Den avgrensede tematikken for avhandlingen er hvordan Norge bidro med å utmeisle en ny kyststatsrolle under FNs tredje havrettskonferanse (1973-1982), og hvordan dette befestet seg som en del av norsk havpolitikk i forhandlinger med nabostatene i Nordøst-Atlanteren og i bistandshjelpen gjennom 1980- og starten av 1990-tallet. Avhandlingen legger vekt på at Norge var del av et internasjonalt fellesskap ...

The purpose of this dissertation, <i>Hybrid heroines in the literary Arctic</i>, is to bring literary studies to the popular literary Arctic through analyzes of Arctic indigenous cultures and lifeworlds. These lifeworlds have to varying degrees been subject to colonial processes, and both social, historical and natural conditions in addition to gender and ethnicity affect the hybrid protagonists' ...

The last few decades have seen an increasing use of merit-based immigration systems, whereby migrants are treated differently on the basis of their skills, education, and wealth. In this thesis I argue that there are justice-based reasons to be sceptical of such policies. While I agree that there are good grounds for states to control their own borders, related to self-determination and the welfare ...

With this thesis, I address gaps in research about how pre-service teachers (PSTs) develop and make use of knowledge for science teaching. In the project I used a qualitative case study approach to investigate seven PSTs’ science teaching, their use of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for pedagogical reasoning, and the sources contributing to their development of PCK. I explored how PSTs develop ...

<p>In this dissertation, I investigate the nature of generalizations in grammatical gender and inflectional morphology from a learning perspective. Cross-linguistic differences in children’s learning trajectories have been at the forefront of research on the acquisition of grammatical gender. Transparency has been argued to be predictive of children’s behavior in gender acquisition (Slobin, 1977). ...

<p>Background: Life-threatening events come in various forms, affecting individuals and their societies by evoking fear. Collective dangers such as terrorist attacks, war, conflict, and natural disasters may create societal chaos and suffering. Children in particular appear to be vulnerable as regards dealing with fear from life-threatening events. Although most children and adolescents do not develop ...

Avhandlinga tar for seg samiske «Böxel-land» i Vaapste og Raane 1690 – 1800. I lappekodisillen brukes begrepet «Böxel-land» som en norsk parallell til de svenske «Skatte-Land». «Böxel», eller bygsel, er et norsk system for leie av jordbruksland, og avhandlinga undersøker hvordan de samiske bygslene kan forstås i og utafor en samisk kontekst. Et vesentlig spørsmål er om de samiske bygslene virkelig ...

<p>Kontrastive Feldermodelle als didaktische Werkzeuge im universitären DaF-Unterricht für norwegische Muttersprachler <p>Um eine Brücke zwischen theoretischer Linguistik und praktischem Fremdsprachenunterricht zu schlagen, evaluiert die Arbeit, ob und wie der theoretische Rahmen der topologischen Felderanalyse für den universitären DaF-Unterricht norwegischer Muttersprachler greifbar gemacht ...

This dissertation represents the first monograph on the understudied missionary text Conversión de Píritu (1690) written by the franciscan Matías Ruiz Blanco (1643–1708). The main aim is to present Ruiz Blanco as a cultural translator in his endeavor to convert to Christianity the Cumanagoto people of the Province of Píritu during the last decades of the 17th century. He made visible his efforts to ...

The aim of this thesis is to contribute with knowledge on multilingual adolescents’ language practices, agencies and identity construction in the family. The families have in common that they have adolescent children, that one parent have emigrated from a Latin-American country and that they live in the same Northern-Norwegian city. The data is collected through a methodological triangulation and ...