Browsing Department of Cultural Studies and Languages (HF-IKS) by Title
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PSYCHIC SURVIVAL: Sovereignty, Madness and Anxiety in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)I argue that through representations of ‘madness’ in The Swan Book, Alexis Wright reclaims and (re-)defines Indigenous sovereignty as embodied, that is, something which for Indigenous people is felt and realised through ... -
Psykologi - et flernivåperspektiv
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Psychology – a multi-level perspective Traditional models of theory reduction and explanation (the deductive-nomological model) may be adequate models for understanding what characterizes physics, but they don’t seem to ... -
Pupils' and teachers' reflections in the wake of the 2020, 2021 and 2022 cancellation of written exams: The benefits and drawbacks of written examination in the English subject at Norwegian upper secondary schools
(Master thesis, 2022)This study concerns how cancelation of centralized exams in the English subject in 2020 and 2021 affected teachers and pupils at Norwegian upper secondary schools. The aim of the study is to describe and reflect on how the ... -
Purposeful Plainness: The Politics of George Orwell’s Prose Style
(Master thesis, 2021)This master’s thesis aims to explain how to read George Orwell as a writer and prose stylist who strived to make political writing into an art. It studies how textual effects of his prose style connect with his political ... -
Rammer for kreativitet: En studie av hvordan elever i en klasse på Vg3 opplever rammer for kreativ skriving
(Masteroppgave/UIS-UH-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05-11)Å utvikle elevenes kreative ferdigheter er sentralt i fremtidens skole. Denne masteroppgaven retter fokus mot elevenes kreative skriving i norskfaget. Den overordnede problemstillingen er: Hvordan opplever elever i en ... -
Raplyrikkens potensial i norskfaget
(Master thesis, 2021)Lyrikken har alltid hatt en sentral plass i norskfaget. Likevel tyder forskning på at dagens litteraturundervisning er lærebokstyrt og at den preges av en skjult litterær kanon. Forskning viser også at norskundervisningen ... -
The Rationality of Science and the Inevitability of Defining Prior Beliefs in Empirical Research
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The recent “campaign” in Nature against the concept of “significance testing” (Amrhein et al., 2019), with more than 800 supporting signatories of leading scientists, can be considered as an important milestone and somewhat ... -
Re-Naming Jerusalem: A Note on Associative Etymology in the Vernacular North
(Chapter, 2021)As is the case with several cities and places that they came in contact with, the Norsemen had their own name for Jerusalem: Jórsalir, sometimes expanded and amplified to Jórsalaborg “the city of Jerusalem” or Jórsalaland ... -
Reading and writing workshops in the EFL classroom: A longitudinal study of the workshop-based method in a Norwegian 8th grade EFL class.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05-12)The current study is based on the implementation of a reading and writing workshop-based program in the English as a foreign language (EFL) lessons of a Norwegian 8th grade class of nine pupils. Seven of these pupils ... -
Reading pictograms and signs - the need for visual literacy
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)Reading pictograms and signs – the need for visual literacy is a study of the impact pictorial signs have on the social and physical environment, and, by extension, on media and visual culture. From the many possibilities ... -
Reaksjoner på Svalbardtraktaten fra den norske pressen
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Svalbardtrakteten, som sikrer Norge kontroll over Svalbard, ble underskrevet i 1920 og trådte i kraft i 1925. Formålet med denne oppgaven er å svare på hvilke reaksjoner traktaten skapte i norsk presse. Dette vil gjøres ... -
Reflections on multicultural education: Teachers’ experiences of teaching multicultural classes
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)This thesis investigates teachers’ experiences of and attitudes towards multicultural education and its implementation in Norwegian schools. A further aspiration of this paper is to examine the extent to which teachers ... -
Representations of French linguistic borrowing in early modern England
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)This thesis examines the early modern debates surrounding the incorporation of French loanwords into the English vocabulary through an analysis of the prefaces of a variety of early modern English dictionaries and a selection ... -
Representations of Home and Identity for the Migrant Woman in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017)
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-05)This thesis analyzes the representation of the migrant woman in Moshin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) by focusing on the text’s engagement with the diasporic concepts of home and identity. In essence, this study explores the ... -
Representations of the Feminine in Selected Poems, Short-Stories, and Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe
(Master thesis, 2022)A recurring theme in Poe’s poems and prose is his portrayal of the death of beautiful women. As such, the representation of the feminine is a frequent topic of interest in scholarly discussions on his writing. The traditional ... -
Response to the Global Climate Crisis in The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
(Master thesis, 2023)Results of anthropogenic environmental changes have become even more visible in the recent years with the ongoing climate crisis calling for sustainable alternatives to our current ways of living globally. Fiction has been ... -
Rethinking Racism in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05-11)The issue of race in America in the twenty-first century is still a turbulent matter. The end of segregation in schools, politics, marriages and workplaces created a mask that hid racial inequalities and injustices (Whitmarsh ... -
Retorikk i skolen. En studie av hvordan elever på Vg3 oppfatter retorikk.
(Master thesis, 2021)Retorikk har hatt en viktig posisjon i skolen og i norskfaget siden Kunnskapsløftet i 2006 (K06), og ble ytterligere styrket ved dets revisjon i 2013 og i Fagfornyelsen i 2020. Retorikk er i dag tydeligst til stede i ... -
Retorisk analyse av troverdigheten i Åsne Seierstads To søstre
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)I denne oppgaven har jeg gjennomført en retorisk analyse av sakprosaboken To søstre. Jeg har lagt vekt på å vurdere historiens troverdighet. Jeg har tatt utgangspunkt i teori om klassisk retorikk for å undersøke problemstillingen ...