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10.06.2011The critical voice among technology optimists
Reading researcher Anne Mangen studies how various media and technologies impact our writing and reading skills. She is a prominent dissident among those who hail the entry of personal computers in kindergartens and schools.
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29.12.2010Easy to bully digitally
Digital bullying among young people is on the rise. Now we need some network action, UiS researchers say.
29.12.2010Better learning through handwriting
Writing by hand strengthens the learning process. When typing on a keyboard, this process may be impaired.
10.06.2010Digital teaching
How can one teach students who hide behind their PCs and switch between Word, Facebook, Wikipedia and Twitter? An ordinary day for teachers has been completely transformed during the last five to ten years. Reading research at the University of Stavanger has examined the complete transformation of the classroom which has taken place over the last 5-10 years.
16.11.2007Quiet pupils lose at school
New research shows that quiet and shy pupils in junior high schools in Norway achieve below their active classmates in oral, practical and esthetic subjects.
19.10.2007Challenging dyslexia research
There is disturbingly little discussion and reflection around basic concepts in dyslexia research, says associate professor Per Henning Uppstad at the Center for Reading Research at the University of Stavanger.
05.09.2007Action against bullying
The fight against bullying has to be won every day, says Professor Erling Roland at the Center for Behavioral Research at UiS. Together with internationally recognized colleagues he now asks the world to confront the problem.
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09.07.2007Bullying in order to win friends
New research shows that immigrant boys in Norway bully because they want to belong to a group. Therefore they seem to have a different motive for bullying than ethic Norwegian boys have.
21.12.2006Zeroing in on school bullies
The Zero programme on bullying at the University of Stavanger’s Centre for Behavioural Research could become an export product after being tried out in Norwegian schools. Mexicans, Colombians and Spaniards may be next in line to adopt it.
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21.12.2006Reading the answers
An intercontinental study of twins has indicated that reading difficulties among children may be genetically determined. Nurture plays a far smaller role than scientists have previously thought.
School and Learning is a prioritized research area at UiS.
It questions the very foundation of the development of knowledge societies.
School and Learning projects study different age groups, from early childhood to adolescence, to students and their teachers and also includes professional workers. Projects can have a micro or macro perspective, a local or global, or a historic or futuristic.
Research projects question child development and children’s well being in daycare, nurseries and schools.
They question subjects and the pedagogy of teaching, learning environments and learning potentials, special needs, and relationships between education and work.
Projects can study organizations’ change processes, interventions and implementation, and some projects result in research based material or programs to be used in nurseries, schools and higher education.
Contact: Elaine Munthe
