Magnar Ødegård

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Norwegian version of this page Position
Associate Professor
Contact Study place
Halden

Academic interests

  • Phenomenology
  • Disruptive behavior in schools
  • Special needs education
  • Social and emotional difficulties
  • Counseling
  • Skill acquisition
  • Inclusion
  • School development

Research

Teaching

  • Social and emotional difficulties (course manager)
  • Master’s study in Special Needs Education

Education

2013-2017: Philosophiae Doctor (PhD), Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo

2014-2017: Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

2009-2010: Master of Philosophy of Special Needs Education, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo

2006-2009: Bachelor of Arts, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo

Work experience

2018-2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo

2017-2018: Lecturer, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo

2011-2013: Educational and Psychological Counselor, Educational and Psychological Counseling Service, Oslo

Commissions

Member of Scholarship Committee, Norway-America Association (NORAM)

Reviewer

  • Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift
  • Nordic Studies in Education
  • Human Arenas 

Mobility

2014-2017: Visiting Scholar (gjesteforsker), Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

2010-2011: Exchange student, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Media

 

Publications

  • Beyer, Margit Folke-Olsen; Pesonen, Henri Valtteri & Ødegård, Magnar (2026). Special Education Contents in Teacher Training Programs – Identifying the Need for Teachers’ Knowledge and Skills in Special Education in the Norwegian School Context Through Document Analysis and Interview Data. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. doi: 10.1007/s42087-026-00628-9. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holter, Erika Kristina; Ødegård, Magnar & Bjørnebekk, Gunnar (2026). Collective and individual efficacy as predictors of disruptive classroom behavior: a multilevel moderation analysis of teacher- and school-level influences. Social Psychology of Education. ISSN 1381-2890. 29(1). doi: 10.1007/s11218-026-10185-2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ødegård, Magnar; Tandberg, Håkon Naasen; Sæheim, Aleksandra & Løkke, Jon Arne (2026). Technical Pedagogy and the Dialectial Alternative in Higher Education. In Muthanna, Abdulghani; Tandberg, Håkon Naasen & Khine, Myint Swe (Ed.), Pedagogical Competence Development in Higher Education Volume 1: Exploring Foundations and Dimensions of Pedagogical Practices. Routledge. ISSN 9781041153887. p. 41–52. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ødegård, Magnar; Pesonen, Henri Valtteri & Solberg, Stine (2025). Identifying Strategies Teachers Apply to Establish Positive Relationships with Students. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. doi: 10.1007/s42087-025-00514-w. Full text in Research Archive
  • César, Jamile & Ødegård, Magnar (2025). Branded Clothing and the Identification Process: Ambivalence Between What I Want and What Society Wants from Me. Trends in Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s43076-025-00484-6. Full text in Research Archive
  • Boquist, Trine Andrea; Ødegård, Magnar & Pesonen, Henri Valtteri (2025). Pedagogical Leaders’ Approaches to Promoting Inclusion of Children with Autism in Norwegian Kindergartens. Education Sciences. 15(1). doi: 10.3390/educsci15010043. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jacobson, Josefin; Pesonen, Henri Valtteri & Ødegård, Magnar (2025). Early childhood teachers’ perspectives on supporting children with special needs in Norwegian early childhood education and care. Journal of Early Childhood Education Research (JECER). 14(1), p. 47–72. doi: 10.58955/jecer.148414. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ødegård, Magnar & Solberg, Stine (2024). Identifying teachers’ reactive strategies towards disruptive behavior in classrooms. Teaching and Teacher Education : An International Journal of Research and Studies. ISSN 0742-051X. 145. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2024.104627. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl-Nielsen, Ane Linn & Ødegård, Magnar (2024). Muligheter og utfordringer ved en samskapende tilnærming til utviklingsarbeid i barnehage. In Fjeld, Hilde Sofie; Staal, Sigrun & Ødegård, Magnar (Ed.), Å lære i fellesskap - Muligheter og spenninger i partnerskap mellom barnehager, skoler og høgskole. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215066769. p. 80–100. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ødegård, Magnar & Duesund, Liv (2024). Teaching Practice and Coping with Disruptive Behavior: An Analysis in Light of the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. doi: 10.1007/s42087-024-00435-0. Full text in Research Archive
  • Myhre, Julianne Solvik & Ødegård, Magnar (2023). Mentalizing and Binge Eating Disorder. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. doi: 10.1007/s42087-023-00393-z. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ødegård, Magnar (2020). Mood, Being-with-others and Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom: A Psychological Perspective Encounters Phenomenology. Encyclopaideia. Journal of phenomenology and education. ISSN 1590-492X. doi: 10.6092/issn.1825-8670/10815. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ødegård, Magnar (2019). Being-Disrupted and Being-Disruptive: Coping Students in Uncertain Times. Sage Open. 9(1), p. 1–9. doi: 10.1177/2158244018822378. Full text in Research Archive
  • Duesund, Liv & Ødegård, Magnar (2018). Students’ perception of reactions towards disruptive behaviour in Norwegian and American schools. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. ISSN 1363-2752. 23(4), p. 410–423. doi: 10.1080/13632752.2018.1469847. Full text in Research Archive
  • Duesund, Liv & Ødegård, Magnar (2018). Students’ perceived experience of disruptive behavior in schools : a comparative study between schools in the US and Norway. Nordic Studies in Education. ISSN 1891-5914. 38(2), p. 138–154. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-5949-2018-02-04. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ødegård, Magnar (2014). Uro i skolen og den menneskelige væremåte. Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-2052. p. 203–212. Full text in Research Archive

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