Publications
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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 ...