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The Expansion of English-medium Instruction in the Nordic Countries.Can Top-Down University Language Polices Encourage Bottom-up Disciplinary Literac…

2015

Recently, in the wake of the Bologna Declaration and similar internationalinitiatives, there has been a rapid increase in the number of university courses and programmestaught through the medium of English. Surveys have consistently shown theNordic countries to be at the forefront of this trend towards English-medium instruction(EMI). In this paper, we discuss the introduction of EMI in four Nordic countries (Denmark,Finland, Norway and Sweden). We present the educational setting and the EMIdebate in each of these countries and summarize relevant research findings. We then makesome tentative suggestions for the introduction of EMI in higher education in othercountries. In particular, we are…

Lisää oikaisuja suomalaisen tieteen historiaan : pitkäaikaisin professori

2020

Research on international trade and transport : a generational shift?

2018

Scandinavian economic historians made a strong presence at the World Economic History Congress (WEHC), Boston, this summer. Around one hundred Nordic scholars featured on the list of participants, ...

Road to unity? : Nordic economic convergence in the long run

2022

This study examines Nordic economic convergence from the sixteenth to twentieth century respective of the economic leaders, in effect the UK before 1914 and USA thereafter. The paper uses a novel approach of combining the analysis of both GDP and wages. The examination of real GDP per capita suggests that there was a catch-up process in play, both with the economic leaders and among the Nordic states, from the early nineteenth century onwards. However, the examination of the adjusted silver wages suggests convergence among the Nordic economies by the end of the eighteenth century. Therefore, we argue, no single Nordic Model emerged from these development patterns, even though the Nordic sta…

The Long History of Lutheranism in Scandinavia. From State Religion to the People’s Church

2015

Abstract As the main religion of Finland, but also of entire Scandinavia, Lutheranism has a centuries-long history. Until 1809 Finland formed the eastern part of the Swedish Kingdom, from 1809 to 1917 it was a Grand Duchy within the Russian Empire, and in 1917 Finland gained independence. In the 1520s the Lutheran Reformation reached the Swedish realm and gradually Lutheranism was made the state religion in Sweden. In the 19th century the Emperor in Russia recognized the official Lutheran confession and the status of the Lutheran Church as a state church in Finland. In the 20th century Lutheran church leaders preferred to use the concept people’s church. The Lutheran Church is still the maj…

Time cycles of homicide in the early modern Nordic area

2020

An extensive body of criminological research has shown that criminaland violent behaviour manifests time patterns in terms of daily,weekly and annual cycles. This is consistent with criminologicalroutine activities theory. Can we generalize these patterns to historicalperiods? In this article, we draw on a recently created uniquedataset, covering the years 1608–1699 in three Nordic regions, toexplore time cycles of offending in the early modern period.Examining daily, weekly and annual cycles, we find that lethalviolence manifested strong time patterns in the early modernperiod. The role of public holidays was central especially in theperiod lasting from Christmas to Midsummer. Probing the …

Baltic - Nordic Universities in the EU Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020

2020

This study looks at the research education in universities and is aimed at assessment of the Baltic – Nordic Higher Education Establishments’ participation to the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme on basis of the open source data. The author analyses university interest in Horizon 2020 support for doctoral students’ training, correlation between university PhD intensity and involvement in research projects, correlation between Horizon 2020 success and World university rankings, participation comparison of  Nordic universities versus the Baltic ones. A brief overview of universities’ commitment to Sustainable development goals is also included. The study concludes that Nordic universities …

Organizing Shared Digital Reading in Groups: Optimizing the Affordances of Text and Medium

2019

Children develop their language when they explore and talk about literary texts. In this study, we explore the design of shared digital reading as a basis for critical reflection on the reading situation in an institutional context with its given opportunities and limitations. We examine six videotaped readings of one specific picture book app, with a focus on the strategies used by teachers in early childhood education and care institutions to control children’s access to the medium and the types of verbal engagement (about the story and about the medium) that are generated by these different strategies. We use qualitative and quantitative analysis of video data. A qualitative categorizat…

Les jeunes d'origine maghrébine en France et l'enseignement postsecondaire

2014

L'éducation demeure la principale voie d'intégration sociale notamment pour les descendants des familles immigrées. Les jeunes d'origine maghrébine ont-ils les mêmes aspirations et les mêmes perspectives d'accéder aux études postsecondaires que les autres jeunes en France ? Dans quelle mesure les bacheliers accèdent-ils à la filière de leur choix ?

La préceptorie piémontaise de Sant'Antonio di Ranverso

2017

Sylvain Demarthe, Géraldine Mocellin, Nicolas Reveyron, Daniel Russo (dir.), De soie et d'ailleurs, une histoire à la croisée des chemins, catalogue d'exposition Musée de Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye (9 juillet-8 octobre 2017), Grenoble : Département de l’Isère ; Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye : Musée de Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye, pp. 38-40