Vol. 4 - Issue 2 2008 - ISSN 1504-4831
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Tables and Figures will be published as suggested in the manuscript.


References
should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name, with the year of publication in parentheses, as detailed in the APA style guide. If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a, b, c, etc. should be put after the year of publication. The references should be listed in full at the end of the paper in standard APA format. For example:

 

Cary, F. J. (1991). Begging to Feel: Tinkering and learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 Jiggery, F.K., Grieg, Q. B., Kakk, P., Sober, O. K., Mantel, P. L., Toff, L., Givens, S. B., Jaws, P., & Fokker, O. (2000). Constructive ideas in bicycling. In J. F. Cochran, & O. D. Johnson (Eds.) Modern bicycling (pp. 29-49). New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

 Myahira, L. P. (1996). Backtracking in Mountain bikes. Bicycling: journal of research in modern bicycling, 13, 120-140.

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Situated learning in the Network society
Rune Krumsvik
University of Bergen
Email: rune.krumsvik@iuh.uib.no 
 
There is a need to develop a broader view of knowledge for dealing with the way in which new digital trends influence the underlying conditions for schools, pedagogy and subjects. This short commentary article, based on my paper at the NVU-conference 2008, will therefore highlight whether a broader view of knowledge - situated learning, digital literacy and the digital revolution can generate new ways of how we perceive pedagogy within the new educational reform in Norway in particular and the digitized school in general. The focus is particularly angled towards the implications this may have for developing new practises for teachers and students. 

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NFPF/NERA Congress
The 37th Annual Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association will be held in Trondheim, Norway, 5 - 7 March 2009. Keynote speakers are Ruth Kagia (World Bank), irene Rizzini (University of Rio de janeiro), Roger Hart (University of New York), Jon Smidt (Sør-Trøndelag University College) and Anna-Lena Østern (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 November 2008, and deadline for registration 31 Januar 2009.
 
Conference web site (external link).
 
2nd International Dream Conference

The Dream conference is titled Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique and takes place in Odense, Denmark, 18-20 September 2008. Keynote speakers include professor David Buckingham, John Hartley, Angela McFarlane and Roger Säljö. 

Conference Web site (external link).

 
Reviews:
Moving Media Studies – Remediation Revisited

Edited by Heidi Philipsen and Lars Qvortrup  

Publisher: Samfundslitteratur Press: Frederiksberg Press, 2007.

Reviewed by
Stephen Dobson
Professor
Lillehammer University College
Email: stephen.dobson@hil.no
 
Introduction
Two questions can be asked: firstly, not do we need another book on remediation, but why? And secondly, if this is the case, what kind of book should it be? This review spirals around these questions.
 
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Global perspectives on E-learning.

Rhetoric and reality by A. A. Carr-Chellman (Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2005

Reviewed by
Dr. J. Ola Lindberg
Department of Education, Mid Sweden University
Email: Ola.Lindberg@miun.se
 
Dr. Anders D. Olofsson
Department of Education, Umeå University
Email: Anders.D.Olofsson@educ.umu.se


It seems suitable to begin this review by giving a brief description of the context in which the texts of this book are produced. If it fails to be regarded as a description, then we hope at least it can be regarded as one possible understanding of the context. When contextualizing a book, a good idea seems to be to start with a few words about the editor, Alison A. Carr-Chellman.
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Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America’s Most Important Idea

by George Lakoff, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

 
Reviewed by
Geir Haugsbakk
Ph.D.-candidate in Education
Lillehammer University College
Email: Geir.Haugsbakk@hil.no
 
“To lose freedom is awful; to lose the idea of freedom is even worse.” This statement by George Lakoff is at the core of his attention in his last book. And his opinion is that the loss of the concept of freedom is a tragic incident that has struck a large part of the American people, not least since September 11, 2001.
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