• Challenges facing the implementation of children’s rights in primary schools in Ethiopia 

      Eriksen, Elisabeth Almaz (Journal of the European Teacher Education Network (JETEN);Vol. 14, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The primary objective of this study is to examine the challenges facing the implementation of children’s rights to protection from physical punishment when schools administer discipline. The study, which was conducted in ...
    • Changing Areas, Spaces and Places in Kindergartens for More Playing, Learning and Exploration 

      Fønnebø, Bente; Rolfsen, Christian Nordahl (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The opportunities for exploration, playing and learning is essential for children in the kindergartens. Urban kindergartens have limited spaces available. This article discusses and analyzes various aspects of the possibility ...
    • Characteristics of staff–child interaction in 1–3-year-olds’ risky play in early childhood education and care 

      Kleppe, Rasmus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Despite increased interest in children’s risk-taking in play, little is known of this aspect considering children under three years. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the concept of scaffolding to potentially ...
    • A Child-Centred Discourse in Zambian Kindergartens? 

      Eriksen, Elisabeth Almaz (Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE);Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021): General issue: Pressing issues in education, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-12)
      This article aims to identify and discuss the existenceand strengthening ofa child-centredteaching discoursein Zambian kindergartens. The article is based on the understanding that the teacher-directed approach to teaching ...
    • Children Fleeing Domestic Violence to Emergency Accommodations: Education Rights and Experiences 

      Selvik, Sabreen; Thjømøe, Cathrine (Journal of Family Violence;36 (2021), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06-25)
      Domestic violence forces many families to fee to emergency accommodations. This article focuses on children’s experiences of schooling and life at confdential addresses, and to what extent their legal right to education ...
    • Children's favorite places on the kindergarten playground - according to the staff 

      Hagen, Anikke; Skaug, Hilde Nancy; Synnes, Kari (Journal of the European Teacher Education Network (JETEN);Vol. 14, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The aim of this study was to investigate Norwegian early childhood teachers’ perceptions about where on the kindergarten’s outdoor playground the children prefer to play, and what characterizes these places. A questionnaire ...
    • Children’s bodies in time and place; an onto- epistemological approach 

      Rossholt, Nina (Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM);3 (2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Working with concepts from Foucault and Deleuze I analyze how the youngest children relate to matter and the environment around them in a preschool context. The children are always connected to space, time and place and ...
    • Children’s Improvised Vocalisations : learning, communication and technology of the self 

      Knudsen, Jan Sverre (Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood;9, (4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)
      The intention of this article is to explore, challenge and expand our understandings of children’s improvised vocalisations, a fundamentally human form of expression. Based on selected examples from observation and ...
    • Climbing, Hiding and Having Fun: Schoolchildren’s Memories of Holistic Learning in a Norwegian Kindergarten 

      Aslanian, Teresa Katherine; Andresen, Anne Kristin Hansen; Baasland, Turid (Nordic Studies in Education;Vol. 40, No. 3, 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-24)
      Firmly planted in the Nordic tradition, policies that guide practice in Norwegian kindergartens emphasize a holistic approach that integrates care, play and learning and promotes well-being and development through relationships ...
    • Community composition of arctic root-associated fungi mirrors host plant phylogeny 

      Botnen, Synnøve Smebye; Thoen, Ella; Eidesen, Pernille Bronken; Krabberød, Anders Kristian; Kauserud, Håvard (FEMS Microbiology Ecology;Volume 96, Issue 11, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-12)
      The number of plant species regarded as non-mycorrhizal increases at higher latitudes, and several plant species in the High-Arctic Archipelago Svalbard have been reported as non-mycorrhizal. We used the rRNA ITS2 and 18S ...
    • Conferencing otherwise: A feminist new materialist writing experiment 

