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Zhukov, Katie; Saetre, Jon Helge – Research Studies in Music Education, 2022
This article reports on a pilot project conducted in Australia and Norway evaluating new approaches to collaborative chamber music instruction in higher education settings. Following suggestions from the literature on collaborative and group learning in music, chamber music tuition was chosen as a suitable context to examine the possibility of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Pilot Projects, Music Activities, Teaching Methods
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Saetre, Jon Helge; Zhukov, Katie – Music Education Research, 2021
This article reports on a pilot project exploring the viability of a teaching-through-playing approach in chamber music instruction in higher music education. Literature suggests that teaching traditions such as the one-to-one setting need renewal, and socio-cultural theories of learning propose that collaboration and participation are a way…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teacher Attitudes, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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Onsrud, Silje Valde; Fredriksen, Bendik; Rinholm, Hanne; Lindgren, Monica – Research Studies in Music Education, 2023
This article reports the results of a participatory action research study into Norwegian generalist music teacher education, that intended to develop spaces for preservice music teachers to foster agency and prepare for future teaching. We aimed to challenge the discursive practice of generalist music teacher education through participatory action…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Music Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Action Research
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Fosse, Trude; Meaney, Tamsin – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2020
In Norway, children are encouraged to pose a problem that they can solve using an arithmetical calculation. This is known as 'regnefortelling'. During a larger project, we became interested in a small group of "regnefortelling" which used unusual contexts, contexts that made us uneasy and invoked a feeling of uncertainty about how we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine; Madsen, Lene Møller – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
This article studies issues of coloniality in so-called capacity-building projects between universities in Africa and Scandinavia. Even fifty years after independence, the African higher education landscape is a product of the colonial powers and subsequent uneven power relations, as argued by a number of researchers. The uneven geography and…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Policy
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Syed, Ghazal Kazim; Naylor, Amanda; Rimmereide, Hege Emma; Varga, Zoltan; Alara Guanio-Uluru, Lykke Harmony – English in Education, 2021
This article presents the results from an international collaboration between undergraduate students in the United Kingdom and Norway. Using Literature Circles and "Google Documents" in groups, the students liaised digitally over three young adult novels that are prominent within the UK school curriculum. This study explored the ways in…
Descriptors: Literature, Teaching Methods, Cross Cultural Studies, Novels
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Eriksen, Kristin Gregers – Journal of Social Science Education, 2018
Purpose: The aim of this article is to discuss to what extent and in what ways the Sami people are included in national imaginary in textbooks. The article sheds critical light on important aspects of democracy, inclusion and multiculturalism in education through the example of indigenous peoples in Norway. The article also explores what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Minority Groups, Democracy
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Dowling, Fiona; Fitzgerald, Hayley; Flintoff, Anne – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
Developing teacher education programmes founded upon principles of critical pedagogy and social justice has become increasingly difficult in the current neoliberal climate of higher education. In this article, we adopt a narrative approach to illuminate some of the dilemmas which advocates of education for social justice face and to reflect upon…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Educators
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Nordtømme, Solveig – Education Inquiry, 2012
This study explores how kindergarten spaces and materiality can be vital for children's exploration of participation and how the physical environment enables children to interact and position themselves in play and meaning making. Methodologically this study is based on ethnographic fieldwork with two groups of 2- to 5-year-old children in two…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Classroom Environment, Interaction, Play
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Gradovski, Mikhail – Ethics and Education, 2012
Inspired by the views by the American educationalist Henry Giroux on the role teachers and educationalists should be playing in the time of postmodernism and by Abraham Maslow's concept of biological idiosyncrasy, the author discusses how the concepts of the dialogues created by the representatives of Norwegian Dialogue Pedagogy, Hans Skjervheim,…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Ethics, Postmodernism, Democracy