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"The Novel Has Simply Made Me More Aware of How I Meet Other People" -- Attitude Awareness in Intercultural Education
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Häbler, Camilla; Spernes, Kari – Intercultural Education, 2023
To prepare student teachers for the diversity they will face in schools, they have to develop intercultural competence. This paper analyses an assignment in teacher education, where the purpose is to impart this competence to student teachers. Student teachers read and reflected on a novel related to a multicultural context, and we examined in…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Stereotypes, Student Characteristics, Cultural Background
Teacher Qualifications, Perceptions and Practices Concerning Multilingualism at a School for Newly Arrived Students in Norway
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Burner, Tony; Carlsen, Christian – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
Research shows that having a multilingual background has many advantages. However, several studies indicate that students' multilingual backgrounds are not used as resources in the classroom. Most classroom studies on multilingualism have been conducted at mainstream schools, and a few in classes for newly arrived students at mainstream schools.…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Attitudes, Immigrants, Classroom Research
Teacher Educators' Digital Competence
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Krumsvik, Rune Johan – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
This position paper focuses on how the new national curriculum for school and the new general plan for teacher education in Norway change the underlying premises for teaching and learning in today's teacher education. This has become particularly pressing as a result of the new educational reform "Knowledge Promotion" in schools, whereby…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educator Education, Teacher Educators, Teacher Competencies
Autonomy or Control: Discussion of a Central Dilemma in Developing a Realistic Teacher Education in Norway
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Haugalokken, Ove Kr.; Ramberg, Per – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2007
The introduction of the collaborative partnership model in initial teacher education at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology has paved the way for activities and components in its professional training that closely relate to the field of practice and meets the need to attain the more "here-and-now"-oriented objectives of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Training, Preservice Teacher Education
ICT for Inquiry in Mathematics: A Developmental Research Approach
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Fuglestad, Anne Berit – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2009
Computers and calculators are in general widely used in Norwegian schools, but with limited use in specific school subjects, as particularly in mathematics teaching. Various reports from surveys and research projects indicate that teachers' competence with ICT is a crucial point, and that teachers' lack of knowledge of how to utilise software for…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Research Methodology, Mathematics Instruction, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Developing Teachers and Teaching Practice: International Research Perspectives.
Sugrue, Ciaran, Ed.; Day, Christopher, Ed. – 2002
This volume presents a selection of the 200 papers given at the 1999 biennial conference of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching. The theme of the conference was "Teachers and Teaching: Revisioning Policy and Practice for the Twenty-First Century." The 15 papers are: (1) "Teaching in a Box: Emotional…
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Research