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Integrering av historia i fysikundervisningen har undersökts länge och i stor omfattning internationellt. Det finns ett brett stöd för att det kan ha många önskvärda effekter på elevers lärande och motivation. Denna positiva bild verkar inte delas helt av fysiklärare och det framkommer att det finns många utmaningar med att integrera fysikhistoria i undervisningen. Syftet med denna uppsats var attIntegration of history of physics (HOP) in the teaching of physics has been studied for a long time and to a great extent. There is a widespread support of the fact that history of physics can have many desirable effects on students learning and motivation. This positive picture is seemingly not shared completely among physic teachers and to implement history to the physics classroom has been show

The following thesis examines two responses to processes of social change within the small town of Vellinge in the province of Scania, Sweden. The experiences of change within the town appear in the guise of two contradicting narratives – one of the town’s progress and the other of its decline – which I aim to approximate from nine in-depth interviews with eight inhabitants conducted in two cycles

Målet är att undersöka hur en ökad installation av solceller kommer att påverka lågspänningsnätet. Öresundskraft efterfrågade en rapport som undersöker framtida problem i deras nät när solcellssystem installeras i större omfattning. Scenarion där olika procentantal kunder i lågspänningsnätet installerar solceller har analyserats och simulerats. Två olika lågspänningsnät har används, ett område på

This ethnographic study investigates the functions of BestFighter Muay Thai and Mixed Martial Arts training camp in Koh Samui, Thailand, as a successful actor in a booming self-improvement economy. In this thesis I explore the entanglements with locality and power which enable what satisfied participants refer to as augmented experiences of self-improvement. Combining theoretical concepts such as

My research thesis is a search for a place to be, a place that would make the city an easier place to live and experience, when we are either constantly surrounded by a tumultuous public or isolated at home. My search has led me to define a place that could provide simultaneously Space and Time to bridge what is missing in both the public and the private. What is there left, not linked to commerc

Since carbon-emitting energy sources are the largest contributor to global warming and climate change, this present paper attempts to contribute to the current debate in energy-growth nexus in the literature. Focusing on the case of Turkey, it seeks to find out whether or not switching to a low-carbon path will be beneficial for this fastest-growing OECD economy by investigating the relationship b

YouTube is today one of the most popular video hosting services on the Internet. With over a billion users all over the world it is an immensely active website. It is also a major platform for video content creators also referred to as YouTubers. These YouTubers, through their practice of content creating, can be said to be the heart and soul of this website. However, very little seems to be known

Although there is a well-researched theoretical tradition to explain institutional trust, very little research has been done in authoritarian countries in general, and MENA countries more specifically. This study aims to fill this gap in the literature by identifying the factors that explain institutional trust in Algeria, focused more specifically on Algeria’s armed forces as one of the powerbrok

This pre- and post-measure interventional study attempted to create a positive attitude shift in environmental attitudes of 80 students using the choice blindness (CB) manipulation. It is a novel approach that first manipulates the participants’ answers and secondly asks the subjects to justify the answer they did not choose, to elicit attitude change. The second condition utilised a persuasive te

Denna magisteruppsats inom översättarutbildningen bygger på min översättning till svenska av en skönlitterär text skriven av den italienske författaren Giorgio Bassani. Uppsatsen inleds med en presentation av författaren och hans verk och följs av en källtextanalys som följer valda delar av Hellspong och Ledin, Vägar genom texten (1997). Därefter kommer mina överväganden inför översättningen och k

Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) are often used in sunscreen and other cosmetic products with sun protection. They are also candidate to be used for various biological applications such as drug delivery, or in material science in for example solar cells. ZnO NPs are produced as liquid suspensions but also as dry powders, which increases the risk of exposure via the air. In this master’s thesis,

This paper explores discourses about European colonialism and particularly Sweden's colonial legacy in Swedish upper secondary school history textbooks. All three textbooks are currently in use and are based on the latest school curricula from 2011. The theoretical framework used to analyze the textbooks consists of post-colonial feminist theories combined with a post structuralist perspective

Rave parties are referring to legal, illegal and semi-legal dance parties organized in various venues with the main focus on electronic dance music (EDM) performed by the DJ. These types of parties are typically described through strong community ties, which form the rave culture, and demolition of hierarchal structures among the participants, which allows the transgressive force to exist in this

Trait perfectionism has been linked with repetitive negative cognitions, which have been shown to influence psychological distress. This study examined if experiencing evaluation threat in the form of a demanding scholarship status will have any impact on the relationships between these factors. Sixty-seven (67.2% female) university students filled out self-report questionnaires on perfectionism,