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Waist circumference thresholds and cardiorespiratory fitness
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-04)Purpose This study's purpose was to examine whether established risk categories of waist circumference (WC)—normal, high risk, and very high health risk—reflected significant differences in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) ... -
Welfare and migration: Transitions into and out of welfare benefits receipt among Polish migrant workers in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IGIS/2013;, Master thesis, 2013)Aiming at filling the void of knowledge on the micro foundations of immigrants’ interactions with the host country’s welfare, this dissertation discusses the dynamic model of work-welfare transitions. It explains how ... -
What are skills? Some fundamental reflections
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)When the concept of ‘skill’ is used in reading and writing research or more generally in linguis-tic research, it is rarely made the subject of detailed and precise definitions or reflections. The present article is a ... -
What Characterizes Nordic Research on Initial Teacher Education: A Systematic Scoping Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The main objective of this systematic scoping review is to shed light on ITE research in the Nordic countries during the past decade. The review includes 830 studies, following established procedures. Based on our analyses ... -
What happens if …? Uncertainty in games and climate change education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Uncertainty complicates the issue of climate change. Climate change education should therefore help students to address uncertainty. The question, then, is how to educate students about that which is ‘in the dark’. Here, ... -
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-07)My argument addresses a significant history of philosophical racism–a term borrowed from Mogobe Ramose. The argument is: philosophical racism makes the racist philosophically poor, too. I propose that two philosophical ... -
When a woman replaces a man: evaluating coach dismissal in professional tennis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07)Purpose Previous research indicates gender discrimination in leadership positions. However, performance and not gender should be the key indicator when evaluating a leader. We examine the performance effect of changing ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
'You are putting yourself in their position': Facilitating 6th-grade EFL students' interrogation of multiple viewpoints through Image Theatre
(Master thesis, 2023)Abstract This small-scale qualitative participatory study examines the potential of Image Theatre to facilitate 6th grade EFL students' interrogation of multiple viewpoints. Image Theatre (Boal, 1995) is a drama convention ... -
‘You could win Masterchef with this soup. Can I get some more?’ Request production and the impact of instruction on young EFL learners
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-04)This paper presents a study exploring the impact of concept-based instruction of requests with two intact classes of young learners of English (aged 12–13) in a Norwegian primary school. Based on sociocultural theory, the ... -
"YOU-ARE-ME": A case study on social theatre’s potential to create space for intercultural dialogue in the context of Bologna, Italy
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IGIS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-06-30)In a time characterized by globalized migration patterns and consequential cultural diversity, intercultural conflicts, prejudice and xenophobia are potential threats to peaceful co- existence. However, research on the ... -
Young Greek Cypriot and Norwegian EFL learners: Pragmalinguistic development in request production
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Situated within the field of developmental interlanguage pragmatics, this cross-sectional study examines pragmalinguistic development in the request production of two groups of young English learners: Greek Cypriot and ... -
Young students' perception of the health perspective in the Norwegian school subject Food and Health
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In Norway, Food and Health (FH) is taught throughout compulsory school. Data acquisition for this study consists of 15 interviews with teachers and 26 focus group interviews (FGI) with 4th grade students (9-10 years), from ... -
Youth perspectives on citizenship discourses: Navigating exclusionary public sphere rhetoric against the backdrop of ‘inclusive’ citizenship education
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Å engasjere umotiverte lesere på ungdomsskolen
(Master thesis, 2024)Denne masteroppgaven er en kvalitativ studie som undersøker hvordan man kan engasjere ungdomsskoleelever i arbeid med tekster. Målet er å lære noe nytt, som kan føre til forbedringer av min egen praksis i klasserommet. ... -
Å forstå, oppdage og håndtere elever i skolen som lever i hjem med rus. En kvalitativ undersøkelse av læreres erfaringer.
(Master thesis, 2023)Temaet for denne studien omhandler barn som lever med foreldre avhengige av rus, og hvordan lærere oppdager og håndterer disse elevene på skolen. Bakgrunnen for valg av temaet er at det anslagsvis lever over 100 000 barn ...