Both students and teachers need different competences for scientific reasoning. Apart from the required content knowledge and the ability of using it adequately, both groups need elaborated knowledge of strategies for decision-making and argumentation. These competences concerning decision-making are highly…

Bridging the learning between universities and schools is a recurring problem in teacher education. This article is concerned with how student teachers learn to teach at the boundaries between activity systems. I investigate how participants make meaning of scientific concepts,…

Dette er en kasusstudie av en matematikktime som omhandlet brøk med en lærer, her kalt Berit. Formålet med studien var å undersøke hvordan lærere drar veksler på sine kunnskaper i matematikk og matematikkdidaktikk i undervisningen. Som teoretisk rammeverk og analyseverktøy…

The purpose of this article is to explore school leaders’ perceptions about multilingualism with regard to learning and social integration for minority students in an upper secondary school. The analysis is based on interviews with school leaders and a social…

This article presents the rationale behind a 10 ECTS course in “Intercultural learning” which is an integral part of a new master’s program for teachers of English and German at Østfold University College: “Fremmedspråk i skolen”. We present the content…

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This article investigates developments in the use of genre in Norwegian EFL exam papers for first year upper secondary school during the time period from 1996 to 2011, describing genres rendered in texts for reception (attached text material)…

This paper reports on mathematics and science teacher concerns using Inquiry based strategies in their teaching. Two different surveys were conducted, one with 24 teachers to become future instructional leaders on Inquiry Based Learning (IBL), and one with 75 teachers…

The present article presents an investigation of Norwegian students of English as a foreign language (EFL) and their pragmatic competence in English. The importance of developing such a competence receives a strong focus in the English subject curriculum. However, very…

This paper argues for a framework of three features that characterize powerful teacher education. Based upon research in the U.S. on effective programs, this emerging research suggests that teacher education programs need to promote a clear vision of teachers and…

As students advance in their learning of physics over the course of their education, the requirement of mathematical applications in physics-related tasks increases, especially so in upper secondary school and in higher education. Yet there is little empirical work (particularly…