Artikkelen undersøker opprinnelsen og utviklingen av den kritiske pedagogikken og dens relevans for kunstnerisk utdanning i dag. Innledningsvis skisseres kunstfagenes vilkår i dagens utdanningslandskap, som er preget av nyliberal instrumentell tenkning og med økende krav om økonomisering, standardisering og målstyring. Ut fra en oppfatning om at mange av dagens utdanningspolitiske føringer strider ...

In this article I look more closely at how Kven culture and history gained their place in museums and what processes led to the foundation of these museums. In addition, I shall attempt to identify how Kven culture and history have been portrayed and which accounts of the Kven have been presented by these museums. In this context it is instructive to look more closely at why these museums may be ...

De arkeologiske undersøkelsene på Kveøya er satt i gang som følge av reguleringsplanen for bruforbindelse mellom Kveøya og Hinnøya. Undersøkelsen som er en forvaltningsgraving i regi av Tromsø Museum, foregår på Hundstadneset på Kveøya i Kvæfjord kommune i Troms. Prosjektet er planlagt innenfor en tidsramme fra sommeren 2008 til vinteren 2010, og inngår ved seksjon for kulturvitenskap ved Tromsø ...

Sedimentary DNA (sedDNA) has recently emerged as a new proxy for reconstructing past vegetation, but its taphonomy, source area and representation biases need better assessment. We investigated how sedDNA in recent sediments of two small Scottish lakes reflects a major vegetation change, using well-documented 20th Century plantations of exotic conifers as an experimental system. We used next-generation ...

Climate change is expected to cause major shifts in boreal forests which are in vast areas of Siberia dominated by two species of the deciduous needle tree larch (Larix). The species differ markedly in their ecosystem functions, thus shifts in their respective ranges are of global relevance. However, drivers of species distribution are not well understood, in part because paleoecological data ...

In seasonal environments, organisms are expected to optimally schedule reproduction within an annual range of environmental conditions. Latitudinal gradients generate a range of seasonality to which we can expect adaptations to have evolved, and can be used to explore drivers of timing strategies across species’ distribution ranges. This study compares the timing of egg hatching in four seabird ...

The Neolithic and Bronze Age construction and habitation of the Stonehenge Landscape has been extensively explored in previous research. However, little is known about the scale of pre-Neolithic activity and the extent to which the later monumental complex occupied an ‘empty’ landscape. There has been a long-running debate as to whether the monumental archaeology of Stonehenge was created in an ...

New organic-walled microfossil (OWM) assemblages are reported from upper Neoproterozoic glacial and interglacial siliciclastic deposits in Finnmark, northern Norway. A nearly continuous sedimentary succession of the Vestertana Group contains two glaciogenic units, the Smalfjorden and Mortensnes formations, interpreted as end-Cryogenian Marinoan and Ediacaran glaciations, respectively. We investigated ...

Small, isolated and/or peripheral populations are expected to harbour low levels of genetic variation and may therefore have reduced adaptability to environmental change, including climate warming. In the Arctic, global warming has already caused vegetation change across the region and is acting as a significant stressor on Arctic biodiversity. Many of the rare plants in the Arctic are relicts from ...