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Who becomes a teacher and why?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper reports on a comprehensive review of international evidence, synthesising the findings of some of the strongest empirical work on the main factors influencing people's decisions to be teachers or not. Four search ... -
“Who can do what to whom and get away with it”: An Investigation of Power Structures in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Naomi Alderman’s The Power
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis explores the conditions that constitute and uphold a power hierarchy, emphasised by the two feminist dystopian novels The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Power by Naomi Alderman. The two novels in ... -
Who needs sensory education?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)Customarily, reflections on the need to educate sensory and bodily enactments with the world, take for granted that it is the child who must be educated. However, the educational passage of becoming 'rational' and 'grown ... -
Who's afraid of The Big Bad Wolf?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-05-13)Fairy tales are an influential aspect within our culture. We grow up hearing and reading these stories in different mediums throughout our lives, which is why these narratives are easily identifiable. This thesis aims to ... -
“whore and little nasty sluten pispott whore”. A study in the use of swearwords in English courtrooms from 1500-1913
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)Swearwords are words in all its respective meaning; they convey meaning and are made of sounds found in the English language. However, more than any other group of words they have the power to hurt, offend, and are by some ... -
Why do early mathematics skills predict later mathematics and reading achievement? The role of executive function
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)A robust association between young children’s early mathematical proficiency and later academic achievement is well established. Less is known about the mechanisms through which early mathematics skills may contribute to ... -
Why Is Inflectional Morphology Difficult to Borrow?—Distributing and Lexicalizing Plural Allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In this article we examine the allomorphic variation found in Pennsylvania Dutch plurality. In spite of over 250 years of variable contact with English, Pennsylvania Dutch plural allomorphy has remained largely distinct ... -
William Lloyd Garrison: Abolisjonistbevegelsen gjennom 200 år
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)Denne oppgaven vil utforske hvordan oppfatningen av William Lloyd Garrison, og abolisjonistbevegelsen, har forandret og utviklet seg over de siste nesten 200 årene, både i offentligheten og i akademia. -
Winston Churchill og dronning Elizabeth II - om representasjoner og forholdet mellom statsminister og makr.
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Representasjoner av kjente folk er intet nytt. Det er blitt skrevet uttalelige biografier og litterære tekster om folk forfatterne mener har en historisk betydning. Det samme gjelder Winston Churchill og tidligere dronning ... -
With Strong and Active Faith Collectivism in the Age of FDR 1933-1945
(Master thesis, 2021)A study of language and social progress in America during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By analysing the power residing in the presidency, this thesis aim to uncover the extent of president Roosevelt's ... -
Without a Word: Bonding with Northern Nature in Lene Ask’s "Du"
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Lene Ask’s wordless picturebook Du (2016) renders the story of a day in the life of a little girl who has recently moved with her mother and baby sibling into a wooden house in the middle of a birch forest. The forest is ... -
Women’s agency in Judith, Beowulf and The Wife’s Lament: Are the characters passive in their own femininity?
(Master thesis, 2022)Protagonists or main characters are the center of a story. The plot revolves around these characters, and the readers are influenced to see the story and events through their perspectives. Using New Formalist theory and ... -
Words Are Wind: Investigating Literacy and Power in A Song of Ice and Fire.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-11)The proposed thesis seeks to investigate how some of the characters of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R.Martin are limited by different social structures of masculinity, physical prowess, feudal power ... -
The Work Context and Mentoring: Do Job Characteristics Influence Mentoring Received?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of job characteristics on mentoring received. A survey questionnaire was sent to 435 employees from 29 preschools in Norway and 284 responses were returned, a ... -
The work of leading mathematical discussion in kindergarten : A Norwegian case study
(Chapter, 2021)The core practice of leading mathematical discussions has received considerable attention in the school context, but few studies have investigated this practice in a kindergarten context. This study investigates what tasks ... -
Work-related stress of elementary school principals in Finland: Coping strategies and support
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)The present study aimed to investigate elementary school principals’ self-reported causes of work-related stress, their coping strategies to deal with stress and the support they need for their leadership. Seventy-six ... -
Workplace mentoring: Investigating the influence of job characteristics on mentoring
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)No previous research has explored the relationship between three categories of job characteristics and mentoring provided. A cross-sectional design based on a survey questionnaire was sent to employees from 29 preschools ... -
‘World Environmental Education Congresses’ og naturfagenes rolle innen utdanning for bærekraftig utvikling.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Artikkelen ser på naturfagenes rolle innen utdanning for bærekraftig utvikling som den avspeiles på World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC), en ledende internasjonal miljøkonferanse siden 2003. I et historisk perspektiv, ... -
Writing for Pleasure and the Teaching of Writing at the Primary Level: A Teacher Cognition Case Study
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)This research project is a collective case study exploring teacher cognition in relation to the teaching of first language (L1) writing at the primary level in England. The study places particular emphasis on writing for ... -
Writing Men on the Margins: Joseph Mitchell, Masculinity, and the Flaneur
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study introduces the philosophies of the flâneur—a figure associated with the acts of wandering, observing, and reporting the realities of life on the city streets—to offer a critical reconsideration of a sociological ...