Research events

Meet scholars with outstanding contributions to research on children’s language learning and development at this open conference.

Master Ammar Bahadur Singh at Department of Education will be defending the thesis "Teaching and Learning in an Institutional Massive Open Online Course: Implications for Agency in Online Pedagogy" for the degree of PhD.

Master Ammar Bahadur Singh at the Department of Education will give a trial lecture on the given topic: In what ways can digital learning environments challenge teachers professional identity?

Cand Polit Turid Løyte Harboe at Department of Education will be defending the thesis "«...dyktiggjøre til at danne mennesker» En kritisk studie av endringer i norsk lærerutdanning 1930–2010" for the degree of Dr. Philos.

Master Anniken Hotvedt Sundby at Department of Education will be defending the thesis "Kunnskapsspørsmålet i læreplanen i norsk. En studie av styringsdokumenter og forståelser blant norsklærere i videregående skole" for the degree of PhD.

Master Anniken Hotvedt Sundby at Department of Education will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "Hvilke ulike alternative posisjoner finnes i internasjonal læreplanforskning når det gjelder kunnskapsspørsmålet i læreplaner og hvilke mulighetsrom gir disse for norsklærerens undervisning?"

Welcome to «Designing for situated computational thinking with computational things», an open guest lecture by Professor Nina Bonderup Dohn from University of Southern Denmark.

Join us for an exciting book launch event on Monday, April 22, 2024, at the University of Oslo! We are thrilled to present the new book, "Rektor som rettsanvender - juridisk tenkning som verktøy for ledelse i skolen," authored by Ann-Elisabeth Gunnulfsen and Jeffrey B. Hall.

We welcome you to this open seminar where Professor Mutlu Cukurova will talk about Learning, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence in Education. 

In this lecture Catherine Malabou will explore educational and aesthetic questions around the possibility of representation based on the discussion between Lyotard and Rancière. Her reflections start with her very recent book Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy (2023).

Welcome to this seminar where you will be able to discuss educational questions around intelligence, IQ and AI with French philosopher Catherine Malabou.

Master Elisabeth Josefine Lackner at the Department of Education will be defending the thesis "Governing for Quality – A Study of the Governance of Quality in Norwegian Higher Education" for the degree of PhD.

Master Elisabeth Josefine Lackner at the Department of Education will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Why should we care about quality in higher education?

Master i utdanningsledelse Kristin Belt Skutlaberg ved Institutt for lærerutdanning og skoleforskning  vil forsvare sin avhandling: "Å være rektor i arbeid med langvarige saker knyttet til elevers psykososiale skolemiljø – mellom pedagogikk, etikk og juss" for graden Philosophiae Doctor (ph.d.).

Master Kenneth Pettersen at the Department of Education will be defending the thesis "Early Childhoods in the Postdigital Inquiry into the Literacies of Young Children’s Contemporary Play with New Media Technologies" for the degree of PhD.

Master Kenneth Pettersen  at the Department of Education will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "How might a sociomaterial perspective on digital play be applied or adapted to meet the needs and concerns of older students in secondary and higher education?"­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

In this open lecture David Guile offers a ‘Recontextualised’ Connectionist and Vygotskian Perspective on human and machine learning.

The POLNET project is pleased to invite you to the final research conference in Oslo.

Welcome to an open lecture where Christian Ydesen explores the governing complex in education, applying a historical approach.

Welcome to this guest lecture by Íris Santos, Post Doc, Tampere University, who will talk about how external references to international organizations and societies are used to authorize as well as de-legitimize arguments in policy making processes.

Welcome to an open lecture where Gita Steiner-Khamsi will talk about the excessive amount of reform movements in education and how they pull practitioners and planners into different directions and create contradictory situations.

This lecture revisits experiences with digital education during the Corona crisis and beyond. Claudia Schumann explores the ideas of absent bodies and the politics of touch.

The ideals of economic and personal progress and growth are slowly destroying the planet we inhabit and its inhabitants along with it. At the same time education – often seen as the solution to this problem - is slowly being suffocated by the very same ideals. How could we think differently about education?