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Karbonfangst i lys av generasjonsrettferdighet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09)Ideen om karbonfangst som klimaløsning forutsetter lagring av CO2 i geologiske formasjoner over flere tusen år. Med dette tidsperspektivet står karbonfangst i en særstilling blant aktuelle klimatiltak. Dette gjør spørsmål ... -
Challenges in making school social work a reality in Brazilian schools
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)At the end of 2019, the presence of social workers became mandatory in Brazilian state-funded elementary schools. This brief note explores the challenges schools may have in translating the new legislation from paper to ... -
Anticipating the societal transformation required to solve the environmental crisis in the 21st century
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01)This article introduces an ecosemiotic approach to the two great challenges facing humanity in the 21st century: solving an escalating environmental crisis, while also safeguarding and further improving human living ... -
Exploring Youths’ Willingness to Engage with Civil Society and Public Sector Institutions: The Untapped Potential of Religious Communities in Preventing Violent Extremism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)Research on preventing violent extremism is still in its infancy concerning the question of who the target audiences might be willing to talk to if they need help. To explore this question, we utilized the “Young in Oslo” ... -
Breaking bad news: Child welfare workers' informing parents of care order proceedings
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)Removing children from parents through care orders is a highly intrusive intervention. This article explores how 12 experienced Norwegian child welfare workers perceive and cope with breaking bad news to parents of the ... -
Making the Umwelt Bubble of the Modern Synthesis Burst
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)Noble rightly emphasizes that some modern evolutionary biologists´ neglect of agency is consequential with regard to our understanding of the natural world and real-world ecological developments. I elaborate on biosemiotic ... -
Is it love? A study of young people’s personal impressions and experiences of relationships in residential care in a Norwegian treatment collective.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)The main objective of this study was to gain insight into young people’s experiences with positive emotional relationships with staff in residential care. Because positive relationships have been shown to be of great ... -
The Right’s Time to Fly? Exploring the Possibility of Right-Wing Extremists’ Use of UAVs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)UAVs have been used by non-state actors in the past decade. However, no known attack by right-wing extremists has been carried out using them. Håvard Haugstvedt reviews recent developments in attacks – through online ... -
Navigating the multifaceted landscape of culture and social work A qualitative evidence synthesis of cultural competence and cultural sensitivity in practice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)Faced with increased global migration, there is a growing concern that social workers need more training in- and knowledge of culture and ethnicity. These understandings have come to influence research, education, practice, ... -
Dementia as Zeitgeist: Social problem construction and the role of a contemporary distraction
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06)The global impact of dementia on social, political, economic, and health systems is of contemporary concern. As the world’s population ages, differentially, across countries in the Global North and Global South, dementia ... -
Antimicrobial resistance challenging professional learning in three LMICs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)Purpose Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a huge global challenge calling for changes in learning and working in health-care settings. The purpose of this study is to examine tensions expressed by professionals involved ... -
Ethical dilemmas in field placements: The experiences of social work students in Norway and possible implications for social work education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-10)The study reported in this paper focuses on social work students’ experiences of ethical challenges, including dilemmas, during their field placements. Moreover, drawing on dialogical approach and the results of the thematic ... -
Subjectivity and change in process of supervision
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-10)Supervising texts with a bachelor thesis as its outcome, has been prioritized in the Norwegian Early Childhood Teacher Education. The focus has been on recruiting enough supervisors, and on qualifying supervisors. There ... -
‘The art of kindergarten drop off’: how young Norwegian-Somali parents perform ethnicity to avoid reports to Child Welfare Services
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)Denne artikkelen bygger på en etnografisk studie av somaliske foreldre i Oslo, om deres syn på det norske barnevernet. I denne artikkelen utforsker vi hvordan unge andregenerasjons foreldre fremstiller en norsk ... -
Social workers understanding of extended family's position in child welfare in Lithuania, Chile and Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)Child welfare services around the world deal with families and family complexities. The study from Chile, Lithuania and Norway explores how social workers define family and more specific the position of extended families ... -
The Use of a Client Feedback System in Activation Encounters
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-05)This article builds on 13 audio-recorded and transcribed encounters between counsellors and users in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, where a client-feedback system plays a mediating role in interactions. ... -
‘Warm Eyes’, ‘Warm Breath’, ‘Heart Warmth’: Using Aroha (Love) and Warmth to Reconceptualise and Work towards Best Interests in Child Protection
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)The attributes ‘warm eyes’, ‘breathe warm air’, ‘heart warmth’ and aroha (love) guide our work in child protection. These quotes are from a young person from the Change Factory 2020, a MFAMILY student in 2020 and Jan Erik ... -
The role of social support for social workers engaged in preventing radicalization and violent extremism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08)Over the last decade, social workers have been engaged in prevention work against violent extremism in the United Kingdom and the Nordic countries. There are scholarly findings of professional uncertainty among social ... -
Research Note: ‘How Can I Get Them Offstage?’ – Critical Reflections on a Researcher’s Approach to Qualitative Data Collection with Social Workers Involved in Preventing Violent Extremism in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06)Researching sensitive topics, such as individuals about whom concern for radicalisation and violent extremism has been raised, demands a thoroughly contemplated approach. This is necessary for establishing trust with and ... -
Current human ecology in the Amazon and beyond: A multi-scale ecosemiotic approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Umwelt theory is an expression of von Uexküll’s subjective biology and as such usually applied in analysis of individual animals, yet it is fundamentally relational and therefore also suitable for analysis of more complex ...
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