n order to describe and analyze teachers’ orchestrating of classroom discourse, detailed descriptions of teachers’ comments and questions are critical. The purpose of this article is to suggest new concepts that enable us to describe in detail how teachers use or do not use students’ comments to work with the mathematical content. Five teachers from upper primary school (grades five to seven, students ...

The paper investigates how refugees settled in rural Norway and Denmark experience and interact with their new rural places of residence. Theoretically, the paper finds inspiration in “phenomenology of practices” (Simonsen, Prog. Hum. Geogr., 2012, 37, 10–26), which emphasizes the bodily and sensory experiences of daily life that spur feelings of, for example, “orientation” or “disorientation”. The ...

Previous research on Norwegian educational reforms after 1814, the year when Norway became a constitutional state, has emphasized the conservatism of the elementary education acts of 1816 and 1827. Contrary to expectations for a constitutional state, these acts did not reflect a concern for fostering politically active citizens. Neither did they follow up the enlightenment idea of teaching secular ...

This paper describes three examples of Sámi mathematics. These examples, which are associated with different cultural contexts, show similarities to what Western mathematics calls 'combinatorics’. All examples are cultural practices that show descriptive use of mathematical knowledge. These are not mathematical problems and thus there is no need to find an exact number of possibilities. We describe ...

Artikkelen baserer seg på kvalitative forskningsintervjuer med styrere og pedagogiske ledere om hvordan barnehager imøtekommer muslimske foreldres ønsker om tilpasning til islamske spiseforskrifter. Resultatet viser at barnehagen baserer seg på to hovedstrategier i sin tilpasning – enten å servere mat som alle kan spise, eller ulike typer mat der muslimske barn kan spise ett av alternativene. ...

Today, in an era of increased mobility and migration, there is also increased in-migration within regions and countries. In the case of Norway, there is high tolerance for dialect use, and in this context, it is interesting to ask which kinds of sociolinguistic strategies in-migrants consider to be available given their current situation. This article explores the reported language attitudes from ...

Research into language at work appears as timely today. Extending this contemporary strand of research to historical workplace settings provides new insights and poses methodological and theoretical challenges. While historical cases can provide valuable experiences with respect to today’s multilingual workplaces, the chapter argues that it is necessary to consider the temporality of the practices ...

Terrorist attacks and mass shootings often involve youth. Knowledge is needed on how this may impact their health and functioning. This study investigates perceived academic performance and school wellbeing in 237 terror-exposed survivors of the Utøya youth camp attack according to their sociodemographic characteristics, health and mental health service (MHS) utilization. Semi-structured interviews ...

The focus of this article is the role of translations of religious literature into Skolt Saami in the development of the Skolt Saami written language and in the process of language revitalization. The Orthodox Church has had a strong influence on the life of Skolt Saami people, however, the interaction between language and religion and its significance is usually overlooked in the research context. ...