The Janus Face of Professional Knowledge: What Organizational Principles Are behind the Students’ Perceptions of Professional Knowledge in New Norwegian Teacher Education?

Table 1

An external language of description for sematic gravity (SG) in student papers.

Concept	Semantic gravity (SG)	Indicators	Example quotes from empirical data (students’ R&D papers)
Context- dependency	SG−	Theories, concepts, and terms with meanings that are less dependent on the context, associated with specialized domains of practices (academic disciplines, subjects, professions, etc.)	“Inner motivation is affected by various factors: The sense of mastery, expectations associated with the outcome, one's beliefs, values and goals” (P11)
			“This paper shall investigate whether a specific external motivation from the teacher’s side can be considered as a factor to increase the pupils learning outcomes” (P10)
	SG+	Words, terms, and concepts with meanings that are more dependent on the context, associated with practices within that context (personal experiences, opinions about learning, etc.)	“Teacher/student experienced that these pupils learned from each other and that they got marveled together” (P12)
			“The survey I have done has taught me things I consider to be important in my future profession as a teacher. The biggest thing I learned is that children are incredibly good at talking about books” (P13)