This article presents a study of an educational experiment conducted at the early childhood education programme at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway. As COVID-19 made social distancing an issue, the traditional practicum in kindergartens was moved to online platforms. Constructive alignment was used as an analytical framework to investigate the possibilities and limitations of student ...

The article focuses on Teacher Time Outs (TTOs) in rehearsals and co-enactments as part of a practice-based approach to professional development, aiming to support teachers’ learning of ambitious mathematics teaching. Ambitious teaching requires teachers to be responsive to students’ ideas in-the-moment of instruction. This is complex and places enormous demands on the teacher. We examine how TTOs ...

i 2014 finnes det to grunnskoler i regi av læstadianske¹ grupperinger i Nord-Norge. Straumfjordnes skole i Nordreisa kommune i Nord-Troms har forankring i den luthersk-læsta - dianske menighet, også kalt Lyngen-retningen.² Straumfjordnes skole³ er en fådelt skole som har elever på 1.–10. trinn. Skoleåret 2013–2014 hadde skolen 62 elever og 11 lærere. Den andre ...

This paper is the first in a series of three studies that explore the pedagogy used in the Norwegian and Russian early childhood settings by examining texts that are part of the syllabus in two early childhood teacher education programs that participated in our project with student international exchanges. The study explores how Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of dialogue relates to the concept of ‘learning’ ...

I denne studien diskuterer vi studentrespons på formativ vurdering i forbindelse med et bachelorkurs i akademisk skriving. Formativ vurdering er underveisvurdering og -veiledning, den former læring og bringer den lærende fremover (Bennett, 2011, 2018; Wiliam, 2018). Vårt formål med studien er å utforske hvilke typer formativ vurdering studenter opplever som verdifulle for utvikling av ferdigheter i ...

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 ...