About the project
In the POLTRANS project, a top researcher from the USA, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Professor, PhD, Teacher College (TC) Columbia University, and her colleagues in New York, collaborate with members of the research group CLEG (Curriculum Studies, Leadership and Educational Governance) at the University of Oslo (UiO . The research grant from the Norwegian National Research Council (UTNAM), aimed at strengthening the research capacity and mobility through international collaboration with American researchers. A key goal of transatlantic cooperation is to develop joint research projects and contribute to the exchange of knowledge and experience about current study programs at the two educational institutions. In addition, the project will generate joint presentations and publications by researchers and doctoral students at the University of Oslo (UiO) and TC Columbia University in New York.
This project brings together a top U.S. researcher Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Ph.D., Professor of Education, TC Columbia University, and her colleagues with researchers at the Faculty of Education, University of Oslo (UiO). A core aim is to develop research projects and inter-curriculum links between study programs in the fields of comparative and international education.
This project focuses on policy transfer and change with a particular focus on the legitimization of education reforms in regard of an international research and policy context. Within this context, international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) are used for policy and planning in the education sector. The project stimulate researchers to combine citation analysis and document analysis of official documents to explore how national school authorities in the Nordic context utilize international knowledge to develop school reforms for compulsory education.
The project is innovative as it links research and education at two departments at the Faculty of Education (ILS and IPED) at UiO with US researchers who are in the lead of comparative and international studies. We expect that such a link will develop new theories and perspectives as well as result in new international research projects.
Financing
The Norwegian Research Council (UTNAM)
