While traditional readings of Thomas More's Utopia have largely relied upon literal interpretations, and accordingly have emphasized the significance of Utopia as a model of the ideal society, this thesis endeavors to explore beyond the conventional or literal appearance of More's language to consider the possible meanings, intentions, and strategies underlying Utopia's elaborate discourse, concentrating specifically on the significance of More's use of humor and irony and his familiarity with the conventions of satiric fiction.

The premise of this thesis is to show how imperialism is an extension of Ciceronian humanism in More’s Utopia. Core Ciceronian premises, such as rhetoric and the vita activa in relation to imperialism are explored. Cicero called for liberating the barbarians from their savage state by dint of turning them into civic agents that enjoy their legal rights in a civil society by virtue of using rhetoric. Cicero’s vita activa is implemented by practicing philosophy of the vita activa and being active to serve the commonwealth outwardly (other commonwealths). This thesis shows that More’s Utopia is constructed upon Cicero’s ethical man; the Utopians are presented as the best people, for they are morally superior. Consequently, they are the best people to rule other commonwealths (imperialism). This thesis will also show that the ecology in Utopia is colonized and cultivated by the Utopians. The process of cultivation is implemented by virtue of the studia humanitatis and, the ecology is subordinated to the conquerors’ reason, which will be illustrated in this thesis. In addition, this thesis will highlight the similarities between the account of Cicero and More in relation to imperialism and chauvinism. Cicero’s discourse has chauvinism in his depiction of the Gauls and imperialism in his account of Romulus. Similarly, Hythloday’s account of Utopus and the Utopians is imperialistic; Utopia valorizes imperialist rhetoric by justifying seizing the lands of the barbarians under the pretext of civilizing them. This thesis also illustrates how More’s and Cicero’s rhetoric of imperialism corresponds to Herlihy- Mera’s three phases of cultural conquest, namely merchants, military, and politicians.

Denna studie handlar om mellanstadielärares syn på läxor och faktorer som påverkar läxanvändning. Läxor behandlades, inom ramen för denna studie, som något elever skulle göra utanför ordinarie undervisningstid. För att undersöka detta lyftes frågor om läxanvädning i förhållande till olika ämnen, synen på återkoppling av läxor, vilka resurser eleverna hade till förfogande gällande hjälp med läxor samt vad som påverkar icke-användandet av läxor. Detta undersöktes först genom en kvanitativ ansats i form av en enkät som besvarades av 68 respondenter. Vidare utfördes en kvalitativ ansats i form av fördjupade intervjuer med fyra respondenter. Resultatet har analyserats utifrån det sociokulturella perspektivet samt ramfaktorteorin. Redovisningen av resultaten sker i form av tabeller, diagram och citat. Studien visade att läxanvändning var vanligt förekommande på mellanstadiet, främst i matematik, svenska och engelska. Lärarna i studien ansåg att läxor gynnande elevers lärande. Vidare framkom det en medvetenhet hos lärare att elever hade olika resurser till förfogande när det kom till hjälp med läxor hemifrån. För att kompensera detta var lärarledd läxhjälp något som många skolor erbjöd. Det visades dock att olika faktorer påverkade både möjligheten att bedriva läxhjälp samt ifall eleverna utnyttjade den. För de lärare som inte gav ut läxor fanns åsikten om att skolarbete skulle utföras under skoltid. Det framkom att läxor inte längre ansågs som endast ett hemarbete då elever hade möjlighet till hjälp i skolan, efter skoltid, med lärare.

