PhD-project
Policies and Practices for Teacher Evaluation in Norway: Trust and Transparency in the Age of Accountability
The purpose of the doctoral project is to systematise and generate new knowledge of distinctive features of teacher evaluation (TE) as a governing tool in international research, to provide a basis for investigating the relatively unexplored context of Norwegian TE policies and practices. More specifically, the project examines and reports how TE as an international tool for governing education emerges into Norwegian education through policy tools, discourses and prescribed practices. The aim is to map and discuss the possibilities and constraints inherent in new tools for TE, and discuss what possible tensions might arise between policy levels and the fields of practice when tools for TE are enacted by teachers and school leaders in two lower secondary schools in a large Norwegian Municipality.
Supervisors: Prof. Guri Skedsmo (University of Oslo / Pädagogische Hochschule Schwyz), Associate Professor Judit Novak (University of Oslo) and prof. Sølvi Mausethagen (Oslo MET)
Academic interests
Silje's PhD project is within the areas of school development and management, education policy, internationalization and teacher assessment / teaching evaluation. Silje has been involved in the Erasmus + project Aiding Culturally Responsive Assessment in Schools (ACRAS).
Background
Silje is educated a general teacher from the University College of Hedemark, with a master's degree in general pedagogy from the former Pedagogical Research Institute (PFI, UiO) from 2011. The Master thesis concerned school dropout among Norwegian pupils in perspective of the individual's prerequisites for successful education in light of globalization, standardization, knowledge and the labor market.
After her master's degree, she worked for a year at the Nordic Institute for Studies of Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU).
Silje has worked for several years as a teacher and special educator in the Waldorf School and in public schools, as well as a team leader for an interdisciplinary social and special education team in one of the largest schools in Oslo, Norway (secondary and upper secondary levels).
Silje teaches and supervises the Master's Program in Education Management.