This article gives voice to coastal Sámi students and explores their negotiations over being Sámi or Norwegian within the Norwegian education system. Through interviews, students share insights on the extent to which education focuses on Sámi issues and reflect upon their identity. The article explores how youths negotiate personal identity within pre-existing structures by employing Archer’s theory ...

In the new Norwegian national curricula, programming and interdisciplinary work have been introduced as two central elements. Furthermore, computational thinking is part of the core elements of the mathematics curriculum. In this paper, we present the findings from a small-scale study within the subjects of mathematics and food and health. The aim was to see if these two subjects could be used as ...

This chapter investigates multi-grade teaching in a small rural school in Northern Norway. The aims of the chapter are to show what characterizes the teaching practices in a multi-grade school in a small rural community, and how these practices enable inclusion and adapted education. The chapter gives a brief insight into parts of the Norwegian framework for education; the Education Act and the Core- ...

Digital technology has become an important part of society and deserves attention and in-depth research, which is still lacking. The study presented in this paper includes international perspectives from six countries and examines which factors influence the use of digital technologies in future pedagogical work in primary schools. Specifically, we investigated how pre-service teachers assess their ...

Researchers and society in general seem to be conflicted regarding the use of digital technology in early childhood education (ECE). Some are focusing on the positive aspects of using digital technology, while others are critical and position it as an enemy of early childhood practice. It has been argued that digital technology is not appropriate for young children’s cognitive, physical, social ...

Akademiske idealer om kritisk tenkning, mangfold, forebygging av fordommer og rasisme er viktige for lærerutdanningen. Til tross for det viser studier av norsk lærerutdanning at lærerstudenter i liten grad blir utfordret på disse temaene, og de mangler både strategier og perspektiver til å håndtere fordommer og rasistiske ytringer i klasserommet (Lenz og Moldrheim, 2019; Røthing, 2020; Myrebøe, ...

Despite substantial national effort to integrate technology in education, it seems that practitioners in the education system are not working in line with the given policy. Evidence from large-scale studies of students’ technology practices at school over the last decade show disparities in student practices. The observed gap between the micro and the macro level call for a closer exploration. ...

Masteroppgaven vår er et resultat av en kvalitativ studie, hvor formålet er å finne ut hvilke faktorer som spiller inn for hvilken støtte som blir gitt i den undersøkende fasen i en undersøkende undervisningssekvens, ved bruk av interaksjonsskalaen til Knutsen og Ittelin (2021). Interaksjonsskalaen til Knutsen og Ittelin (2021) bestod av fem ulike nivåer av interaksjoner, men vi har i vår oppgave ...

Dette er en kvalitativ studie som utvikler kunnskap om hvordan den kognitive læringsteorien kommer til uttrykk fra tre læreres planlegging og gjennomføring av undervisning ved Universitetet i Tromsø, Norges Arktiske Universitet. Det er utført tre individuelle intervju som utforsker denne tematikken, og som ser på lærernes egne erfaringer fra forskjellige undervisningsopplevelser. Studiens problemstilling ...

Natural Theology is an attempt to provide arguments for the existence of God based on reason and ordinary experience of nature. It became quite popular with both orthodox Christians and Deists between about 1650 and 1850, inspiring much of the scientific fieldwork done during that period. However, Darwin’s theory of evolution brought about a temporary decline of this Christian apologetic ...