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In this text we pay our respects, both professionally and personally, to Morten Levin who passed away on April 9th 2023 at 76 years of age. We who write this knew Morten from different periods, professional, and geographical distances. Our common ground is our mutual interest in action research and work life research and change, concerns that occupied Morten for decades.

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Sammendrag Karl Ove Knausgårds Min kamp har kallats en «litterär kentaur» och beskrivits som ett verk som suddar ut gränserna mellan litteratur, självbiografi och fiktion. Forskningen har ofta riktat in sig på att klassificera sexbandsverket genremässig och många har betraktat Min kamp som en sammansmältning av olika genrer. Verket har betecknats med hjälp av hybridbeteckningar eller neologismer, som till exempel «autofiktion» och «fiktionsfri fiktion». I föreliggande artikel är den dominerande frågeställningen inte vilket slags verk Min kamp är, utan diskussionen rör istället vad det innebär att läsa böckerna både som referentiell självframställning och som ett litterärt verk. Artikeln argumenterar för att Min kamp karakteriseras av en förhandling mellan olika sanningsanspråk och skilda tolkningsramar. Läsaren av Min kamp ställs också inför en särskild etisk problematik eftersom skildringen av verkliga personer hamnar i konflikt med Knausgårds strävan efter att skriva fram sig själv som ett autonomt subjekt inom ett «slutet» litterärt verk.

Recensioner: JONAS ANDREASEN LYSGAARD, STEFAN BENGTSSON OCH MARTIN HAUBERG-LUND LAUGESEN DARK PEDAGOGY: Education, Horror and the Anthropocene Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 164 s. ALFRED SJÖDIN & JIMMIE SVENSSON (RED.) EFTER TEGNÉR: Experiment med traditionen Lund: Absalon. Skrifter i litteratur vetenskap utgivna vid Språk- och litteraturcentrum i Lund, Serie: Kriterium, 2018, 238 s. ARLETTE FARGE SMAKEN AV ARKIVET Göteborg: Glänta produktion, 2019 [1989], 110 s. HOOGLAND, RIKARD (RED.) I AVANTGARDETS SKUGGA Brytpunkter och kontinuitet i svensk teater kring 1900 Göteborg: Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, Göteborgs universitet (LIR), 2019, 286 s. TOMMY SANDBERG THE DIFFERENCE APPROACH TO NARRATIVE FICTION A Recurring Critique of Narrratology and Its implications for the Study of Novels and Short Stories Örebro: Örebro universitet, 2019, 129 s. (diss.) KARIN STRAND EN BOTFÄRDIG SYNDERSKAS SVANESÅNG Barnamord i skillingtryck mellan visa och verklighet Möklinta: Gidlunds förlag, 2019, 276 s.

Abstract This article reports a study of a full-scale digital examination in a five-year master program of teacher education in Norway. The innovative design involves observing a video case based on an authentic classroom situation and analysing the case in light of educational theory and subject content knowledge. All parts of this format are to be solved on a computer with Internet access. The study is centred on the pre-service teachers’ experiences of this open-ended and unfamiliar testing format. More specifically, the intention has been to analyse (a) what kinds of preparations they engaged in; (b) how they solved tasks during the examination; (c) their reflections on this mode of examination. Interviews with 11 informants have been conducted, and the content is summarized in three selected cases, and finally across the interview sample. The results indicate that innovations like this are interpreted and approached against the background of pre-service teachers’ expectations, and the open format engaged the pre-service teachers to draw upon a wide range of resources both when preparing and solving the tasks. It is, however, timely to question whether the introduction of the examination format, based on faculty interest and intentions, will have the intended impact on evaluation procedures in an established learning culture. Keywords: digital examinations, Higher education, teacher education, video, Lærerstudenters erfaringer med et digitalisert eksaminasjons-design: Den gjensidige relasjonen mellom kontinuitet og forandring i en institusjonell kontekst Sammendrag I denne artikkelen rapporteres en studie av en fullskala digital eksamen som har blitt benyttet i et femårig masterprogram i norsk lærerutdanning. Det innovative designet er en firetimers nettbasert og digital eksamen basert på observasjon av en video case fra en autentisk klasseromssituasjon, og en analyse på bakgrunn av pedagogisk og fagdidaktisk teori. Hele eksamenen besvares via en datamaskin med nettilgang. Studien er rettet mot studentenes erfaringer med denne åpne og ukjente eksamensformen. Mer spesifikt er intensjonen å analysere a) hva slags forberedelser de gjorde, b) hvordan de løste eksamensoppgavene under selve eksamen, og c) refleksjonene de hadde etter en slik eksamensform. Intervjuer med elleve informanter ble gjennomført, og innholdet oppsummert i tre case-studier samt en tematisk studie på tvers av utvalget. Resultatene tyder på at slike innovasjoner blir tolket og bearbeidet på bakgrunn av studentenes forventninger, og at de benyttet en rekke ulike ressurser for forberedelsene til og gjennomføringen av eksamen. Det er imidlertid betimelig å stille spørsmål om innføringen av et slikt eksamensformat, basert på fakultetets interesser og intensjoner, vil ha den ønskede påvirkningen på vurderingsprosedyrer i en etablert læringskultur Nøkkelord: eksamen, høyere utdanning, lærerutdanning, video, digital eksamen

Geir Afdal. 2013. Religion som bevegelse. Læring, kunnskap og mediering. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget Nyhus, Kjell Arnold og Nyhus, Ole Jacob. 2013. Kristen tro – oppdatert. Kom forlag. 222 sider.

