Inquiry-based science education is highly emphasized in recent curricula. Our paper aims to find out more about the connections between science teachers’ orientation toward the textbook and the enabling of inquiry-based teaching. It will be important to map this connection better in improving how to facilitate inquiry-based education. The textbook has a strong position in the Norwegian school ...

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 ...

This article presents a case study of communication in mathematics in a seventh-grade classroom of a Norwegian primary school. The main aim of this study is to investigate characteristics of student communication in mathematics in the context of their realities. Video recordings of conversations were analyzed using a framework of various speech acts and interaction patterns that may indicate students` ...

Formålet med artikkelen er å få innsikt i forhold som har betydning for studentenes læringsprosesser når veilederutdanningen er designet som omvendt undervisning. Forskning på omvendt undervisning i veilederutdanning for lærere i barnehage og skole er viet lite oppmerksomhet. Denne studien har en kvalitativ tilnærming og undersøker følgende: Hvordan fremme gode læringsprosesser når omvendt undervisning ...

Lærer Ketil Stokkan løfter i et innlegg i Nordlys fram sin bekymring knyttet til et skjema som skal kartlegge relasjonen mellom lærer og elev. Skjemaet angir fargekoder som gir karakteristikker av elever som for eksempel "lett å elske", "får det til å koke" eller "vanskelig å forstå". Læreren skal så gi eleven fargekoder ut fra sitt forhold til eleven.

In this article we develop some arguments from a research project where the researchers were also participants in the making of a multiplayer online game. The “Siida” project emerged as a challenge to the static and monolithic vision of Indigenous Saami culture and history. It seeks to create an arena for learning founded on new approaches to research-based historical pedagogy. This involvement ...

Structured teacher collaboration has considerable potential to support teachers’ professional learning. The current article focuses on what characterises teachers’ decision-making processes during teamwork. Video recordings of teacher team meetings form the empirical basis for the research. Interaction analysis is employed to analyse under what circumstances decisions are taken and to examine how ...

In this article, the complexities of the concept of texture and its relationship to (arts) education, here with a specific focus on attention, awareness and sensitivity, are explored and elaborated upon. Texture can be described simply as the visual and tactile character of surfaces, which covers both nature and culture and, indeed, much of life itself. The overall aim of the article is to explore ...

‘Like the whorl of an out-of-this-world ear…,’ (74) run the first words of the one-sentence, four-stanza sign-centered sonnet ‘@.’ The most fluorescent language poem in Maggot appears as a very apposite sign of what can be termed Muldoonian ‘p@stmodernism.’ The term signals mainly post-Madoc poems in Muldoon’s poetry, from e.g. ‘Crossing the Line’ and ‘The Plot’ to several in this volume, which ...

Samarbeid mellom universitet/høgskole og skole om lærerutdanning har som ideell målsetting å utvikle studentenes lærerprofesjonalitet. En forutsetning for slik profesjonalitet er å kunne forholde seg til og bruke ulike kunnskapsformer, som akademias teoretiske og skolenes erfaringsbaserte kunnskap, for å fremme elevens læring. For å lykkes kreves et tett samarbeid mellom institusjonene. I dette ...