Essays about: "the ecology of language"

Showing result 11 - 14 of 14 essays containing the words the ecology of language.

  1. 11. Ethics Naturalized : Naturalism as Explanatory Structure in Metaethics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Jerker Karlsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Ethics; Evolution; Emotivism; Metaethics; Naturalism; Moral Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate what implications a naturalized account of metaethics could have for our understanding of ethics and to advance a type of ethical naturalism that is non-reductionist. During the course of the study several different approaches to metaethics are investigated and critically evaluated, before a positive account of ethical naturalism is delivered. READ MORE

  3. 12. Locally valued habitats, species and sites and their significance for collaborative land use planning around Manusela National Park, Central Seram Island, Moluccas, Indonesia

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

    Author : Anna Karlsson; [2011]
    Keywords : East Indonesia; local people; perception; participation; collaborative land use planning;

    Abstract : When new land use policies are made, opinions of stakeholders need to be taken in account, to avoid future conflicts. The motivations of commercial enterprises are often clear and easily communicated but due to inaccessibility and language barriers the indigenous people’s perspectives and needs are harder to reveal. READ MORE

  4. 13. The Lecture Environment and its Affordances : Student Teachers' Perspectives on the Meaningfulness of the Lecture Form

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Author : John Carter; [2008]
    Keywords : Media – Affordance – Meaning – Ecology – Lecture – Culture - Rhetoric;

    Abstract : Contemporary higher education seems to be moving away from the lecture form and being replaced by student-centered education. This study attempts to ascertain in what ways student teachers experience the lecture as a meaningful educational form. READ MORE

  5. 14. Investigating conditions for transfer of learning in an outdoor experiential study abroad program

    University essay from Estetiska institutionen

    Author : Michael Laden Anderson; [2006]
    Keywords : Transfer of learning; outdoor education; experiential learning; culture and ecology; study abroad; Thailand;

    Abstract : The purpose of the study was to investigate how teaching for transfer of learning was built into a month-long outdoor experiential education course within a semester long study abroad program and to address the extent to which student perception of learning gains could be transferred for use in future courses and for later in life. From a program planning and evaluation perspective it was also important to determine what types of activities and experiences within the course were instrumental in helping students to develop concepts and skills that could be transferred to life after the course. READ MORE