Mira Aaboen Sletten

• OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

Early warning and monitoring systems are designed to reduce school dropout rates. However, despite teachers’ pivotal role in their implementation, knowledge about user experience and practical applications remains sparse. This study examines teachers’ experiences with such systems and implementation processes. Using survey and interview data from 4...

This cluster-randomised study investigated the effects of a Norwegian early warning system, the IKO model. IKO is a Norwegian acronym for identification, assessment, and follow-up, and the model aims to improve schools’ abilities to identify and support students who are at risk of dropping out during the school year. The study involved 7677 first-y...

This chapter explores gendered narratives about young people. We argue that – in recent decades – two clearly gendered problem representations have come to dominate the academic and public debate about youth: “pathologisation of girls” and “negative representations of boys”. For boys the narratives revolve around society’s problems with them. Regar...

Being a teenager in 2021 is different from being a teenager thirty years ago. Although many of the basic questions related to identity and social belonging are the same, the framework around young people’s everyday life – especially in the digital arena – may have changed so much that our understanding of adolescence should be adjusted. In this cha...

Background: Effective infection control is crucial for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigated whether adolescents in Oslo reported compliance with the Norwegian infection control rules during the pandemic and whether compliance with the rules was associated with sociodemographic characteristics, trust in the authorities and acceptance o...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 involved closure of schools and strict limitations on social contact. The study examines whether this had an effect on the life satisfaction and subjective well-being among adolescents. Material and method: An online survey among students in lower secondary schools in Oslo (N = 8 116, 46 %...

All political parties in Norway agree that social inequalities in health comprise a public health problem and should be reduced. Against this background, the Council on Social Inequalities in Health has taken action to provide specific advice to reduce social health differences. Our recommendations focus on the entire social gradient rather than ju...

Etter Reform 94 har de videregående skolene i Norge fått et økt ansvar for at flest mulig unge gjennomfører videregående opplæring. Samtidig er skolenes mandat for frafallsforebygging uklart, og det er opp til ledelsen og andre aktører i skolen å operasjonalisere og avgrense ansvaret. Til tross for dette er skolelederes perspektiver på frafall nest...

Oslo er byen med flest inntektsfattige i Norge. Nærmere ett av fem barn, og to av fem barn med innvandrerbakgrunn, lever i vedvarende lavinntekt (SSB 2017a). Det er samtidig store variasjoner i levekår mellom de ulike bydelene og foreldrenes sosioøkonomiske status vil i stor grad påvirke hvor barna vokser opp (Ljunggren 2017). Så hvordan er det å v...

Final report from the evaluation of the IKO model.

Artikkelen undersøker hvor mange ungdommer som opplever prestasjons-press på ulike områder og hvor mange som har problemer med å takle presset de står overfor. Et viktig funn er den store variasjonen som finnes mellom ungdom. Et mindretall opplever press på mange områder og rundt en av ti har betydelige problemer med å takle press i hverdagen. Jent...

Denne andre rapporten i IKO-prosjektet beskriver implementeringserfaringer og de første effektanalysene basert på forskjellige datakilder. Disse dataene gir oss et bilde om hvordan IKO-modellen har blitt implementert, hvilke erfaringer ansatte har gjort seg i forbindelse med IKO-modellen og hvilke forskjeller vi ser når vi sammenligner det frafalls...

This is the protocol for a cluster-randomised study involving a total of 42 upper secondary schools in a three-year project. The population for the study comprises all first year teachers and students in 2016 in 42 upper secondary schools; it includes 7681 students and 2075 teachers. While 20 schools have been randomised to the experimental group,...

This paper examines the participation of minority and majority youth in organized sport based on the Young in Oslo 2015 survey (response rate: 72%, N = 9.774). Four possible explanations of the minority–majority gap are introduced: (i) culture, (ii) religion, (iii) discrimination/racism and (iv) class and socio-economic resources. Class and religio...

In recent decades, there has been an increase in self-reported internalising mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, among young people in many Western countries, including Norway. The aim of this study has been to increase knowledge about the prevalence and the reasons behind the increase in self-reported mental health problems amo...

I 1992 sto artikkelen «Ungdomskriminalitet: Nyanser i grått?» på trykk i Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (Pedersen 1992). I artik-kelen argumenterte Willy Pedersen mot en framstilling av lovbrudd som relativt jevnt fordelt i ungdomsbefolkningen, jf. metaforen «nyanser i grått» fra Stangeland og Hauges (1974) bok med samme tittel. På linje med mye...

Using representative survey data from the municipality of Oslo, capital of Norway, this article examines expectations about the future among 14–16-year-olds in relatively poor families. Despite Norway’s universalistic welfare policies and a period of growing economic prosperity prior to the 2006 survey, the article reveals that adolescents in poor...

Applying the theoretical framework of social capital, this article investigates whether adolescents’ popularity among their peers during junior high school protects them against a financially marginalized position (as indicated by unemployment, social assistance reception and low educational attainment) in young adulthood. Based on a Norwegian popu...

The article examines leisure time socializing and the subjective experience of social isolation among Norwegian 13–16-year-olds in poor families. The empirical analyses use data from a representative survey in Norway in 2002 and show the likelihood of participation in leisure time socializing with peers to be lower among 13–16-year-olds in poor fam...