Læselyst Rudersdal 2024. En systematisk undersøgelse om læselyst og læseglæde blandt alle folkeskoleelever i Rudersdal Kommune

Læselyst Rudersdal 2024 er inspireret af den internationale læseundersøgelse PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) og undersøger elevernes læselyst og -glæde og konteksten for denne gennem spørgeskemaundersøgelser blandt alle folkeskoleelever i normalområdet i Rudersdal Kommune og blandt deres forældre, hvorved udviklingen fra 0.-9. klasse kan belyses og sammenstilles med baggrundsfaktorer i hjemmet. Derved tegnes et øjebliksbillede af status på læselyst og -glæde i kommunen i og på tværs af klassetrin og folkeskoler.Undersøgelsen er initieret af Aarhus Universitet og Rudersdal Kommune i fællesskab. Aarhus Universitet har en forskningsmæssig interesse i elever i grundskolens læselyst og -glæde og udvikling heraf over klassetrin, mens Rudersdal Kommune har en interesse i ny viden og udvikling inden for kommunens folkeskoleelevers læselyst og -glæde på tværs af klassetrin med henblik på fremadrettet bedre at kunne understøtte denne. 

The Art of Dwelling

The dissertation advances a contemporary thinking of dwelling referred to as the art of dwelling based on a thematic reading of the concept of dwelling in Martin Heidegger’s late works. The investigation is informed by Heidegger’s 1962 journey to Greece and his resulting travel book, Aufenthalte (Sojourns). These serve as a structuring prism for exploring Heidegger’s late reflections on place and experience, which come to a head in the encounter with the ancient Greek artifacts and landscape.The study opens with an investigation of the concept of dwelling [wohnen] understood as a composite term (in chapter 1). In order to appreciate the full experiential activity of dwelling, the conventional notion of wohnen is expanded to incorporate Heidegger’s notions of verweilen and aufhalten, so that the spatial [wohnen], the temporal [weilen], and the experiential [aufhalten] aspects of the term all come to the fore in a thematic reading of Sojourns and other late writings of Heidegger. Reflected in Sojourns is also an overarching discussion of homelessness and dwelling, as well as an examination of Heidegger’s thinking of technology and the history of being as conditions for the inquiry (in chapter 2).The exposition of dwelling as a composite term has implications for the notion of place. Following an examination of how dwelling presupposes a sense of place and an ontology of atmosphere in Sojourns and in the late Heidegger more generally (in chapter 3), the study brings these intertwining concepts into conversation with contemporary perspectives. What emerges from Heidegger’s findings in Sojourns on the sense of place, and his thinking on sculpture (in chapter 5) in terms of spatiality and dwelling, is the key concept of receptivity in relation to dwelling. In this way, Heidegger’s thinking on place is brought into conversation with contemporary modern art and literature, motivating a reappropriation of the notion of place.Following these lines of development, the study advances a contemporary thinking of dwelling referred to as the art of dwelling (in chapter 6) as a mode of being in the world. The study finds renewed potential for a thinking of place, atmosphere, and embodied experience today by calling attention to the activity of the Aufenthalt and the concept of atmosphere reflected in dwelling as a sensitivity toward the singularity of the world

Eccentric Enactments: Naturkraft as Non-Formal Sustainability Education in the Anthropocene

This dissertation presents an exploration of the Danish non-formal sustainability education project Naturkraft. The Naturkraft project develops and – since 2020 – operates a nature science centre by the name Naturkraft in the Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality on the Danish west coast. This dissertation is based on an ethnographic field study conducted in and around the Naturkraft project between February 2020 and September 2021. The focus of the exploration is to understand the Naturkraft project as a way of \u27enacting\u27 non-formal sustainability education in the Anthropocene. Accordingly, the dissertation seeks to open new perspectives on sustainability educational thought, research, and practice in relation to Anthropocene challenges. The dissertation situates itself within the research field of environmental and sustainability education (ESE), with a particular focus on non-formal education forms and the thematization of Anthropocene issues in pedagogy and education. This implies, on the one hand, a broad understanding of \u27education\u27 that extends beyond formal education institutions and rationales. On the other hand, it implies understanding sustainability perspectives in Naturkraft from a socioecological perspective, with theoretical attention to material, embodied, and imaginary aspects of the educational situations the project frames. Drawing on thinkers such as Deleuze & Guattari, Anna Tsing and colleagues, Timothy Morton, Elizabeth Ellsworth and George Marcus, the dissertation proposes the concept of eccentric education as a way to consider  and discuss the mode of sustainability education in Naturkraft