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SkiClicker är en produkt som används inom skiduthyrningar, skidverkstäder och skidbutiker. Verktyget används istället för skidpjäxan för att ställa in skidbindningens storlek. Genom att använda denna produkt kan uthyrningsprocessen bli mer tidseffektiv med anledning av att kunden inte behöver ta av sig en framprovad pjäxa. I och med att skiduthyrningar är en stressig miljö där kunderna är klädda för att vistas utomhus, bidrar SkiClicker till att förbättra denna upplevelse betydligt.  Dock fanns det ingen lösning för att hänga upp verktyget någonstans eller bära med sig det, vilket gör att verktyget måste ligga på bordet.  No More Boots ville därför ta fram ett koncept på ett hölster, för att se hur ett sådant skulle kunna se ut och fungera.   I denna rapport ingår hur produktvecklingsprocessen gått till. Produktutvecklingsprocessen delades i fem olika faser; förstudie, produktspecificering, konceptgenerering, val och detaljkonstruktion. Dessa olika faser ledde fram till resultatet i detta projekt. Resultatet av produktutvecklingsprocessen genererade ett koncept som uppnådde alla kraven och en stor del av önskemålen som sattes upp. Konceptet som togs fram var ett relativt öppet hölster som höll SkiClicker på plats. Hölstret kunde fästas på kroppen med en bälteskrok som även kunde fästas rakt i byxan. På bakkappan av hölstret kunde en penn- och skruvmejselhållare fästas. Till detta kunde även en grund för ett kommande materialval tas fram. Detta kunde till sist resultera i en slutprototyp som fungerade som den slutgiltiga produkten skulle göra och möjliggjorde att No More Boots kunde testa produkten. / SkiClicker is a product used in ski rentals, ski workshops and ski shops. SkiClicker is used instead of a ski boot to set in ski bindings size. By using this product the rental process can become much more time efficient due to that an extra take off and putting on of the ski boot is removed. Since ski rentals are a stressful environment where you wear a lot of clothes indoors, SkiClicker contributes to that the ski rental experience being a lot better. However, there was no solution for hanging the tool anywhere or carrying it with you, which meant that the tool had to lie on the table. No More Boots therefore wanted to develop a concept on a holster, to see how a holster could look like and how it would work. This report includes how the product development process went. The product development process was divided into 5 phases; feasibility study, product specification, concept generation, selection and detailed design. These different phases led to the result in this project. The result of the product development process generated a concept that met all the requirements and a large part of the wishes that were set up. The concept that was developed was an open holster that held the SkiClicker in a good way. This could be attached to the body with a belt clip that also could be attached directly to the pants. A pen and screwdriver hold was applied to the back cover of the holster. In addition, a basis for a future choice of material was also developed. This finally result in a final prototype that worked as the final product would do and made it possible for No More Boots to test the product. / <p>Betyg 2021-07-16</p>

