Educational Action Research for Being by Petri Salo, Karin Rönnerman

“…The article describes the characteristics of educational action research on the basis of its development in three Nordic countries, namely Sweden, Norway and Finland. The characterisation begins with a reflection on the Anglo-Saxon variants of action research within education. …”
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Monastic Musical Fragments from Iceland by Gisela Attinger

“…Little has survived from medieval liturgical books in the Nordic countries other than fragments. It is often difficult, if not impossible, to state their exact provenance, but the contents sometimes indicate that they once belonged to a monastic institution. …”
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The THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACT OF PERFORMANCE AUDITS – THE CASES OF CROATIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, AND SLOVENIA by Vesna Vašiček, Jelena Poljašević, Tatjana Jovanović

“…As previous research in Europe has focused on EU or Nordic countries, the intention of our paper was to analyze the development of performance audits in selected south-east European countries. …”
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Conference report SysMus 2016 by Diana Kayser, Jessica Akkermans, Pedro Douglass-Kirk

“…The 9th edition of this conference series, organised by students for students, took place in the idyllic town of Jyväskylä in Finland, and therefore for the first time in SysMus-history in one of the Nordic Countries. The 2016 conference was organised by student chairs Joshua Bamford and Susan Johnson with tremendous support from Birgitta Burger as supervising chair. …”
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Studying Religion in Nordic Newspapers by Teemu Taira

“…It provides a general framework for the following four articles based on a longitudinal study of religion in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish newspapers by clarifying what characterizes selected ‘Nordic’ countries, their media spheres, and their religious landscapes. …”
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Development in the Regulation of Wages and Working Conditions: The Employee Perspective by Laust Høgedahl, Henning Jørgensen

“…The Nordic countries are renowned for their high level of unionization and collective bargaining. …”
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Introduction to 2021-2 by Anders Buch

“…This issue of Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies compiles six original research articles from the Nordic countries. The first article brings us to Finland. …”
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The Nordic Dimension as a Metaspace for Educational Research by John Benedicto Krejsler

“…The metaspace gathers critical mass through aggregating the potential of smaller spaces. The five Nordic countries thus represent historical, linguistic, and societal similarities that produced similar societal and educational values, albeit along different trajectories. …”
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Does Developmental Aid Impact or Impede on Growth: Evidence from Nigeria by Iyabo A. Olanrele, Taofik Mohammed Ibrahim

“…The empirical estimates show that multilateral aid had more impact on growth compared to bilateral aid from Nigerian’s trading partners, top-five CDI ranked countries, and Nordic countries. Our findings support the need for stringent conditionalities and standard monitoring and evaluation framework by donors in order to promote meaningful impact of developmental aid on economic growth. …”
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What Characterizes Nordic Research on Initial Teacher Education: A Systematic Scoping Review by Sanna Forsström, Elaine Munthe

“…The main objective of this systematic scoping review is to shed light on ITE research in the Nordic countries during the past decade. The review includes 830 studies, following established procedures. …”
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Introduction to NJWLS 2019-2 by Anders Buch

“…This issue presents six new articles dealing with central issues in working life research in the Nordic countries. The articles all center around questions related to (the lack of) competencies and skills that are in demand in organizations and in relation to the labor market in general. …”
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Tossed on the seas of Visual Theatre: challenges to Puppetry’s survival as an independent discipline by Leino Rei

“…The goal was to understand the current situation and give an overview of Baltic and Nordic countries' puppet theater and puppet theater training traditions and whether and how the puppeteer's profile has changed recently. …”
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Fertility and Public Policies - Evidence from Norway and Finland

“…The relatively high and rising fertility rates of Nordic countries in the late 1980s and early 1990s sparked a renewed research interest in the possible pronatalistic effects of generous family policy programs. …”
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Data Journalists Using Facebook by Appelgren Ester

“…At the time of the study, the group was unique in the Nordic countries and as such has played a major role in data journalism’s development process in the Nordic region.…”
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Positions of Newly Arrived Students in Nordic Education Policies and Practices by Jenni Helakorpi, Marianne Dovemark, Annette Rasmussen, Gunilla Holm

“…This article aims to investigate how Nordic countries – exemplified by Denmark, Finland, and Sweden – govern the education and inclusion of newly arrived students. …”
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Fertility and family policy in Norway - A reflection on trends and possible connections

“…Below replacement fertility in many countries has lead to a renewed public interest in policies that may encourage young people to have more children. The Nordic countries are sometimes in focus in this respect, as their fertility rates remain relatively high in spite of very high female labour force participation. …”
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Does Developmental Aid Impact or Impede on Growth: Evidence from Nigeria by Iyabo A. Olanrele, Taofik Mohammed Ibrahim

“…The empirical estimates show that multilateral aid had more impact on growth compared to bilateral aid from Nigerian’s trading partners, top-five CDI ranked countries, and Nordic countries. Our findings support the need for stringent conditionalities and standard monitoring and evaluation framework by donors in order to promote meaningful impact of developmental aid on economic growth. …”
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Long-term Labour Shortage. The Economic Impact of Population Transition and Post-Industrialism on the OECD Countries: the Nordic Case by Perttu Salmenhaara

“…Special focus countries are the Nordic countries. The method is to collect together comparable data from these previous studies. …”
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Troubling the water by Irina Souch

“…Despite their different genres and aesthetic qualities these series share their concerns about the availability of clean water usually perceived as everlasting given the Nordic countries’ physical geographical features. The close reading of relevant fragments from various series allows to interrogate such uncritical understanding of water as a “passive” commodity to serve modern societies anthropogenic wants, rather than eco-social needs. …”
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RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN NORTHERN NORWAY: HISTORICAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TIES by Margarita Olnova

“…According to the author, the situation in Kirkenes illustrates the transition of the old economy into a new one: the former mining city turned into a tourist Mecca of the North, a center of cooperation of the Nordic countries. In such conditions, know-ledge of the Russian language becomes beneficial for the city's residents.…”
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