Marit Ulvik
Biographic Data
| ID | 4420769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marit Ulvik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marit |
| FAMILY NAME | Ulvik |
| SIGNATURE | ULVIK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Newly qualified teachers’ highs and lows during the first year of teaching
To gain a nuanced understanding of the induction phase experienced by newly qualified teachers (NQTs), this short-term longitudinal study followed 15 Norwegian secondary school teachers throughout their first year of teaching, a crucial period for strengthening their resilience through supportive environments. Each month, they communicated via email their work mastery on a scale from 1 to 10. At the end of the year, they were interviewed about th…
Newly qualified teachers as a resource in school in a micropolitical perspective
It is well known that newly qualified teachers (NQTs) need support during their induction period. However, emphasising support can be perceived as a deficit approach. Going beyond deficit thinking, this study investigates how NQTs are perceived as a resource in schools in a micropolitical perspective. Based on interview data collected from NQTs, mentors and school leaders in Norwegian upper secondary schools, findings show that NQTs’ contribution…
Research approaches in master-based teacher education preparing student teachers for professional work
Student teachers have been found to be critical toward the research approaches they learned from their master's-based teacher education programmes. Our aim is to discuss how certain research approaches learnt during a 5-year academic master's level teacher education, may bring student teachers close to practice and provide them with conceptual and practical tools for a thorough understanding of the practice of teaching. The argumentation is based…
Negotiating coherence through meeting spaces in practicum
Teacher education takes place in two distinct cultures: schools and higher education institutions. The differences between these cultures make interaction between them challenging and often described as disconnected. There is a call for coherence. This interview study explores how meeting spaces during practicum can enhance coherence between university coursework and fieldwork in teacher education seen from the perspectives of student teachers, s…
Live Remote Classroom: A Tool for Coherent Teacher Education
Teacher education has been criticised for a lack of coherence and for not preparing student teachers for teaching. To prepare student teachers for practicum and create connections between theory and practice and between schools and university, this study explores how the practice field can be brought onto the university campus through digital resources. Four teacher educators in secondary school teacher education in Norway collaborated with a sch…
Case-based teacher education preparing for diagnostic judgement
An integrated part of teaching is to face unexpected situations. Teachers have to make immediate decisions, and these decisions may have a great impact on many people. An important question is how teacher education can prepare students for unexpected situations. The aim of this practitioner research study is to investigate if case-based teaching can contribute to reducing the perceived gap in teacher education. A step-wise model was introduced fo…
Student teachers’ online sharing of challenging incidents in practice placement
The present study asks what challenges student teachers meet in today’s school and how they present, respond to, and reflect on these challenges in an online discussion forum. The study explores these questions by analysing cases written by student teachers in their last practice placement in a one-year post-graduate teacher education programme for secondary school in Norway. The findings show that the cases centre around students and classroom m…
Newly qualified teachers: Tensions between needing support and being a resource. A qualitative study of newly qualified teachers in Norwegian upper secondary schools
Newly qualified secondary school teachers’ perspectives on workplace learning
There is a gap between knowledge needed at work and knowledge and skills developed through formal education. Certain aspects can only be learned within the actual workplace. This article focuses on workplace learning for newly qualified teachers’ (NQTs), a learning that is integrated in the processes and experiences gained through work. Through emails and interviews the study follows 15 NQTs during their first year of teaching in Norwegian second…
Validity and Value of Teacher Education Research
Denne fjerde NAFOL-boken er nok et viktig bidrag til kunnskapsfeltet om og for lærerutdanningen. Som tidligere NAFOL-bøker inneholder den en samling av forskningsartikler om verdi og validitet i lærerutdanningsforskning som krysser nasjonale grenser, fagdisipliner og ikke minst utdanningsnivå, fra barnehage til videregående og forskeropplæringen. Med artikler fra England, Østerrike, Italia, Island og Norge gir boken et innblikk i dagens internasj…
Teacher educators’ professional trajectories: Evidence from Ireland, Israel, Norway and the Netherlands
This study describes higher education-based teacher educators’ professional trajectories, i.e. their professional activities and learning as developed throughout their career. Semi-structured interviews were held with 41 teacher educators from Ireland, Israel, Norway and the Netherlands. Findings show that teacher educators were recruited mainly from schools and universities. As novices, they received some, but no formal, support. Research and te…
Learning and personal epistemologies among students in three work placement settings
Recent development in policy and learning theory encourages higher education institutions to send their students out of campus and into work placements. In this paper, we report on students’ engagement with various aspects of knowing through practice in work placements. We employed focus group discussions to gather students’ accounts of their knowing in the three higher education programmes: Teacher Education, Aqua Medicine, and Music Performance…
