42 research outputs found
ADHD en social konstruktion - en diskursanalys om hur ADHD beskrivs och talas om i skolans facktidningar
No full textAuthor: Ditte Edström Title: ADHD a social construction - A discourse analysis on how ADHD is described and communicated in professional school journals [translated title] Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Five percent of all students in Swedish schools have got an ADHD diagnosis (The National Board of Health and Welfare 2014), which is about two children in each class. In ten years, the diagnosed cases among children and adolescents have increased by 700 percent. The purpose of this study was to highlight how ADHD is described, and thereby socially constructed, in Swedish schools using a discourse analytic approach with a social constructivist perspective. The aim was also to investigate what social impacts these constructions could provide. The empirical data consisted of articles from Lärarnas Nyheter – a website where collected journals from unions representing school-professions are published. The analyzed journals are: Pedagogiska Magasinet, Specialpedagogik, Förskolan and Lärarnas Tidning. The analytical tools that the discourse analysis was primarily inspired by were the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe. The results showed a medical discourse as being the dominant one when the professionals in the journals were communicating about students with ADHD. The study also showed that both the medical and pedagogical expertise are critical to how schools are organized, they argue that school requirements in general are too high in relation to the students’ abilities. They also argue that schools do not take into account individual differences in maturity witch in some cases may be the cause of students´ difficulties and attention problems. Key words: ADHD, school, social constructionism, discourse analysi
Ditte : towards the stars /
No full textSequel to: Ditte, daughter of man."A brief biography of the author": 2 p. at end.Mode of access: Internet
The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman
No full textAs part of Acta Sociologica’s special issue on ‘Social investment in Action’ we bring an interview with Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman (EPB), author of the widely acclaimed Thinking like an Economist – How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy (Princeton University Press, 2022) . Interviewer, Ditte Andersen (DA), probes Berman’s argument on how the economic style of reasoning is linked to specific values, especially the value of efficiency, in ways that crowd out other values (e.g. democratic participation, universal rights) and constrain social policy thinking in contemporary Western societies. Social investment policies epitomize the economic style of reasoning by orientating towards returns of public spending. In policy domains such as education, ‘social investment in action’ forefronts the value of returns (in the future) rather than, for example, the value of equality and universalism (in the present). The interview also turns attention to the role of sociologists in denaturalizing the taken for granted and aid the imagination of alternative futures
Item 4: Workshop on Open digital collections
No full textA workshop on data science and digital collections was held in December 2019, aimed primarily at staff from research libraries, who provide services and support to researchers, students and other library users. The purpose of the workshop was to provide information and create an understanding of how to access and use the digital collections. Specifically, how to use APIs for searching and extraction of data in order to foster these competencies. Workshop programme, presentations and instructions are included.
File 4.1 [in Danish]: Program workshop om åbne digitale kulturarvsdata og digital literacy
File description: This file contains the workshop programme, including small abstracts and learning objectives.
Authors: Stig Svenningsen, Ditte Laursen
File 4.2 [In Danish]: Præsentation Merete Sanderhoff ”Derfor den åbne digitale kulturarv”
File description: This file contains a presentation of the potential of open cultural heritage data, based on experiences from the National Gallery of Denmark
Author: Merete Sanderhoff
File 4.3 [In Danish]: ”Derfor API som baggrund for formidler af kulturarvsdata”
File description: This file contains a presentation of the potential of museums’ digital resources, in particular in the form of digital data through API’s, based on experiences from the National Museum of Denmark.
Author: Jacob Wang
File 4.4 [In Danish]: ”Undervisnings- og forskningsperspektiver på åbne digitale samlinger”
File description: This file contains a presentation about bias in archives and implications for education and research.
Author: Helle Strandgaard Jensen
File 4.5 [In Danish]:”Etiske og metodiske udfordringer ved brugen af digitale samlinger”
File description: This file contains a presentation on the ethical and methodological challenges of the use of open cultural heritage data.
Author: Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer
File 4.6 [In Danish]: ”Et overblik over nuværende digitale samlinger”
File description: This file contains a presentation of the principles of acquisition and digitization over time and the challenges and continued development of open cultural heritage data from the perspective of the Royal Danish Library.
Author: Ditte Laursen
File 4.7 [In Danish]: Hands-on find data fra Det Kongelige Bibliotek’s samlinger
File description: This file contains a presentation introducing search possibilities in digital cultural heritage portals and discusses the relationship between digital objects and physical works.
