Teachers’ intercultural understanding has a growing importance in teacher education. In a society with more diverse classrooms, there is an increasing need for teachers with a broad intercultural understanding. Student teachers who have had school practice in different cultural settings have a broader understanding of their multicultural pupils and are better equipped for related challenges and ...

The different groups within the Laestadian movement have developed different strategies when it comes to internet and production of texts. Regarding internet and official websites, there is ambivalence towards the opportunities which this technology and new media offer. Among the approximately twenty different Laestadian groups which exist in the Nordic countries and America, there are only ...

En forløper for dagens fleksible utdanninger ved høgskoler og universitet var de desentraliserte lærerutdanningene som ble igangsatt på 1970-tallet. Flesteparten av studentene den gang var kvinner som ikke hadde anledning til å flytte til et studiested for å ta utdanning. Et uttalt siktemål var å ta i bruk den utdanningsreserven som husmødre representerte. Tiltaket var inspirert av det britiske Open ...

læstadianismen framstår som en typisk evangelisk protestantisk bevegelse med tanke på dens store produksjon av bekjennelseslitteratur. læstadianismeforskningen har i liten grad rettet oppmerksomhet mot den store produksjonen av meldingsblad i bevegelsen. denne artikkelen søker å kaste lys over denne litteraturen ved hjelp av teoretiske perspektiver om kulturelt minne. det teoretiske utgangspunktet ...

This article presents a study of an educational experiment conducted at the early childhood education programme at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway. As COVID-19 made social distancing an issue, the traditional practicum in kindergartens was moved to online platforms. Constructive alignment was used as an analytical framework to investigate the possibilities and limitations of student ...

The article focuses on Teacher Time Outs (TTOs) in rehearsals and co-enactments as part of a practice-based approach to professional development, aiming to support teachers’ learning of ambitious mathematics teaching. Ambitious teaching requires teachers to be responsive to students’ ideas in-the-moment of instruction. This is complex and places enormous demands on the teacher. We examine how TTOs ...

i 2014 finnes det to grunnskoler i regi av læstadianske¹ grupperinger i Nord-Norge. Straumfjordnes skole i Nordreisa kommune i Nord-Troms har forankring i den luthersk-læsta - dianske menighet, også kalt Lyngen-retningen.² Straumfjordnes skole³ er en fådelt skole som har elever på 1.–10. trinn. Skoleåret 2013–2014 hadde skolen 62 elever og 11 lærere. Den andre ...

This paper is the first in a series of three studies that explore the pedagogy used in the Norwegian and Russian early childhood settings by examining texts that are part of the syllabus in two early childhood teacher education programs that participated in our project with student international exchanges. The study explores how Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of dialogue relates to the concept of ‘learning’ ...

I denne studien diskuterer vi studentrespons på formativ vurdering i forbindelse med et bachelorkurs i akademisk skriving. Formativ vurdering er underveisvurdering og -veiledning, den former læring og bringer den lærende fremover (Bennett, 2011, 2018; Wiliam, 2018). Vårt formål med studien er å utforske hvilke typer formativ vurdering studenter opplever som verdifulle for utvikling av ferdigheter i ...

This paper analyses how Ciaran Carson’s For All We Know (2008) adds to other disciplinary approaches to the challenges of re-presenting the past. The representation of history is a controversial field, as much of the radical tradition of history debates in Marx, Derrida, Foucault and Kristeva indicates. Controversies over history are also prevalent in Belfast and Northern Ireland where history ...