Academic interests
- Feedback, formative assessment and supervision
- Cross-sector partnerships, alliances and collaborations
- Aesthetic learning and aesthetic experiences
- Cross-curricular teaching and 21. century skills
- Qualiative methods, systematic reviews
- Participatory design & engaged scholarship
Courses taught
- Pedagogy and Student Knowledge (PEL)
- Theory of science and Research methodology
- Cross-sectoral collaboration in schools - entrepreneurship, culture and creative processes
Background
- PhD in Educational Science: Disputation date: 23.11.2016. Faculty of Educational Science, Dep. of Education. University of Oslo, Norway.
- Master in Educational Science. Faculty of Educational Science, Dep. of Education. University of Oslo, Norway.
- School teacher. Teacher Education for the primary and secondary level Oslo University College, teacher education, Norway.
Awards
- Research scholarship awarded by Faculty of Educational Science, Dep. of Education, at Østfold University College 2016, 2019. Research scholarship, awarded by Østfold University College, Norway. 2017.
Appointments
- 2020-up to date: Committee of experts for the QS World University Rankings at Tomsk State University, Russia.
- 2020-up to date: Advisory Board Member of the peer-reviewed open access publication channel DANCE ARTICULATED.
- 2017-2021: Board member, Faculty of Education, Østfold University College, Norway.
- 2019-2020: Advisory board member Kulturtanken - Arts for Young Audiences Norway
- 2019: Expert assessment committee member, evaluating an academic application for professorial promotion at The Portland State University College of Education, United States.
- 2017-2020: Council member at The Cultural Schoolbag, Østfold.
- 2009-2015: Board member and editor for Nordic Journal of Dance: practice, education and research
- 2005-2015: Vice-chairman, board member and member of Dance in School, a Norwegian National interest organisation
Research project leader
- 2021-2023: Research project leader, pARTiciPED – Empowering student teachers for cross-sectorial collaborations with The Cultural Schoolbag (TCS). Funded by Research Council of Norway
- 2018-2020: Research project leader, A new model for cooperation between cultural workers, school teachers, and the DKS organizers in the Cultural Schoolbag (DKS). Funded by the Oslofjord fund.
- 2015-2016: Research project leader, Flexible Education, Leading the research project Flexible Education in 2016/2017, funded with NOK 150 000 by the Centre for developments and research (PULS) at Østfold University College.
- Member of The Digital Society, which supervises fellows with the priority research area
Partners
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Cross sectorial partnership in schools: Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. IT university of Copenhagen, Denmark. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Agder, Norway. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of South-Eastern Norway and Høyskolen for dansekunst, Norway. University of Jyväskylä i Finland, Bath Spa University i England
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Cross-curricular learning through the use of The Storyline Approach: Unit for Subject Matter Education with specialization in Swedish Education, Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Abo Akademi, Finland.
Memberships of academics
- 2020-to date: Golden Circle, Storyline International network, Board member.
- 2009-2015: Dance in Education Nordic Network (DENN), Member.
Organisations of meetings
- 2018: Chair and presenter at 46th Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association “Educational Research: Boundaries, Breaches and Bridges” NERA, Faculty of Educational Sciences and The Research Council of Norway, Oslo, March 8-10, 2018.
- 2012: Chair and presenter at the 46th Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association, “Everyday life, education and their transformations in a Nordic and globalized context”. NERA, Department of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 8-10, 2012.