Images and discourses about peoples and places are crucial in tourism, and cultural heritages on display as part of contemporary tourism are often rooted in imaginaries formed long ago, under different contexts than today. This article explores the interconnection between tourism imaginaries and cultural heritage processes in the North, examining their links with regional development expectations ...

Denne delrapporten belyser omstillingen i Statped sett fra kommunale og fylkeskommunale lederes side. Oppmerksomheten er i hovedsak konsentrert rundt ledere for PP-tjenestens erfaringer og vurderinger. Datamaterialet stammer fra to spørreskjemaundersøkelser med supplement av data fra kvalitative intervjuer og ulike registre.

I dette kapittelet vil jeg undersøke om to typer gjenstander fra samisk materiell kultur, kalendere og seremonielle trommer, kan kaste lys over samers kontakt med kirke og kristendom i senmiddelalderen og i tidlig etterreformatorisk tid. Begge gjenstandstyper ble laget og brukt av samer i tidlig nytid, og kan knyttes til religionsutøvelse og dermed den immaterielle kulturen. Den umiddelbare ...

This dissertation examines how traditional Sámi knowledge can be integrated into mathematics education to promote cultural symmetry. The study is based on four articles that analyse teaching practices related to Sámi culture, with a particular focus on the use of the lávvu as an educational resource. The research design is grounded in Indigenous methodology, and qualitative methods such as observation ...

In the time of climate crisis, there is a growing awareness that philosophy needs to think through the constellation between human beings and nature anew. It has often been pointed out that our Western tradition has tended to regard humans as placed at a distance from nature, even as the exception of nature, which in turn has legitimized a view of nature as a means and resource for its own enterprises. ...

Norsk lov gir kommunane stor autonomi i å forme si eiga utvikling, men stillar samtidig krav om å ivareta nasjonale og regionale interesser. Dette krev samarbeid og balanse mellom lokale behov og eit breiare samfunnsomsyn. Planlegging, både samfunnsplanlegging og arealplanlegging, er viktige verktøy for å utvikle lokalsamfunna. Motsegnsinstituttet er eit viktig verkemiddel for å sikre at nasjonale ...

Tackling climate change is the ultimate goal of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The 2030 Agenda includes 17 sustainable development goals. The current Finnish core curriculum for basic education also stresses the importance of strengthening the role of basic education in building a sustainable future. The data consists of pre-service language teachers’ responses to an ...

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) was launched in 1997, and the first testing was done in 2000. The aim was to globally compare what students learn and can do. In 2000, 32 countries participated. In 2018, the number of participating education systems1 had more than doubled to 78. Compared to the other OECD countries, performance of students both in Germany and in Finland was ...

Macānes doctoral dissertation sets out to examine the diversity in humananimal relationships amongst hunter-gatherers in north-eastern Europe. The empirical basis for the investigation is the animal remains from burials in three different areas (Latvia, Sweden, and Russia) covering the eight to the third millennium BCE.

In this chapter, we discuss the development of a university pedagogy course about how to facilitate discussion as a learning activity in higher education. Some critics have claimed that courses in university pedagogy have low relevance for university teachers. We discuss how this course is experienced by academic staff as relevant for their professional development. To develop the course, we have ...