Avhandlingen er en komparativ undersøkelse av deltakelse i kirkelivet blant samer i Finnmark og Torne lappmark, som var underlagt henholdsvis den norske og den svenske kirka. Hovedfokuset ligger på 1600-tallet og starten på 1700-tallet, men jeg problematiserer også hvorvidt samer i disse to regionene kom i kontakt med kristendommen via middelalderens katolske kirke. Ved hjelp av en komparativ ...

SAMMENDRAG Hensikten med avhandlingen er å utforske ulike forhold som kan ha betydning for utvikling av undervisning i høyere utdanning. Utvikling av undervisning dreier seg om å iverksette tiltak for å forbedre undervisningen og dermed bidra til at studentene får bedre betingelser for læring. Avhandlingen bygger på en kvalitativ studie der oppmerksomheten rettes mot to forhold som har betydning ...

The growing hostility against immigrants around the world has brought the debate on immigration and borders back to the core of moral and political philosophy. On the one hand, there is increasing pressure for international human mobility driven by, for example, globalisation, war and conflicts, economic development, family union, career development, and climate change. On the other hand, there are ...

Tradisjonell kunnskap har fått anerkjennelse i internasjonale konvensjoner og i Naturmangfoldloven i forvaltningen av naturressurser. Spesielt gjelder denne anerkjennelsen i samiske og andre urfolksområder, som begrunnes med at samer og andre urfolk har lange tradisjoner i høstingen av naturressurser. Til tross for at samisk tradisjonell kunnskap er anerkjent som kunnskapsgrunnlag i offentlige ...

In this dissertation, I investigate practical and theoretical issues surrounding the use of natural language processing technology in the context of Russian Computer-Assisted Language-Learning, with particular emphasis on morphological analysis. In Part I, I present linguistic and practical issues surrounding the development and evaluation of two foundational technologies: a two-level morphological ...

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 ...

The dissertation explores tourist encounters with two Arctic winter tourism contexts in Northern Norway. Through three ethnographic fieldworks on the coastal steamer Hurtigruten, and a small peninsula of eastern Finnmark called Ekkerøy, learning experiences are scrutinized. As tourists visit a region they know relatively little about beforehand, how important is the external scaffolding of ...

The thesis focuses on pupil narratives in English, and the narratives are studied with an emphasis on substantial content. The focus is on the first edition of the publicised text. It is important to distinguish between the text and the writer and to clarify what the object of the study is: The pupil’s narrative text is interpreted. Although this does not imply that the writer of the text is ...

The thesis analyzes and discusses Jürgen Habermas’ political philosophy, focusing on his theories of multiculturalism and deliberative democracy. This implies an assesment of strengths and weaknesses in Habermas' theory, and an attempt to overcome the weaknesses through some revisions and reinterpretations. More specifically, I apply Habermas' framework to a particular question to which he himself ...