<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 ...

I denne artikkelen utforsker vi erfaringer med skole–hjem-samarbeid i videregående skole. Vi inviterte 113 tidligere videregåendeskoleelever til å delta i dialogkaféer for å belyse skole–hjem-samarbeid som pedagogisk praksis i videregående skole. Resultatene avdekket en ambivalens i opplevelsen av skole–hjem-samarbeid, der elevene uttrykker at de ønsker å være selvstendige samtidig som de har behov ...

Introduction: There exists a great degree of variability in the documentation of multilingual experience across different instruments. The present paper contributes to the “methods turn” and individual differences focus in (heritage) bilingualism by proposing a comprehensive online questionnaire building on existing questionnaires and the experience of using them to document heritage bilingualism: ...

I denne artikkelen utforsker vi spørsmålet: Hvordan opplever kvinner med sen ADHD-diagnose at diagnose kan bidra til å forstå seg selv og tilrettelegge for valg som fremmer god helse? I studien er det benyttet en flermetodisk tilnærming med digitalt spørreskjema, semistrukturerte intervjuer og fokusgruppeintervju. Tema har blant annet vært betydningen av diagnose. Sentrale funn er at diagnose oppleves ...

Oppgaven er en analyse av den islandske dramatikeren Kristin Omarsdóttirs skuespill Segðu mér allt (Fortell meg alt) fra 2005. Fortell meg alt, med undertittelen Verdensbildet til ei 12 år gammel jente, handler om Guðrún som er 12 år gammel og lam fra livet og ned. Hun bor sammen med foreldrene sine i en drabantby til Reykjavik, og skuespillet viser oss virkeligheten sett fra hennes synsvinkel, ...

Research into language, work, and migration has evolved rapidly during the past decade. The majority of studies focus on contemporary cases. However, work migration and linguistic diversity in the workplace are not phenomena solely of the early 21st century; many workplaces have been sites of multilingual encounters throughout history. While this has been acknowledged in contemporary studies (e.g., ...

Research into language at work appears as timely today. Extending this contemporary strand of research to historical workplace settings provides new insights and poses methodological and theoretical challenges. While historical cases can provide valuable experiences with respect to today’s multilingual workplaces, the chapter argues that it is necessary to consider the temporality of the practices ...

There are various forms of coaching in the field of education that promote professional development. This article reports on an action research project exploring school leadership coaching, demonstrating how a group coaching practice is developed when involving groups of coaches and leadership groups. The coaches, organized into two coaching teams, develop their coaching practice through reflective ...

<p>Samuli Paulaharju was a Finnish ethnographer who visited the Kven minority in Northern Norway – Ruija – in the 1920s and 1930s. Together with his wife Jenny he collected ethnographic material among the Kvens, and corresponded frequently with some of them. Many wrote in Finnish, and most were self-taught writers. <p>We focus on the orthography used by these writers who were writing in a multilingual ...