Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning
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Myten om den åpne Nordlendingen - star den i veien for god rekruttering?
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2024-09-04)Konkurransen om arbeidskraft og innbyggere er stor. Mange er opptatt av rekruttering, men oppmerksomheten om å få folk til å trives og bli værende er liten. Står myten om gjestfrihet i «verdens beste land» i veien for systematisk velkomstarbeid og fokus på at alle skal trives? -
How ready is the health care system in Northeast India for surgical delivery? A mixed-methods study on surgical capacity and need
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-26)Background Surgical services are scarce with persisting inequalities in access across populations and regions globally. As the world’s most populous county, India’s surgical need is high and delivery rates estimated to be sub-par to meet need. There is a dearth of evidence, particularly sub-regional data, on surgical provisioning which is needed to aid planning.<p> <p>Aim and method This ... -
Hunter-Gatherer Children at School: A View From the Global South
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-14)Universal formal education is a major global development goal. Yet hunter-gatherer communities have extremely low participation rates in formal schooling, even in comparison with other marginalized groups. Here, we review the existing literature to identify common challenges faced by hunter-gatherer children in formal education systems in the Global South. We find that hunter-gatherer children are ... -
Young refugees’ feelings of belonging? Encounters with rural Denmark and northern Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-05-07)This paper investigates how young refugees settled in rural Norway and Denmark experience their new places of residence. We find inspiration in the idea of ‘contradictions of space’ (Kinkaid [2020]. “Re-encountering Lefebvre: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Social Space.” Society and Space 38 (1): 167–186.) in exploring how young refugees navigate issues in rural life from housing, ... -
Language change in Japanese–English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years: Evidence from accent-rating
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-14)Few studies have examined global foreign accent (GFA) in bilingual children, and little is known about how GFA changes over time and what factors determine change. Here, we examine GFA trajectories in Japanese–English bilingual returnees (Japanese children who returned to Japan after having lived in a majority English environment for several years). In two accent-rating tasks, first language ... -
The Contemporary Norwegian Municipal CEO
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024-07-12)This chapter describes the evolution of the Norwegian municipal chief executive officer (MCEO) from 1980 to 1992 and 2018, when the position was weakened politically but strengthened administratively. Today, the Norwegian MCEO corresponds to Mouritzen and Svara’s council–manager model, making it one of the most powerful in the Nordic region, second only to the Finish MCEO. Despite multiple significant ... -
Exploiting the “white coal” of the Pasvik River. Negotiating corporate and national interests in the border region during the German occupation of Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-30)The history of the Pasvik River, demarcating Norway’s border with Russia in the north is inextricably linked with issues of security and national interests on the one side, and exploitation of natural resources and business interests on the other. This applies not least to the war years, as German warfare in Europe increased the value of the hydropower and the strategic metals of the border region. ... -
“That-which-must-not-be-named”: hunting, secrecy, and the ontology of meat in northeast China
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-22)In this paper, I describe the practice of sharing and eating wild meat amongst the Orochen in northeast China, a community of hunters who are no longer allowed to hunt due to state conservation policies. I show how for Orochen meat is the material intermediary between the human and nonhuman worlds, offered to the fire before meals and to animal spirit-masters during hunting. I suggest this demands ... -
Science Textbooks: Aids or Obstacles to Inquiry Teaching? Science Teachers’ Experiences in Norwegian Secondary Schools
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-02-16)Textbooks have several important functions in science education. By interviewing six teachers, this study shows how secondary school science teachers perceive and use textbooks as resources, especially in inquiry teaching. The results show that textbooks aid inquiry teaching by offering teachers easily accessible suggestions for practical and inquiry activities in accordance with the curriculum ... -
The representation, quantification, and nature of genetic information
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-27)Current genetics studies often refer to notions from information science. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and structure the different notions of information used in biology, as a step towards developing a taxonomy of information. Within this framework we propose an extension of Floridi’s conceptual model of information. We also make use of the concept of specified information and show ... -