Author: Mette Colding Dahl
File 4.8 [In Danish]: ”Hent data via en API” og data repositorie”
File description: This file contains a presentation that is a hands-on introduction to data extraction from an API. The presentation includes a cookbook and an example to illustrate the steps of the cookbook.
Author: Stig Svenningse
Design for Disassembly - a way to minimize building waste: A design for a transformation of an office building into dwellings taking into account circularity, demonstrating how circularity offers freedom for (non-traditional) households
No full textThis graduation is part of a double degree for the master Architecture and the master Construction, Management and Engineering. Research has been conducted into the field of circularity and specifically on design for disassembly as a way to minimize building waste and on improving implementation of circularity by studying the building process and the actors that are involved or should be involved. By relying on case study research including interviews, conclusions were made that circularity is befitted by separability of layers, homogeneity of materials, standardization of dimensions, and fit to different life times. In general, circularity should be aimed at reducing, reusing and recycling building components and materials at both the start and end of a building’s life time. Regarding the improvement of circularity in practice, the following was concluded. Implementation of circularity is benefitted by early on involvement of the following circular-related actors: transformation agent, circularity expert, reclamation expert, dismantler, and legal officer. In order to increase their influence on decision-making these actors should become part of the project team, or at least be taken seriously and offered room to influence decision-making. Especially, if traditional actors lack knowledge and resources for implementing circularity. Moreover, contribution of their resources regarding circularity is facilitated, if these actors are involved early on. Thus, involvement of circular-related actors and traditional actors with circular-related resources early on and subsequent ability to influence and contribute to decision-making, facilitates implementation of circularity in the building process. This is especially of concern nowadays, since circularity has not yet become part of common knowledge of (all) involved actors. Based on findings from these theses a design has been made which concerns a transformation of an existing office building in Buitenveldert, Amsterdam into dwellings. The design demonstrates how circularity principles – such as demountable connections, standardization, prefab, separability of layers, etc. – could provide freedom to generate multiple types of apartments in which residents has the freedom to adjust or personalize the apartment by introducing freedom to change certain layers of the building
Talking circularity - the influence of actors on the building process: A study into actor networks and influence on decision-making regarding the implementation of circularity into the building process.
No full textThe purpose of this master thesis is to gather information from current practices and make recommendations to facilitate implementation of circularity in the building process. The past years, circularity has become a popular term in the built environment. This approach prefers a more circular way of perceiving the building process. Literature indicates that implementation of circularity in the building process, probably, will require different actors to be involved and different decisions to be made.The following research question is proposed: “Which actors should be involved (in the beginning of the building process) to ensure circularity (implementation of circular building) throughout all phases in the building process and which actors should influence decision-making?”The following research method is adopted: a literature study, and case study research including interviews. From this literature study, assessment criteria for the case study research can be conducted. The case study research evaluates the actor network and decision-making processes based on three building projects. These projects are:Townhall in Brummen by RAU built in 2013; The Green House in Utrecht by cepezed built in 2018; and EDGE Olympic in Amsterdam by Architekten Cie. built in 2018.This thesis concludes that circular-related actors and traditional actors with circular-related resources should be involved and be influential in decision-making in the building process of circular building projects. This study particularly demonstrates the benefit of early on involvement of the following circular-related actors: transformation agent, circularity expert, reclamation expert, dismantler, and legal officer. In order to increase their influence on decision-making these actors should become part of the projectteam, or at least be taken seriously and offered room to influence decision-making. Especially, if traditional actors lack knowledge and resources for implementing circularity. Moreover, contribution of their resources to implement circularity is facilitated, if these actors are involved early on. Early on decision-making on circularity, particularly for long-lived layers (in comparison to short-lived layers), is beneficial for its implementation in practice. Later on in the building process, after the initiation and preparation (and design) phase, implementation is difficult.Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineerin
WE LOVE THE CITY:- a pragmatic approach to urban design
No full textWith a point of departure in amongst others the Danish office of ADEPT’s approach, ‘The city in the building and the building in the city’ (ADEPT 2012), it is consequently the aim of this article to show how workshops can help shape and develop a spatial and architectural approach to form finding in the urban design scale. Secondly, the article will also show students that working with urban design on a large scale are also about designing. Thus, urban design is perceived as a discipline bridging the scales from that of the building over urban space to urban planning. The author of this article sees this as a key challenge if urban design is to avoid becoming stuck within a paradigm of designing urban life(styles)
