Resilience is a concept of growing interest in the research field, as well as bullying and quality of life. Resilience has gained rising interest over the past decade because it has capacity for systematically informed prevention and intervention (Elbau et al. 2019). This study looks at data from a former study “Trivsel I Tromsø” with children and adolescence victims to bullying and harassment (N=237) ...

This study investigates high achieving students’ mathematical reasoning when given an unfamiliar trigonometric equation. The findings indicate that the students’ way of thinking is strongly linked with imitative reasoning and only when they received some form of guidance, were they able to display flexible and creative mathematical reasoning.

This study investigates how oracy and communicative competence is present in a selection of Year 4 textbooks from the English subject. The motivation for this study was to gain greater knowledge about evaluating and choosing learning materials in relation to oracy. Our research question is as follows: How are pupils in early primary education introduced to oracy through English subject textbooks, ...

There is a gap between policies regarding the use of digital technology in higher education in Norway and what is practiced. Therefore, we have conducted a comparative study of teacher education in Norway and New Zealand. Using Herzberg’s two-factor theory, this study investigates what motivates teacher educators to use digital technology when teaching. Although the professional application of digital ...

This paper reports from a collaborative creative writing project in teacher education that involved the use of wikis. A fortunate match between task and technology created much enthusiasm among student teachers, and – as evident from an analysis of their logs – a growing awareness of technology as something more than a tool neatly adapted to particular purposes. In interviews conducted at a later ...

Artikkelen diskuterer hvordan wiki kan brukes i engelskundervisning for å la nye og tradisjonelle teksttyper møtes i digital interaksjon. Med utgangpunkt i begrepene multimodalitet, hypertekstualitet og prosessualitet diskuterer artikkelen et eksempel fra et undervisningopplegg for lærerstudenter. Basert på et bilde skapte studentene et felles nettsted og en kollektiv, fiktiv, men realistisk historie. ...

Linguistic and cultural diversity in Northern Norwegian working life has increased dramatically in the twenty-first century. Based on a series of telephone interviews with company representatives, this article presents an overview of the new multilingual reality in many workplaces and analyzes how managers and administrators position their expectations and experiences of it. Participants’ responses ...

Artikkelen fokuserer på de yngste barnas læringsprosesser gjennom deres involvering og engasjement med sosiale og fysiske omgivelser i barnehagen. Det løftes fram hvordan barnekropper i bevegelse er kilde for erkjennelse og læring. Som utgangspunkt for analysen har vi valgt to eksempler fra barns aktivitet i barnehagens uteområde. Forsker har vært tilstede som deltakende observatør, og inngått som ...

The present text presents an investigation of the pragmatic and sociolinguistic transgressions made by three groups of Norwegian, upper secondary level 2 (VG2) EFL learners, along with their teachers’ responses to said breaches. The younger generations’ tendency towards having their out-of-school experiences with English taint their language output in what are supposed to be more professional ...

I denne studien diskuterer vi studentrespons på formativ vurdering i forbindelse med et bachelorkurs i akademisk skriving. Formativ vurdering er underveisvurdering og -veiledning, den former læring og bringer den lærende fremover (Bennett, 2011, 2018; Wiliam, 2018). Vårt formål med studien er å utforske hvilke typer formativ vurdering studenter opplever som verdifulle for utvikling av ferdigheter i ...