The English language holds a powerful role world-wide and is now used in some domains in Sweden. This has caused concern for the future of the Swedish language and whether or nor diglossia is underway. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate if there are differences in the attitudes towards the increasing use of English in Swedish society between two different populations of upper-secondary school students: a) students who attend the International Baccalaureate Programme (whose medium of instruction is English), and b) students who attend the Social Science Programme (whose medium of instruction is Swedish). The study investigates students’ pattern and language use and attitudes through the use of questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and reflective journals. The results show that the IB pupils are somewhat less positively disposed towards the increased influence of the English language in Swedish society and argue that it might pose a threat to the status of the Swedish language. However, the investigation also discloses that most IB pupils, to a much larger extent than the SP pupils, consider English paramount in order to succeed in today’s society. Furthermore, the results indicate that the IB pupils’ attitudes towards the expansion of the English language in Swedish society largely correspond to the main objective of Mål i mun, i.e. to protect the Swedish language as well as promote the English language. Key words: diglossia, domain, language shift, attitudes, semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, reflective journals

This action research study investigated the effects of using science journals to promote science writing and to investigate changes in student attitudes in a second grade inquiry-based science class. This was an action research study in which qualitative and quantitative data was collected. The data was collected using science journals, pre and post inventories, field notes, teacher observations, videotaped science inquiry lessons, and surveys. The students demonstrated a true fondness for journal writing and expressed interest in continued use. After concluding this action research study, I better understand the benefits of utilizing journal writing to enhance my teaching of the science curriculum as well as the other disciplines I facilitate.

Yes / Students of education encounter a range of pedagogies yet how future teachers’ appropriate moral principles are little understood. We conducted an investigation into this process with 10 international students of education attending an intensive course on ‘dialogic pedagogy’ in a university in Finland. The data comprising student learning journals and essays were coded for the level of questioning, acceptance and irreverence. In the findings, reverential acceptance was more frequent than questioning and irreverence; however, our qualitative analysis also found a large number of micro-transitions between questioning, acceptance and irreverence suggesting a dynamic interplay. Recognising this vacillation as part of a moral journey may support better understanding of what it means to engage with a different pedagogy.

This study was designed to explore written responses of dialogue journals in a fourth-grade social studies classroom to better understand individuals' meaning-making responses during content-based lessons. The Transactional Theory of Literacy acknowledges that readers generate individualized experiences as they transact with literacy. Although Rosenblatt focused explicitly on the transactions readers make with text, this study expands the idea of these transactions to the more current, unbounded definition of text. Writing could be the tool used for students to record these transactions that lead to their continuously changing, individualized understandings. Through journals, students conversed with one another using written dialogue in the continued generation or restructuring of existing understandings in response to exposure of a content-specific text. The following research questions were addressed in the study: How do written responses of fourth-grade students made in dialogue journals express students' understandings of content-based lessons? 2) To what extent do dialogue journals motivate students in content-based lessons? Analysis of dialogue journals showed evidence of varying levels of understanding, the effective use of journals as a communication tool, and differences in statement types depending on journal audience and content materials used. The MUSIC Model Inventory (Jones, 2009) used to assess perceptions of motivational constructs related to use of dialogue journals in social studies lessons yielded positive results for all constructs measured. Therefore, the results of the study including word count findings, qualitative journal analysis, and observational files clearly showed evidence of dialogue journals being a motivating way of having students express their understandings of content-based texts. / Ph. D.

This disseratition copes with a actual and controversly discussed topic. It is a compilation and knowledgable discussion of central analyses concerning the journals crisis with special regard to electronic publishing as well as initiatives of the open access, selfarchiving and preprint server community. It serves as a source of contributions of different actors in the market for electronic scholarly information, being commercial or uncommercial publishers, scholarly societies, libraries, etc.

