This paper explores how Holistic Debrief, a new concept in the field of debriefing and reflective processes, can contribute to restitution, reflection and learning in professional teams following stressful events and routine tasks. Interviews were conducted with Norwegian military aircrew mission commanders following deployment to Afghanistan in 2010. Phenomenological analysis in the frame of social learning theory revealed that reflective processes were easier to facilitate after stressful events than after routine tasks. Challenges identified included lack of trust during the early stages of team establishment and poor conceptual repertoires among aircrew commanders undertaking facilitation. Relational trust and reflective processes tended to improve after stressful events. Repeated interactions in Holistic Debrief tend to increase familiarity, trust and learning potential over time. This study reports data from the war context, an environment not often available for qualitative research. The findings are relevant for military and other operational units who wish to develop their debriefing practice and create an experience-based learning environment.
The contribution of this article is to highlight how exploring various writing genres in the beginning of higher education can contribute to academic literacy. While many studies have addressed the transition into academia by focusing on academic writing, the use of various writing genres has scarcely been researched. Based on the thematic analysis of focus-group interviews that explore first-year students' experience of writing in academia, we present and discuss three emerging themes: 1) academic writing as a dull and constricted world, 2) playing with and playing out identities through writing in various genres, and 3) learning academic writing from contrasts. Our research indicates that starting with other writing genres than the academic genre might foster an experience of mastery that could enhance self-efficacy when it comes to academic writing. Moreover, discovering contrasts to academic writing can help students to understand the boundaries and characteristics of academic writing.
This article contributes to the debate on the growing number of interdisciplinary study programs in learning and technology, and aims to understand the diversity of programs as well as curricula structure in an international landscape. Scientific fields share their knowledge and recruit young researchers by offering discipline-specific study programs. Thus, study programs are a reflection of the fields they represent. As technology-enhanced learning is considered to be particularly interdisciplinary and heterogenous, it is important to better understand the landscape of study programs that represents the field. This article presents an analysis of master programs in technology-enhanced learning. A systematic review and analysis of master programs offered in English has been conducted and further used as input for hierarchical cluster analysis. The study identified general characteristics, curricula structure, and organization of topics of these programs. Hierarchical cluster analysis and qualitative content analysis helped us to identify the major types of curricular structures and typical topics covered by the courses. Results show that most study programs rely on interdisciplinary subjects in technology-enhanced learning with a considerable number of subjects from education, learning and psychology. Subjects related to technology, information and computer science appear in such programs less frequently.
Sårbarhetsbegrepet har fått en større plass i norsk offentlig debatt i forbindelse med koronapandemien, og de sårbare elevene har blitt løftet frem i diskusjoner om skolenes håndtering av pandemien. Artikkelen setter søkelyset på hvordan begrepet ble fortolket av ulike aktører i og rundt skolen, og hvilke mulige konsekvenser dette hadde for inkludering i perioden med skolestengning. Vi spør hvilke konsekvenser ulike forståelser av begrepet sårbare elever har for inkluderende praksis. Det empiriske materialet omfatter 27 intervjuer med skoleeiere, skoleledere, laerere og støttesystem i seks ulike kommuner og er supplert med dokumenter fra sentrale myndigheter. Resultatene viser at begrepet sårbare barn og unge ble innsnevret av myndighetene i denne perioden. Samtidig åpnet begrepet i nasjonale veiledere for ulike forståelser hos aktørene og dermed et mulighetsrom for tilpasning til lokale praksiser på skolene og en prioritering av enkeltgrupper. Studien bidrar med ny innsikt i fortolkninger av sårbarhetsbegrepet under koronapandemien og mulige konsekvenser for inkludering når rammebetingelsene endres.
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