Essays about: "place"

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1. 1. GARDEN-BASED LEARNING IN A REGGIO EMILIA INSPIRED SWEDISH PRESCHOOL WITH A PERMACULTURE GARDEN A case study

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

   Author : Kathleen Kölz; [2022-02-13]
   Keywords : garden-based learning; Swedish preschool; case study; preschool garden; Reggio Emilia; permaculture garden;

   Abstract : Aim: This study aims to get an in-depth understanding of the characteristics of the garden and garden-based learning in an educational environment of a Swedish preschool that is inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach and has a permaculture garden. Theory: Social constructivism has been adopted as the theoretical framework for this study to gain an understanding of learning processes in the environment of a preschool. READ MORE

3. 2. Looking into the black box: The roles of development workers in enhancing climate resilience and gender equality for ethnic minority women through the EmPower project in Vietnam

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Hong Hanh Nguyen; [2022-01-18]
   Keywords : feminist political ecology; development workers; climate change; gender equality; ethnic minorities; Vietnam;

   Abstract : The climate change-gender nexus has increasingly become the arena in which adaptation interventions take place. One such intervention is the EmPower program in the Asia-Pacific region by UN Women and UNEP. This research is a case study on how one program component on women’s renewable energy entrepreneurship is implemented in Vietnam. READ MORE

4. 3. Exploring Naturmolnet’s qualities that promote well-being in the public place : pocket parks for a better urban life?

   University essay from SLU/Department of People and Society

   Author : Rebeca Paolini Madrid; [2022]
   Keywords : pocket parks; public place; well-being; restorative environments; perceived sensory dimensions; social connection; culture; community garden; urban green spaces;

   Abstract : Green public places are in constant threat due to city development and densification. For the benefit of the urban dwellers and the environment, it is important to the development, accessibility, and quality design of public places. READ MORE

5. 4. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
   Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

   Abstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE

6. 5. “Is it a sin against God to be poor?” : Marxist and Pedagogical Perspectives on Oppressive Ideologies in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and its Potential for Teaching Critical Thinking.

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Sofia Schalander; [2022]
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   Abstract : In this essay, I have analysed the novel Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler through a Marxist lens to investigate how ideological oppression is depicted through Capitalism and religion. To examine these ideologies, I analysed Lauren Olamina, the first-person narrator and her half-brother, Keith. READ MORE