self-Help; Elderly; Elderly Jews; Old age; Intersectionality; Agency;

    Abstract : In Holocaust research, the study of elderly Jews in Nazi German ghettos remains a blind spot. This thesis begins to fill the research gap by exploring the everyday life of elderly Jews and their agency under the structural conditions of the Warsaw ghetto. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Blue Monkey In Golden Bengal : Understanding the colonial policy and socialconditions of the indigo rebellion’s peasant

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Niazul Islam; [2021]
    Keywords : Indigo Rebellion; Bengal Peasant Rebellion; Bangladesh; British Colonialism; Peasant Rebellion;

    Abstract :  This thesis investigates some social factors that instigated Bengal’s peasants to revolt against theBritish colonial raj repeatedly. The majority of peasant rebellions of Bengal have been examinedfrom the view of political economy, where the general perspective is that peasants revolted becauseof economic exploitations by planters, landlords, and other classes. READ MORE

  6. 5. Critical perspectives: North Sea offshore wind farms. : Oral histories, aesthetics and selected legal frameworks relating to the North Sea.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Joanne Moss; [2021]
    Keywords : Aesthetics; Coastal; Decay; Decommission; Development permission; European Landscape Convention; Fluid dynamics; Horizon; Industrial; Judicial review; Marine management; Maunsell; Monopile; NASA; North Sea; Offshore; Oral history; OSPAR; Scotland; Scour; Sealand; Sea plumes; Seascape; Sediment; SPM; Suspended particulate matter; Transience; Trawler; Turbine; United Kingdom; Wind farm.;

    Abstract : The study is developed from five in-depth interviews with individuals from different walks of life who have interacted significantly with the North Sea. The study discusses change in the North Sea specifically in the development of fixed turbine wind farms and their physical and aesthetic effects. READ MORE