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- Aslan, Devrim Umut
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Making of a Community of Learning at the Times of Solitude
- 2019
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Higher Education in the European context has been transformed radically since 1990s, partly in line with global political and economic trends. In the Swedish context these trends also manifested itself, among other things, in how teaching is practiced and valued. The managerial and paradigmatic shift altered the balance between teaching and research in the favour of the latter. This happened while monetary resources assigned to teaching at the universities proportionally diminished at the national level. Mentioned professional and monetary degrading resulted in reduction of contact-hours for university students -particularly for students of social sciences and humanities in Sweden, misrecognition of teaching skills at the institutional level, and treatment of teaching as a burden among academic staff. These radical changes accompanied with, and partially legitimized by, a novel teaching and learning philosophy which effectively criticized old-school lecture-based teaching built on unidimensional knowledge transfer. It promoted instead self-learning and championed interactive teaching. However, according to various reports, students spend less and less time for learning, which is coming closer to the state of threating the overall teaching and learning quality in the higher education in Sweden. In this paper, I analyse the teaching and learning practices in a course that I am responsible for at the bachelor level, in the background of abovementioned paradigm shift. Specifically, I discuss two teaching forms introduced and experimented in the course, discussion seminars and workshops, which aimed to improve the quality of the course learning outcome, encourage overall engagement of students, social learning, and skill transfer. Discussions focused on applying course literature on to empirical cases, and workshops included topics such as grading a paper, analysing a text, and writing an essay. While doing this, I refer to a theoretical literature develop around the concept of “social practices”, in particular “communities of practices”. Within this literature the social and cultural aspects of learning is accentuated, and the significance of embodied learning by doing together is highlighted. I position the practice-based epistemological and pedagogical perspective as an alternative to the established dichotomy of traditional lecture-based teaching versus self-learning.
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- Aslan, Devrim Umut
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Modes of Shopping Constituting a Local Street: A video-ethnography of shopping as a practice
- 2019
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In the last decades spatiotemporal manifestations of shopping are changed radically in conjunction with proliferation of car usage, internationalization of retail, and establishment of out-of-town malls. The social, cultural, and economic backgrounds of this axis alteration and its implication to the city life have been discussed thoroughly. However, the main empirical focus laid mostly on the mainstream and spectacular geographies of shopping. There is little literature on how shopping is enacted in “other” shopping geographies, particularly on local shopping streets.Södergatan, established as the main street of a working-class district in Helsingborg, Sweden, after going through modernization phases, today it mostly hosts so-called migrant entrepreneurships, service-based premises, and grocery stores. This study examines the major modes of shopping on this local shopping street in order to understand how shopping geographies outside of mainstream ensure their relevance. It contributes to the literature on shopping geographies from a cultural perspective, particularly on the co-constitutive interrelation between enactments of shopping and arrangements of shopping places. While doing this, the study engages in “practice theory”, which supplies a profound conceptual vocabulary and dynamic epistemological gaze for concentrating on shopping as the main analytical unit. The major method employed in the research is video-ethnography, due to its capability to synchronically appreciate enactments of shopping, shoppers’ reflections, the sensory and material environment of the street, and the movement within.The research shows that there are some major place-specific modes of shopping that are enacted in the street and in the district, and these modes of shopping, bundling with each other, materially and sensorially co-constitute the street into a meaningful, integral and convivial part of the city.
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- Fredriksson, Cecilia, et al.
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Retail destination
- 2019
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Reports (other academic/artistic)
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- Fredriksson, Cecilia, et al.
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Retail destination
- 2019
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Book (other academic/artistic)
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- Fredriksson, Cecilia, et al.
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Retail Destination : Centrum för handelsforskning vid Lunds universitet
- 2019
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Handelsbranschen befinner sig mitt i en tid av stora omfattande förändringar, vad gäller till exempel människors ändrade köpmönster, digitalisering, urbanisering och globalisering . En av de stora konsekvenserna av dessa förändringar är förändringen i relationen mellan handel och plats.Detta har varit utgångspunkten för forskningsprogrammet ”Retail Destination” vars resultat redovisas i denna skrift. Här finns fokus på etableringsfrågor, butiksformat, förändrade konsumtionsmönster, logistik, stads- och platsutveckling. Relationen mellan handel och plats har studerats ur olika perspektiv och programmet har specifikt undersökt hur några olika handelsformer fungerar som retaildestinationer. Olika handelsplatser har sina specifika utmaningar och möjligheter och programmet har fokuserat de skilda förutsättningar och praktiker som kopplas till specifika destinationer för handel.Handelsforskning kring plats och etablering har ofta tagit ensidig utgångspunkti ett visst format eller en avgränsad etableringsfråga. Den här rapporten tar ettbredare grepp på perspektiv som handlar om organisation och utformning av olika butiksformat och olika handelsmiljöer med koppling till platsers olika villkor. Utvecklingen i handeln är mångfacetterad och det är viktigt att belysa den ur flera perspektiv. Centrum för handelsforsknings verksamhet är unik i den bemärkelse att vi i samtliga forskningsprogram arbetar tvärvetenskapligt där forskare från alla de discipliner som är representerade i Centrum för handelsforskning finns med i varje forskningsprogram. Detta garanterar en mångsidig belysning av de forskningsproblem som vi tar oss an. Under 2014–2015 har vi drivit forskningsprogrammen ”E-handel” och ”Kunniga kunder”. Därefter startade vi programmen ”Retail destination” och ”Retail innovation”.I denna skrift sammanfattas forskningsresultaten från forskningsprogrammet ”Retail Destination”. Bakom skriften står Cecilia Fredriksson (programansvarig), Johan Anselmsson, Christian Fuentes, Lisa Källström, Ola Thufvesson och Devrim Umut Aslan (doktorand). Under 2016, 2017 och 2018 har resultat från programmet presenterats vid forskningsseminarier och workshops som Centrum för handelsforskning har arrangerat. Resultaten har också presenterats vid vetenskapliga konferenser och vid praktikerkonferenser som tidigare också beskrivits i rapporter och vetenskapliga artiklar. Nu presenterar vi de samlade resultaten inom ramen för Handelsrådets rapportserie.
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