Kari Ludvigsen

• Dr.polit.
• Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Høgskulen på Vestlandet)

Central among a range of reforms and policy measures aimed at enhancing the quality and social cohesion of Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC) services is the 2017 Framework Plan for Kindergartens. In this article, we investigate the policy formation process and how framework plan reform has been carried out by public and private st...

Artiklene som presenteres spenner bredt både tematisk og geografisk, med bidrag både fra Norge, Sverige og Finland. Hensikten med temanummeret er å stimulere til diskusjon ved å presentere artikler med en bred variasjon av teoretiske og empiriske fokus og metodiske tilnærminger. Bidragene undersøker aspekter ved tema som pedagogisk ledelse, retning...

Rammeplanen for barnehage former hverdagen til barna og de ansatte i barnehagen, og er et uttrykk for samfunnets rådende syn på barn og barns oppvekst. Denne antologien undersøker hvordan den gjeldende rammeplanen fra 2017 virker i barnehagen og i barnehagefeltet – fra ulike vinkler og gjennom ulike metoder og typer av kilder. Antologien tar opp to...

Rammeplanen for barnehage former hverdagen til barna og de ansatte i barnehagen, og er et uttrykk for samfunnets rådende syn på barn og barns oppvekst. Denne antologien undersøker hvordan den gjeldende rammeplanen fra 2017 virker i barnehagen og i barnehagefeltet – fra ulike vinkler og gjennom ulike metoder og typer av kilder. Antologien tar opp to...

Rammeplanen for barnehage former hverdagen til barna og de ansatte i barnehagen, og er et uttrykk for samfunnets rådende syn på barn og barns oppvekst. Denne antologien undersøker hvordan den gjeldende rammeplanen fra 2017 virker i barnehagen og i barnehagefeltet – fra ulike vinkler og gjennom ulike metoder og typer av kilder. Antologien tar opp to...

Around the world, schoolchildren suffer from vision disturbances that may challenge their ability to learn to read and write. Often teachers lack the competences to identify and help children who struggle with vision problems. This study is a part of a Norwegian-Tanzanian research project with intentions to strengthen teachers’ competences on ident...

Background Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence-based work rehabilitation program helping people with moderate to severe mental illness to obtain ordinary employment. Although IPS has proven superior to other work rehabilitation programs, in many studies, the majority of the participants remain unemployed. Structured process evalua...

Background The effect of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) has been widely documented, but in many studies, the majority of participants remains unemployed. Structured process evaluations that use mixed methods are scarce, although they could identify components that may enhance the effect of IPS. The aim of the current study is to provide a d...

Background: Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence-based work rehabilitation program helping people with moderate to severe mental illness to obtaini ordinary employment. Although IPS has proven superior to other work rehabilitation programs, in many studies, the majority of the participants remains unemployed. Structured process eva...

This article explores the role of psychiatry in the sorting of schoolchildren in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from 1920 to 1950. Whereas the role and rise of educational psychology and IQ-testing in the differentiation processes in schooling have been examined through earlier research, the role of psychiatry in the interprofessional collaboration ha...

Sammendrag I artikkelen undersøker vi sentrale norske myndigheters håndtering av H1N1 – pandemien i 2009, med vekt på den eksterne kommunikasjonshåndteringen. Vi viser hvordan myndighetenes kommunikasjon utad ble formet gjennom samvirket mellom politisk lederskap, forvaltningsmyndighet og faglig kyndighet. Et sentralt mål i myndighetenes kommunikas...

A number of studies have emphasized the close relations between the medical profession and the health authorities, both internationally and in Norway specifically. As the medical profession tends to be analysed as a homogeneous unit, the processes of professional development and the varying roles and relations between different segments within the...

Background: Roughly one third of disability pensions in Norway are issued for mental and behavioral disorders, and vocational rehabilitation offered to this group has traditionally been dominated by train-and-place approaches with assisted or sheltered employment. Based on a more innovative place-and-train approach, Individual Placement and Suppor...

Cet article se propose d’analyser la construction de la sexualité des couples norvégiens telle que la présente un cours mis en place et financé par l’État à l’intention des couples appelés à devenir parents pour la première fois. Intitulé « Bien vivre ensemble » (« Godt Samliv »), ce cours, lancé en 2005, est proposé gratuitement par les Centres de...

This article investigates a shift in the justifying ideas in Norwegian public health and immigrant policies. Between 1970 and 2009, equality was gradually supplanted with equivalence as the main principle evoked in policy formulation. Potentially, this opened for more differentiated public health policies for immigrants and the indigenous Sámi. The...

In Sweden, Norway and Denmark national testing communities advocating the introduction and expanded use of standardised educational tests in the national educational systems emerged around World War I. Using international research and cross-border networking activities, these coteries were able to gain power and thus establish and promote a new pro...

This paper analyses the construction of Norwegian couples' sexuality through the study of a publically financed and organised relationship course called Living Well Together (Godt Samliv). Established in 2005, this relationship course aimed at first-time parent couples is offered free of charge by municipal health centres. Scrutiny of national poli...

In this article we analyse the central features of the establishment and development in Norway of a mental health service for children. Influenced by the movements for mental hygiene and child guidance from the 1920s, Norwegian psychiatrists turned their attention increasingly towards prevention of mental and social problems. During the 1930s, IQ-t...