Browsing Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (HF-IKS) by Title
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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 ... -
Rhetorics of Species Revivalism and Biotechnology – A Roundtable Dialogue
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This informal dialogue contextualises and explores contemporary practices of nonhuman animal gene modification in de-extinction projects. Looking at recent developments in biotechnology’s role in de extinction sciences and ... -
Sakrale stadnamn
(Journal article, 2012)The study of sacral place-names is the subject of some sixty articles in the first ninety-nine volumes of Namn och bygd. The authors discuss toponyms supposedly referring to earlier cult and religious conceptions, e.g. ... -
Seansar og minnet om dei døde
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-06)At dei døde lever vidare i minnet vårt, er ingen oppsiktsvekkande påstand i det norske samfunnet. På kva måte eit slikt etterliv går føre seg, utgjer likevel førestillingar og praksisar av ymse og omdiskuterte slag. ... -
Shifting Narratives of Electricity and Energy in Periods of Transition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This special issue aims at providing nuanced and multi-layered understandings of historical choices regarding, and perceptions of, electric supply and electrical technologies, by taking into consideration diverse groups, ... -
Side, Kråke og Mula : Teig- og naturnamn som er utvikla av oblik kasusform
(Journal article, 2014)Many farm names reflecting an oblique case in Old Norse are found in south-western Norway, e.g. Bakka (from ON Bakka, oblique case of ON bakki m. ‘hill, slope’) and Brekke (from ON Brekku, oblique case of ON brekka f. ... -
«Skål! Skål! Skål!»: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla som spillramme for ludisk vikingidentitet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)I oktober 2022 ble følgende kunngjort på dataspillserien Assassin’s Creeds offisielle Twitter-konto: «Over 20 million Vikings have embarked on their epic journey to Valhalla. Standing strong by Eivor’s side. From Norway ... -
Slowing Time in the Museum in a Period of Rapid Extinction
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Extinction of nonhuman species, as well as human-induced environmental change in general, is happening at a frighteningly fast pace. A recent global joint scientific assessment suggests that around a million animal and ... -
Spinning a Yarn: Mythic Storytelling in Isabel Armstrong's One Hundred Nights of Hero and Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Narrative is everywhere. We shape narratives based on our lives, and our lives are similarly shaped by the narratives that we mirror ourselves in. As noted by Peter Brooks in his seminal study Reading the Plot, however, ... -
Språk i småbyen: varietet og variasjon.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)For det første søker dette arbeidet å dokumentere den betydelige graden av variasjon som kan forekomme i tradisjonelle bymål, også variasjon som ikke uten videre kan settes i direkte sammenheng med sosial lagdeling. Dette ... -
Stability in the integrated bilingual grammar: Tense exponency in North American Norwegian
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07)Decades of research on bilingual grammars corroborate the integrated nature of these systems, leading to the conjecture that these representations are ‘shared’ (Marian & Spivey 2003, Kroll & Gollan 2014, Putnam et al. ... -
Structural similarity in third language acquisition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Language learners typically experience cross-linguistic influence (CLI) from one or several previously acquired languages when acquiring an additional language. Learners of a second language (L2) are influenced by their ... -
The structure of neuropsychoanalytic explanations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-05)The “mechanism approach” to scientific explanation is to explain a phenomenon by showing how it is generated through the interactions among its constituents; that is, the explanation elucidates the internal causal structures ... -
Student conceptions of religion : Ethics and cosmology as essential elements
(Chapter, 2022)This abductively oriented empirical article investigates the use of ‘essences’ and ‘central themes’ in student-made ‘religions’ created as an optional written assignment among Norwegian upper secondary school students. The ... -
Students appropriation of space in education outside the classroom : Some aspects on physical activity and health from a pilot Study with 5th-graders in Germany
(Chapter, 2021)In this article, we explore pupils’ appropriation of space in educational settings that take place outside the classroom. We first introduce the much-neglected concepts of place and space in educational contexts. Hereby, ... -
Teachers’ Use of Film in the History Classroom: A Survey of 19 High School Teachers in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article explores the use of films by Norwegian high school teachers in history classes. Empirical data was collected through audio recordings of semi-structured interviews with 19 history teachers from the same urban ... -
Teaching History on the Scale of the Anthropocene: Three Ethical Challenges
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The Anthropocene strikes at the heart of the principle that making moral judgements involves a rich understanding of historical context. This article elaborates three subsequent challenges for history educators. First, ... -
Teaching the Environmental Humanities: International Perspectives and Practices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, ... -
The Promise of Kiruna's Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c. 1901-1915
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Iron ore mining in the Norrbotten region of Sweden began in the early years of the twentieth century as a commercially uncertain and even dangerous proposition. But even before it began to generate profits, public debate ...