Publications
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På vei mot læreryrket
(2024)
The Road to Becoming a Teacher demonstrates how student activities become part of the formative processes towards becoming a teacher. The various contributions describe the ways in which preservice teachers reflect over ...
Spesialprest i livssynsåpent samfunn
(2023)
Society’s openness to a variety of life stances has had an impact on the fundamental conditions of chaplaincy services within public institutions such as the healthcare system, correctional facilities, the military, and ...
Herre og drott – konge og sjøkonge
(2023)
Avaldsnes on Karmøy in Rogaland, which according to Snorre was King Harald Fairhair's royal estate, has been the center of a major research effort since 2007. Extensive excavations have, among other things, uncovered the ...
Ice Blocks from Norway
(2023)
For over fifty years, between around 1870 and 1914, there was a thriving trade that saw translucent block ice exported to Great Britain from the fjords and lakes of Norway. By 1899, the volume of ice landed in Britain had ...
Nynorsk samtidslitteratur og skriftkultur. Festskrift til Geir Hjorthol
(2023)
This issue of Skriftkultur stems from our desire to honor our good colleague Geir Hjorthol with a festschrift on the occasion of his 70th birthday. As the recipient is a professor of literature and also interested in ...
Bekymringsarbeidet
(2023)
Local police departments receive a vast number of calls annually from the healthcare sector, the education sector, the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, other social service agencies, families, friends, neighbors ...
Tett på profesjon, arbeid og politikk
(2024)
Researchers engage in increasingly complex relationships with society and business in the process of conducting research. Can qualitative research produce high-quality results when there are close ties between the researchers ...
Utfordringer og muligheter innen musikk og utdanning
(2024)
The anthology Challenges and Opportunities in Music and Education expands on work presented at the MiU-Conference 2023 and includes contributions across the diverse fields of music pedagogical research, education, and ...
Kritisk danning i lærerutdanningen
(2024)
This anthology examines what it takes to educate teachers in the 2020s, in an effort to contribute to a revitalization, reformulation and operationalization of educational thinking in teacher education.;How should teachers ...
Motivasjon i fokus
(2025)
Motivation in Focus: Self-Determination Theory, in Theory and Practice sheds light on how Self-Determination Theory (SDT) can be applied in the workplace, education, health, sports and the arts. This anthology provides a ...
Språkhistoriske muligheter i skole og utdanning
(2024)
This book explores various aspects of language history didactics and raises questions about how and why we ought to teach language history, and which topics specifically, throughout the entire course of education. The ...
På vandring og på flukt: Migrasjon i historisk perspektiv
(2017)
Not since the 1940s have more people been on the move than today – across borders or in their own country. People flee from rebellion and war, but many also emigrate because they are looking for work and because they dream ...
Dødshjelp i Norden?
(2020)
"‘Should assisted dying be legal?’ is a question that has been and continues to be actively discussed throughout the Western world, leading several countries to change their laws in recent years. This anthology provides a ...
From Life to Death in Iron Age and Medieval Vinjefjord
(2024)
Archaeological excavations in 2019 and 2020 at Vinjefjord in Central Norway uncovered extensive evidence of settlements and graves from societies that thrived in this region during the Iron Age, the Viking Age, and the ...
Forskning og utvikling i kulturskolefeltet
(2017)
What is going on in Kulturskolen – the Norwegian municipal school of music and performing arts? And what is the relation between the activities in the practice field and research? Kulturskolen is a type of school dependent ...
Chapter 21 Effective Cooperation Between Strangers in Unexpected and Dangerous Situations
(2018)
"This chapter aims to discuss what it takes to make people or groups that
do not know each other previously establish effective cooperation during unforeseen
events. The focus is on the formation process of “swift trust”, ...
Chapter 4 Workshop-Didaktik for Cooperation in a Contingent World
(2018)
"Based on the idea that contingency frames people’s view of the world, the
text examines how cooperation is still possible. It is argued that cooperation is a human
constant (Tomsello), as well as a skill and craft to ...
Ledelse av mennesker i det nye arbeidslivet
(2020)
"This book is the first in a series of publications from the Department of Leadership and Organization at Høyskolen Kristiania. Through 12 chapters, we highlight leadership-related issues concerning, among other things, ...
Samarbeid om selvhjelp
(2019)
"The development and spread of self-help groups in Norway has been unlike that in other western countries. Public authorities, in collaboration with private sector volunteer resources, have created a national hybrid ...
Boundary Struggles
(2017)
Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right and a core value in liberal democracies. It is also, however, one of our time’s most contested issues, constantly claimed to be either too wide-ranging, at the peril of ...
