Studies of young people's experiences of parental influence on their educational choice in different family contexts are lacking. This study explores such experiences among youth in Norway, where educational choice is ...

Playing and schooling are usually considered as separate activities. In this article, we argue that these activities can be reconciled in order to design learning experiences that are more exploratory and engaging. Taking ...

This essay starts in medias res, in the puzzling reappearance of the classical metaphor of Bildung as the transformation of man’s “first” animal nature into the “second” cultivated one. I call it the two-natures metaphor. ...

This article discusses changes with respect to university governance structures in six comprehensive universities in Europe. We present an analytical framework on the basis of which we conduct a comparative analysis of the ...

In this article we discuss recent university reforms aimed at enhancing university autonomy, highlighting various tensions in the underlying reform ideologies. We examine how the traditional interpretation of university ...

This policy study examines how policymakers and policy experts in Norway made us of research and studies – produced in Norway, in the Nordic countries and outside the Nordic region – to explain the 2020 incremental school ...

Artikkelbaserte avhandlinger blir gjerne til i en veksling mellom flere ulike skrivefaser. Man arbeider parallelt med flere artikler som er på forskjellige stadier når det gjelder tilbakemeldinger og bearbeiding. Disse ...

Artikkelen undersøker hvordan brukere av dataspillet The League of Legends beskriver og forholder seg til symbolske grenser og identitetskonstruksjoner. Artikkelens analytiske og teoretiske rammeverk er inspirert av teorier ...

In this text, features of fiction are discussed as to their ability for handling cultural diversity in cosmopolitan education. The argument is developed in two steps. First, the biblical story about the construction of the ...