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Vocational teachers' professional learning: A systematic literature review of the past decade
(Teaching and Teacher Education : An International Journal of Research and Studies;Volume 119, November 2022, 103856, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-08-23)In the last decade, how to promote in-service vocational teachers' capabilities has become one of the most important concerns in the field of vocational education. This study presents the results from a systematic review ... -
Vurdering av arbeidsevne i NAV: Et spørsmål om kunnskap?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Denne artikkelen studerer NAV-veilederes vurderinger av arbeidsevnen til personer som søker om arbeidsavklaringspenger – trygdeytelsen som skal sikre inntekt for dem med helseproblemer. Funnene er basert på en feltstudie ... -
Wage inequality within and between occupations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Western countries, including Scandinavian nations, have witnessed an increase in wage inequality over the past decades. Recent studies attribute rising wage inequality in the United States and United Kingdom primarily to ... -
Welfare reform and public justification
(Policy Studies;, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-05)This paper investigates the conditions of political argument with regard to welfare legislation. It connects to the discussion on the role of ideas in political change but develops a new approach by investigating arguments ... -
What Are Humans Doing in the Loop? Co-Reasoning and Practical Judgment When Using Machine Learning-Driven Decision Aids
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Within the ethical debate on Machine Learning-driven decision support systems (ML _ CDSS), notions such as “human in the loop” or “meaningful human control” are often cited as being necessary for ethical legitimacy. ... -
What is culturally informed psychiatry?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)What is culturally informed psychiatry? What does it mean, and why is it important? These questions are discussed with a focus on the cultural aspects of the clinical encounter. The DSM-5 Outline for Cultural Formulation was ... -
What is juridification?
(;nr. 14, Working paper, 2005-03)“Juridification” is an ambiguous term, both descriptively and normatively. The authors distinguish between five dimensions of “juridification”; constitutive juridification, juridification as law’s expansion and differentiation, ... -
What is professional integrity?
(Etikk i praksis;9(2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)What is professional integrity and what makes it so important? Policies are designed to promote it and decisions are justified in its name. This paper identifies two competing conceptions of professional integrity and ... -
What rationale would work? Unfolding the role of learners' attitudes and motivation in predicting learning engagement and perceived learning outcomes in MOOCs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)The aim of this study is to gain insight into the interplay between attitudes, motiva- tion, learning engagement, and perceived learning outcomes in massive open online courses (MOOCs). An online survey was administered ... -
What’s in it for me? A mixed-methods study on teachers’ value creation in an inter-institutional community on open educational resources in higher education
(Education and Information Technologies : Official Journal of the IFIP technical committee on Education;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-11-08)The afordances of Open Educational Resources (OER) have resulted in various initiatives around the world, but most of them cease to exist once the initial project funding stops. Communities might be a means to create ... -
Which doctors do we trust? A vignette experiment of how gender and ethnicity influence trust
(Ethnicities;Article first published online September 24, 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Is people’s trust in doctors affected by their ethnicity or gender? It is often assumed that highly skilled migrants are protected from the worst effects of discrimination. Yet, they also report high degrees of discrimination. ... -
Who chooses fast-track programs in mathematics? The role of class origin, ethnicity, and gender among Norwegian lower-secondary students
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article examines Norwegian lower-secondary students who enrol in fast- track programs in mathematics. These fast-track programs are designed to accommodate high-performing students who want a faster learning pace than ... -
Who chooses fast-track programs in mathematics? The role of class origin, ethnicity, and gender among Norwegian lower-secondary students.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article examines Norwegian lower-secondary students who enrol in fast- track programs in mathematics. These fast-track programs are designed to accommodate high-performing students who want a faster learning pace than ... -
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)To study discrimination in labour/housing markets, and among street-level bureaucrats in the welfare state, present both theoretical and methodological challenges. In the sociological study of discrimination, experiments ... -
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article focuses on the social structuring of social capital, understood as resources embedded in social networks. The analysis integrates key theoretical–methodological insights from two distinct approaches concerned ... -
Why Ethics Commissions? Four Normative Models
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Ethics commissions are government advisory commissions mandated to give expert advice on contentious moral issues. As this requires making explicit value judg- ments, members with expert knowledge of ethics have a natural ... -
The will to sanction: How sensitive are caseworkers to recipients’ responsibility when imposing sanctions on non-compliance in a welfare-to-work programme?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The activation trend in social policy entails that caseworkers on the frontlines of the welfare state are expected to decide ‘reasonable’ activation requirements for clients and when and how non-compliance should be ... -
Work-Family Interference: Nurses in Norway and Finland
(Professions and Professionalism;2 (1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)The aim of the study is to investigate the level of work–family inter-ference (WFI) for part-time nurses in Norway and Finland. Part-time work is usually cited as a desirable way in which to facilitate work and family ... -
Workplace assimilation and professional jurisdiction: How nurses learn to blur the nursing-medical boundary
(Social Science and Medicine;Volume 201, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03)In theorising ‘the system of professions’, Andrew Abbott emphasised how jurisdictional boundaries in the workplace are far fuzzier than those specified in law. A key reason for this fuzziness is the process he characterised ... -
Would you use them? A qualitative study on teachers' assessments of open educational resources in higher education
(The Internet and higher education;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The quality of open educational resources (OER) has been a continuous topic of interest over the past two de cades, because it is intertwined with the adoption of these resources. In previous research the quality of OER ...