The University of Agder has organized five courses in entrepreneurship (2012-2017) for teachers in primary and secondary school. Emphasis has been on student-active teaching methods, and each participant developed an action plan for entrepreneurship in their schools. The aim of this research was to investigate what happened to the action plans:…

This quasi-experimental pre-post comparison group design examined if the Incredible Years (IY) Teacher Classroom Management (TCM) programme implemented as a school-wide universal preventive intervention to students aged 6-8 years at the lower primary level in a regular school setting had an effect on teacher-student relationships and…

Purpose: Over the past decades numerous policies, programmes and interventions have been undertaken to increase students' participation in physical activity in school. Research shows that intervention effects are mostly related to the way in which the program or policy is implemented, nevertheless, few studies have focused on the implementation…

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has during recent decades influenced professionals and policy-makers in Norway as well as in other countries, resulting in changes in documents regulating early childhood institutions. Little is known, however, about the way this right is understood and realized in everyday practice. How is the concept…

The purpose was to investigate the degree of implementation and appreciation of a comprehensive school-randomized fruit and vegetable intervention program and to what extent these factors were associated with changes in reported fruit and vegetable intake. The study was conducted among 10- to 13-year old children exposed to the intervention during…

The increasing institutionalization of teaching has been a central aspect of educational developments in education in Norway because important teaching functions, previously preserved informally in the home and in the local community, have been gradually replaced by formal education. The school-community network has been weakened because few…