The development of the Internet and the World Wide Web has given libraries many new opportunities to disseminate organized information about internal and external collections to users. One of these possibilities is to make separate databases for information or services not sufficiently covered by the online public access catalog (OPAC) or other available databases. What’s new is that librarians can ...

This paper discusses the syntax of roots by way of looking at four different views discussed in the literature: (i) roots merged as complements, (ii) roots merged as modifiers, (iii) roots merged either as complements or as modifiers, and (iv) roots merged in a unique way. A lot of time is devoted to (i) and to demonstrate empirical challenges from both the nominal and the verbal domain. With the ...

University teacher training is often centered around extensive courses and seminars, and may have limited impact on improving teaching practice. We suggest this may be due to faculty perceiving what is being taught as not immediately relevant for solving concrete, practical challenges they face in their everyday practice. Further, lasting change in teaching practice requires a collective effort. We ...

In this chapter, we ask how drama and theatre can be a useful approach to action research processes. We focus on interventions, using teacher education as an arena for development. The empirical point of view is based on several research and developmental projects over years, together with two examples from recent developmental work. Our theoretical framework is based on theories of learning and ...

This chapter traces three elite French visitors to northern Norway who travelled there long before the area began receiving attention as a tourist destination per se. Drawing on archival records and relevant literature, it recounts the travel experiences of the three visitors, who showed interest in the Arctic environment and its people in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The first story comes ...

This chapter argues that there is a typology of languages according to how much meaning a root encodes independently of its syntactic categorization. This typology is illustrated by an in-depth discussion of three languages: English, Greek, and Hebrew. Hebrew is argued to represent one end of the scale where the root encodes a minimal and highly abstract meaning. English represents the other end ...

Denne artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom teaterutdanningene ved et russisk og et norsk universitet og diskuterer hvordan ulikhet og uenighet om teatertradisjoner og undervisningsfilosofi kan brukes som en ressurs. I diskusjonen benyttes teori om demokrati og utdanning og teori om uenighetsfellesskap. Erfaringene oppsummeres med at trygge rammer, fleksibilitet og vektlegging ...