Centre for Learning Environment
Recent Submissions
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Children’s basic needs : How do we create resilience in children, so they can thrive and sustain positive development?
(Chapter, 2023)What are children’s basic needs and how can we create a resilient environment? In this chapter the factors that are needed to create a safe and positive, healthy development for children will be presented. Some of these ... -
Higher-Order Thinking in Early Childhood Education and Care: Mediating young children's higher-order thinking skills. The role of mathematics, coding toys and educators
(PhD thesis UiS;745, Doctoral thesis, 2024-02-23)Background: Higher-order thinking skills are those skills that allow children to not only acquire but also to process knowledge as they prepare to meet the challenges posed by the 21st century. Research to date has highlighted ... -
Prestige norms of moral disengagement, prejudice, and ethnic bullying: a study among Italian early adolescents
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study aimed to explore the association between prestige norms of moral disengagement and ethnic bullying among Italian early adolescents. Prestige norms of moral disengagement were also examined as possible moderator ... -
Sex differences in cyberbullying behavior and victimization and perceived parental control before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study explores the associations between social media user sex and cyberbullying and victimization before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parental control was examined as a possible moderator of these associations, ... -
Children's Multisensory Experiences in Museums: How Olfaction Interacts with Colour
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-12)This case study was designed to engage children’s sense of smell through a story-related museum exhibition. Children’s responses to the exhibition, with particular attention to their olfactory perceptions of the odors at ... -
Beyond Personalisation: Embracing Democratic Learning within Artificially Intelligent Education Systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This essay explains how, from the theoretical perspective of Basil Bernstein's three “conditions for democracy,” the current pedagogy of artificially intelligent personalized learning seems inadequate. Building on Bernstein's ... -
A Systematic Scoping Review on Research Focusing on Professionals’ Attitudes toward School Attendance Problems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-01)This systematic scoping review was conducted to determine the extent of existing research on professionals’ attitudes toward school attendance problems (SAPs), including school refusal (SR), truancy (TR), school withdrawal ... -
Faulty screen time measures hamper national policies: here is a way to address it
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Following widespread reliance on online interactions during COVID-19, Western governments are strategizing and launching new plans for children's use of screens. It is healthy to debate, for example, the ethics of artificial ... -
Systemrettet sakkyndighetsarbeid i pedagogisk-psykologisk tjeneste (PPT) - en eksplorerende studie av samarbeidsutfordringer
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Systemretting av sakkyndighetsarbeidet handler om å knytte det sakkyndige utredningsarbeidet i pedagogisk-psykologisk tjeneste (PP-tjenesten) til utvikling av skolen, i én helhetlig arbeidsoppgave. Avhandlingens hensikt ... -
Multisensory Reading in Early Childhood: Systematic Review with Theoretical Guidance for Human Development Studies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Our systematic qualitative analysis advances the field of human development with an integrative review of sensory research in children’s reading of books and e-books. Based on a systematic literature review of 35 papers, ... -
Teaching practices mediating the effect of teachers’ psychological stress, and not physiological on their visual focus of attention
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between teachers’ (N = 53) physiological and psychological stress and their visual focus of attention as well as the mediating effect of teaching practices ... -
Gains and challenges with the Classroom Assessment Scoring System in a social pedagogical tradition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction: This qualitative study explores how Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professionals’ perceptions of gains and challenges using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS, Pre-K and Toddler) within ... -
Exploring professionals’ perceptions of a districtwide implementation of a CLASS-related intervention in the Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care System
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Given that 98% of Norwegian children attend early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres (Statistics Norway, 2023), ECEC quality influences children’s development considerably (Burchinal et al., 2008a; Yoshikawa et ... -
Adolescents' digital career aspirations: Evidence for gendered pathways in a digital future
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-10)Introduction Computers and technology are still perceived as a male domain. As a result of this “digital gender gap” boys aspire careers in the information and communication technology (ICT) branches much more than girls. ... -
Teachers’ support for growth mindset and its links with students’ growth mindset, academic engagement, and achievements in lower secondary school
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Academic engagement has been shown to deteriorate in lower secondary school, and it is necessary to find ways to prevent this so that students’ engagement and achievements do not decline irrevocably. Teacher support for ... -
Norwegian Research on ECEC Quality from 2010 to 2021—A Systematic Scoping Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This review concerns how quality in ECEC is thematized and examined in Norwegian research published in 2010–2021. The review contributes to developing relevant professional knowledge and insight into what quality in ECEC ... -
Beyond Personalization: Embracing Democratic Learning Within Artificially Intelligent Systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This essay explains how, from the theoretical perspective of Basil Bernstein's three “conditions for democracy,” the current pedagogy of artificially intelligent personalized learning seems inadequate. Building on Bernstein's ... -
Tracing the smells of childhoods with an olfactory research inquiry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper proposes a multi-method olfactory inquiry to document the rich ways in which children's sense of smell is embodied and embedded in an interplay of senses and socio-spatial relationships. I approach olfaction as ... -
Social Anxiety and Bullying Victimization in Children and Early Adolescents: The Role of Developmental Period and Immigrant Status
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-09)Research reveals that social anxiety may be predictive of bullying victimization, but it is not clear whether this relation stands for different groups of youth. The present study examines this association by employing a ... -
Experiment protocol: Exploring the sense of smell in digital book reading
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper outlines the background and design, and their rationale, for conducting a small-scale experiment to examine the effect of olfactory stimulation on children's reading outcomes. The theoretical underpinnings of ...