This article deals with the group-based behavioral, cognitive, and skill-training intervention program Maltti as a special educational support action applied with outdoor adventure education at the primary school level. The need to apply the group-based intervention arose from the special education teachers’ (N=2) desire to reinforce and expand their pedagogical methods in order to improve the ...

Two factors historically played a decisive role in the West Nordic region’s affairs: its strategic location and small societies’ long struggle for independence. The current power balance shift challenges the progress of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland towards strengthening their independence and sovereignty. The research suggests a theoretical contemplation of the West Nordic region’s ...

Background - This study investigates the use of health and dental care services in adults with intellectual disability in the last 12 months according to Norwegian recommendations and in relation to age and intellectual disability levels.<p> <p>Method - A cross-sectional community-based survey including 214 participants (56% men). POMONA health indicators were used for data collection.<p> <p>Results ...

Hvilket handlingsrom har kvinner hatt i filosofien? I artikkelen benytter jeg Sofie Charlotte av Preussen som eksempel for å drøfte dette spørsmålet. Kvinner har tradisjonelt ikke hatt samme forutsetninger som menn til å skrive filosofi og publisere verk. Likevel har flere av dem spilt viktige roller som samtalepartnere og korrespondenter for kanoniserte mannlige filosofer, roller de i heller liten ...

The present study intended to investigate, first, the impact of semantic clustering on the recall and recognition of incidentally learned words in a new language, and second, how the interaction between semantic clustering and frequency of occurrence may modulate learning. To that end, Spanish university students watched an intentionally created video which contained Spanish target words that were ...

Denne oppgåva tek for seg korleis olja, med sine ringverknader har påvirka kristendom i Stavanger. Gjennom religionssosiologiske briller ser eg først på den moderne historia i Stavanger. Med denne gjennomgangen som grunnlag går eg vidare inn på Weber sine teoriar i Den protestantiske etikk og kapitalismens ånd for å sjå om teoriane i verket kan kasta lys på forhaldet mellom religion og økonomisk ...

I minnelandskapene etter den tyske okkupasjonen av Norge stiller først og fremst sporene i betong og jern seg til skue for oss. Festningsverkene og jernbanene har særlig hatt evnen til å fange forfatteres interesse når studiet av okkupasjonsmaktens byggeprogram står på dagsordenen. I sin siste bok, som nå også foreligger i norsk oversettelse, bemerker den kanadiske arkitekturhistorikeren Despina ...

Using the mobilities paradigm, this thesis aims to try to explain the uniqueness of a certain group of young Chinese travel bloggers, who were also tourists. It considered that the characteristics of young Chinese travel bloggers, both in their motivations and behaviours, do not appear in the realm of tourism only. This thesis explores where their characteristics come from and how to interpret them ...

Due to increased mobility, digitalisation and globalisation, the old value chains are disrupting and the boundaries between the roles in the markets are blurred; enterprises, customers and residents are both marketers and actors of tourism experiences, creating a context of service eco-systems, where value is co-created in networks that are directly and indirectly interacting with each other. These ...