      Osgood, Jayne; Taylor, Carol A.; Andersen, Camilla Eline; Benozzo, Angelo; Carey, Neil; Elmenhorst, Constanse; Fairchild, Nikki; Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka; Moxnes, Anna Rigmor; Otterstad, Ann Merete; Rantala, Teija; Tobias-Green, Karen (Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies;volume 20, issue 6, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09-20)
      This article attempts to reconfigure hegemonic framings of “the academic conference” and thereby offer a means to (re-)encounter the spatial, temporal, and affective forces that conferences generate, differently. We are a ...
    • Consonant clusters in the speech of children with 5p deletion syndrome 

      Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Garmann, Nina Gram; Kristoffersen, Kristian Emil (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Due to motor problems and intellectual impairment, individuals with 5p deletion syndrome experience speech and language problems to varying degrees. This paper examines a corpus of spoken words and larger expressions uttered ...
    • Constructing Learning Spaces - Knowledge Development in Work-Based Learning 

      Lafton, Tove; Furu, Anne (Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-29)
      This article discusses how kindergarten, as a learning arena equal to a university college, creates learning spaces that engage or intervene in the professional learning of student teachers in early childhood education. ...
    • Convenient Fiction or Causal Factor? The Questioning of Jewish Antiquity according to Against Apion 1.2. 

      Haaland, Gunnar (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism;146, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This volume highlights and explores the crossroads between literary analysis and historical reconstruction. Most contributions examine the relationship between ‘what Josephus wrote’ in Rome and ‘what actually happened’―primarily ...
    • Critical methodologies: early childhood research studies in Norway 

      Rhedding-Jones, Jeanette; Bjelkerud, Agnes Westgaard; Giæver, Katrine; Røkholt, Eline Grelland; Holten, Ingeborg Caroline Sæbøe; Lafton, Tove; Moxnes, Anna Rigmor; Pope, Liv Alice (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    • Critical Qualitative Methodologies Reconceptualizations and Emergent Construction 

      Denzin, Norman, K.; Lincoln, Yvonna S.; MacLure, Maggie; Otterstad, Ann Merete; Torrance, Harry; Cannella, Gaile, S.; Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka; McTier, Terrence (International review of Qualitative Research;Vol. 10, No. 4, Winter 2017, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-02)
      Critical qualitative scholarship offers humble grounds and many unforeseen possibilities to seek and promote justice, critical global engagement, and diverse epistemologies. This dialogical and interactive paper is based ...
    • Cross-linguistic variation in word-initial cluster production in adult and child language: evidence from English and Norwegian 

      Garmann, Nina Gram; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Hansen, Pernille; Holm, Elisabeth; Post, Brechtje; Payne, Elinor (Journal of Child Language;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-28)
      Young children simplify word initial consonant clusters by omitting or substituting one (or both) of the elements. Vocalic insertion, coalescence and metathesis are said to be used more seldom (McLeod, van Doorn & Reed, ...
    • Culturally Diverse Students in Higher Education: Challenges and Possibilities within Academic Literacy Practices 

      Tkachenko, Elena; Bratland, Kari; Johansen, Jorunn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      With growing diversity in the population, higher education faces a new situation with increasing student diversity. In our paper, we will explore questions concerning the consequences student ...
    • The current status of singing in kindergartens in Norway – An exploratory study 

      Knigge, Jens; Danbolt, Ingrid Anette; Hagen, Liv Anna; Haukenes, Siri (Nordic Research in Music Education;Vol. 2, No. 2, 2021, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-17)
      This study investigates the current situation regarding singing in Norwegian kindergartens. More specifically, how often kindergartens offer singing possibilities to children, in what situations singing is embedded, how ...
    • The current status of singing in kindergartens in Norway: An exploratory study 

      Knigge, Jens; Danbolt, Ingrid Anette; Hagen, Liv Anna; Haukenes, Siri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This study investigates the current situation regarding singing in Norwegian kindergartens. More specifically, how often kindergartens offer singing possibilities to children, in what situations singing is embedded, how ...