Faculty of Arts and Education
Recent Submissions
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Olfactoscapes in Malawi: Exploring the smells children like and are exposed to in semi-urban classrooms
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Moving beyond the “canned” lens on literacies dominant in contemporary literacy studies in Malawi, this study connects theoretical perspectives on sensory and critical literacies to original empirical data on children’s ... -
Prolegomena til en studie om den danske litteraturen i DDR med et sideblikk til Peter Seeberg
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Die DDR definierte sich gerne als Leseland und die Publikation ausländischer Literatur wurde häufig kulturpolitisch instrumentalisiert. Der folgende Beitrag gibt einen kurzen Überblick über die wichtigsten Funktionsmechanismen ... -
Study Protocol: Text Performers - Using Speech-to-Text Technoøogy to Support Students With Dyslexiab During Text Prodution
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This protocol article describes the background, theoretical framework, and methods for two intervention studies using assistive technology to produce text. The participants will be 15 10–12-year-old students with dyslexia ... -
Kritisk lesing og dybdelesing i skolens litteraturarbeid
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Social competencies, classroom relationships, and academic engagement: A latent change score modeling approach among lower secondary school student
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This longitudinal study applied latent change score (LCS) modeling to examine individual changes in students’ (N = 1205) academic engagement (behavioral and emotional), social competencies (relationship skills and social ... -
Efficacy of digital picture book enhancements grounded in multimedia learning principles: Dependent on age?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)We designed an experiment with stratified randomization to investigate the effects of visual and auditory enhancements in digital picture books on comprehension and incidental word learning. Participants were 183 children ... -
Children’s early reading through the sense of smell: a typology of olfactory engagement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)We investigated adult–child shared book reading of olfactory books that stimulate the sense of smell through scratch-and-sniff surfaces. We observed ten adult–child dyads reading olfactory books at home and documented the ... -
Parent–child shared reading of scratch-and-sniff books: the communicative affordance of olfaction
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study extends the research on shared book reading (SBR) by specifically examining the role of smell in parent–child SBR sessions observed at home. Drawing on qualitative methods, we analysed the verbal engagement of ... -
An explosive landscape: Arranging the barnacle goose on the Solway Firth
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)By the end of the Second World War, the Svalbard barnacle goose population had dwindled to a couple of hundred birds. Flying in from the Arctic to spend the winters on the Solway Firth (the estuary that separates England ... -
Teachers’ occupational stress and perceived support in Finland and Estonia during the COVID-19 lockdown
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study examined teachers’ experiences of occupational stress in Finland and Estonia during the COVID-19 lockdown, and whether their stress would be related to their experiences of support from colleagues and leaders. ... -
Teachers’ and students’ experiences using the New Citizens tool: a study of belonging in culturally diverse classrooms
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study explores how teachers and students from culturally diverse upper secondary classrooms experienced the potential for enhanced belonging through the use of question cards from New Citizens. The methods include the ... -
Digital Edible Literacies: Ephemeral and Highly Affective
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Metamodern Nature of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Synopsis and Gameplay
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Games are valuable cultural phenomena — they might indicate social, cultural, and even political trends and agendas. Moreover, they might bare an accurate representation of a common structure of a feeling. Conversely, video ... -
A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870-1900
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Towards the end of the nineteenth century, British colonists in Jamaica became increasingly exasperated by the damage caused to their sugar plantations by rats. In 1872, a British planter attempted to solve this problem ... -
Patterns of teachers’ self-efficacy and attitudes toward inclusive education associated with teacher emotional support, collective teacher efficacy, and collegial collaboration
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Teacher self-reports were used to investigate patterns of their self-efficacy and attitudes toward inclusive education in association with teacher emotional support, collective teacher efficacy, and collegial collaboration. ... -
Mechanisms and fundamental principles in Freudian explanations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The aim of this paper is to analyze the structure of explanation in Freudian psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis contains some fundamental psychoanalytic and philosophical principles – for example, determinism, the laws governing ... -
Affordances of an international campus for intercultural learning: Views from MA students and faculty in two US-based teacher education programs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper reports on a qualitative study which is part of a larger project on the affordances of an international campus for intercultural (IC) learning. The research examined two MA programs at a US postgraduate institution, ... -
Childism and philosophy: A conceptual co-exploration
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article is a conceptual co-exploration of the relationship between philosophy and childism. It draws upon a colloquium in December 2021 at the Childism Institute at Rutgers University. Nine co-authors lay out and ... -
Capturing epistemic reflexivity for teacher educators teaching about/to/for diversity in teacher education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Internationally, there is a growing body of evidence which shows that newly graduated teachers do not feel prepared to teach the increasingly diverse student body in contemporary classrooms. However, to date, we have limited ... -
Acquisition of the majority language in Norwegian ECEC: Relating language-learning environment in ECEC to expressive vocabulary
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Developing proficiency in the language(s) spoken in any given society is crucial for the inclusion and attainment of children in that society. With an enrolment rate in Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC) ...