Dialogue-based peer learning of educational topics in a university classroom
Journal Name: Learning and TeachingVolume: 13Issue: 2Pages: 41-61
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Journal Name: Learning and TeachingVolume: 13Issue: 2Pages: 41-61
Journal Name: Learning and TeachingVolume: 13Issue: 2Pages: 62-84
Journal Name: Learning and TeachingVolume: 13Issue: 2Pages: 85-101
The focus of this article is the work of photographer Gunnar Lundh, specifically the works collectively known as the statare photographs, images of rural contract labourers (or statare) that form part of a collection donated to the Nordic Museum in 196…
No matter how well documented a life is, only shards, bits and pieces remain of what was once a vibrant person, with purpose, memories, feelings, actions and ideas. For any historian, these slivers are what remains and what can be used to access a p…
This study contributes to a growing number of critical studies of reading that are seeking to understand how reading is constructed socially and politically. It addresses issues concerning why certain types of reading are deemed more appropriate than o…
Contemporary spiritualties are often portrayed as a turn to a subjective and individualized form of religion, consisting of individually held truth claims or private peak experiences that are generated sporadically at retreats and workshops. The portra…
Recent media studies in Europe have stressed the importance of studying socie- ties’ negotiations on migration and the ability of migrants and other ethnic minorities to participate in these processes. Social media platforms have been widely praised fo…
Frédéric PRÉCIGOUT, 2019, Logiques des peurs alimentaires, Perspectives ethnosociologiques. Paris : L’Harmattan, Coll. Questions alimentaires et gastronomiques. 352p.
Le sujet des peurs alimentaires est inépuisable; sans cesse réitéré, de …
2020-05-26 – No matter how well documented a life is, only shards, bits and pieces remain of what w…
2020-05-26 – Karl Gösta Gilstring’s folklore collection is the largest made by a single Nordic …
2020-05-26 – In Sweden, leisure time and outdoor activities were important parts of the 1930s welfa…
In Sweden, leisure time and outdoor activities were important parts of the 1930s welfare society. The aim of this study is to examine the usefulness of some different source categories in the Nordic Museum’s collections and to complement representation…
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This paper’s point of departure is that historic silences are socially constructed and culturally productive, and that photographs in archives participate in the creation of historical silences despite, or maybe thanks to, their convincing depicting qu…
This article focuses on archival collections relating to so-called “tattare” and “zigenare” (roughly translated as “tinkers” and “gypsies”) created by Swedish folklore scholars during the twentieth century, and how these scholars influenced politics an…
Based on Gunnar Lundh’s photographs from the period 1920-1960, this article aims to discuss how a visualisation of children and childhood in cultural history collections can be addressed. This period is known as the time when the Swedish welfare state …
The aim of this article is to shed some light on the situation that occurs when scholarly knowledge, once highly valued, is successively undermined, while elements of the same learning live on as attractive resources to other stakeholders. More accurat…
This article is rooted in an understanding of talent as something you do rather than something you either are or have. Talent is hereby seen as a phenomenon that comes into being through actions, rather than as an individualized, inherent capacity. Our…
This article describes and problematizes the skills that are used when researching analogue archives. The article deals with the process that operates when a researcher finds small details in archival records that makes it possible to generate a story….
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Karl Gösta Gilstring’s folklore collection is the largest made by a single Nordic researcher in modern times. The basis for the collection was the network of approximately 700 informants with whom Gilstring corresponded. In this article, the empirical …
The scope of the review is all doctoral theses that exist on Laestadius and the Laestadian movement. A total of 31 doctoral theses on Laestadius and the Laestadian movment are included in this review.The Laestadian movement is an international on…
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Review of Anne Heith’s Laestadius and Laestadianism in the Contested Field of Cultural Heritage: A Study of Contemporary Sámi and Tornedalian Texts (Umeå University, 2018).