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Gloppen, Silje Kristin – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2023
This article reports from a case study investigating enactment of teacher evaluation (TE) policies in two lower secondary schools in a large Norwegian municipality. The aim of the study was to explore teachers' perceptions of TE, and to unpack how new policy initiatives were shaped by translations, mediations, and negotiations in a national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Policy
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Karseth, Berit; Møller, Jorunn – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The paper aims to analyse how pupils' equal educational opportunities are warranted. We focus on how regulations of adapted education and the right to special needs education provide school leaders' and teachers' room for discretionary decision-making, how it is interpreted and how discretionary power is justified. The paper draws on findings from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Special Education, Special Needs Students
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Hegna, Kristinn – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
The aim of this paper is to describe changing learner identities and trajectories of identification that take place among vocational education and training (VET) apprentices in Norway. This paper describes 23 young, male VET students' learner identities in compulsory school (age 7-15) in comparison to their learner identities in VET…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Males
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Bruin, Marieke; Ohna, Stein Erik – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
Counteracting upper secondary dropouts is an increasingly common issue across the Western part of the world. In Norway, the government has developed different measures to counteract dropouts, one of which concerns alternative educational courses involving increased workplace practice. This article is based on interviews with eight students who…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Secondary School Students, Nontraditional Education, Foreign Countries
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Glenn, Wendy J. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
This article describes how Norwegian compulsory education, both philosophically and practically, reflects the institutionalized democratic values of the larger social and political community of Norway. It examines, through the application of collective and structural lenses of analysis, how shifting demographics in this social and political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Self Concept, Nationalism
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Buli-Holmberg, Jorun; Nilsen, Sven; Skogen, Kjell – International Journal of Special Education, 2014
This article aims to throw light on how the intentions behind inclusive and individually adapted education in Norwegian compulsory schools are followed up in practice with regard to central aspects of the roles of headteachers, teachers and curriculum planning. The study was carried out as a postal survey of compulsory school teachers in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Surveys, Principals, Compulsory Education