Den franske sosiologen Pierre Bourdieus kultursosiologi er blitt omfavnet av nordiske pedagoger i flere årtier. På 70-tallet brukte samfunnskritiske pedagoger Bourdieus undersøkelse av det franske skolesystemet som belegg ...

My ambition with this chapter is to throw some lights on the close link between “democracy” and “education” and their mutual interdependence. I hope to do so by performing a three-step philosophical analysis of an event ...

This introductory chapter develops the overall research focus and the aim of the present special issue ‘Gender segregation in vocational education’. Against the backdrop of strong horizontal gender segregation in vocational ...

How do institutional settings and their embedded policy principles affect gender-typed enrolment in educational programmes? Based on gender-sensitive theories on career choice, we hypothesised that gender segregation in ...

Dagens profesjonsutøvere er omgitt av et mangfold av kunnskapsressurser. Dette skyldes blant annet økt kunnskapsproduksjon og en rask teknologisk utvikling. Disse kunnskapsressursene former det daglige arbeidet, men er ...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a buzzword in contemporary professional debates, for example, in education, medicine, psychiatry, and social policy. It is known as the “what works” agenda, and its focus is on the use of ...

I explore the relation between narratives and analogies by discussing Miss Marple’s analogical reasoning. She compares target to source and constructs an analogy, which inevitably solves the problem at hand. In order to ...

The chapter provides an introduction to the current challenges facing many research-intensive universities throughout the world. It is argued that issues related to teaching and learning are becoming more important as a ...

The rising importance of higher education policy among contemporary states and societies and the apparent move towards knowledge economies has been linked to overarching global reform dynamics and trends that affect higher ...