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A multilingual book café at the school library: Contradictions between literacy discourses
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Accumulation and inequality in China: What spaces for inclusion and welfare?
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Advocating causal analyses of media and social change by way of social mechanisms
(Intellect, 2019)Studies of (new) media and social change should strive to introduce causality into the analysis. Studies relying on quantitative data tend to provide either too simplistic explanations or just point to correlations while ... -
Andrespråkseleven, leseprøver og litteraturbasert leseopplæring
(Nordisk nettverk for andrespråksforskning, 2013)Hva måler den nasjonale leseprøven når den gjennomføres av elever med norsk som andrespråk? I denne artikkelen analyserer vi data som viser at totalskåren på nasjonal leseprøve korrelerer med høy morfologisk bevissthet og ... -
Assistive activity technology as symbolic expressions of the self
(IOS Press, 2019)Different types of assistive technologies can support participation for people with disability; nonetheless, technology can break with peoples self-image, sometimes resulting in technology abandonment. OBJECTIVE: This ... -
The best way to conduct intervention research: methodological considerations
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2012-01-13)This article is a theoretical contribution to the debate about which qualitative interventionmethodology is best suited to building stronger partnerships between researchers and practitioners in educational research. In ... -
Can library use enhance intercultural education?
(Issues In Educational Research (IIER), 2012-02-27)This article explores the questions to what extent educational research addresses library use in education and how the library can contribute to intercultural education. The focus is primarily on elementary education in ... -
Challenges to gender equality and access in education: Perspectives from South Africa and Sudan
(Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society (SACHES), 2012)The achievement of the target of Education for All (EFA) by 2015 is a global concern. Worldwide many countries have committed themselves to various initiatives and efforts to improve children’s access to education, ... -
Collaboration in University development: north-south, south-north. A Norwegian case
(University of Malta, 2013)The article focuses on university collaboration between Norway and countries in the global South. It describes Norway’s policies and practices and discusses in particular three programmes in higher education supported by ... -
Critical incidents and cultural relativism - tools for survival in foreign context?
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2015-02-10)The aim of this study is to examine how physiotherapy students manage to convert and employ their intrinsic and extrinsic knowledge and skills in clinical contexts abroad outside Europe. The study is based on a qualitative ... -
“Cyrillic Does Not Kill”: Symbols, Identity, and Memory in Croatian Public Discourse
(University of Ljubljana, 2017)This article addresses identity construction through social symbolic meanings conveyed in discussions about scripts, primarily Cyrillic, in Croatian public discourse. We focus on discussions in various Croatian online ... -
Debatiendo conceptos con metodología etnográfica: el caso del 'clientelismo político' y la 'compra de votos'
(Asociación Nueva Antropología A.C, 2015)Resumen: la autora explora y argumenta cómo la metodología etnográfica —principalmente la observación participante— arroja datos decisivos en la construcción de conceptos. Para ilustra - ción utiliza el caso del debate ... -
Decolonising Methodology: Who Benefits From Indigenous Knowledge Research?
(Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017)It is common for indigenous knowledge (IK) researchers in South Africa to conduct studies within conventional Western paradigms, especially in the field of IK-science curriculum integration. The scientific paradigm usually ... -
Deep Politics: Community Adaptations to Political Clientelism in 21st Century Mexico
(Latin American Studies Association, 2016)The specific contribution of this study is to explore how a communitarian lifeworld prepares the ground for practices of political clientelism without requiring the “foundational favor” noted in other contexts. Based on ... -
The dialectic between global gender goals and local empowerment: Girls’ education in Southern Sudan and South Africa
(Symposium Journals, 2011)The start of the Education for All (EFA) movement ushered in a new era in education, an era linked to research on issues such as ‘global governance’ or the ‘world institutionalization of education’. This global governance ... -
The Double Meaning Making of the Term Cultural Diversity in Teacher Educator Discourses
(Oslo Metropolitan University, 2018)Cultural diversity is assumed to be a central component of Western education and even though it has been extensively investigated in international research on teacher education, little knowledge exists about its usage and ... -
Education of Hazara Girls in a Diaspora : education as empowerment and an agent of change
(Symposium Journals, 2011)Afghanistan is a country which has experienced years of conflict and war. This unrest has forced large numbers of Afghans into diasporas, Hazaras comprising one of these groups. Hazaras have mainly fled from rural Hazarajat ... -
Elephants over the Cliff: Explaining Wildlife Killings in Tanzania
(Elsevier, 2014-03)Many incidents of elephant killings have recently taken place in Tanzania as well as in other African countries. Such events are usually presented as results of the rising global demand for ivory. As we show in this case ... -
Epistemological and Methodological Challenges in Research Concerning Youth at the Margins
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Esoterogeni og aktiv forskjellsdannelse: Religion og identitetsskapning, i Stillehavet og andre steder
(OsloMet - Storbyuniversitetet, 2019-03-26)Esoterogeny and the creation of difference: Religion and identity making, in the Pacific and elsewhere Taking its cue from Marx’ and Weber’s grand theorizing, a key narrative in Western modernity has been the inevitable ...
