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Editors’ Review and Introduction: The Cultural Evolution of Cognition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This topic addresses a question of key interest to cognitive science, namely which factors may have triggered, constrained, or shaped the course of cognitive evolution. It highlights the relevance of culture as a driving ... -
Education and knowledge helps combating malaria, but not degedege: a cross-sectional study in Rufiji, Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-05-28)Background: Traditional medicine is readily available in Tanzania, and local terms like degedege is widely used for malaria-like illnesses, often associated with supernatural forces. Malaria prevention and intervention ... -
Education and knowledge helps preventing malaria, but not "degedege"
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Education as a welfare matter? : Implementing national dropout policies in local institutional contexts
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-11-13)The overall focus of this thesis is the implementation of national policies at the intersection between welfare and education. My aim has been to further the connection between the field of education and welfare. A political ... -
Education at a standstill: how the consociational school of thought has perpetuated ethnic conflict in post-war Bosnia
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)This study set out to explore why the consociational prescription to have cultural autonomy in education contributes to perpetuating ethnic conflict instead of conflict resolving, in post-war societies like Bosnia and ... -
Education for Deliberative Democracy and the Aim of Consensus
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)The aim of consensus is essential to deliberative democracy. However, this aim has also been frequently criticized. In this article, I present two different forms of criticism against consensus in democratic education. The ... -
Education for Deliberative Democracy. Theoretical assumptions and classroom practices
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-14)It is often said that education is closely linked with democracy. This may refer to different things, however. It may refer to the idea that the educational system should be consistent with democratic values, for instance ... -
Education for Deliberative Democracy: A Typology of Classroom Discussions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)The theory of deliberative democracy places public deliberations at the heart of democracy. In order to participate in democratic deliberations, citizens need certain skills, attitudes, and values. Within the field of ... -
Education for Deliberative Democracy: Mapping the Field
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)The notion of deliberative democracy has been widely discussed in political theory the last twenty years. Deliberative democracy has also made an impression in educational research. Many who are interested in democratic ... -
Education in a Political Context. A study of knowledge processes and learning sites in the PKK
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-02-26)This thesis focuses on educational practices within the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and how members of the organisation perceive the educational and personal outcome of their participation. The thesis consists of three ... -
Education without a shared language: dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in Norwegian introductory classes for newly arrived minority language students
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08-26)Based upon fieldwork in two upper secondary schools in Norway, this article offers an analysis of inclusion and exclusion processes for newly arrived minority language students. Minority language students are defined by ... -
Educational attainment and mortality in schizophrenia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Individuals suffering from schizophrenia have a reduced life expectancy with cardiovascular disease (CVD) as a major contributor. Low educational attainment is associated with schizophrenia, as well as with ... -
The educational burden of disease: a cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Students with health disorders might be at risk of disengaging from education, which can reinforce socioeconomic inequalities in health. We aimed to evaluate the associations between 176 diseases and injuries ... -
Educational experiences and perceptions of occupational hierarchies: The case of the Norwegian working class
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this article we present the experiences of members of the Norwegian working class in the educational system and show that the findings contradict established theories in the sociology of education in a way that calls ... -
Educational inequalities in acute myocardial infarction incidence in Norway: A nationwide cohort study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-04)Background Increasing differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality across levels of education have been reported in Norway. The aim of the study was to investigate educational inequalities in acute myocardial ... -
An educational intervention to update health workers about HIV and infant feeding
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12)Clinical guidelines are used to translate research findings into evidence‐based clinical practice but are frequently not comprehensively adopted by health workers (HWs). HIV and infant feeding guidelines were revised by ... -
An educational intervention to update health workers about HIV and infant feeding
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Abstract Clinical guidelines are used to translate research findings into evidence‐based clinicalpractice but are frequently not comprehensively adopted by health workers (HWs).HIV and infant feeding guidelines were revised ... -
Educational psychology counsellors’ views about children’s participation in educational decision-making: A thematic analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The attention to children’s participation has increased dramatically during the last decade. Compared to the literature in the educational field, the literature on children’s participation in the social and health fields ... -
The Educational Situation for Roma Children in Norway: Silenced Narratives on Schooling and Future
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article explores how Roma pupils in Norway experience school. Using portraiture methodology, I narrate the experiences of Leah, Hannah and Maria, focusing on their situation before and after the transition from ...