<i>Introduction</i>: Historically, archives, libraries and museums (ALM) have been perceived as institutions providing infrastructure for an open and enlightened public discourse. The Norwegian Public Libraries Act (Lov om folkebibliotek), for instance, focuses on public libraries being providers of knowledge and cultural expressions, agents of popular enlightenment, local meeting places and arenas ...

In this article we discuss whether the hypothesis that the suffix -oso is an abstract relational element –closer to adpositions than to adjectives– is plausible or not. This view would have the advantage that it would make possible an explanation of its semantic flexibility and the fact that it is used to derive a heterogeneous family of elements, but it also faces a number of apparent counterexamples ...

Indigenous peoples and their organizations (IPOs) in the Arctic region and worldwide use international norms to hold governments and extractive corporations accountable for violations of Indigenous peoples’ rights. However, IPOs in undemocratic states face greater obstacles in engaging with these norms, given the government’s limited responsiveness to arguments based on international laws on the ...

Denne oppgaven handler om den kartografiske skildringen av myten om Norden fra antikken til 1600-tallet, med spesielt fokus på tidlig nytid. Norden har siden antikken hatt en spesiell plass i europeeres verdensbilde. Det har blitt sett på som et fremmed område langt unna sivilisasjonen, med ukjente folkeslag, dyr og naturfenomener. Kart over Norden fra middelalder og tidlig nytid gir oss et verdifullt ...

This study investigates how pupils at a lower secondary school can develop intercultural communicative competence (ICC) through picturebooks within the theme of everyday life. To answer the thesis question, three research questions were formulated; how pupils’ picturebook dialogues can foster intercultural learning, what are the possibilities and challenges when developing ICC through picturebooks, ...

Teachers’ instructional quality is important for students’ learning outcomes, but research on beginner middle school pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) instructional quality and development is limited. In this case study, we investigated the quality of science instruction for beginner PSTs. All the 21 science lessons of six PSTs during the school practicum in their first year in a teacher education ...

Innføringen av LK-06 stilte rektorene ved åtte distriktsskoler i en to-nivå kommune overfor en enorm utfordring. Hvordan skal små enheter makte å utføre det omfattende arbeidet med å lage nye lokale læreplaner etter LK-06? Noen skolerer preget av stor turn-over og det er få lærere ved hver skole. Ledernettverket fattet vedtak om et felles prosjekt for å implementere og iversksette reformen gjennom ...

Are there any queer Norwegian films? How would one find out about it? The main objective of this thesis is to make visible how queer gender and sexuality are represented in the most prominent work in the Norwegian film history discourse. With writing history, there is a danger of social exclusion and this thesis found that the queer community has been marginalized in the film history book "Norsk ...

This thesis explores the quest for autonomy by the Alle ethnic minority and changing relationships in Konso-Dirashe-Alle areas of Southern Ethiopia. It also examines the causes of violent clashes between the Alle peasants and the security forces in 2008. Alle people with many other diverse peoples were incorporated into the Ethiopian empire state in the late 19th century but living without equal ...