This empirical study compares the public policies of municipal waste management in Finland and Norway by analyzing organizational innovations of municipal waste management services in order to identify contributing factors of the organizational evolution and evaluate associated stakeholder concerns or implications. Our findings demonstrate that municipal waste management services have been extensively ...

Mind My Mind (MMM) cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) manualized treatment is effective in the management of common emotional and behavioral mental health problems in youth, yet not all individuals respond satisfactorily to treatment. This study explored potential effect modifiers, i.e., baseline factors associated with a differential treatment effect. We conducted secondary effect modifier ...

Human communication is by default polysemiotic: it involves the spontaneous combination of two or more semiotic systems, the most important ones being language, gesture, and depiction. We formulate an original cognitive-semiotic framework for the analysis of polysemiosis, contrasting this with more familiar systems based on the ambiguous term “multimodality.” To be fully explicit, we developed ...

The point of departure for this chapter is that the passport can only be understood with regard to the conduct and practical experience of those using it, and that the passport is embedded in ‘heterogeneous networks’ of people, practices and things (Timmermans and Berg 2003). The passport is nothing in and by itself but becomes of significance the moment a closed border is to be passed. The point ...

De fleste av de som kom til Chile, var overlevende fra andre verdenskrig og hadde opplevd forferdelige ting under krigen. Jeg har fortalt deg at min far for eksempel var en soldat i en alder av 16 og ble sendt til grensen mellom Frankrike og Belgia som amerikanerne invaderte. I sin tropp bestående av 200 soldater overlevde kun 6 personer, hvor en er min far. Dette er bare ett eksempel. Det var andre ...

På midten av 1970-tallet ble fem, unge samiske kunstnere, Synnøve Persen (f. 1950), Aage Gaup (f. 1943), Josef Halse (f. 1951), Ingunn Utsi (f. 1948) og Maja Dunfjeld (f. 1947), invitert av Norsk kulturråd til å lage utkast til utsmykking av Láhpoluoppal skole i Kautokeino kommune. Den samiske kunstneren Iver Jåks (1932 – 2007) og skolens arkitekter sto bak initiativet. Utsmykkingen sto ferdig 1980, ...

This paper addresses the theory–practice divide in the Norwegian teacher education programme for years 5–10. We examine to what extent crossing boundaries between the academic knowledge gained in the university and in the practice field can be achieved in the teacher education for English. This boundary crossing is conceptualised as establishing a ‘third space’ where theory and practice are ...

Introduction: Language policies are often aimed at changing language behaviours, yet it is notoriously difficult to assess their effects. This study investigates language use and competence in the Indigenous Sámi populations of Norway and Sweden in light of the national-level policies the two countries have adopted.<p> <p>Methods: We provide a cross-country comparison of relevant educational, ...