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Dénonciation passionnée d'un capitalisme naissant, L'Utopie est aussi une critique radicale du communisme d'État, qui, si religieux qu'il se veuille, n'y subsiste que par la répression, au-dedans, et le cynisme, au dehors. L'Utopie regorge de tout ce que « socialisme » put jamais connoter de militantisme valable : d'un côté, de sages réformes; de l'autre, pour en grandir l'urgence, la menace brandie de l'inquiétante alternative: le communisme, remède pire que le mal. Dénonciation passionnée d'un capitalisme adulte, le socialisme de Tillich est également une critique radicale d'un socialisme a-religieux. Théologien de la culture, qui discerne le fonds religieux latent sous des formes anti-religieuses, Tillich trouve chez Marx des valeurs qu'il intègre à son socialisme religieux : à la lutte anti-capitaliste menée par le prolétaire, ce “combattant du royaume de Dieu”, il donne un but religieux, auquel s'adapteront les moyens. Théologien avant tout, Tillich motive en profondeur la phronêsis qu'un More versé en politique exerce en plénitude.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 DISSERTAÇÃO PRONTA - FLÁVIO (1).pdf: 610182 bytes, checksum: 1d0c10e425dbd05ede7da373f2b5b2ce (MD5) ficha catalográfica dissertação - Santana, Flavio.pdf: 5148 bytes, checksum: cdaa409c6dbc6f9ac2ee0e335c558278 (MD5) / Esta dissertação – A relação entre o programa Mais Educação e o Manifesto dos Pioneiros da Educação Nova: nexos e determinações de duas proposições liberais – tem como objetivo geral analisar os fundamentos teóricos e pedagógicos do Programa Mais Educação a partir das relações e nexos entre as formulações de John Dewey (1930) e do Manifesto dos Pioneiros da Educação Nova (1932), procurando mostrar a função social da escola capitalista daí decorrente. Como aporte teórico, para elaboração deste trabalho, foram considerados alguns dos pressupostos da evolução histórica das concepções pedagógicas no Brasil, haja vista termos hoje a caracterização do Programa Mais Educação como uma medida educacional comprometida com a reprodução e disseminação dos valores pertencentes a institucionalidade democrática burguesa neoliberal. O corpus básico a ser analisado compõe-se de três Referenciais: os cadernos de Pressupostos para Projetos Pedagógicos de Educação Integral do Programa Mais Educação (“Programa Mais Educação: passo a passo”; “Programa Mais Educação: gestão intersetorial no município”; “Educação Integral: texto referência para o debate nacional”; “Programa Mais Educação: gestão intersetorial no território”; “Rede de Saberes Mais Educação: pressupostos para projetos pedagógicos de Educação Integral”), os documentos do Manifesto dos Pioneiros da Educação Nova (1932) e a concepção de Educação Integral defendida por Dewey (1930). Assim, a metodologia de análise foi documental, permitindo a realização das comparações necessárias sobre as semelhanças e os possíveis distanciamentos das propostas educacionais. A análise dos documentos possibilitou afirmar que há relevantes relações entre os mesmos, mas, estes apresentam contradições, vistas através do fato de sua concepção de educação integral está vinculada aos interesses burgueses de incutir os valores democráticos liberais e neoliberais. / ABSTRACT This dissertation - The relationship between the program More Education and the Manifesto of the Pioneers of the New Education: nexuses and two liberal propositions determinations - has as main objective to analyze the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of the More Education Program from the relationships and connections between the formulations John Dewey (1930) and the Manifesto of the Pioneers of the New Education (1932), trying to show the social function of the capitalist school would entail. As a theoretical basis for preparation of this work were considered some of the assumptions of the historical development of pedagogical concepts in Brazil, given today under the characterization of the More Education Program as a committed educational measure with the reproduction and dissemination of the values belonging to bourgeois democratic institutions neoliberal. The basic corpus to be analyzed consists of three benchmarks: the assumptions of notebooks for Integral Education Pedagogic Projects More Education Program: "More Education Program: step by step"; "More Education Program: intersectoral management in the municipality", "Integral Education: reference text for national debate"; "More Education Program: intersectoral management in the territory"; "Knowledge Network More Education: assumptions for educational projects of Integral Education" the Manifesto of the documents of the Pioneers of the New Education (1932) and the design of Integral Education advocated by Dewey (1930). Thus, the analysis methodology was documentary, allowing making the necessary comparisons of the similarities and the possible distances of educational proposals. The analysis of the documents made it possible to state that there are significant relationships between same, but these contradictions have seen through the fact that his conception of integral education is linked to the bourgeois interests of instilling liberal and neo-liberal democratic values

This thesis focuses on the interspecies relationships of care in the Hambach Forest, Germany. It covers the caring relations between the human activists protecting the Forest by occupying it and the trees growing there. The text covers the affectionate dimension of the activists’ caring relation towards the trees as well as how the caring manifested in their attentiveness and actions. Apart from the traditional ethnographic methods, the research is rooted in multispecies methodology, particularly plant ethnography. As primary theoretical frameworks, the concepts of more-than human sociality and world-making by Anna Tsing were used, as well as the understanding of the interspecies ethics of care by Puig de la Bellacasa. The analysis shows that the caring relationship of the activists was often rooted in the situated relationality that emerges from particular relations with particular trees or other nonhumans. As a navigating tool, activists sometimes used also the nature-culture dichotomy, and sometimes they, on the contrary, contested it. I show that relationships of care were mutual and occurred in the direction from activists to the trees but also that the trees and Forest took care of many activists’ needs. I also demonstrate how the trees and other nonhumans actively participated in the processes of co-creating the more-than-human sociality in the Forest. The analysis shows that the activists’ behaviour was not always coherent or determined by the same values but was often ambivalent and changing depending on the situation.