Promoting Aesthetical Values to Education
With a pressure on schools to meet the requirements of a knowledge-based global economy, human development, critical thinking and imagination seem to be given lower priority. This article argues for including the aesthetic dimension in teaching as a way to foster human development. While aesthetic subjects are cut, there is a growing interest in aesthetic methods through which students are expected to use their knowledge in new and creative ways.…
The professional development of higher education-based teacher educators: Needs and realities
Current literature suggests that while teacher educators perform a multitude of complex roles, they receive minimal preparation or possibilities for professional development to fulfil these roles. As a result, they need to acquire relevant knowledge and skills after taking on the position of teacher educators. Therefore, it is important to learn what skills and knowledge teacher educators need and how they acquire such skills and knowledge throug…
Teachers' perceived professional space and their agency
School leaders’ views on mentoring and newly qualified teachers’ needs
School leaders are in a position to make decisions that influence beginning teachers’ first year in school. The leaders’ attitudes to new teachers and mentoring have an impact on such teachers’ professional possibilities. Through open-ended interviews, this qualitative study investigates how school leaders perceive newly qualified teachers’ needs and mentoring. The data analysis reveals that their views vary. While some see the beginning teacher'…
Is individual mentoring the only answer
Unlike many other countries, Norway has no induction programme or reduction of teaching load for newly qualified teachers. However, an interesting model has been developed through the “New Teachers in Norway” project. This project involves teacher education institutions and schools, novice and experienced teachers as well as teacher educators in the learning process. Future enterprises that are currently discussed in a Parliamentary Proposition h…
What characterises a good practicum in teacher education
Practice teaching is regarded as a key component of teacher education and often highly valued by student teachers, even if the aims of field experiences vary from context to context. This article takes a closer look at the practicum in a one-year postgraduate teacher education programme (PGCE) in Norway by listening to the voices of student teachers, school-based mentors and university-based supervisors. The study aims to obtain a deeper understa…
Novice in secondary school – the coin has two sides
Teachers' perceived professional space and their agency
Novice in secondary school – the coin has two sides
School leaders’ views on mentoring and newly qualified teachers’ needs
School leaders are in a position to make decisions that influence beginning teachers’ first year in school. The leaders’ attitudes to new teachers and mentoring have an impact on such teachers’ professional possibilities. Through open-ended interviews, this qualitative study investigates how school leaders perceive newly qualified teachers’ needs and mentoring. The data analysis reveals that their views vary. While some see the beginning teacher'…
Newly qualified teachers: Tensions between needing support and being a resource. A qualitative study of newly qualified teachers in Norwegian upper secondary schools
Novice in secondary school – the coin has two sides
Is individual mentoring the only answer
Unlike many other countries, Norway has no induction programme or reduction of teaching load for newly qualified teachers. However, an interesting model has been developed through the “New Teachers in Norway” project. This project involves teacher education institutions and schools, novice and experienced teachers as well as teacher educators in the learning process. Future enterprises that are currently discussed in a Parliamentary Proposition h…
What characterises a good practicum in teacher education
Practice teaching is regarded as a key component of teacher education and often highly valued by student teachers, even if the aims of field experiences vary from context to context. This article takes a closer look at the practicum in a one-year postgraduate teacher education programme (PGCE) in Norway by listening to the voices of student teachers, school-based mentors and university-based supervisors. The study aims to obtain a deeper understa…
School leaders’ views on mentoring and newly qualified teachers’ needs
School leaders are in a position to make decisions that influence beginning teachers’ first year in school. The leaders’ attitudes to new teachers and mentoring have an impact on such teachers’ professional possibilities. Through open-ended interviews, this qualitative study investigates how school leaders perceive newly qualified teachers’ needs and mentoring. The data analysis reveals that their views vary. While some see the beginning teacher'…
Teachers' perceived professional space and their agency
The professional development of higher education-based teacher educators: Needs and realities
Current literature suggests that while teacher educators perform a multitude of complex roles, they receive minimal preparation or possibilities for professional development to fulfil these roles. As a result, they need to acquire relevant knowledge and skills after taking on the position of teacher educators. Therefore, it is important to learn what skills and knowledge teacher educators need and how they acquire such skills and knowledge throug…
Promoting Aesthetical Values to Education
With a pressure on schools to meet the requirements of a knowledge-based global economy, human development, critical thinking and imagination seem to be given lower priority. This article argues for including the aesthetic dimension in teaching as a way to foster human development. While aesthetic subjects are cut, there is a growing interest in aesthetic methods through which students are expected to use their knowledge in new and creative ways.…
Teacher educators’ professional trajectories: Evidence from Ireland, Israel, Norway and the Netherlands