Implementation of circularity in the building process: A case study research into organizing the actor network and decision-making process
No full textCircularity aims to reduce waste by closing and narrowing resource loops and by extending the lifetime of materials and products. As a consequence of this fundamentally different approach to construction practices, implementation entails a different organization of the building process. The purpose of this research is to make recommendations with respect to the actor network and the decision-making process to facilitate implementation of circularity in construction practices. First, a theoretical framework is developed to structure and prioritize decision-making to implement circularity based on resource and value strategies. Second, this framework is applied to three circular building cases in the Netherlands, relying on stakeholder interviews and documentation. These cases include a renovation project, a newly built project, and a transformation project. Third, analysis of the case study data demonstrates the actor network and decision-making process including the following aspects: Actors, resources, relations, positions, influence, and decision rounds. It can be concluded that: i) some conventional actors have acquired knowledge on circularity; and ii) expert actors emerged who have specialized in circularity. Both types of actors are a prerequisite iii) to implement circular strategies for the beginning and end phase of the building's lifetime; and iv) should be involved early on (in the design-making processes) to influence decision-making on circularity, especially concerning the long-lived layers of a building.Design & Construction Managemen
Monitoring deformation in glasshouses using InSAR
No full textThe Netherlands has for long been witnessing problems due to subsidence. While urban infrastructure is mostly safeguarded from differential settlement by deep pile foundations, the same cannot be said about greenhouses. The greenhouses of the Netherlands has enabled the country to become the largest exporter of vegetables, second only to the United States of America. It is imperative that these greenhouses which form the backbone of the agriculture infrastructure of the country, are monitored continuously to minimize unprecedented damage. This thesis aims to study the feasibility of using time series Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) as a means to monitor differential settlement in greenhouse structures. The analysis was primarily done using RADARSAT-2 data. In case of translucent surfaces of greenhouses, it was important to firstly identify the physical targets that are associated to scattering centres. This was done by analysing the statistics of the heights of the scatterers which helps in ascertaining where the radar signal is getting back-scattered from. It was inferred that the persistent and distributed scatterers are primarily identified from objects on the roof and outer walls of the greenhouses. Moreover, the magnitude of deformation estimated from the scatterers have been corroborated with geotechnical data. It was seen that higher magnitudes of deformation was seen in locations with compressible soil types such as clay and peat close to the ground surface. It was also seen that greenhouse structures are prone to differential settlement when the depths of the piles are insufficient in areas with varying soil types. The effect of thermal contributions has also been studied and it was found that the estimation of thermal expansion does not significantly affect the estimated deformations. From the study, it is evident that time series InSAR offers an effective means to monitor differential settlements in greenhouses. In order to check for differential settlement in individual greenhouses, it is proposed that a persistent scatter interferometric analysis be done initially and if it is seen that the density of these scatterers is insufficient, the analysis can be followed up with time series interferometry of distributed scatterers. Incorporating multiple track directions of radar data increases the number of greenhouses that can be monitored. Moreover, it was also seen that persistent scatterers were identified from additional greenhouses when Sentinel-1 data was used, despite its poorer spatial resolution. For further study, it is recommended that corner reflectors are used to validate the positions of the targets that are identified as persistent and distributed scatterers.Geoscience and Remote Sensin
The Changing Subjects of Ethnographic Narratives: Report From the NAFA Festival (2010)
No full textOstatni festiwal „Nordic Anthropological Film Association” odbył się w Aarhus i towarzyszyła mu konferencja naukowa Perceiving Children. Visual Anthropology of Childhood (zorganizowana przez Ditte Marie Seeberg i Rossellę Ragazzi). Filmy pokazane na przeglądzie nie dotyczyły wyłącznie tematyki dziecięcej, choć sporo obrazów właśnie im było poświęconych. Pokazany został m.in. uznany już film Davida MacDougalla Gandhi’s Children (2008). Sprawozdanie koncentruje się na części festiwalowej, poddając krótkiej analizie jedynie kilka wybranych filmów. Autor przedstawia wybrane sposoby spośród szerokiego spektrum rodzajów narracji, które można odnaleźć we współczesnym filmie antropologicznym.The last festival of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association took place in Aarhus. Alongside it a scientific conference was held on Perceiving Children. Visual Anthropology of Childhood (the conference was organised by Ditte Marie Seeberg and Rossella Ragazzi). Films presented at the festival dealt with a wide variety of subjects, and not just children, however a number of films shown were about childhood. Amongst others David MacDougall’s Gandhi’s children (2008) was presented. The report analyses only a small number of films presented, rather the author concentrates on different types of narratives encountered in contemporary anthropological film