This dissertation examines the interaction between Mexican intellectuals and the Soviet Union through the lens of editorial practices in the aftermath of World War II (1944-1958). It focuses on the role of the Mexican journals Cultura Soviética (1944-1955) and Intercambio Cultural (1955-1958) in the cultural context of the first stage of the Cold War in Latin America. These journals were the official monthly publications of the Mexican-Russian Institute of Cultural Exchange, a non-profit civil society that presented itself and its journals as a tool for strengthening cultural relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union. The institution’s directors were such influential intellectuals as Victor Manuel Villaseñor, Luis Cháves Orozco, José Mancisidor, and Diego Rivera over the years. Luis Córdova and Efraín Huerta coordinated Cultura Soviética and Intercambio Cultural, respectively. An enormous group of collaborators from the fields of literature, science, the arts, and politics participated in their projects. Thus, the dissertation traces the trajectory of Cultura Soviética and Intercambio Cultural as collective textual productions: the debates and controversies they engaged in, their relationships with other journals, and the political and aesthetic contexts in which they were immersed. It reconstructs the discursive universe of Cultura Soviética and Intercambio Cultural to inscribe them into their social, political, and cultural conflict. It analyzes how its content is technically structured to produce meaning and create a discourse. The dissertation studies what became known in the journals as “Soviet culture,” how these publications promoted and defended the peace movement in Mexico, and how this movement was connected to the Stalin cult, particularly from 1947 to 1953. Since the journals adopted the national optic promoted by the Soviet Stalinist rhetoric—patriotic pride, the right to national self-determination, but within a plurinational socialist scope with a solid and indisputable center, Russia—they gave rise, in practice, to the parallel exaltation of two national mythologies: the Russian and the Mexican. In synthesis, this dissertation explores Mexico’s national cultural debates in their relationship with international ideological struggles, emphasizing the Cold War as a determining factor in shaping these intellectual exchanges. It highlights the role of journals in the circulation of ideas within transnational contexts. It contributes to the ongoing discussion on the importance of the journal genre in studying material culture and social processes. In particular, the study demonstrates that Cultura Soviética and Intercambio Cultural were pioneering tools of the Soviet cultural and diplomatic offensive launched in the first stage of the Cold War in Latin America, laying the foundation for the pro-Soviet cultural front in the region. It shows how the network of its Mexican collaborators and leaders constantly adapted to the ups and downs of Moscow’s politics. Even though these Mexican intellectuals were part of different national political projects within the Mexican left wing and occasionally at odds with each other, their writings blended well with the overarching nationalist narrative that considered the Mexican Revolution a grounding phenomenon in search of a future socialist State. Finally, data collection and presentation in the annexes complement the analysis and research work. The appendices present, in a descriptive and orderly manner, information that is difficult to obtain elsewhere to which the dissertation constantly refers: The Institute’s complete list of publications since its foundation (Appendix I), and the indexes of the journals Cultura Soviética (Appendix II) and Intercambio Cultural (Appendix III). / 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z

Cette étude analyse l'accueil et l'usage par les professeurs des universités libyennes des périodiques électroniques et des archives ouvertes. Ainsi, elle a pour objectif d'identifier la relation entre, d’un côté, l’usage des périodiques électroniques et des archives ouvertes et, de l’autre, certains facteurs déterminants des conditions sociodémographiques comme le sexe, le domaine de recherche, l’âge et les années d’exercice.Cela se situe dans un contexte particulier à un pays arabe, pays en voie de développement dont l’environnement sociopolitique constitue, à notre sens, une véritable contrainte objective.Afin de répondre à notre problématique, nous avons été amenés naturellement à l’utilisation de la méthode quantitative par questionnaire. Dès lors, 359 professeurs,répartis sur cinq disciplines, ont répondu à nos questionnements.Il était donc question de comprendre la relation entre la discipline que les enseignants universitaires libyens exercent et leur usage des TIC, les préférences des utilisateurs de périodiques électroniques, leur attitude vis-à-vis des inconvénients et avantages de celles-ci,la connaissance des utilisateurs concernant le libre accès et enfin l'état de l'art sur les bénéfices des sources en libre accès.Enfin, les résultats de cette étude réactualisent nos connaissances sur les pratiques enseignantes des professeurs libyens et débouchent sur des applications intéressantes. / This study analyses mind agreement and use of electronic journals and open archivesmade by Libyan universities teachers. So, it aims identification of relationship between, onone hand, the use of electronic journals and open archives and, on second hand, any very important factors, and parts from socio-demographic conditions as gender, Research domain, age and number of practice years.It was developed in a particular context, i.e. in an Arabic country, in way of development, in which socio-politic environment is constitutive, as we think, of a true limiting factor.In the aim of giving answers to this problem, we naturally were led to use quantitative method based on questionnaire. So, 359 teachers, scattered on five disciplines,gave answers to our questionnaire.So, the subject was to understand relationship between the specialty that Libyan university teachers are operating in and their use of TIC, the preferences of electronic journals users, their comportments when encountering any advantages or disadvantages of these journals they use, the users knowledge about open access, and, last topic, the state of the art about benefits due to open access sources. Finally, the results of this study give us new and recent knowledge on teaching practices of Libyan University teachers and open on interesting appliances.

