Blar i forfatter "Bigell, Werner"

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    • Academic Freedom: Ivory Tower Privilege or Model for Education? 

      Bigell, Werner (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)
      This article argues that the idea of academic freedom provides a conceptual angle for a critique of the ongoing educational reforms in Norway and in other countries, driven by economically oriented quality management (efficiency, standardization) and labor market orientation. A critique requires to make visible the price for the reforms, in particular the loss of freedom; here Hannah Arendt’s ...

    • Distinction but not separation. Edward Abbey’s conceptualization of nature 

      Bigell, Werner (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2007-11-21)
      Edward Abbey (1927-1989) har blitt en av de mest kjente og kontroversielle amerikanske forfattere i feltet ”nature writing.” Han blir ansett som en del av den radikale miljøbevegelsen i USA, og det blir ofte hevdet at naturbegrepet hans er basert på Arne Næss sin ”dypøkologi” som er et program for å re-integrere mennesket i naturen. I en analyse av Abbeys arbeid derimot viser det seg at det mest ...

    • Encounters in and with Summer Camps—Happy Childhood, Alternative Bildung, or What? 

      Afonkina, Iuliia; Bigell, Werner; Chernik, Valerii; Granstrøm Ekeland, Torun; Kuzmicheva, Tatiana; Stien, Kirsten Elisabeth; Zoglowek, Herbert (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-23)
      Although they commonly are associated with recreation, summer camps for children can be seen as educational arenas that both supplement and challenge school education. Summer camps provide education in a broad sense of bildung. The article aims at describing what is experienced in summer camps and proposes various theoretical frames for these bildung processes. The main focus is on summer camps ...

    • Fear and Fascination: Anti-Landscapes between Material Resistance and Material Transcendence 

      Bigell, Werner (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2014-11-01)
      This article examines the mechanisms that turn landscapes into anti-landscapes: projection, material interference, and ideological contradiction. Landscape and anti-landscape are dialectical twins; whereas landscape affirms cultural and aesthetic values, anti-landscape negates them through material resistance. This negation creates a sense of material transcendence, the aesthetic appeal through ...

    • Introduction: Northern Nature 

      Bigell, Werner (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)

    • The Meanings of Landscape: Historical Development, Cultural Frames, Linguistic Variation, and Antonyms 

      Bigell, Werner; Chang, Cheng (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)