Browsing Scientific Publications in Sociology and Social Work by Title
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The age and well-being “paradox”: a longitudinal and multidimensional reconsideration
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper explores qualifcations to the much-discussed paradox that although aging is associated with multiple physical and social losses, subjective well-being (SWB) is stable or increasing in later life. We explore ... -
Ånden som holdt på å le seg i hjel : En studie av humor i alternativt religiøse magasiner
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Barnet som aktør og kunnskapsbærer - en utfordring for barnevernets profesjonelle ekspertise
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)During recent years, it has become more and more common to consider children as competent participants in their own lives, also in the child protective services. This agrees with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child ... -
Barnets beste: Barnevernets formål i spenningen mellom individuelle og relasjonelle hensyn.
(Chapter, 2020)Barnets beste er et sentralt prinsipp i barnevernets verdigrunnlag, et prinsipp som ligger tett opptil barnevernets mandat om å verne barn. Målgruppe er barn i utsatte posisjoner. Vi skal se at barnets beste er retningsgivende ... -
Barns tilgang til erfaringer som er relevante for samfunnsfag: En analyse av kontinuitet og progresjon i planverket forsmåskole og barnehage
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Praktiske erfaringer er en viktig kilde til sakkunnskap i samfunnsfag på småskoletrinnet. 97 prosent av elevene har 2–5 års barnehageerfaring når de begynner på skolen, og innholdet i barnehagehverdagen har betydning for ... -
Begynneropplæring og nivåspesifikk samfunnsfag- og KRLE-didaktikk for småskoletrinnet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Fagdidaktikk for samfunnsfag og KRLE på småskoletrinnet er artikkelens tema. Fra 2017 er norske grunnskolelærerutdanninger utvidet til masterløp og «begynneropplæring» gjort til nøkkelbegrep for 1-7. trinn. Artikkelens ... -
Bruddlinjer som utgangspunkt for analysearbeid i institusjonell- etnografisk utforsking
(Chapter, 2023)In this chapter, we use material from two research projects to show how institutional ethnography’s sensitivity toward disjunctures has put us as researchers on the trail of everyday life problematics. In institutional ... -
Children's rights and teachers' responsibilities : Reproducing or transforming the cultural taboo on child sexual abuse?
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The clash of cultures: Individualization and standardization in education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)In this essay, we argue that pupils in compulsory school education seem to be exposed to conflicting pressures from an (internal) tendency towards individualisation and an (external) tendency towards standardisation. Drawing ... -
A COLAB model Of workplace transformation in the criminal justice context
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021)This chapter presents the COLAB model for promoting organisational learning and innovation with potential application in criminal justice-related organisations. We describe this model as a toolkit that built on the Change ... -
Comparing deep-end confinement in England & Wales and Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Extreme forms of custody represent the boundary points of state power. The configuration of the most restrictive corners of prison systems, and what goes on within them, is highly instructive in exposing the objectives, ... -
The construction of a ‘traumatized’ refugee child in need of safety in Norwegian kindergartens
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper explores how kindergarten teachers relate to the concept of safety in the integration of refugee children. My research findings reveal that the concept of safety, or trygghet in Norwegian, is understood as ... -
The construction of a ‘traumatized’ refugee child in need of safety in Norwegian kindergartens
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper explores how kindergarten teachers relate to the concept of safety in the integration of refugee children. My research findings reveal that the concept of safety, or trygghet in Norwegian, is understood as ... -
Contrasts in freedom: Comparing the experiences of imprisonment in open and closed prisons in England and Wales and Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Open prisons are portrayed as less harmful custodial institutions than closed prisons, and prison systems that rely more heavily on low security imprisonment are typically considered to have a more humane and less punitive ... -
Coping with Covid-19. Dugnad: A case of the moral premise of the Norwegian welfare state
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Purpose This paper provides an analysis of the notion of dugnad (collective effort) in the context of the first weeks of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Norway. By appealing to people's sense of collective effort (dugnadsånd) ... -
Defending the Nordic model: Understanding the moral universe of the Norwegian working class.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In recent years, much attention has been paid to the white working class’ concern with their declining position in the neoliberal era. The hypothesis that social and economic insecurity provoke anger and xenophobia are ... -
Den sakrale og den profane fotballen - om forskjeller i medias dekning av kvinne- og herrefotball på Sørlandet
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Den statlige styringen av barnehagen - konsekvenser for politikk, profesjon og pedagogikk.
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;no. 503, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Denne avhandlingen utvikler mer kunnskap om norsk barnehagepolitikk på grunnlag av en analyse av den statlige styringen av barnehagens pedagogiske innhold. Avhandlingen er nærmere bestemt en studie av forskriftsprosessen ... -
The development of sentence complexity in the writing of young learners of L3 Spanish in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article explores the development of sentence complexity in the writing of young learners of Spanish as the third language (L3) learned in Norwegian schools. Learning to write in a foreign language is a complex process, ...