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Opportunities and challenges with the shift to climate-adapted food consumption: Balancing nutrition, climate impact, and acceptance in public and private meals
(2025-04-08)This thesis explores the transition toward climate-adapted food consumption, combining insights from both public and private domains. Through four studies, the thesis investigates the balance between reducing carbon ... -
Antikvariska planeringsunderlag – den byggda miljöns form och uttryck
(2025-04-01)Utgångspunkten för avhandlingen är behovet av antikvariska planeringsunderlag med operativ relevans inom fysisk planering och byggnadsvård med avseende på deras analytiska ändamålsenlighet vid såväl utvärderingen som ... -
Estimating added and free sugars intake in Swedish adolescents - methods, food sources, nutritional implications, and potential food label impact
(2025-03-07)Excessive intakes of added and free sugars are associated with several adverse health effects. However, due to an absence of objective or standardised methods to measure intake, there is limited knowledge about consumption, ... -
Play-Responsive Teaching: Navigating Semiotic Repertoires and Digital Technologies in Early Childhood Education and Care
(2025-02-07)This thesis focuses on teaching in ECEC and how it can be responsive to bi-/multilingual children’s semiotic repertoires and support their participation in activities involving digital technologies. It is grounded in PRECEC ... -
Generationsmötets ambivalenser - Kritiska perspektiv på ålder, tid och rum
(2025-01-30)This thesis examines the production of intergenerational encounters and its function in social life. The aim of this study is to produce knowledge about how municipally arranged intergenerational interventions condition, ... -
Health Promotion in Swedish Schools: Navigating Institutional, Social and Professional landscapes
(2025-01-10)This thesis explores school health promotion (HP) as a set of policy discourses and professional practices embedded in the institutional context of the Swedish school. School settings provide a unique opportunity for HP ... -
Towards State of the Science in Person-Centred Care
(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2024)This report aims to take first steps in reporting the state of the science in person-centered care: an idea focusing on how health professionals, patients and their family carer(s) collaboratively plan and carry out care. ... -
The Quality Dialogue. An Activity-Theoretical Study on Systematic Quality Work in a Municipal Preschool Administration.
(2024-11-14)Quality dialogues have become increasingly common in systematic quality work which is legally mandated by the Swedish Education Act. The present thesis aims to contribute to knowledge on quality dialogues in local education ... -
Att lära om statisk och dynamisk proportionalitet - En studie av den didaktiska transpositionen av svenska matematikuppgifter med proportionalitet
(2024-11-12)The purpose of this study is to shed light on how static and dynamic proportionality is treated by authors of teaching materials, on national tests and by teachers and students in the classroom, as well as how students ... -
Interdisciplinary research and youth sport injury: Developing methodological insights
(2024-10-04)Recognising sport injuries as complex phenomena has urged calls for alternative research approaches to better understand their causes. Instead of adhering to traditional research approaches only, scholars advocate for a ... -
The self in the school context: Mathematics self-concept and self-efficacy in PISA
(2024-09-18)Self-concept and self-efficacy are important constructs in educational psychology, defining an individual’s general perception of their abilities in school subjects and belief in accomplishing specific tasks. These ... -
Doing Knowledge @Scale: Sociomaterial Practices and Professional Learning of Software Developers on Stack Overflow
(2024-09-13)When millions of people gather online to produce and distribute knowledge, the vast digital platforms they use – Facebook, Reddit, X, or the focus of this study, Stack Overflow – become integral to how they learn and work. ... -
Reading and learning from civics textbooks: exploring challenges and opportunities from students’ and teachers’ perspectives
(2024-09-06)Textbooks in civics are one of the main sources of knowledge and a primary instructional tool for teaching civics in Swedish compulsory schools. Given the importance of civics texts for students’ knowledge construction and ... -
Skrivundervisning i svenska som andraspråk inom vuxenutbildning
(2024-09-05)I dagens globaliserade värld är behovet stort för många vuxna att lära sig tala, läsa, skriva och förstå nya språk. För att lära sig svenska, till exempel, erbjuder Sveriges kommuner språkutbildning i form av svenska som ... -
Learning to argue in primary school: A sociocultural study of group discussions with argumentative tasks
(2024-08-30)The learning and development of argumentation as a social practice is considered to be fundamental for living in democratic societies. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the growing literature on children’s ... -
Lärares lärande i gränslandet mellan skolans och vetenskapens praktiker – Aktionsforskning som socialt lärande
(2024-05-23)The study aims at deepening the knowledge about how teachers learn as they collaborate to improve their teaching practices through action research. The research questions are as follows: How does teachers’ professional ... -
Människor och målningar. Inredningsmåleri i hälsingegårdar 1750–1800
(2024-05-13)Hälsingland is a province that historically had no nobility and where farmers were freeholders. From the end of the Middle Ages to the second half of the 19th century, wall and ceiling paintings have been preserved in ... -
Trygga och otrygga platser – en etnografisk studie om våld och utsatthet bland barn i fritidshem
(2024-05-08)Skolvåld förekommer i alla länder och påverkar många barn i deras vardag. Det finns idag en omfattande svensk och internationell forskning om våld i olika skolmiljöer, men få studier som undersöker våld bland barn i ... -
The first Global Conference on Person-Centred Care: Knowledge(s) and Innovations for Health in Changing Societies. Abstract Book
(2024)This is the abstract book for the first Global Conference on Person-Centred Care (GCPCC), taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 13th–16th May, 2024. The conference has been organized by the University of Gothenburg’s ... -
Fundamental Dynamicity – A Metaphysics of Time and Process
(2024-05-02)This book continues a long tradition in philosophy going back to the pre-Socratics, who made a rather simple observation that still holds true today: All things flow. We experience this flow, flux, in abundance: the seasons ...