Facilitating For a Conscious Awareness of Oneself Through Literature. Using 2001: A Space Odyssey as a facilitator in the classroom for enhancing student’s perspective taking and capacity to mentally time travel

This thesis aims to show how literature can be used to facilitate a deeper understanding of ourselves and our imaginative mind, inside and outside the classroom. The novel that will be used as an example is Arthur C. Clarke’s renowned 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The novel revolves around Clarke’s worldview and prospections about the future, musing on the existential questions which have puzzled our species since the time of the first abstract thought. The novel’s challenging qualities make it usable for what the new Norwegian curriculum (2017) wants to promote in the modern classroom. Through discussions and creative writing one can create an arena which promotes metacognition, openness, curiosity, and self-awareness. By promoting these abilities one can enhance the student’s ability to use imagination generatively and help create an understanding of oneself and others. A national curriculum is a reasonable benchmark to evaluate where we are as a society and what values and attitudes we cherish as a culture. This thesis therefore represents an interval-timed checkup to see where we are and where we are heading as a species in relation to Clarke’s view on the world. While the thesis offers analytic observations about our society, it also aims to suggest how we should progress in the classroom to help the next generation become more aware and more responsible than what we currently are

Introducing a corporate concept into organisational practices: a case study of domestication and organisational choice

This article discusses a case of introducing and launching a new corporate concept, a so-called company-specific production system (XPS), into an organisation. Such concepts are at present very commonly used, but what does it take to implement a new logic into an existing organisation? As a theoretical point of departure, the process was understood as a process of domestication, where the imported concept moves from being external, general and unfamiliar to becoming internal and known, owned by the organisational culture and embedded in its practices. Domestication is a process where the import has to be rescripted through how the organisation, as individual members and as various collectives, enacts it, makes sense of it and understands it. The organisation in this case study had a rich tradition of participation, and in the process under study, members from most levels and functions were involved in the attempts to transform the general concept into something workable and company-specific. This paper takes a socio-technical design approach, which argues that organisations importing new technology or new organisational concepts are faced with choices, not with something inevitable. The study reveals the challenges of the domestication process and how the organisation faces not one choice but a multiplicity of interdependent choices, and how handling the process calls for an untraditional, complex and participatory approach.publishedVersio

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Deliberative and material organizational becoming : Sociotechnical leadership of digital transformation

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Reflekterende team, en lærings - og veiledningsmetode i jordmorutdanningen

I dette kapittelet ønsker vi å belyse hvordan systematisk refleksjon over praksiserfaringer bidrar til viktig kunnskapsdannelse i jordmorstudiet. Vi har utviklet reflekterende team (RT) som en undervisningsform der studentens praksiserfaringer danner grunnlag for personlig og profesjonell kunnskapsutvikling. Bevissthet om og trening i kommunikasjon og veiledning er sentrale tema i arbeidet. For å lykkes med dette er det vesentlig at studenten med egne ord får fortelle frem og dele det vesentlige i erfaringen, og undersøke hvordan hennes forståelse former hennes yrkespraksis. Studentenes refleksjonslogger etter hver arbeidsøkt er analysert med tanke på å forstå hvilken kompetanse RT som undervisningsform kan bidra til

Fagarbeiderkompetanse. Kartlegging av dagens og fremtidens kompetansebehov i fagarbeiderrollen, i industri og bygg og anlegg.

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Towards a science and practice of resilience in the face of pain

The primary objective of this paper is to discuss how a resilience approach to (chronic) pain may advance our current understanding of (mal)adaptation to pain. Different resilience perspectives are described, and future challenges for research, prevention and treatment of (chronic) pain are discussed. Literature searches were performed in Web of Science and PubMed to identify relevant literature on risk and resilience in the context of pain. Resilience can be best defined as the ability to restore and sustain living a fulfilling life in the presence of pain. The Psychological Flexibility Model, the Broaden-and-Build Theory, and Self-Determination Theory are described as theories that may provide insight into resilience within the context of (chronic) pain. We describe how a resilience paradigm shifts the outcomes to pursue in pain research and intervention and argue the need for including positive outcomes in addition to negative outcomes. Psychological flexibility, positive affect and basic psychological needs satisfaction are described as potentially important resilience mechanisms with the potential to target both sustainability and recovery from pain. A resilience approach to chronic pain may have important implications for the prevention and treatment of chronic pain problems, as it may give specific indications on how to empower patients to continue living a fulfilling life (in the presence of pain)