Browsing Fakultet for lærerutdanning og internasjonale studier (LUI) by Subject "Norway"
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Back to the Future? Charting Features of the Not-So-New Convergence in Aidland
(Forum for Development Studies;Volume 48, 2021 - Issue 1, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-12)During the last decade, the liberal paradigm, hegemonic in development assistance from the 1980 and well into the 2000s, has seen a fracturing. Rather than an impasse or outright conflict between ‘aid with Chinese ... -
Challenges and barriers to optimal maternity care for recently migrated women - a mixed-method study in Norway
(BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth;21, Article number: 686 (2021), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10-07)Background: Migrant women are at increased risk for complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, possibly due to inadequate access and utilisation of healthcare. Recently migrated women are considered a vulnerable ... -
Childhood in a multicultural society? Globalization, childhood and cultural diversity in Norwegian children's literature
(Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature;49 (1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-02)An alligator named Johannes Jensen works as an executive officer at the Oslo tax office. He feels different, but doesn't know why. Maybe it is because he wears a bow tie while his colleagues wear ties? Johannes Jensen tries ... -
Children's Lived Experience and their Sense of Coherence: Bodily Play in a Norwegian After-school Programme
(Child Care in Practice;16 (4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-10)This article is based on materials gathered from qualitative research interviews among eight-year-old and nine-year-old children participating in an after-school programme (ASP) in Oslo, and investigates how bodily play ... -
Choosing post-compulsory mathematics : a comparative study of students’ accounts of choosing mathematics in Norway and England
(Master thesis, 2013)The purpose of this master thesis is to interpret and compare Norwegian and English students’ accounts of choosing post-compulsory mathematics, to try to recognize cultural differences and similarities in the students’ ... -
Cognitive Development and Social Competence in Early Childhood Education and Care
(Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2018)Children’s development is strongly influenced by early childhood experiences, particularly during sensitive periods such as infancy and toddlerhood. In Norway, over 80% of children aged 1-2 years are enrolled in ECEC, but ... -
Creating cultures of sustainability : a contribution to defining education for sustainability in the Norwegian kindergarten context
(Master thesis, 2010)The Kindergarten Act and the Framework Plan establish that care, upbringing and learning in kindergartens shall promote an understanding of sustainable development. A weakness in this is that ESD has not been defined for ... -
Developing Critical Literacy Skills Through English Textbooks in Norwegian Upper Primary Schools
(Master thesis, 2022)The focus of this study was to investigate to what extent English textbooks for Norwegian upper primary school students, written for the new LK-20 English curriculum, help develop Critical Literacy skills. The study outlines ... -
Dichotomous and Multifaceted: Teacher Educators’ Understanding of Professional Knowledge in Research-based Teacher Education
(Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research;Volume 66, 2022 - Issue 6, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08-17)In the Nordic countries, teacher education programmes are shifting towards a research-based design, thus placing new expectations and requirements on teacher educators. In this study, we aim to explore teacher educators’ ... -
In line with climate justice, or spatiotemporal fix? An analysis of Norway’s Carbon Capture and Storage project “Longship”
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis aims to identify the Solberg government's narratives surrounding Longship and connect this portrayal to two theoretical frameworks to consider Norway's responsibility: climate justice and spatiotemporal fix. ... -
In the shadow of Anglobalization national tests in English in Norway and the making of a new English underclass
(Journal of Multicultural Discourses;10(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-06-30)This study argues that the recent ‘English revolution’ in Norway conflates with the growing standardization of education in the European Union (EU; e.g. the 1999 Bologna Treaty). This proliferation of English at the ... -
Inclusion through the concept of adapted education : a review of the Norwegian challenges
(Specialusis ugdymas Special Education;22 (1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Inclusion has since the UNESCO conference in 1994, been the global denominator and ideology of most western societies school policies and practises. The debate has mostly focused on how to respond to and facilitate ... -
Interpreting Impoliteness: Interpreters’ Voices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Interpreters in the public sector in Norway interpret in a variety of institutional encounters, and the interpreters evaluate the majority of these encounters as polite. However, some encounters are evaluated as impolite, ... -
Old and New Dreams - A New Knowledge Nexus or Just Academic Drift?
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“Papa, Am I a Negro?” The Vexed History of the Racial Epithet in Norwegian Print Media (1970–2014)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09)This study explores the portrayal of blacks in Norwegian print media between 1970 and 2014 as refracted through the prism of the epithet “Negro” (neger). 4174 references covering 30 newspapers are analyzed employing a ... -
The portrayal of non-westerners in EFL textbooks in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The discourse of equity and egalitarianism has a long pedigree in Norway. However, this discourse has recently come under severe strain as evidenced by the growing segregation of schools along ethnic lines in the capital ... -
The Practice of Assessing Norwegian and English Language Proficiency in Multilingual Elementary School Classrooms in Norway
(Language Assessment Quarterly;Volume 17, 2020 - Issue 5: Validity Considerations for Assessing Language Proficiency in Young Language Minority Students, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11-18)The increasing representation of young language-minority students in school settings around the world and recent insights into multilingualism as a potential resource for language learning and development call for a critical ... -
Pre-service teacher readiness in english language assessment in Norway
(Master thesis, 2022)In this master thesis I have investigated pre-service teachers in Norway, and their perceived competence regarding Language Assessment Literacy (LAL). I have studied whether they consider themselves ready to assess pupils ... -
The Roman Catholic Church of Norway and migration challenges
(International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church;Volume 19, 2019 - Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-11)Ever since its re-establishment in Norway in 1843, the Roman Catholic Church has grown steadily. The church has now a total membership of approximately 150,000 (1 January 2017). The reason for the latest, and certainly ... -
The Roman Catholic Church of Norway and migration challenges
(International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church;Volume 19, 2019 - Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-11)Ever since its re-establishment in Norway in 1843, the Roman Catholic Church has grown steadily. The church has now a total membership of approximately 150,000 (1 January 2017). The reason for the latest, and certainly ...