A group of Sámi middle school mathematics teachers cooperated with researchers over a period of three years in investigating ruvden (Sámi braiding). The aim was to find possibilities for teaching discrete mathematics based on ruvden. The Sámi are an Indigenous people of the Arctic and their braidings are intertwined with Sámi traditional knowledge. The teachers presented two different approaches to ...

The University of Tromsø started in the fall of 2010 a project called ‘University Schools.’ The project’s aim is to strengthen the praxis field in the teacher education programs. This involves a clearer focus on research and development, R&D, as a collaborative tool between the theoretical and the praxis field. My Ph.D. project is based on one of the Teacher Education Program’s goals which states ...

This paper presents some challenges, opportunities, key questions, and ways forward for research in mathematics in Indigenous and Migrational (MIM) contexts as discussed by the two featured panelists and mediated by the moderator in the closing symposium of the MIM Conference in Alta, Norway in November 2022. Punctuated with quotations, photos and images, the paper begins by introducing the three ...

Education for sustainability in early childhood tends to focus on practices and advocacy, rather than on the aims of this education. We suggest that the aim should be to consider children as being and becoming eco-citizens. This suggestion is built on an exploration of children as eco-citizens. With theories concerning child-sized citizenship we suggest a description of children and adults as being ...

This paper presents findings from an on-going international study of Early Childhood(EC) teachers’ and children’s use of internet-connected toys (IoToys) to understand possibilities for developing children’s cognitive capacities (e.g., creativity, inquiry, engineering design thinking). The study employed a Design Based Research (DBR) method, where teachers intentionally plan and deliver technologically ...

SUM is a four-year research and developmental project with the aim of contributing to coherence in children’s and students’ motivation for, activities in, and learning of mathematics throughout the educational system from kindergarten to higher education. The concept of inquiry is key in the project, and it involves the implementation of different types of theories and methods related to inquiry ...

Dichotic listening along with the right-ear advantage (REA) has been a standard method of investigating auditory laterality ever since it was first introduced into neuropsychology in the early 1960s. Beginning in the 1980s, authors reported that it was possible to modulate the bottom-up driven perceptual REA by instructing subjects to selectively attend to and report only from the right or left ...

In surgical training, mentors and mentees communicate to expand mentees’ technical skills. However, access to mentors for education in surgical subspecialties is a challenge in many hospitals. Videoconferencing (VC), which enables real-time communication between mentors and mentees in different geographical locations, can overcome this challenge. This study examines a practice in Norway in which VC ...

This article explores the variation in first-year preservice teachers’ professional competence in digital sharing and communication tools (software) by applying social constructivist learning theory and relevant concepts. The data were obtained from questionnaires distributed to 395 preservice teachers at two Norwegian universities in the first semester of 2019. Correlation and multiple regression ...

In this short article, I highlight some of the possibilities and challenges I have experienced as a teacher educator for English in employing ConBaT+, which is an approach that combines content-based teaching and plurilingual pedagogy. The approach aspires to promote interdisciplinary teaching, deep learning, and multilingualism as a resource by exploring a subject matter/content from different ...