This study describes higher education-based teacher educators’ professional trajectories, i.e. their professional activities and learning as developed throughout their career. Semi-structured interviews were held with 41 teacher educators from Ireland, Israel, Norway and the Netherlands. Findings show that teacher educators were recruited mainly from schools and universities. As novices, they received some, but no formal, support. Research and te…
Learning and personal epistemologies among students in three work placement settings
Recent development in policy and learning theory encourages higher education institutions to send their students out of campus and into work placements. In this paper, we report on students’ engagement with various aspects of knowing through practice in work placements. We employed focus group discussions to gather students’ accounts of their knowing in the three higher education programmes: Teacher Education, Aqua Medicine, and Music Performance…
Validity and Value of Teacher Education Research
Denne fjerde NAFOL-boken er nok et viktig bidrag til kunnskapsfeltet om og for lærerutdanningen. Som tidligere NAFOL-bøker inneholder den en samling av forskningsartikler om verdi og validitet i lærerutdanningsforskning som krysser nasjonale grenser, fagdisipliner og ikke minst utdanningsnivå, fra barnehage til videregående og forskeropplæringen. Med artikler fra England, Østerrike, Italia, Island og Norge gir boken et innblikk i dagens internasj…
Negotiating coherence through meeting spaces in practicum
Teacher education takes place in two distinct cultures: schools and higher education institutions. The differences between these cultures make interaction between them challenging and often described as disconnected. There is a call for coherence. This interview study explores how meeting spaces during practicum can enhance coherence between university coursework and fieldwork in teacher education seen from the perspectives of student teachers, s…
Live Remote Classroom: A Tool for Coherent Teacher Education
Teacher education has been criticised for a lack of coherence and for not preparing student teachers for teaching. To prepare student teachers for practicum and create connections between theory and practice and between schools and university, this study explores how the practice field can be brought onto the university campus through digital resources. Four teacher educators in secondary school teacher education in Norway collaborated with a sch…
Case-based teacher education preparing for diagnostic judgement
An integrated part of teaching is to face unexpected situations. Teachers have to make immediate decisions, and these decisions may have a great impact on many people. An important question is how teacher education can prepare students for unexpected situations. The aim of this practitioner research study is to investigate if case-based teaching can contribute to reducing the perceived gap in teacher education. A step-wise model was introduced fo…
Student teachers’ online sharing of challenging incidents in practice placement
The present study asks what challenges student teachers meet in today’s school and how they present, respond to, and reflect on these challenges in an online discussion forum. The study explores these questions by analysing cases written by student teachers in their last practice placement in a one-year post-graduate teacher education programme for secondary school in Norway. The findings show that the cases centre around students and classroom m…
Newly qualified teachers: Tensions between needing support and being a resource. A qualitative study of newly qualified teachers in Norwegian upper secondary schools
Newly qualified secondary school teachers’ perspectives on workplace learning
There is a gap between knowledge needed at work and knowledge and skills developed through formal education. Certain aspects can only be learned within the actual workplace. This article focuses on workplace learning for newly qualified teachers’ (NQTs), a learning that is integrated in the processes and experiences gained through work. Through emails and interviews the study follows 15 NQTs during their first year of teaching in Norwegian second…
Research approaches in master-based teacher education preparing student teachers for professional work
Student teachers have been found to be critical toward the research approaches they learned from their master's-based teacher education programmes. Our aim is to discuss how certain research approaches learnt during a 5-year academic master's level teacher education, may bring student teachers close to practice and provide them with conceptual and practical tools for a thorough understanding of the practice of teaching. The argumentation is based…
Newly qualified teachers’ highs and lows during the first year of teaching
To gain a nuanced understanding of the induction phase experienced by newly qualified teachers (NQTs), this short-term longitudinal study followed 15 Norwegian secondary school teachers throughout their first year of teaching, a crucial period for strengthening their resilience through supportive environments. Each month, they communicated via email their work mastery on a scale from 1 to 10. At the end of the year, they were interviewed about th…
Newly qualified teachers as a resource in school in a micropolitical perspective
It is well known that newly qualified teachers (NQTs) need support during their induction period. However, emphasising support can be perceived as a deficit approach. Going beyond deficit thinking, this study investigates how NQTs are perceived as a resource in schools in a micropolitical perspective. Based on interview data collected from NQTs, mentors and school leaders in Norwegian upper secondary schools, findings show that NQTs’ contribution…
Psychology (17 works) · Pedagogy (15 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Mathematics education (11 works) · Teacher education (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Innovative Education and Learning Practices (7 works) · Professional development (7 works) · Political science (6 works)