Essays about: "contact with the outside world"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words contact with the outside world.

  1. 1. Movement towards socioecological change: The case of Ecosomatics

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Wilma Lagerman; [2024-03-19]
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    Abstract : Several scholars both within and outside the field of human ecology argue that the perceptual human-nature divide contributes profoundly to patterns of unsustainability and weak sustainability visible in the world today. Deliberately engaging in conscious bodily-felt contact with the natural environment is suggested to uncover appropriate, embodied angles to approaching ecology and the environmental crisis. READ MORE

  3. 2. GOVERNANCE BEYOND BORDERS The Extraterritorial Reach of OECD National Contact Points for Responsible Business Conduct

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Mirja Sund; [2023-06-20]
    Keywords : Business and human rights; Non-judicial mechanisms; Extraterritoriality; OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; OECD National Contact Points;

    Abstract : As increasingly powerful actors in a globalised world, multinational corporations are often able to evade responsibility for human rights violations and other misconduct occurring in their own operations or supply chains. Since courts face limitations when attempting to exert jurisdiction outside of their state territories, state-based non-judicial mechanisms such as the OECD National Contact Points (NCPs) have been established to fill this gap by mediating between corporations and victims of corporate human rights abuses with the aim of providing remedy to the latter. READ MORE

  4. 3. Att vara och verka på en plats : en studie om små livsmedelsföretagare i Falköpings kommun

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Kristina Isaksson; [2023]
    Keywords : företagande; livsmedelsföretag; nätverk; plats; platsidentitet;

    Abstract : I denna uppsats undersöks små livsmedelsföretagare på landsbygden och deras relation till plats och nätverk. Studien utgörs av fyra kvalitativa intervjuer med små livsmedelsföretagare i Falköpings kommun. READ MORE

  5. 4. Emergency Distance Teaching during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic : Narratives from upper secondary school teachers in Sweden

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap (HV)

    Author : Maria von Zweigbergk; [2021]
    Keywords : Emergency Distance Teaching; Distance Education; Covid-19 pandemic; Teacher-Student relationship; Connectedness; School management; Transdisciplinary;

    Abstract : Background: In March 2020, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, suddenly and completely unexpected, governments worldwide replaced face-to-face education with emergency distance teaching. Studies showed that students and teachers, in general, had been negatively affected by the strategy. READ MORE

  6. 5. STUDENTS PERSPECTIVE ON SHIFTING FROM ON-CAMPUS TO DIGITAL EDUCATION : A qualitative study on the effects of the unexpected change from on-campus to digital education from Malmö university systems development students perspective

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS)

    Author : Adam Joulak; Ali Menhem; [2021]
    Keywords : Online Education; Digital Learning; Pandemic; Corona virus;

    Abstract : Context: The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in many changes in education, and it is reasonable to expect that this change would have a significant effect on students. According to government recommendations, many educational institutions around the world have temporarily switched to online learning methods to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE