Publications
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Snøens formler
(2023)
In her well-known song, ‘Når himmelen faller ned’ (‘When the Sky Falls Down’), the Norwegian musician Anne Grete Preus described snow as ‘celestial tipp-ex’ and a mighty ‘wonder’. But what exactly is it that snow corrects? ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jerusalem in Viken
(2023)
St Olav’s Church in Tønsberg in Viken (the area surrounding the Oslo Fjord in south-eastern Norway) burned along with most of the medieval town in 1536, the same year the Reformation was introduced to Norway. The church ...
Den russiske togmyten
(2018)
"How are languages and cultures affected not only by the landscapes we live in, but also by the ways in which we make our way through them? Can railway fiction contribute to illuminating questions related to a nation’s ...
Vann, juss og samfunn
(2022)
Society’s use and management of water relies on professional expertise spanning diverse fields: from biology and technology to economics and law. This book examines current issues related to regulating water through chapters ...
Migrasjon og mobilitet – handlinger, mønstre og forståelser i norsk sammenheng
(2023)
Migration and mobility transform the daily lives and surroundings of those who travel and relocate, as well as the places they move from and to. This anthology presents some of the disparate perspectives, theories and ...
Læring gennem mad og måltider i grundskolen
(2023)
How are school meals organized in the Scandinavian countries? And in what ways can new pedagogical practice lead to better school meal programs for students and a better understanding of the importance, for health and ...
Sikkerhetspolitikk og militærmakt i Arktis
(2023)
Security Policy and Military Strength in the Arctic presents new Norwegian research in High North defence and security policy topics. Against the backdrop of today’s security situation, the book provides a unique introduction ...
Kompetanse for inkluderende praksis
(2023)
This anthology constitutes the primary report resulting from a three-year innovation project in which the main focus has been on collaboration between preschools and primary schools, and the ‘PP-tjeneste’ (pedagogisk-psykologisk ...
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 ...
Norskhet i bevegelse
(2024)
What does it mean to be Norwegian, and who can call themselves Norwegian in today's globalized and multicultural Norway? These questions are increasingly being discussed in public discourse and social media channels. The ...
Strategic Communication – Contemporary Perspectives
(2024)
Strategic communication is emerging as a widespread professional field. When communication is strategic, the aim is purposeful impact. In society, politics, civil society and markets, new techniques and practices are being ...
Utenforskap, stigmatisering og fremmedfrykt på Agder: 1860 til i dag
(2023)
The title of this anthology – Outsiders, Stimatization and Xenophobia in Agder: From 1860 to the Present – conveys a critical perspective on society’s treatment of those who deviate from accepted norms and expectations in ...
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 ...
Hvordan skape vekst?
(2024)
Some places experience population growth and increasing job opportunities, while others undergo a decline in population and the number of workplaces. What are the driving forces behind the developments we have seen in ...
Theatre and Performing Arts, Disability Citizenship and Community Development
(2024)
How might inclusive arts practices strengthen active citizenship and community participation? This is the main question that inspired the global collegial networks that led to this book project. The authors of the introductory ...
Barn, unge og straffegjennomføring
(2025)
Children, Youth and Penal Sentencing is about the ways in which children and young people have been punished throughout the history of our penal system, and why and how we punish them today.
This book provides the latest ...
Offentlige eller private velferdstjenester?
(2025)
Few issues in Norwegian politics are more controversial than the privatization of social services. While some argue that standards of quality increase with a combination of public and private services, others argue that ...
Sted og identitet
(2024)
2023 marked 300 years since Arendal and Risør were officially granted city status, an occasion duly celebrated in both of them. Mandal and Grimstad have also recently marked anniversaries related to their city status, and ...
Virtuell virkelighet i undervisning
(2025)
Virtual reality (VR) was once science fiction, but now it is on its way to becoming commonplace. VR has great potential for realistic visualization, so what are the obstacles we encounter when using this technology in ...
Hvorfor vokser steder?
(2018)
"Why do some places grow while others are shrinking? What are the most important driving forces behind increases in the number of inhabitants and jobs? How can places affect their own growth? This book is written for those ...
Prioritering, styring og likebehandling. Utfordringer i norsk helsetjeneste
(2018)
"Prioritization is a necessity in healthcare, in the allocation of limited resources. Which criteria and considerations prove decisive, however, when it comes to prioritization in practice? The dominant political objective ...
Den engasjerte eleven
(2018)
"Passion for learning has become a key concept in the politics of education. We want to establish schools where students are motivated, enthusiastic and feel a desire to learn. To achieve this on behalf of all students, ...
Barn og unge
(2018)
"What are the conditions children and young people experience in the city? What opportunities does the city provide for interaction between people and urban spaces and places? What sociomaterial conditions for participation ...
Norge etter 22. juli
(2018)
"At the time of this book’s publication, almost seven years have passed since the dramatic and brutal terror attacks at Norway’s Government Headquarters in Oslo and the island of Utøya on 22 July 2011. How have we coped ...
Trender for idrettspsykologisk forskning i Skandinavia
(2018)
Sporting and sport psychological accomplishments are an important part of Scandinavian culture. Psychological factors have been demonstrated to have a major impact on both participation and achievements in sport. Sport ...
Chapter 4 Profesjonelle fotballtreneres interaksjon med sine overordnede og assistenter
(2018)
"Research on coaching in sports has long been concerned with how coaches interact
with their players. In recent years, more research in sports psychology has been conducted on
the coach’s role. However, research on ...
Chapter 3 Mestrer jeg trenerrollen?
(2018)
"The purpose of this study was to examine factorial, convergent, discriminant, and criteria
validity of a multi-dimensional scale measuring coaching efficacy (Feltz, Chase, Moritz, &
Sullivan, 1999). The sample consisted ...
Chapter 6 Idrætspsykologi med et community psykologisk afsæt
(2018)
"The overall purpose of this study was to examine how a transformative and community
psychological approach could affect a socially challenged neighbourhood and participants´
perceptions of involvement (young boys, 12–16 ...
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 ...
Chapter 1 Allvarliga idrottsskador hos svenska manliga akademifotbollsspelare
(2018)
Sporting and sport psychological accomplishments are an important part of Scandinavian culture. Psychological factors have been demonstrated to have a major impact on both participation and achievements in sport. Sport ...
Chapter 5 Miljøets betydning i elitesport
(2018)
"In recent years there has been an increased focus on the importance of the environment
for the development of elite athletes. In order to understand the factors that contribute
to or limit an athlete’s sporting development, ...
Prison, Architecture and Humans
(2018)
"What is prison architecture and how can it be studied? How are concepts such as humanism, dignity and solidarity translated into prison architecture? What kind of ideologies and ideas are expressed in various prison ...
Manipulating practices
(2018)
"Manipulating practices is the first ever collection of critical physiotherapy studies and comes at a time of unprecedented change in the profession. Written as a collaboration between 20 authors, many members of the ...
Norge i Latin-Amerika
(2017)
Despite long traditions for contact with Latin America, increasing trade and investments in the region and important contributions to the recent peace process in Colombia, Latin America is often depicted as a "forgotten ...
Putting a Face on It
(2017)
"Putting a Face on It analyses and discusses how subjectivity and exposure of individuals now affect most journalistic topics and genres: from politics to sports journalism, from science journalism to journalism about ...
Principled Pragmatism: VOC Interaction with Makassar 1637-68 and the Nature of Company Diplomacy
(2017)
In this study of the Dutch East India Company the author uses the Company’s seventeenth century diplomatic interaction with the trading Sultanate of Macassar, on the southwestern tip of present day Sulawesi, as a case in ...
Aksjonsforskning i Norge: Teoretisk og empirisk mangfold
(2017)
Action Research in Norway. Theoretical and empirical diversity is an anthology consisting of twenty scientific articles from the fields of education, health, science centers, arts and working life. The anthology provides ...
Det åpne bibliotek
(2017)
The stereotypical image of quiet, dusty rooms with hushing librarians does not ring true for contemporary research libraries. On the contrary, libraries are often at the forefront of technological development. As they open ...
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 ...
Innholdsmarkedsføring
(2016)
This book describes the concept of content marketing in a Norwegian context. Its subtitle, meaning “concept, business models, legal aspects, ethics and practice”, is comprised of key words for each chapter. The concept ...
Erik Werenskiolds grafikk
(2016)
This book draws attention to a part of Erik Werenskiold's (1855-1938) art production from the beginning of the 20th century, his prints made between 1908 and 1938. In our time these prints are not particularly well known ...
Kvensk grammatikk
(2017)
Kvensk grammatikk is a comprehensive presentation of the structure of the Kven language, a Baltic-Finnic minority language in Norway. The grammar has been reviewed and approved by Kvensk språkting, the decision-making body ...
Prioritering og progresjon i skolematematikken
(2017)
Norway is a leading country in the world when it comes to not prioritizing algebra in school mathematics, the mathematical language many students will need for further education and professions. Analysis of data from TIMSS, ...
Metode mellom forskning og læring
(2017)
This book employs a range of approaches to answer the question of how to use qualitative methods in a way that opens for reflections on the development and the study of professional practice in teacher education. Knowledge ...
Når musikken gir mening.
(2017)
As the title of this treatise indicates, the topic is communication about quality. The author explores the general possibilities and limits of linguistic communication regarding the quality of grade school concerts, with ...
Kritiske perspektiver i helsefagene
(2017)
Professional criticism and reflection are important elements in all health science practices and knowledge development. This anthology presents a wide range of critical perspectives on health care and health science, aimed ...
På vei til å bli skrivelærer
(2016)
This book focuses on how student teachers for primary and lower secondary school develop competence as teachers of writing. Analyses are based on written, digital dialogues between student teachers, mentors and lecturers ...
Internet Research Ethics
(2015)
This anthology addresses ethical challenges that arise within the field of Internet research. Among the issues discussed in the book are the following: When is voluntary informed consent from research subjects required in ...
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 ...
The Agrarian Life of the North 2000 BC AD 1000
(2017)
The 14 articles presented in this publication represent some of the latest and most relevant research on rural settlement and farming from the Late Neolithic through the Early Medieval Period in Norway. It deals with the ...
Rom og etikk
(2017)
Space and Ethics. Ambiguous Narratives interprets encounters with people in various contexts from a spatial perspective. What are the ethical implications when people often labelled “strangers” are situated in the same ...
The Institutional Practice
(2017)
The nursing home resident of today is old and frail. Despite such a frailty, many residents are hospitalized, often with the intention of life-extension. Furthermore, rates of hospitalization varies considerably between ...
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 ...
Men in Manual Occupations
(2017)
A shortage of skilled workers is currently emerging in many countries. Yet public discourse and much research literature convey the impression that manual labor is somehow outmoded, requiring competencies that are no longer ...
Vitenskapelig (u)redelighet
(2016)
Since the 1980’s, there has been a marked increase in disclosures of fraud in research. Cases of scientific fraud and misconduct do not only damage society’s confidence in research, they also contribute to reduce the ...