The subjects are a group of bilingual pupils in 3rd grade. They live in an area dominated by Norwegian, but their parents have chosen Sámi as their first language in school. The pupils communicate in Sámi with one or both parents, the teacher, classmates during lessons, and in some cases other family members. In play, both in their neighbourhood and school, the children use Norwegian. Earlier ...

The thesis reflects on how literature can provide new understandings in regards to how we conceive ourselves and the world. Further, it directs attention to the need to strengthen students’ response to the cognitive, emotional and aesthetic aspects of the literary text. This thesis suggests that literature can be used to address important social aspects which a class might encounter. I illustrated ...

This thesis attempts to use the theoretical concept of “place” borrowed from the humanistic geographers to explore, firstly, the differences between traditional and digital place making and secondly, the nature of digital documents in connection to digital environments. <br><br>When employing “place” as a theoretical concept, I argue that place making in digital dimensions is comparable to that in ...

This thesis aims to investigate Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” (1872) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) with a focus on how each text deals with gender and sexuality issues considering their contemporary societal culture. The Victorian Era in the UK was a time when conservative traditions were promoted, celebrating the inherent superiority of Englishmen. All other groups of people were categorized as ...

Education for sustainable development has been implemented in the Norwegian teaching curriculum since 2005. The goal was initially to give the students knowledge in order for them to live more sustai­nable lives. We conducted interviews and a questionnaire survey to investigate how science teachers in upper secondary school teach this subject, and what they considered to be the challenges. Results ...

Situating itself in the field of cultural memory studies, this article traces the slow emergence in German historical discourse of the narrative of an anonymous German woman who survived the Soviet occupation of Berlin in 1945. I will, firstly, conceptualize the historical condition of the Anonyma as a precarious liminal sphere of transition between competing sovereignties that dislodged her political ...

Non-technical summary. Scenarios compatible with the Paris agreement’s temperature goal of 1.5 °C involve carbon dioxide removal measures – measures that actively remove CO₂ from the atmosphere – on a massive scale. Such large-scale implementations raise significant ethical problems. Van Vuuren et al. (2018), as well as the current IPCC scenarios, show that reduction in energy and or ...

This paper presents an overview of Apertium, a free and open-source rule-based machine translation platform. Translation in Apertium happens through a pipeline of modular tools, and the platform continues to be improved as more language pairs are added. Several advances have been implemented since the last publication, including some new optional modules: a module that allows rules to process recursive ...

This article discusses how recognition may contribute towards giving underprivileged groups and students, a voice in education. Traditional measures aimed at forwarding equal opportunities for all, like redistributing resources and improving objective conditions have had limited success. The inequality gap between privileged and underprivileged, rural and urban, indigenous and descendants of ...

Learning and using an additional language is shown to have an impact on the structure and function of the brain, including in regions involved in cognitive control and the connections between them. However, the available evidence remains variable in terms of the localization, extent, and trajectory of these effects. Variability likely stems from the fact that bilingualism has been routinely ...