This handbook is for teachers working with children in the demanding conditions of emergencies - war, conflict, natural disasters, and other types of crisis - and their aftermath.<p> <p>Children affected by stress from conflict and crisis situations often have difficulties learning and functioning at school. They experience a sense of chaos, loss of concentration and reduced memory, making it ...

In the new Norwegian national curricula, programming and interdisciplinary work have been introduced as two central elements. Furthermore, computational thinking is part of the core elements of the mathematics curriculum. In this paper, we present the findings from a small-scale study within the subjects of mathematics and food and health. The aim was to see if these two subjects could be used as ...

We are seven experienced academics and researchers from the high north. All within the field of education. We represent different disciplines, countries, and cultures. What we have in common is a wish to cross borders, collaborate, and learn: make space for storied experiences. Our stories are open ended—we start and end in complexities, and embedded in some sort of post- or trans- perspective be ...

In 2016, the Norwegian government announced that public health and life mastery would be an overarching topic in all the subjects in high schools. Empathy may predict mental health issues, and fiction can encourage empathy. This article illustrates narrative empathy through the Norwegian novel <i>Begynnelser</i> (<i>Beginnings</i>) (2017) by Carl Frode Tiller. The aim is, to give a theoretical account ...

Symbolic forms of bullying (“soft” bullying) may be an underrated problem in discus-sions on bullying. A reason for this may be that the signals emitted from such events are often weak and incoherent, hence much of the information disappears before it reaches external parties. A second reason is that much information disappears due to problems of communication. Even more can get lost in attempts at ...

Selv om pornografi har eksistert i årtusener har innholdet og tilgjengeligheten de siste tiårene utviklet seg i en eksplosiv fart. Barn og unge i Norge i dag har stor tilgang til digitale verktøy, og det er en økning i andelen som eksponeres for pornografisk innhold på nett. Denne studien har undersøkt hvordan denne nye hverdagen blir behandlet i barneskolen. Lærere i naturfag og samfunnsfag har ...

Specialized science courses (SSCs) integrate content knowledge (CK) with pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and prepare pre-service teachers (PSTs) for reform-oriented teaching. Studies of individual SSCs report positive short-term outcomes, including an increase in self-efficacy and CK. However, few studies explore the longer-term impact of SSCs on classroom teaching. We carried out an exploratory ...

This study explores the challenges in supporting and assessing action research projects related to bachelor’s theses for research-based initial teacher education in Norway. The data consist of two types of texts – the official information about the bachelor’s thesis from the university and 10 theses where the students complained about the assessment. The results are considered by using a theoretical ...

Eine vergleichende Betrachtung zur Situation in Deutschland und Norwegen