Diploma thesis "Magazines dedicated to golf issues" is devoted to questions of publishing golf magazines in former Czechoslovakia and in the Czech Republic. The key aim of this work is based on detailed mapping of all journals devoted to this issue in the period since the establishment of Czechoslovakia until year 2011. This work records the detailed historical development of golf in the Czech Republic, points out all problems that hit the golf during 20th century. Single chapters are devoted to all golf journals which had been published in former Czechoslovakia and ones which have been published in the Czech Republic. Significant space is devoted to magazines Slovanský golf and Sportovní Revue which were published during the First republic era. Further chapters mention post-war periodicals, and the last part of this work includes all golf magazines, which have been published after the Velvet revolution.

The current global formation, characterised by a burgeoning knowledge economy alongside widespread social discontent and economic upheaval, situates the study of knowledge production in the field of community psychology at a timely socio-historical juncture. Community psychology has a long-standing tradition of introspection about its identity, achievements and future direction, established historically through the analysis of published work. This research engages with this tradition, foregrounding the intellectual role and social position of scholars in the field, and the tensions that are collectively evident their work. The study critically appraises the characteristics of published work over a decade with a view to distilling the topics of interest, the preferred methodological choices and the predominant theoretical concerns of the sub-discipline of community psychology. The study employs a mixed methodology to highlight patterns of dominance and marginality in these elements that situates South African scholarship in the field within the global arena. The study presents a content analysis of trends in 2 229 published articles drawn from two local South African journals (South African Journal of Psychology and Psychology in Society) and four international journals (American Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology and Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community) that were published between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2009. Among the variables investigated in the quantitative data analysis were constitutive of the authorship characteristics, publication types, topics, theoretical choices, research methods and participant characteristics appearing in published work, including the representation of marginalised groups. The discursive analysis that follows, presents an in-depth reading of selected texts drawn from this dataset though the use of a critical discursive frame to illustrate of how power and the tensions between dominant narratives and marginal positions in community psychology manifest in published work. This serves to foreground contradictions in the identity, values and foci of the field, and some of the discourses implicated in how these disparities are perpetuated. The thesis contends that knowledge production is a contested site where attention to patterns of dominance and marginality reveal how the workings of power can be detected using both quantitative and qualitative analytic methods to investigate the state of published work. Though vastly different in the quantity of publications generated, and the field’s stage of development, the theoretical and methodological features of articles published internationally and in South Africa were remarkably alike. Across both contexts, results showed the prominent use of preventionist, traditional and ecological theories, rather than critical or social perspectives. This reveals the pervasive influence of biomedical epistemologies in the field. Authors were primarily located in academia rather than in applied community contexts. They published empirical articles most often, and showed an affinity for positivist research approaches and the survey method of data collection. The use of a critical paradigm and associated methodological choices, such as discourse analysis, was rare. Most studies did not focus specifically on marginalised groups, although the presence of forms of structural marginality by race, gender and socio-economic status were similarly proportionate across local and international research. Results suggest a persistent neglect of researching specific marginalised groups, such as those socially excluded due to age, HIV status, migration and sexual orientation. Differences across contexts were especially evident in the choice of research topics, rather than approaches used. On the whole, international research has a much greater emphasis on research topics related to child, youth and family development. Findings suggest that disciplinary forces in the field heavily influence the form of articles and their theoretical and methodological features, across local and international research. However, journal topics are more context-sensitive aspects of publications, and reflect local concerns. In addition to publication trends, the thesis identifies several discourses present in published work that show how the field is constructed and its ideological tensions. The thesis considers these findings in view of the power relations they represent and critically reflects on the intrinsic and extrinsic issues at stake in defining the field of community psychology in light of global knowledge production imperatives.

In the 1700’s, natural history played an essential part in constructing the western view of the east and its inhabitants. Based on this assumtion, the primary aim of this study has been to examine how two of Carl Linaeus’ apostles (Petrus Forsskål and Fredric Hasselquist) wrote about their specific cultural encounters while travelling.   In its essence, the results of the study has been that Mary Louise Pratts  previous writings are applicable also on the travel writings of Forsskål och Hasselquist. Altough with a few significant deviations. For example it seems that the apostles considered the native history more relevant than what Pratts theory would give them credit for.