Experimental Investigations of a Full-Scale Louvre Element

This report summarises the experimental investigations of a full-scale louvre element conducted in September 2024 in the laboratories of the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Aarhus University. The report describes the existing laboratory facilities and the modifications done for the experiment. Further it describes the louvre element and the measurement equipment. At last, the results are given.

Stor drama med de små: Begivenheder med litteraturundervisning, indskolingselever og procesdrama i folkeskolens danskfag

I ph.d.-projektet Stor drama med de små har jeg undersøgt, hvad der sker, når indskolingselever fortolker litteratur med procesdrama i den danske folkeskoles danskfag på to skoler i hver sin del af Danmark. Jeg har som litteraturdidaktisk forsker fulgt to 1. klasser, en 2. klasse og klassernes tre dansklærere gennem i alt syv undervisningsforløb med handlende fortolkning af billedbøger med procesdrama, syv performative undersøgelser med procesdrama og syv intra-views med to af lærerne over halvandet år fra 2022-2023. Projektet er et selvstændigt projekt finansieret af Ph.d.-rådet for Uddannelsesforskning og gennemført i et samarbejde mellem Aarhus Universitet (DPU –Danmarks Institut for Pædagogik og Uddannelse) og UCL Erhvervsakademi og Professionshøjskole (CAS – Center for Anvendt Skoleforskning). Afhandlingen rummer i alt fem artikler og en samlet kappe, hvori jeg rammesætter projektets empiri som en række kunstbaserede vignetter, som jeg gennemfører analyser af ved at ’tænke med filosofisk teori’. Afhandlingens videnskabsteoretiske grundlag er funderet i den posthumane ontoepistemologi, hvor jeg med teoretiske begreber fra Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari og Karen Barad gentænker den menneskelige eksistens i særlige litteraturdidaktiske begivenheder med yngre eleverpå syv og otte år, der møder billedbøger i betydningsskabende performative fortolkningsprocesser med procesdrama. Afhandlingen fokuserer således særligt på de teoretiske begreber affekt, mimesis, intra-aktion, rettethed, dramaleg og begær. Metodologisk anvender jeg i afhandlingen procesdrama som kunstbaseret performanceforskning til at skabe en kollektiv deltagerbasering, hvor jeg som forsker er en decentreret figur i forskningsprocessen. Den decentrerede forsker skaber nye og multiple muligheder for indskolingseleverne som forskningsdeltagere med henblik på at udtrykke sig i relationelle fællesskaber gennem dramaleg med billedbøger som betydningsskabende performances i begivenheder.  Afhandlingens bidrager med ny viden til litteraturundervisningen omkring indskolingselevers indlevelse i dramatiske figurer/karakterer, indskolingselevers skabelse af egne fortolkningsrum/verdener og en ny forståelse af handlingsforløb med litterære tekster som animerede agenter, der sanseligt omskaber tid og rum i litteraturundervisningen. Hermed synliggør afhandlingen, hvordan indskolingselever i handlende fortolkning af litteratur med procesdrama i fællesskab med hinanden, lærerne, mig som forsker, rum og forskellige materialiteter skaber en sanselig viden, som jeg har valgt at kalde æstetisk erfaring.