Investigating crosslinguistic representations in Polish-English bilingual children: Evidence from structural priming
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-26)A key question in the study of language representation in bilinguals is whether knowledge is shared across languages. Crosslinguistic syntactic priming has been widely used to test bilingual adults’ shared representations, but studies with child bilinguals are few and have several limitations. We addressed these limitations in two studies with Polish–English bilingual children aged 5–11 years ... -
Five-year integrated research-based teacher education for primary and secondary school
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024-04-09)Teacher education (TE) in Norway is nationally mandated and subject to much political attention because education is an important social and cultural phenomenon with a significant place in policy and everyday life. A main purpose of the latest TE reform implemented in 2017 is to raise the status and professionalism of teachers. The ambition of the Norwegian government is to permanently strengthen ... -
Transforming teacher education through innovation
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024-04-09)Teacher Education (TE) in Norway has developed with a strong emphasis on the research-based and practice-oriented professionalization of TE programs led by universities and university colleges. In the past decade, national reforms have emphasized the development of research competence for student teachers, enabling them to continually develop their own and the school’s collective practices. Center ... -
The relationship between self-assessment of language proficiency and measures of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity: evidence from bilingual speakers of Italian in Croatia
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-29)A wide range of tools have been used to assess the language proficiency of bilingual speakers. The validity and high reliability of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity measures as instruments for measuring language proficiency have been demonstrated in previous studies across different languages. However, the relationship between self-assessment and the two measures has not yet been investigated. ... -
Enhancing Executive Functions in Pediatric Epilepsy: Feasibility and Efficacy of a Computerized Cognitive Training Program
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-18)Epilepsy, a prevalent neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures, significantly impacts individuals’ neurobiological, cognitive, and social lives. This report presents a feasibility study investigating the effects of a computerized cognitive training program on enhancing executive functions, particularly inhibitory control, in children and adolescents with epilepsy. Employing a ... -
The quest for a sustainable industry: mining, path dependency and post-carbon regime in the European Arctic
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-10)The goal of the European Union’s Green Deal industrial plan is to achieve an ecological transition over the next three decades. This transition includes the electrification of energy and transport systems. Achieving such a transformation requires access to critical raw materials for the technologies that will enable the post-carbon transition of European societies. In this context, the European ... -
Jugoslaviske fanger i Norge 1942–1945. Fra SSʼ dødsarbeidsleirer til Wehrmachts krigsfangeleirer
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-10-11)4049 jugoslaviske fanger var i tysk fangenskap i Norge fra 1942 til 1945. Fangene fra Jugoslavia var primært sendt til Norge for å bygge vei i Nord-Norge. Fangene var sivile og de fleste hadde vært partisaner. SS-offiserer med erfaring fra konsentrasjonsleirene i Tyskland ledet dødsarbeidsleirene. En av mine konklusjoner er at fangene kom til Norge for å arbeide og så dø. Etter ni måneder under SS ... -
Use of directed quasi-metric distances for quantifying the information of gene families
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-12)A large hindrance to analyzing information in genetic or protein sequence data has been a lack of a mathematical framework for doing so. In this paper, we present a multinomial probability space X as a general foundation for multicategory discrete data, where categories refer to variants/alleles of biosequences. The external information that is infused in order to generate a sample of such data ... -
Being a heritage speaker matters: the role of markedness in subject-verb person agreement in Italian
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-14)This study examines online processing and offline judgments of subject-verb person agreement with a focus on how this is impacted by markedness in heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian. To this end, 54 adult HSs living in Germany and 40 homeland Italian speakers completed a self-paced reading task (SPRT) and a grammaticality judgment task (GJT). Markedness was manipulated by probing agreement with ... -
Den moderne teknikkens legitimitet
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-31)Hva er den moderne teknikkens status? Beriker den våre liv eller frarøver den vår tilværelse mening? Med utgangspunkt i konfliktlinjen mellom den klassiske teknikkfilosofien og den empiriske vendingen forsvarer herværende oppgave en forståelse av den moderne teknikken som bejaer den moderne teknikken som meningsskapende. Jeg søker å ivareta den klassiske teknikkfilosofiens enhetlige og historiske ...