Interaction: 'Samhandling' Under Risk
(2018)
The authors of Interaction: ‘Samhandling’ Under Risk. A Step Ahead of the Unforeseen elucidate new views on emergency-preparedness management and understanding the unforeseen in society and learning processes by introducing ...
Myter om velferd og velferdsstaten
(2018)
"Post-war expansion of the welfare state is one of the most central changes in Norwegian society
today and is often a topic in public debate. When certain conceptions about the welfare state
are developed and they are ...
Folkevalgt og politisk leder
(2020)
"The premise of Elected Officials and Political Leaders is that every elected politician is a political leader. This anthology looks at political leadership in Norwegian local governments and explores how to understand ...
Spill og strategi i helsesektoren
(2019)
"The health sector is a complex and dynamic conglomerate of services at local, regional and national levels. How to balance different considerations between new medical-professional knowledge, controlling expenses and local ...
Culinary Heritage
(2024)
This anthology explores food and cultural heritage from various eras to show how food history helps us understand the past, present, and future. It provides new insight into local food cultures and focuses on the creative ...
Chapter 6 Apprenticeship Learning in Preparation for Meeting the Unforeseen
(2018)
"The chapter analyzes teaching where the goal is to enable students at the
Armed Forces Staff College to master unforeseen events. The students are all participants
in a program for joint operations in which different ...
Chapter 2 Med det danske U20 ishockeylandshold til VM
(2018)
"The present case study investigates stress and recovery of the Danish national under-
20 ice hockey players during a training camp and the following World Championship. The aims
were to track their stress-recovery states ...
Det gamle Oslo 1000-1624
(2024)
In 1624, fire destroyed Oslo. In its place, the new city of Christiania was established on the other side of the area now known as Bjørvika, below Akershus Fortress, and the charred remains of Oslo were razed to the ground. ...
Chapter 23 Care Coordination, Samhandling and Patient Safety
(2018)
"This chapter focus on Norwegian healthcare policies and regulations for
care coordination and patient safety. The Norwegian Coordination Reform implemented
in 2012 emphasizes patient engagement, care pathways, and ...
I skriftkulturens grenseland – tidleg literacy i barnehage, fritid og skule
(2024)
In this our sixth publication in the Skriftkultur series, we focus on an issue at the outskirts of written culture – specifically the period from age 0-8 during which children develop language and are initiated into written ...
Mot bedre vitende i norsk matsektor
(2020)
"The Norwegian food market engenders strong opinions and substantial media attention, with questions regarding agricultural regulations, competition between retail food chains, and the relationship between chains and their ...
ICILS 2023
(2024)
ICILS, the International Computer and Information Literacy Study, examines fourteen-year-olds’ digital competence and algorithmic thinking. The purpose of the study is to survey how well young people are prepared for ...
De rike drikker mest, de fattige rammes hardest
(2025)
There was a time when cigarettes symbolized modernity and pleasure among men in elite society. Today, smoking is often considered a shameful activity, and daily smokers have low socio-economic status. Alcohol consumption ...
Chapter 28 Basic Structures for a New Theory of Samhandling Under Risk (SUR)
(2018)
"This final chapter aggregates experiences and findings from the other
chapters of the book. The book’s overall research question is as follows: What are
the basic structures of the concept of samhandling under risk and ...
Det universitets- og høgskolepedagogiske vitenskapsområdet i Norge
(2024)
The book provides an insight into the fields of teaching and research in higher education in Norway today. Furthermore, the history and development of the scientific area, and central characteristics of the work university ...
Krigsforbrytere i dagens estetiske minnekultur
(2024)
War criminals have constituted a fraught topic since the end of the Second World War, and interest has not diminished over time. The term “war criminal” has a juridical underpinning but is also used less formally, and words ...
Døden i livet
(2018)
"There is a widely held notion that death is not particularly visible in our culture; death is something we do not talk about. The premise for Døden i livet has been to challenge this preconception from a variety of ...
Chapter 16 Military Samhandling
(2018)
"The chapter describes and discusses interaction within the Norwegian
Armed Forces. Military interaction is understood as the dynamic and sometimes unpredictable
action undertaken when two or more services interact. The ...
Musikkfagets kompleksitet og bredde – nye praksiser i et sammensatt samfunn
(2025)
The anthology The Complexity and Wide Scope of Music Education encompasses diverse perspectives on music education in primary school. It reflects on how LK20 has revitalized music as a school subject, emphasizing students' ...
Johan Storm Munch
(2025)
Johan Storm Munch's life (1827–1908) was an encounter with most of the changes that Norwegian church life was exposed to in the 19th century. In this book, you can follow him from his early years in Kristiansand, where his ...