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment and Food Systems: The Case Study of Agroforestry

In this PhD thesis, the potential environmental and net climate impacts of food from agroforestry systems (AFS) are explored using an attributional Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) framework and a pragmatic mixed-method case study approach. The methodological complexities are addressed by systematically reviewing the literature and testing diverse modeling approaches for handling multifunctionality and estimating the carbon sequestration potential at farm gate. Overall, this thesis provides insights into how the LCA framework captures environmental interactions in AFS from a supply-side and product-level perspective, contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of agroforestry’s environmental role in the global food system

A cultural-historical shift in Denmark in views on childhood sexuality and practices in childcare institutions, influenced by fears of child sexual abuse

Since the 1980s, the fear of child sexual abuse (CSA) has become a major cultural feature of the West. Internationally, the unintended consequences of this fear are rarely investigated, and doing so is often controversial. The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate these consequences. The dissertation has two key focuses: 1) the influence of the fear of CSA on staff practices, male childcare-staff working conditions, and teacher–child relationships at childcare institutions; 2) the influence of the fear of CSA on the view of childhood sexuality and childcare institutions’ practices surrounding children’s sexual behavior. The dissertation is based on two major empirical studies. One was a mixed methods survey regarding guidelines for protecting children against CSA, and staff against wrongful allegations of this, in which approximately one-quarter of Danish childcare facilities participated. This study also addressed these institutions’ rules regarding children’s nudity and sexual games. The other study investigated the changes in the view of childhood sexuality and nudity in the Danish education and care journal, Børn&Unge (Children&Youth), over 50 years: 1970–2019, in particular the emergence of the “child perpetrator of sexual abuse” in the late 1990s. The main method used in the dissertation is discourse analysis. The conceptual framework includes discourse theory, Foucault’s theory of discipline, and literature on fear. This dissertation, which presents one of the most substantial empirical research projects conducted to investigate the multiple effects and unintended consequences of the widespread fear of CSA, documents an important cultural shift at Danish childcare facilities. It shows that the fear of CSA has had a significant impact on practices and relationships at Danish childcare institutions, enforcing self-defense strategies among staff and resulting in a general disciplining of bodies, and the behavior of both staff and children, which has reduced trust, care, intimacy, learning opportunities, and children’s sexual play. In particular, this dissertation reveals how this development has created social outcasts, even among the children it aimed to protect; it has stigmatized male childcare professionals and influenced the panic surrounding childhood sexuality that identifies some children as perpetrators of sexual abuse

Nouvelles tendances de la romanistique scandinave / Nuevas tendencias de la romanística escandinava / Nuove tendenze della romanistica scandinava / Novas tendências da romanística escandinava

Ce recueil représente un échantillon des recherches en langues, littératures et cultures romanes menées actuellement dans les pays scandinaves. Les articles qui y sont présentés sont le résultat du XXIe Congrès des Romanistes Scandinaves, ROM22, qui a eu lieu entre le 17 et 20 août 2022 à l’Université d’Aarhus, au Danemark. Le Congrès a accueilli environ 150 chercheurs et doctorants venant du Danemark, de la Finlande, de l’Islande, de la Lituanie, de la Norvège et de la Suède.Les thèmes et les sujets abordés représentent la grande variété des recherches scandinaves en romanistique menées ces dernières années. Cette variété s’illustre par l’échantillon des articles présentés dans cette anthologie où l’on pourra trouver des recherches et études en didactique et acquisition des langues, lexicographie, linguistique, littérature, rhétorique, société, philosophie et traduction

Nouvelles tendances de la romanistique scandinave / Nuevas tendencias de la romanística escandinava / Nuove tendenze della romanistica scandinava / Novas tendências da romanística escandinava

Ce recueil représente un échantillon des recherches en langues, littératures et cultures romanes menées actuellement dans les pays scandinaves. Les articles qui y sont présentés sont le résultat du XXIe Congrès des Romanistes Scandinaves, ROM22, qui a eu lieu entre le 17 et 20 août 2022 à l’Université d’Aarhus, au Danemark. Le Congrès a accueilli environ 150 chercheurs et doctorants venant du Danemark, de la Finlande, de l’Islande, de la Lituanie, de la Norvège et de la Suède.Les thèmes et les sujets abordés représentent la grande variété des recherches scandinaves en romanistique menées ces dernières années. Cette variété s’illustre par l’échantillon des articles présentés dans cette anthologie où l’on pourra trouver des recherches et études en didactique et acquisition des langues, lexicographie, linguistique, littérature, rhétorique, société, philosophie et traduction