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  1. 1. Outdoor Education: Opportunities, Challenges & Teacher Competencies – A Perspective on how to Teach in Nature

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för biologi och miljö (BOM)

    Author : Jonathan Ståhlberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Outdoor education; Teacher Competencies; Education; Biology teaching; Framework factors; Learning by Senses; Collegial Competencies;

    Abstract : For the last forty years outdoor education has been investigated all around the globe. Despite intense research initiative, studies have been lacking regarding what teacher competencies are beneficial for successful outdoor education. READ MORE

  3. 2. Coming of age in Victorian America : challenging gender roles in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Lina Killmer; [2021]
    Keywords : Gender roles; feminist criticism; femininity; nineteenth-century literature; coming of age; Little Women; domesticity;

    Abstract : This essay argues that Little Women does not promote breaking stereotypical gender norms and nineteenth century gender roles, contrary to what several critics say. This paper will be using feminist criticism and analyzing two of the novel’s main characters, Meg and Jo, and examining their behavior towards stereotypical gender norms and rules. READ MORE

  4. 3. Creating Character: Romeo, Juliet and didactic challenges with improvised modern scenes

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för de humanistiska och samhällsvetenskapliga ämnenas didaktik

    Author : Clara Hultgren; [2020]
    Keywords : Character work; drama; didactic challenges; Shakespeare; English as second additional language;

    Abstract : This essay describes an action research project conducted twice in the same high school with second year students within the subject English. Students are often unwilling or unable to relate to Shakespeare and his language. It is boring, they say. It is difficult, inaccessible and has nothing to do with us, they say. READ MORE

  5. 4. An argument for a postcolonial canon of literature for upper-secondary schools in multicultural Sweden : Course book analysis and didactic questions regarding the teaching of literature in the English subject

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Andreas Signell; [2016]
    Keywords : Postcolonialism; canon; didactics; multiculturalism; syllabus;

    Abstract : This essay investigates the possibility of a postcolonial canon of literature for upper-secondary schools in multicultural Sweden. It uses an in depth course book analysis as a basis for looking at didactic questions regarding the teaching of postcolonial literature. READ MORE

  6. 5. Transgression and Tradition : Redefining Gender Roles in Elizabeth Gaskell´s North and South

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Anna Algotsson; [2015]
    Keywords : North and South; Elizabeth Gaskell; Victorian women; gender norms; transgression; gender spheres;

    Abstract : This essay argues that Elizabeth Gaskell challenges the limiting gender roles of the Victorian era through giving her heroine, Margaret Hale in North and South, both the traditionally female qualities of virtue and selflessness and the traditionally masculine qualities of independence and action. The essay also argues that Gaskell’s heroine balances between the feminine and the masculine world as to not appear “unwomanly”, but rather subtly influencing the readers and calls for changing gender norms. READ MORE