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Accountable for what and to whom? Changing representations and new legitimation discourses among teachers under increased external control.
(Kluwer Academic, 2013-04-06)This article discusses how teachers construct new representations about accountability and professionalism in the context of increased external control. Over the last decade in particular, concerns about the quality of ... -
Addiction, compulsion, and weakness of the will: A dual-process perspective
(Oxford University Press, 2016)How should addictive behavior be explained? In terms of neurobiological illness and compulsion, or as a choice made freely, even rationally, in the face of harmful social or psychological circumstances? Some of the ... -
Addiction, Voluntary Choice, and Informed Consent: A Reply to Uusitalo and Broers
(Wiley, 2015-09-30)In an earlier article in this journal I argued that the question of whether heroin addicts can give voluntary consent to take part in research which involves giving them a choice of free heroin does not – in contrast with ... -
Addiction: choice or compulsion?
(Frontiers Media, 2013-08-07)Normative thinking about addiction has traditionally been divided between, on the one hand, a medical model which sees addiction as a disease characterized by compulsive and relapsing drug use over which the addict has ... -
Agentbasert modellering : en del av samfunnsvitenskapenes verktøykasse
(Universitetsforlaget, 2010)Agentbasert modellering – en del av samfunnsvitenskapenes verktøykasse I denne artikkelen introduserer vi agentbaserte modeller og gir eksempler på hvordan slike modeller har vært brukt i analyser av sosiale fenomener. ... -
Aktivitetspliktens innside og utside – Unge mottakere av sosialhjelp og deres erfaringer med aktivitetsplikt
(Universitetsforlaget, 2020-06-23)Fra januar 2017 er alle norske sosialhjelpsmottakere under 30 år forpliktet til å delta i arbeidsrelatert aktivitet – det vil si at de har aktivitetsplikt. Resiprositet er en politisk begrunnelse for aktivitetsplikten, som ... -
Arbeidsgivers ansvar for likestilling i arbeidslivet - en kvalitativ studie av hvordan ledere forholder seg til likestillingshensyn når de tilrettelegger for ansattes bruk av omsorgsrettigheter
(Universitetsforlaget, 2019)Artikkelen utforsker hvordan ledere i politiet og advokatbransjen tilrettelegger for ansattes bruk av omsorgsrettigheter. Formålet er å undersøke hvordan ledere forholder seg til hensynet til likestilling ved ansattes bruk ... -
Are teachers increasingly leaving the profession? :
(OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet, 2017)Changes in teachers’ work, often labelled intensification, have raised concerns that teachers are leaving the profession at an increasing rate. The present paper uses high-quality data from Norwegian administrative registers ... -
Aspects of professionalism. Collective nursing – personalised teaching?
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Associations between workplace learning patterns, social support and perceived competency
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019-06-01)Despite substantial research in the field of workplace learning and training over the past three decades, these concepts are heavily under-researched in relation to the public sector. By means of survey data, this study ... -
Asymmetry, disagreement and biases: epistemic worries about expertise
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-12-03)This paper contributes to an on-going exchange in political theory on the normative legitimacy of expert bodies. It focuses on epistemic worries about the expertization of politics, and uses the Nordic system of advisory ... -
Attracting International Students to Semi-peripheral Countries: A Comparative Study of Norway, Poland and Portugal
(Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature), 2019-02-26)The paper investigates the approaches employed for attracting international full-degree students in three countries on the periphery of Europe/the European Economic Area: Norway, Poland and Portugal. These countries, ... -
The authority of professional roles
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Autonomy, Candour and Professional Teacher Practice: A Discussion Inspired by the Later Works of Michel Foucault
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-08-22)Autonomy is considered to be an important feature of professionals and to provide a necessary basis for their informed judgments. In this article these notions will be challenged. In this article I use Michel Foucault’s ... -
Å studere sosiale årsakssammenhenger
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Barriers to Access? Immigrant Origin and Occupational Regulation
(De Gruyter Open, 2018-02-16)European labour markets have become increasingly accessible to foreign workers because of increased global migration and the implementation of international labour mobility agreements. Yet, skilled immigrants have lower ... -
Beyond guidelines: Discretionary practice in face-to-face triage nursing
(Wiley, 2017)This article draws on ethnographic data from a Norwegian emergency primary care clinic (EPCC) to explore nurses’ discretionary application of guidelines. Specifically, it analyses nurses’ discretionary use of the Manchester ... -
Blameworthy bumping? Investigating nudge’s neglected cousin
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2019-01-10)The realm of non-rational influence, which includes nudging, is home to many other morally interesting phenomena. In this paper, I introduce the term bumping, to discuss the category of unintentional non-rational influence. ... -
Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Making Sense of Senses in Expert Nursing
(American Anthropological Association, 2018-10-29)In this article, I draw on material from an ethnographic and phenomenological study of knowledge and professionalism among registered nurses working in a cancer unit at a Norwegian hospital. During the study, the use of ... -
Bureaucratic power in note-writing: authoritative expertise within the state
(Wiley, 2019-03-01)What produces the power of senior civil servants at ministries of finance, positioned at the top of the bureaucratic hierarchy? Max Weber has claimed that a hierarchical organization, meritocratic recruitment and procedural ...
