Liv Eide

• University of Bergen

This article analyses the visual representation of gender in beginner’s books in the foreign language subjects French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and German, as textbooks are often students’ first encounter with the subject. Previous research suggests that women are both underrepresented and stereotypically portrayed in textbooks. The article pre...

The induction period is a frequently discussed element in a teacher’s career. While there is a recognised need for support during induction, the access to support is not available to all newly qualified teachers (NQTs). However, little is known about the micro-political processes of NQTs’ access to support in the workplace. The purpose of this stud...

Teacher education has been criticised for a lack of coherence and for not preparing student teachers for teaching. To prepare student teachers for practicum and create connections between theory and practice and between schools and university, this study explores how the practice field can be brought onto the university campus through digital resou...

Teacher education takes place in two distinct cultures: schools and higher education institutions. The differences between these cultures make interaction between them challenging and often described as disconnected. There is a call for coherence. This interview study explores how meeting spaces during practicum can enhance coherence between univer...

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The development of intercultural competence is a crucial part of foreign language (FL) education, yet it remains under-explored in teaching materials and teacher education. Transnational perspectives on FL teaching, and specifically literary texts on migration and exile, may help expand teaching beyond the traditional monocultural focus and stimula...

Praksis er en sentral og verdsatt del av lærerutdanningen, men læringsutbyttet blir ofte tatt for gitt og sjelden utfordret. Denne intervjustudien undersøker hvordan praksisopplæringens formål er oppfattet og erfart sett fra perspektivene til studenter, veiledere og ansatte i høyere utdanning (lærerutdannere). Målet med studien av de ulike perspekt...

The present study asks what challenges student teachers meet in today’s school and how they present, respond to, and reflect on these challenges in an online discussion forum. The study explores these questions by analysing cases written by student teachers in their last practice placement in a one-year post-graduate teacher education programme for...

An integrated part of teaching is to face unexpected situations. Teachers have to make immediate decisions, and these decisions may have a great impact on many people. An important question is how teacher education can prepare students for unexpected situations. The aim of this practitioner research study is to investigate if case-based teaching ca...

This qualitative study investigates, through focus groups, how students in upper secondary school in Norway experience schooling. The background for the study is a tension between measurable outcomes and the educational aim of supporting students’ human growth, their Bildung. As teacher educators, we wanted to learn about situations that made an im...

The current study is a collective self-study on how we as 15 teacher educators at a university in Norway tried to improve our teaching through working with cases with the aim of better supporting student teachers in making links between theory and practice. We wanted to address the common criticism in teacher education concerning a perceived gap be...

This article examines the sociocultural shaping of teacher agency by focusing on how various conditions mediate teachers’ perceived professional space. Agency is understood from a sociocultural perspective as the mediated capacity to act, which is achieved and exercised in a professional space, and, consequently, shaped by the perceptions of this s...

This article discusses the mediation of intercultural competence in foreign language teaching, and how it is connected to the school’s overall education project (‘danning’, ‘bildung’). We argue that migrant narratives are useful as a tool for developing intercultural competence, and examine how these narratives, by presenting what Gerhard Neuner te...

Spørsmålet om hva en lærebok skal inneholde, og hvilke kunnskaperog verdier som bør formidles, er til tider [...]

Denne artikkelen retter et kritisk blikk på lærebøker i spanskfaget, og stiller spørsmålet om de ivaretar læreplanens målsetninger om at fremmedspråksfaget skal være et dannings- og kulturfag. Vi skal se at spanskfagets historie og utfordringer skiller seg vesentlig fra de to andre store fremmedspråkene i skolen: tysk og fransk, og det er grunn til...

En Noruega, como en varios países europeos, se ve últimamente que el español está ganando terreno como lengua extranjera en el sistema educativo. En sólo dos años, del 2004 al 2006, el número total de alumnos que estudian español en la Escuela Secundaria Inferior ha aumentado de 6 500 a 32 000. La nueva situación del E/LE en Noruega implica varios...