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Who cares for the carer? The suffering, struggles and unmet needs of older women caring for husbands living with cognitive decline
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: The Nordic welfare states have been called the ‘caring states’. However, increasingly, less money is spent on long-term care for older persons than on care for younger persons. Additionally, a strong ... -
“Who said that?” A study into the use of oral English in English-language teaching and sources of incidental English-language learning in two Norwegian lower-secondary school classrooms.
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)This thesis investigates how much oral English pupils are exposed to, and how much oral English they produce, in two ESL classrooms in the eighth and tenth grades in western Norway. The study also focuses on extra-curricular ... -
WHO Standards-based questionnaire to measure health workers' perspective on the quality of care around the time of childbirth in the WHO European region: Development and mixed-methods validation in six countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objectives: Develop and validate a WHO Standards-based online questionnaire to measure the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) around the time of childbirth from the health workers’ perspective. Design: Mixed-methods ... -
Who takes part in participation? Challenges to empowering student voice in music teacher education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In this study, we employ a participatory action research framework to investigate how preservice music teachers can take part in developing their own education. The main focus is on how two music teacher educators at two ... -
Who’s in the House? Staffing in Long-Term Care Homes Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Critical gaps exist in our knowledge on how best to provide quality person-centered care to long-term care (LTC) home residents which is closely tied to not knowing what the ideal staff is complement in the home. A survey ... -
Why a Re-theorisation of More-than-Parental Involvement in ECEC Is Needed
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)This introductory chapter begins with the critical presentation of the concept of parental involvement (PI) as one implying a “democratic deficit” that builds on educational experts’ protectorate approach towards families. ... -
Why an IPE Team Matters… Improvement in Identification of Hospital Hazards: A Room of Horrors Pilot Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Purpose: To evaluate student performance in a simulation-based interprofessional learning activity that focused on identifying patient safety hazards in a simulated patient’s hospital room. Participants and Methods: ... -
Why do female and male taekwondo athletes win the bout? An analysis based on the Olympic weight category and the result of the bout.
(Journal article, 2020)Combat sports such as taekwondo, where athletes compete against an opponent require control of technique and tactics, as well as knowing the optimal performance of opponents to win the bout. Therefore, the aim of the present ... -
Why do universities have little systemic impact with social innovation? An institutional logics perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Social innovation has been increasingly regarded as an instrument through which transformative structural change, necessary to address grand societal challenges can be achieved. Social innovations are encouraged by the ... -
Why do we need qualitative research on psychological treatments? The case for discovery, reflexivity, critique, receptivity, and evocation
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Why give birth in health facility? Users' and providers' accounts of poor quality of birth care in Tanzania
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Why Informal Support Fails for Siblings Bereaved by a Drug-Related Death: A Qualitative and Interactional Perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Drug-related deaths constitute a significant challenge that strongly impacts the lives of the bereaved and the risks of mental and social problems are well-documented. This paper is the first one to explore how bereaved ... -
Why let them walk when they can fly? : tilpasset opplæring og høyt begavede barn
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Wicked problems in school mathematics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)The paper concerns climate change controversies and teachers' facilitation of pupils' critical mathematics perspectives through wicked problems. The data was collected in a research partnership with three teachers and their ... -
Wiki i grunnskolen. Hvilke muligheter og utfordringer finner man i læringsmiljøet?
(Master thesis, 2008)Oppgaven har tittelen: Wiki i grunnskolen. Hvilke muligheter og utfordringer finner man i et læringsmiljø? Den handler om hvordan man kan bruke wiki-verktøyet i en undervisningssammenheng. Gjennom en kasusstudie følges ... -
Wiki i ungdomsskulen og tilpassa opplæring: Korleis leggje til rette for tilpassa opplæring gjennom bruk av wiki?
(Master thesis, 2012-06-12)Oppgåva har tittelen Wiki i ungdomsskulen og tilpassa opplæring. Korleis leggje til rette for tilpassa opplæring gjennom bruk av wiki? Som tittelen tilseier er dette ein freistnad på å finne ut korleis det digitale ... -
Wild camping and the weight of tourism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Wild camping forms a specific social reality within which tourists often claim not to be tourists and within which the capitalist practices central to tourism are messy. Yet, wild camping exemplifies the core idea in ... -
Wildland-urban interface fires in Norwegian coastal heathlands – Identifying risk reducing measures
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)For five millennia, the coastal heathlands in Norway were managed with fire to improve grazing. The abandonment of this practice for the last ca. 70 years has resulted in biomass accumulation and increasing fire hazards. ... -
Wind Farm Decommissioning
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)