Utbredt bruk av digitale løsninger har stor innvirkning på ansattes arbeidspraksiser. Dette krever ny kunnskap, teorier, metoder og etikk knyttet til faglig arbeid. I dette kapittelet brukes innovasjonsteori for å fremme forståelsen av arbeidspraksiser ved bruk av teknologi i NAV. Ved bruk av kvalitativ metode blir fordeler og ulemper ved bruk av dagens digitale praksiser hos NAV-ansatte analysert. ...

The field of buildings, health and human experiences may be divided between conditions (a) with scientific support for causal relations between exposure and health effects, e.g. dampness in buildings and asthma exacerbation; (b) lacking such scientific support, e.g. “sick building syndrome” (SBS). b) conditions are often disregarded as imaginations, psychogenic etc. Traditional ideas are (1) ...

I arvespråket amerikanorsk finst det mykje språkblanding. Denne artikkelen ser nærare på attributive engelske adjektiv i nominalfrasar som har norsk struktur og norsk substantiv, og vi undersøker om desse engelske adjektiva har norsk bøying i eit nyare korpusmateriale (CANS). Resultata syner at dei fleste engelske adjektiva står saman med eit engelsk substantiv, og det er altså ein kontekst der ein ...

In this chapter we want to bring Indigenous ontologies and ways of knowing into the practices of decolonized research-storying. One implication about that is bringing Eana, Earth in North Sámi, as a narrator into the text. This text is a collaborative endeavour, where we write about and with our encountering and living with/in Indigenous societies and ontologies. Care becomes present both in creating ...

From 2009 to 2013 writing blog posts, and commenting on each other’s blog posts, was a mandatory course requirement for the students of the subject ØMF101 Administrative Informasjonssystemer (Management Information Systems) at the former Bergen University College (now Western Norway University of Applied Sciences). We have data from the students’ activity on the blog network, combined with grades ...

The leader and a developer of the Bachelor of Northern Studies (BNS) present this English language, online, interdisciplinary university course program in social sciences and the humanities. BNS is today part of the multi-campus UiT Arctic University of Norway output of higher education. An overview of BNS is given, noticing its 2010 origin in the University of the Arctic initiative, and the challenges ...

As the synoptic introduction makes clear, Noam Chomsky is a unique intellectual figure who has had a huge impact on several fields. He was almost single-handedly responsible for initiating the cognitive revolution in linguistics, and, with others such as George Miller, Hilary Putnam and Jerry Fodor, for the ensuing replacement of behaviorism by cognitive science in psychology generally, to say nothing ...

The current crisis of confidence in Europe has clearly had an impact on defence and security relations between Russia and the West. Against this backdrop, the relatively constructive and well-functioning working relations that currently hold among arms control units clearly stand out, calling for a critical rethinking of how confidence- and security-building measures (CSBMs) contribute to increasing ...

More than 12 percent of the Norwegian population has immigration background, and immigrants play important parts in changing the Norwegian society from a seemingly homogenous to an evidently heterogeneous society. The Norwegian diversity policy was developed to encounter the challenges this represents. The goal of the policy is to create a society taking into account the individual’s right to be ...

I dette kapittelet rettes søkelyset mot arbeidsgivernes og arbeidstakernes rettigheter og plikter når det gjelder arbeidsinkludering; å få arbeid, beholde arbeid eller komme tilbake i arbeid. Temaer som vil bli belyst er retten til likebehandling og forbud mot diskriminering i arbeidslivet, samt Navs ansvarsområder innenfor arbeidsinkludering med tanke på de ytelser og bistandsformer som forvaltes ...