This paper analyses how Ciaran Carson’s For All We Know (2008) adds to other disciplinary approaches to the challenges of re-presenting the past. The representation of history is a controversial field, as much of the radical tradition of history debates in Marx, Derrida, Foucault and Kristeva indicates. Controversies over history are also prevalent in Belfast and Northern Ireland where history ...

In this article I will give an account of the seminaries between 1717 and 1732 in the cathedral city of Trondheim, Norway. Key questions that the article seeks to answer are who initiated and supported these seminars, and also how they were organized and how staff and seminarians were recruited. Seminarium Scholasticum was initiated by the Danish Society for promoting Christian knowledge (Misjonskollegiet) ...

The article "Isaac Olsen's copy book - a source to the early mission in Finnmark, Northern Norway" deals with the contents of a hand-written copy book by the teacher and preacher Isaac Olsen during the period 1703-1717. Isaac Olsen was a Norwegian who came to Finnmark just after 1700 and travelled among the sami people, teaching them in their home villages. Isaac Olsen learned the Sami language ...

Den nye norske femårige grunnskolelærerutdanningen har som mål at studentene skal utvikle sin FoU-kompetanse. I artikkelen undersøker vi hvordan aksjonslæring i FoU-oppgaven kan bidra til lærerstudenters kompetanse i utviklingsarbeid. Vi har induktivt og deretter deduktivt analysert 51 kvalitative semistrukturerte intervjuer med lærerstudenter som har gjennomført aksjonslæring som en del av FoU-oppgaven ...

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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced universities to engage in a transformation regarding how education is provided. The pandemic led to education being pushed in a new direction regarding digital practices. This paper discusses the implications related to this transformation by asking the following research question: After being subjected to the imposed and extensive use of online education due to the ...

This study investigates the suitability of the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS) to measure secondary school students’ aspirations towards STEM subjects and careers. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to assess the initial structural validity of the adapted STEM-CIS survey, where the science subscale was extended to four science disciplines, to align with the way science is ...

Denne artikkelen presenterer en systematisk forskningsgjennomgang som retter oppmerksomheten mot praksisopplæring i lærerutdanning som arena for lærerstudenters profesjonelle utvikling. Totalt 84 empiriske nasjonale og internasjonale studier, publisert i tidsrommet 2005–2020, inngår i studien og er analysert ved hjelp av tematisk analyse. Forskningsspørsmålet vi besvarer, er: Hvilke områder i ...

The present article examines how a group of Norwegian pre-service teachers of English and other foreign languages perceived the term “cultural diversity” when student-centred learning activities were used. A qualitative inquiry, comprising data retrieved from three student-centred activities: student narratives, role-playing, and focus group discussion are thematically analysed. Theoretical ...

Even after many decades of productive research, problem solving instruction is still considered inefective. In this study we address some limitations of extant problem solving models related to the phenomenon of insight during problem solving. Currently, there are two main views on the source of insight during problem solving. Proponents of the frst view argue that insight is the consequence of ...