4 research outputs found
Vem spelar vad? Genus och normer i musiksalen. : En kvalitativ studie om elevers val av musikinstrument ur ett genusperspektiv och hur musiklärare arbetar för ett jämställt klassrum.
No full textSyftet med studien är att undersöka hur musiklärare uppfattar elevernas genusrelaterade mönster i val av instrument samt hur de arbetar för att motverka dessa för att uppnå ett jämställt klassrum. Frågeställningarna är följande:- Vilka genusrelaterade mönster i musiksalen uppmärksammar musiklärare i Sverige?- Hur arbetar musiklärare i Sverige för att motverka stereotypa val av instrument hos eleverna? För att få svar på frågeställningen föll valet på semistrukturerade intervjuer utefter en frågeguide. Urvalsgruppen består av sex musiklärare i sex kommuner som undervisar på olika stadier i grundskolan. Studiens resultat visar att det finns tankar hos musiklärarna kring instrumentens genus och att dessa påverkar hur eleverna känner inför att spela vissa instrument och att pojkar främst väljer trummor och elbas medan flickor väljer piano. För att utmana dessa normer arbetar musiklärare aktivt med att eleverna ska spela samtliga instrument oavsett kön samt undervisar om och utefter allas lika värde och rätt förutsättningar genom representation och diskussion kring olika genrer och artister
Syntax in methods for information retrieval
No full textTitle: Information Retrieval Using Syntax Information Author: Bc. Jana Kravalová Department: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Supervisor: Mgr. Pavel Pecina, Ph.D. Supervisor's e-mail address: [email protected] Abstract: In the last years, application of language modeling in infor- mation retrieval has been studied quite extensively. Although language models of any type can be used with this approach, only traditional n-gram models based on surface word order have been employed and described in published experiments (often only unigram language models). The goal of this thesis is to design, implement, and evaluate (on Czech data) a method which would extend a language model with syntactic information, automatically obtained from documents and queries. We attempt to incorporate syntactic information into language models and experimentally compare this approach with uni- gram and bigram model based on surface word order. We also empirically compare methods for smoothing, stemming and lemmatization, effectiveness of using stopwords and pseudo relevance feedback. We perform a detailed ana- lysis of these retrieval methods and describe their performance in detail. Keywords: information retrieval, language modelling, depenency syntax, smo- othin
Uses of Wodan : The development of his cult and of medieval literary responses to it
No full textScholars working on Germanic pre-christian religion have generally considered Wodan to have been a deity of considerable importance to most if not all Germanic
tribes. This understanding is, however, based on a failure to approach the available evidence for Wodan within appropriate contemporary contexts. This thesis recontextualises the evidence, therefore, building a model of the general nature of Germanic heathenisms in the Migration Age, within which the cult of Wodan can be located. Set against this model, and with due consideration given to its social, political and religious contexts, the earliest evidence for Wodan can be seen as the beginning of a christian reimagination of this deity. A plausible model of Wodan's cult is established, which sees this cult as being geographically limited, and originating probably within the first half millenium of the Common Era; the cult of Odinn would appear, moreover, to be substantially separate in development from that of Wodan. Furthermore, a complex set of eighth-century scholarly re-uses of Wodan are shown to have shaped subsequent understandings of the deity, both in the medieval period and up to the present day.
Having considered how the traditions of eighth-century scholarship have misled modern scholarship, the thesis then examines the further development of these traditions
in Anglo-Saxon England. In this context, Wodan assumes still more various guises, and is conflated with Odinn, thus helping to cement modern scholarship's belief in the
original unity of these two figures. This process is strengthened, moreover, by the strong influence which Anglo-Saxon England exerted on Scandinavia both around the time of
the conversion of Scandinavia and at the period when much of the extant Scandinavian mythography was written down.
This Scandinavian mythography is examined briefly in the final chapter, which points out some important areas of misreading of pre-christian mythology in thirteenthcentury
Scandinavian mythography, as well as arguing for substantial extra-Scandinavian influences on such mythography. This leads, finally, to a consideration of how Odinn appears in what little certainly pre-christian evidence exists for him