The end of an era. The fate of the Kapp Lee hunting station Remains of the Russian Pomors’ hunting activity are seen across Svalbard. Remnants of houses, graves and large, votive crosses are conspicuous and easily visible when travelling on foot in the barren, arctic landscape, which is little influenced by modern economic activity. These remains have been the object of extensive research, and many sites have been subject to excavations, mostly by Russian archaeologists but also by Polish and Norwegian researchers. Russian archaeologists have conducted extensive excavations searching especially for the oldest Pomor hunting stations on the western coast of Spitsbergen. This paper focuses on the late period of the Pomors’ hunt on Svalbard. Several hunting stations have been found on Edgeøya documenting a complex organization including headquarters surrounded by outpost huts. The Kapp Lee hunting station was part of such a system of small cabins with headquarter in Habenichtbukta, 70 km to the south. This distant outpost is studied to shed light on the final stages of the Pomor hunting activity on Svalbard.

Recension av: Thomas Karlsohn, Originalitetens former: Essäer om bildning och universitet. Göteborg: Bokförlaget Daidalos, 2012.

Recension av: Anders Persson, Ritualisering och sårbarhet – ansikte mot ansikte med Goffmans perspektiv på social interaktion. Malmö: Liber 2012.

Teachers face challenges in adopting ICT applications for science teaching and learning. An in-service teacher education course module addressing the needs of science teachers particularly was developed through a design-based research (DBR) project. The course module is designed to improve the readiness of teachers in choosing ICT applications for science education and taking the technical and pedagogical usability of the application into account. An international survey showed that clarifying the needs and constraints of using ICT applications in science education as well as introducing and discussing both technical and pedagogical usability with the teachers was important. Moreover, a theoretical analysis of the usability of ICT applications offers various views on meaningful learning and motivational aspects of science teaching and learning. In this paper, we report what we learned from the experience of designing the course module, which is described and discussed in terms of the outcomes of both the theoretical and empirical problem analysis.

Recension av: Hans Lund, Kulturella ikoner i text, musik och bild. Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 2012.

This special issue on ”experiments in ethnography” is published in honour of ethnologist Billy Ehn. The introduction uses his research during four decades to capture major changes in ways of doing and writing ethnography. What happens when the classic long fieldworks are replaced by a bricolage approach, where very different kinds of materials are combined? How do ethnographers handle the ways in which interviews and observations are mixed with netography – blogs, images and YouTube sequences?

Recensioner av Ulf Hannerz, Café du Monde: Platser, vägar och människor i världsvimlet. Stockholm: Carlssons Bokförlag, 2011, och Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett & Reginald B. Adams Jr, Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind. London/Cambridge/Massachusetts & London: The MIT Press, 2011.

Recension av: Lars-Eric Jönsson, Berättelser från insidan: En essä om personliga erfarenheter i psykiatrins historia. Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 2010.

Recension av: Sven-Erik Klinkmann, Från Wantons till Wild Force: Nya sound i en gränsstad. Möklinta: Gidlunds förlag, 2010.

Recension av: Christer Lindberg, Samhället som tanke: Claude Lévi-Strauss och den franska strukturalismen. Lund: Arkiv förlag, 2009.

Recension av: Eva Londos (red.), Rondellhundar och schablonspindlar: Folkkonst i tiden. Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 2009.

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Trenger vi en nanoetikk? Spørsmålet undersøkes ofte gjennom analyser av hva som er spesifikt nytt med nanoteknologi som skulle rettferdiggjøre etableringen av et eget nanoetikkfelt. Artikkelen knytter ikke det nye til teknologiens produkter som sådan, men til det at nanoteknologien oppstår som et nytt og ekspansivt satsningsfelt i en tid med enighet om at etikkrefleksjonen må komme inn på et tidlig tidspunkt. Nanoetikken synliggjør generelle utfordringer for den profesjonaliserte anvendte etikk ettersom nanoetikken etterspørres forut for at feltet kan sies å være etablert. Nanoetikken fordrer en positiv etikk, mens den profesjonaliserte etikk har vært innstilt på en negativ etikk. Utfordringene nanoetikken reiser, er analysert som et problem som har både intellektuell og institusjonell karakter.

Short CV of the contributors.

Recension av: Thomas Karlsohn, Passage mellan medier: Vilém Flusser, datorn och skriften. Göteborg: Folkuniversitetets akademiska press, 2006 och Klinkmann, Sven-Erik: På drömmarnas marknad, Ikoner, fantasibilder och klichéer i populärkulturen. Gidlunds förlag, Hedemora, 2006.

Recension av: Martin Kulhammar & Jean-François Battail (red.), Det vanställda ordet: Om den svåra konsten att värna sin integritet. Stockholm: Carlssons, 2006.

