Avhandlingens hensikt har vært å undersøke hvordan et arbeid med kvalitetsutvikling realiseres i barnehager gjennom lokal styring og ledelse i kommunale barnehager. Kvalitetsplanen for barnehager i Tromsø kommune er i denne avhandlingen et eksempel på et lokalt styringsdokument som artikulerer ideer om kvalitet i barnehagene. Barnehagelederne blir i avhandlingen blant annet betegnet som translatører ...

This dissertation investigates the relation between digital games and common understandings of the past, which people experience through popular culture, formally called 'cultural memory processes'. Typically, so-called historical digital games depict historical scenarios such as World War II, the Cold War, and more recently, the War on Terror, as also seen in major film productions, TV series, and ...

Denne avhandlingen tar utgangspunkt i Lyngenstillingen, en tysk forsvarslinje som ble bygget i løpet av høsten 1944 og vinteren 1945 i Storfjord, Troms fylke. Undersøkelsesområdet ligger i Norddalen, en forlengelse av Kitdalen som ligger innerst ved Lyngenfjorden. Her ligger restene etter tyske fangeleirer. Hovedfokuset for avhandlingen har vært å se nærmere på hvordan en arkeologisk vinkling på ...

Avhandlingen søker å belyse de påvirkningene som teknologiens inntog i skolens undervisning har på elevenes læringsarbeid, med særlig fokus på elevenes skriving, undervisningens innhold og arbeidsmåter, og elevrollen. Dataene stammer fra en casestudie med to klasser og 25 elever fra fjerde og tiende trinn, utvalgt på bakgrunn av lærernes engasjement for bruk av teknologistøtte i sin undervisning. ...

The topic of the dissertation is the use of wikis in teacher education. The study is based on two classroom interventions involving first-time use of wiki technology. In the first, 18 students of Social studies created a Wikipedia article; in the second, 13 students of Norwegian co-edited a fiction-based, class-only wiki. The study is concerned with how the student teachers engage with, make sense ...

The thesis What Happened in Northern Norway? is a quantitative analysis of various aspects of the political and demographic development in Northern Norway from 1950 to today. The theories of Ottar Brox and in his seminal work Hva skjer i Nord-Norge? (What Is Happening in Northern Norway?), have influenced regional and national actors in their understanding of the region and their policy development. ...

This dissertation seeks to discuss how new tools for mediating sounds have developed and changed our aesthetic evaluation and framing of musical sounds. The possibility to create and reproduce sounds has had a great impact on the aesthetic development of music and is a topic that can be approached from many angles. This dissertation focuses on three different technological tools that have been ...

Each summer in the Sakha Republic (Russia), hundreds of thousands of people celebrate an event called yhyakh. This dissertation explores articulations, performances, and translations of the concepts ‘religion’ and ‘indigeneity’ at and around contemporary yhyakhs. It focuses particularly on how yhyakh is understood and performed by its participants, on the motivations of the actors who promote different ...

Through a case study of narratives of five Sámi immigrant women from the Norwegian side of Sápmi, the study theorizes migration and subsequent Sámi American subjectivity through the emerging concept of diasporic indigeneity. Familial material culture and artistic and textual production are significant sites of memory and meaning-making; however, intangible cultural continuity foundationally expressed ...

Compared to most other countries, Norway has been exposed to a stronger top-down implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education. The pervasive change in the Norwegian school curriculum has consequently resulted in changes in Norwegian initial teacher education. Over 10 years have passed since Norwegian educational reforms mandated teachers’ use of digital tools as a ...