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Hellne-Halvorsen, Ellen Beate; Lahn, Leif Christian; Nore, Haege – Vocations and Learning, 2021
This article analyzes the writing competence of Norwegian students and apprentices in three professions: Healthcare, industrial mechanics and electricians. The research forms part of a large-scale assessment project in vocational education and training (VET). A subset of 108 written test-answers were subjected to an explorative analysis focusing…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Competence, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education
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Roald, Gunhild Marie; Wallin, Patric; Hybertsen, Ingunn Dahler; M. Stenøien, Jorun – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
The contribution of this article is to highlight how exploring various writing genres in the beginning of higher education can contribute to academic literacy. While many studies have addressed the transition into academia by focusing on academic writing, the use of various writing genres has scarcely been researched. Based on the thematic…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Student Experience, Academic Language
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Kleve, Bodil; Penne, Sylvi – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
In this article we explore similarities and differences between two school subjects, Norwegian and mathematics, taking a phenomenological perspective and a didactic meta-perspective (literacy perspective). Our argument is presented on three levels which together build on the perspective of meta-language. First we consider the level of discourse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disciplines, Literacy, Discourse Analysis
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Gjems, Liv – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study is to focus on interactionally developed explanations in everyday conversations as important pedagogical contexts. The research question is: "How do teachers invite children to participate in co-constructions of explanations in everyday conversations and what may children learn from this?" Learning to explain…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Speech Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Discourse Analysis
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Schreiber-Barsch, Silke – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
The article brings into question the issue of regional network strategies aiming at implementing structures of lifelong learning in the local context, the so-called learning communities. Facing a broad diversity in their implementation all over Europe, one can observe on the other hand much less effort to discuss conceptual frameworks that deal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Structures, Learning Strategies, Lifelong Learning
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Dysthe, Olga – Written Communication, 2002
This article focuses on supervising professors' and master's degree students' understanding and experiences of supervision practices in a Norwegian university, with focus on differences in text cultures and text norms between and within three academic disciplines. The interview study shows that each discipline is a heterogeneous discourse…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Masters Programs