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Teachers’ use of open questions: investigating the various functions of open questions as a mediating tool in early literacy education
(Education Inquiry;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11-22)This study identifies the various functions of open questions in whole-class teaching in language arts classrooms in primary school, and it explores how these questions may work as a mediating tool. Open questions are ... -
The Power of Ethnography: A Useful Approach to Researching Politics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article explores and argues the suitability of ethnographic methods, primarily participant observation, in the research of politics, and in the construction of concepts for theory building. The argument is sustained ... -
This is what I learned about the body on social media: PETE students’ experiences with body pressure and body positivity
(Sport, Education and Society;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01-12)In physical education (PE), learning about and with the body is central. During their physical education teacher education (PETE) program, students are presented with different understandings and practices regarding the ... -
Tore Linné Eriksen og de store utviklingsspørsmålene
(FLEKS-Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and Practice;2(2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This article reviews some of Tore Linné Eriksen’s works within development studies/development research. In a recent introduction to development studies from 2013, he presented development research as a cross-disciplinary ... -
Tradisjonelle praksiser hos maasaier i Tanzania
(Student paper, others, 2017)Maasaier er en etnisk gruppe som lever i både Tanzania og Kenya (28toomany, 2013, s. 37). De lever med sterke kulturelle tradisjoner, som står overfor stort press fra en stat som stadig er i utvikling (Pharam, s. 5). For ... -
Training Public Service Employees in How to Communicate Via Interpreter in Norway: Achievements and Challenges./Formación De Los Empleados De Los Servicios Públicos Sobre Cómo Comunicarse a Través De Los Intérpretes En Norguega: Logros y Desafios.
(FITISPos International Journal;Vol 6, No 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The comprehensive governmental approach to interpreting in the public sector in Norway includes interpreter accreditation, interpreter training, and the Norwegian National Register of Interpreters. In this article, we argue ... -
«Ubehagets pedagogikk» – en inngang til kritisk refleksjon og inkluderende undervisning?
(FLEKS;Vol 6 No 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)“Pedagogy of discomfort” was first introduced by Boler in 1999 as a teaching practice that invites educators and students to engage in critical inquiry regarding values and norms, and to examine constructed self-images and ... -
Uformell økonomi
(Student paper, others, 2017)Til vårt feltarbeid i Otjiwarongo, Namibia valgte vi temaet uformell økonomi. Vi visste på forhånd at den uformelle sektoren i regionen var stor. Mer presist hadde vi et ønske om å se nærmere på hvordan arbeidsforholdene ... -
Ungdom og HIV: En studie av skoleungdom i Tsumeb, Namibia
(Student paper, others, 2017)Namibia er et av landene i Afrika som har hatt svært høy utbredelse av HIV over lengre tid (WHO-AFRO, 2011). Epidemien er utfordrende for landets sosiale og økonomiske utvikling og har vært et faktum siden det første ... -
Utfordringer ved prima vista tolking i asylintervjuer
(FLEKS-Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and Practice;2(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Every year the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) conducts approximately 10,000 interpreter-mediated asylum interviews in Norway. Each asylum interview ends with the interpreter providing a sight translation of the ... -
'Vi bor her fordi vi ikke har noe annet alternativ': Sårbar stillstand gjennom 40 år i en slum i New Delhi
(Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)India er et av verdens mest ulike land med et hierarkisk kastesystem som rangerer folk som iboende forskjellige, og med stor ulikhet mellom fattige og rike. Det er i de store megabyene at ulikhetene er størst og mest ... -
Water as More than Commons or Commodity: Understanding Water Management Practices in Yanque, Peru
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019): Global warming, shrinking glaciers and water scarcity pose challenges to the governance of fresh water in Peru. On the one hand, Peruʼs water management regime and its legal framework allow for increased private involvement ... -
Water, Life, and Loss: Aguasociality and Environmental Change in the Peruvian Andes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Colca Valley community Yanque, this article investigates how small-scale farmers in the Southern Peruvian Andes relate to water and environmental change in intimate ways. ... -
When language recognition and language shaming go hand in hand – sign language ideologies in Sweden and Norway
(Deafness and Education International;Vol. 21, No 2–3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-18)This article focuses on the similar approaches to, yet different contexts of legal recognition of sign languages in Sweden and Norway. We use examples from sign language documentation (both scientific and popular), legislation ... -
Where ordinary laws fall short: ‘riverine rights’ and constitutionalism
(Griffith Law Review;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09-29)Laws that recognise rivers and their ecosystems as legal persons or subjects with their own rights, duties and obligations have been associated with theories of environmental constitutionalism. However, the extent to, and ... -
Why does Norway give emergency aid?
(Student paper, others, 2017)We are two students at the first year of Development Studies at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. Since both of us were interested in aid, we decided to write our fieldwork report on emergency ... -
Youth at the Margins of Citizenship: A Review of European Youth Policy
(Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2015)