This report is part of the National evaluation of the Swedish compulsory school. The evaluation was conducted by the National Board of Education in 2003. The present report deals with pupils’ attitudes to History as a subject and to history education in the 9th grade. We have also made an evaluation of pupils’ knowledge of history. The survey shows that the majority of the pupils have positive views of history education and that they regard historical knowledge as important. The report highlights the importance of the teacher in the educational process. We also discuss the concept of historical consciousness and different ways of investigating the relationship between the past, the present and the future. One important aspect which is also discussed is the teaching of democratic values; in this context it is shown that pupils do not have sufficient knowledge about the democratic breakthrough.

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Ethics, moral and values have gained much attention in the past decades, which also have created focus on journalism ethics, particularly because of the power and potentially negative consequences journalism can have. A survey with members of the Danish Union of Journalist show that, there is a wide spread consciousness on journalism ethics, and a rather high support for some selected ethical questions, but also that many experience ethical problems in media in general and on their own journalistic workplaces. The ethical consciousness is primarily created through own reflections and faults, dialogues with and observations of colleagues in the daily work. The leader and management level on the workplace, and the especially The Press Council plays on the contrary a very little or directly marginal role.

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• "Doktoranderna har ordet. Etnologin och framtiden: Upprop för en mer samordnad nationell forskarutbildning" • "Metamorfoser i juni 2006" • Recension av: Tobias Hübinette, Comforting an Orphaned Nation. Representations of International Adoption and Adopted Koreans in Korean Popular Culture. Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, 2005, 265 s. Diss.

In the late 1880s, the new nutritional science was introduced in Sweden, foremost at the Karolinska institute in Stockholm and with the physiologist Robert Tigerstedt as the driving force. He organized both experimental studies on human metabolism and social research concerning the eating habits among members of the working class. During the following decades, several studies concerning food supply and eating habits among the woodmen, living in cabins or shacks a long way from home during the winter season, was carried out. As it was very difficult to get new supplies, their eating habits were totally under control, and the scientific conditions for the studies closely resembled experimental research. In the 1930s these studies ended in governmental support for the building of better lodgings and the employment of female housekeepers. But at the same time new problems with the eating habits among the population were identified, most of these concerning the families with low income and many children. And after the Second World War, the new knowledge about the relationship between consumption of fat and heart diseases once again changed the role of medicine in the discussion of eating habits. It is almost impossible to evaluate the role of the nutritional science for the food and social policy during this period of modernization of Swedish society. But this story of the close relationship between science and politics should be seen as just one example of the role of scientific ideals and methods in the ambitious striving for a more rational and modern social policy during this period.

Recension av: Friedrich Kittler, Maskinskrifter: Essäer om medier och litteratur. Red. Otto Fischer och Thomas Götselius. Gråbo: Anthropos, 2003.

Recensioner av: Nick Lee: Childhood and Society: Growing Up in the Age of Uncertainty. Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2001 & Nick Lee & Rolland Munro (eds.): The Consumption of Mass. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001 Gottdiener, Mark (ed.): New Forms of Consumption; Consumers, Culture and Commodification. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher, 2000. Merryn Hutchings, Márta Fülöp och Anne-Marie Van den dries: Young People's Understanding of Economic Issues in Europe. Stoke on Trent, UK and Sterling USA: Trentham Books, 2002. Ann Satterthwaite: Going Shopping. Consumer Choices and Community Consequences. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Karin Becker, Erling Bjurström, Johan Fornäs, Hillevi Ganetz (red.), Medier och människor i konsumtionsrummet. Nora: Nya Doxa 2002.

Recension av: Margareta Hallberg, Etnologisk koreografi. Att följa ett ämne i rörelse. Nora: Nya Doxa, 2001. Tiina Rosenberg, Queerfeministisk agenda. Stockholm: Bokförlaget Atlas, 2002. Annika Nordström, Syskonen Svensson: Sångerna och livet — en folklig repertoar i 1900-talets Göteborg. Skrifter från Etnologiska föreningen i Västsverige 39, 2002. Dan Lundberg & Gunnar Ternhag, Musiketnologi: En introduktion. Gidlunds förlag, 2002. Elizabeth L. Toth & Linda Aldoory (eds.), The Gender Challenge to Media: Diverse Voices From the Field. Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press, Inc., 2001. Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel (eds.), iconclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. Sven-Erik Klinkmann (ed.), Popular Imagination: Essays on Fantasy and Cultural Practice. Åbo: NNF Publications 12, 2002.

Recension av: Ulf Hannerz (red.), Flera fält i ett: Socialantropologer om translokala fältstudier. Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 2001.

Recension av: Mats Lindqvist: Is i magen. Om ekonomins kolonisering av vardagen. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 2001. Carlo Ginzburg: No Island Is an Island. Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective. New York: Colombia University Press, 2001.

Recension av: Manuel Castells, Informationsåldern. Ekonomi, samhälle och kultur, I: Nätverkssamhällets framväxt, II: Identitetens makt, III: Ekonomi och kultur. Övers. Gunnar Sandin. Göteborg: Bokförlaget Daidalos, 1999-2000.