School improvement efforts rely on teachers’ capacity for professional development and learning. We investigate the kind of roles taken by early career teachers (ECTs) with a master’s degree from a research-based teacher education programme in relation to professional learning and school development in Norwegian schools after five years in the profession. The conceptual framework includes research ...

This study examined the extent to which receptive and productive vocabulary between ages 12 and 18 months predicted language skills at age 24 months in children born with family risk for dyslexia (FR) and a control group born without that risk. The aim was to identify possible markers of early language delay. The authors monitored vocabulary growth in 32 FR children and 21 control children longitudinally ...

This manual provides suggestions for how teachers can approach their students at the start of the academic yearr egarding how to prepare for a holistic approach that can provide for processing, understanding and learning, and ensure a return to regular school activities after the terrorist attacks. The manual does not address help to relatives of victims or assistance to survivors. Those directly ...

Several studies in recent years have reported significant fitness improvements in children after exercise interventions, given sufficient training intensity, frequency and duration. However the knowledge of how fast children respond to exercise is limited and most research protocols are performed on cycle ergometers or other training devices using exercise programs are not applicable for practical ...

<i>Background</i>: Large-scale, national eHealth services, such as the summary care record (SCR) and electronic prescriptions (e-prescriptions), have been implemented by project managers as Norwegian health authority initiatives. Few studies have been conducted on the large-scale implementation of eHealth services and the relationship between the implementers’ work and the use of the tools in ...

Hvorfor diskuterer vi så sjelden hvordan emosjoner påvirker forskning og læring? Er emosjonelle utfordringer noe vi som forskere helst ikke snakker om? Har vi for lite kunnskap om temaet? Er dette et forsømt forskningsfelt? I denne boka belyses denne tematikken fra mange ulike perspektiver. Boka er skrevet av og for forskere og profesjonsutdannere innenfor skole, helse og næringsliv. Artiklene ...

Artikkelen er et bidrag til sangfaglige og sangpedagogiske perspektiver på dybdelæring. Forskningsog utviklingsprosjektet (FoU) ble gjennomført som en del av sangstudentenes praksisopplæring sammen med sangelever ved kommunale kulturskoler, og med oppmerksomhet mot begrepet dybdelæring. Det empiriske materialet er produsert gjennom deltakende observasjon, fokusgruppeintervjuer og sangstudentenes ...

From 2017 the Norwegian teacher education in primary and lower secondary school will be a five-year master education. UiT - The Norwegian Arctic University started a master education already in 2010. The main differences between the old and new program are: increased credits in both pedagogy and the master subject, more emphasize on pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and more focus on the master ...

This paper describes a cross-border collaboration between a Russian and a Norwegian University in the English Language field, and how it is made possible by the universities' support – both in terms of strategic plans and funding. The paper shows the goals of the collaboration; to give the students an insight into how English is taught in Russia/Norway and intercultural learning, as well as how ...