Avhandlingen belyser hvordan strategisk omdømmehåndtering kan medføre uintenderte implikasjoner for kommunene som arenaer for lokaldemokrati. I avhandlingen fokuseres det på to kjerneelementer i omdømmelitteraturen, nemlig identitet og kommunikasjon. Det ses nærmere på hvordan litteraturens anbefalinger om strategisk identitetsbygging og kommunikasjon kan komme i konflikt med grunnleggende forutsetninger ...

This dissertation discusses the place of self-respect, self-esteem, and related self-attitudes in the justification of a theory of distributive justice. It is broadly agreed that self-respect/self-esteem is a highly important good, and that it relies on a supportive social environment. Different authors within different traditions have taken up this idea to ground a wide variety of principles, ...

Avhandlingen består av tre delstudier, presentert i tre artikler, som omhandler læreres bruk av, og vurdering av det nettbaserte veiledningsforumet Lærerforum. Lærerforum er et åpent forum hvor et veilederteam, og andre brukere av forumet gir tilbakemelding på problemstillinger relatert til praksis i skolen. Artiklene beskriver henholdsvis en spørreskjemaundersøkelse blant brukere av Lærerforum, ...

Dissociative identity disorder (DID; APA, 1994), previously labeled Multiple personality (APA, 1980) and Multiple Personality Disorder (APA, 1987), has good diagnostic validity (Gleaves, May, & Cardeña, 2001) and is supported by taxometric research, whereby two types of dissociation have been identified: Pathological dissociation, whose features are consistent with DID, and nonpathological dissociation ...

This dissertation explores the underlying structural properties of spatial expressions, and the acquisition of these structures by children. In the first part of the dissertation I focus on directional axial expressions in Russian, and argue that their distributional and semantic properties are tightly related to their underlying syntactic structure. I present an original analysis of these items, ...

During the nineteenth century new practices for the representation of otherness were established. A significant manifestation was the living exhibitions of Sami and other native peoples at “urban stages” in Europe and America. These exhibitions have usually been perceived as the western world’s staging of primitivity and race within hegemonic discourses based on exploitation and repression. In ...

Scientific texts relating to Spitsbergen (Svalbard) published between 1895 and 1920, during the final quarter-century before Norway obtained sovereignty of this Arctic archipelago, relate their authors’ scientific findings, but in many instances their very existence, their language of publication, their author’s nationality and their country of publication also serve to illustrate their historical ...

The general aim of the three essays that make up the substance of the dissertation is to contribute to the assessment of Husserl’s epistemology, which has received relatively little attention in the Husserlian renaissance of recent years. Their upshot is a critical one, in that I find reason to question important aspects of both Husserl’s metaepistemology and his substantive epistemology. Husserl’s ...

<p>The objective of the thesis is to examine, from a critical realist perspective and by using Margaret Archer’s conceptual framework, possible effects that the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test has on the Norwegian education system and on school personnel. The intention has been to reconceptualise the notion of ‘PISA effects’ both at the systemic (macro) and individual ...