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Norway is a small country that remains outside the European Union while in many ways acting as if it were within it. It may be useful to study its smaller and more peripheral countries. At the periphery, more is possible: the solutions may be a bit more exotic, a bit easier to analyse in terms of their historically contingencies, and perhaps even a bit more telling about the mainstream European culture. The emergence of vitenskapsteori in Norwegian academia and higher education is such a story.
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I will write “we” in this chapter to signify a series of ever more narrowly construed subjects: Norway, the Norwegian university sector, Norwegian vitenskapsteoretikere – practitioners of vitenskapsteori. The author of this chapter belongs to and cannot help represent each of these subject positions.
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The official document is found on the server of the Norwegian government: https://www.regjeringen.no/globalassets/upload/kd/vedlegg/uh/utbyttebeskrivelser_kvalifikasjonsrammeverk_endelig_mars09.pdf
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The film recording of the speech can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfnnK76nVt0 and https://www.nrk.no/video/PS∗285664
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Strand, R. (2019). Vitenskapsteori: What, Why, and How?. In: Valsiner, J. (eds) Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences. Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33099-6_3
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