English written doctoral dissertations from the Department of Education since 2000

The Department of Education has produced several English written PhD dissertations since 2000.

** = Dissertations from the now merged InterMedia centre.

2024

Master Ammar Bahadur Singh

Teaching and Learning in an Institutional Massive Open Online Course: Implications for Agency in Online Pedagogy.

Master Elisabeth Josefine Lackner

Governing for Quality – A Study of the Governance of Quality in Norwegian Higher Education.


2023

Master Kenneth Pettersen

Early Childhoods in the Postdigital Inquiry into the Literacies of Young Children’s Contemporary Play with New Media Technologies.

Master Rebecca Elise Knoph

Understanding Vocabulary: Making Sense of What We Measure, Who We Measure, and How We Measure.

Master Gro Skåland 

"Once upon a time, there was an inventor.." A Cultural Historical study of making in a public library context.

Master Catharina Petronella Johanna van Trijp 

Toddlers’ Social-Emotional Well-Being in Early Childhood Education and Care: The Role of Child Temperament and Process Quality.


2022

Master Natalia Latini 

Reading in Limbo: Caught in Transition between Paper and Digital Texts.

Master Jo Inge Johansen Frøytlog

Participation in classroom dialogues mediated by microblogging technology: Multidimensional investigations.

Master Rogers Kaliisa

Designing Learning Analytics Tools for Teachers with Teachers - A Design-Based Research Study in a Blended Higher Education Context.

Cand.phil. Synnøve Hedemann Amdam

Media teachers’ discursive understandings in developing 21st century education: Are we the tugboat, the satellite, or the terror cell?

Master Anja Amundrud 

Microblogging and classroom talk – Teachers' practices and students' participation in talk for learning during microblogging activities in the classroom.

Master Philipp Emanuel Friedrich

Administrative reorganization as a means to improve the public governance of European higher education. A comparative case study of Austria and Norway.


2021

Cand.phil. Maren Omland

'What did you talk about?' Teacher and students’ joint construction of subject-oriented meanings.

Master Emily Christine Oswald

Pa-KOW! Doing Participatory Knowledge Work in Museums and Archives.

Cand.ed. Cecilie Enqvist-Jensen

Knowledge Practices and Learning Challenges in Legal Education - Examining students’ collaborative work in two undergraduate courses.

Master Emmanuel Wilson Walla

HIV/AIDS, TRADITIONS AND EDUCATION IN SOUTH SUDAN: Analysing the roles of the school, the community and the authorities in addressing the spread of HIV infection and mitigating the effects of AIDS on learners.

Master Filipa de Sousa

A Dialogic Approach to Game-Based Learning - The Role of the Teacher in Students’ Engagement with Ethics and Morality in Citizenship Education Using a Commercial Off-the-Shelf Videogame.

Master Wills Kalisha

'You have to wait.' A hermeneutic phenomenological exploration of unaccompanied minors waiting for asylum response in Norway. 

Master Joseph Odeke-Nato

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Teacher Education. Towards facilitating conducive learning environments for learners with visual impairment.


2020

Master Kjetil Horn Hogstad

The Plasticity of Bildung – Towards a New Philosophy of Education.

Master Elisabeth Stang Lund

Discrepancies in Texts and Source Evaluation - An Investigation Into How Textual, Format and Individual Factors, Affect Use of Sourcing Strategies.

Master Mia Cecilie Heller

Supporting second-language learning in the early elementary years: A researcher-practitioner approach.

Master Caro Seland Kirsebom 

Will you be upset with me? Normativity, framing and complex educational address. 

Master Eli Tronsmo

Local curriculum development as knowledge work: A study of collaborative epistemic practices in the teaching profession. 


2019

Master Sverre Tveit

Policy Legitimation of Educational Assessment Reforms. The Cases of Norway and Sweden.

Master Rachel Sweetman

Exploring the enactment of learning outcomes in higher education: Contested interpretations and practices through policy nets, knots, and tangles.

Master Jørgen Smedsrud 

Mathematically gifted adolescents in Norway: Exploring mathematically gifted adolescents' experience with the school system in Norway.

Master Rachelle Esterhazy

Productive feedback practices in higher education. Investigating social and epistemic relations in two undergraduate courses.

Master Anna Therese Steen-Utheim

Students’ sense making of feedback. Dialogue, interaction and emotions.

Master Renate Andersen

Mutual Development in Online Collaborative Processes. Three Case Studies of Artifact Co-creation at Different Levels of Participation.

Master Marianne Takvam Kindt

Beyond heritage and acculturation. Accounts of upbringing, choices, and plans from children of immigrants in prestigious higher education in Norway.

Master Suitbert Emil Lyakurwa

Universal design for learning towards achieving inclusive higher education in Tanzania.


2018

Cand.polit. Thomas Eri

Teacher and librarian partnerships in literacy education: Contradictions, Barriers and Opportunities.

Master Fesseha Abadi Weldemichael 

Integrated Functional Adult Literacy Education for Empowerment and Sustainable Development in Ethiopia. A Comparative Study of Tigray and Amhara Regions.

Master Kristin Rogde

Improving children's linguistic comprehension skills. A systematic review and a randomized controlled trial.

Master Christine Ijino Oyenak

Decentralisation and Multiculturalism in the Sudan / South Sudan. An Analysis of the Policy and Practice of Multicultural Education in Selected Public Primary Schools in South Sudan.

Master Irina Engeness

Learning and Teaching with Digital Tools: Insights for Learning Arising from the Cultural-Historical Theory.

Master Caroline Cruaud 

The Playful Frame. Design and use of a gamified application for foreign language learning.


2017

Master Jarmila Bubikova-Moan

Discursive portraits of language, literacy and learning: emerging bilinguals in Norway.

Master Solveig Roth

Educational trajectories in Cultural worlds: An ethnographic study of multiethnic girls across different levels of schooling.

Mag.art. Vidar Grøtta

The transformation of humanities education. The case of Norway 1960-2000 in a systems-theoretical perspective.

PhD Per Hetland

Rethinking the Social Contract between Science and Society: Steps to an Ecology of Science Communication.

Cand.polit. Jan Erik Dahl

Digital annotation: An empirical and conceptual study of an emerging medium for communication and learning.


2016

Master Jane Barongo Bakahwemama

Change of Language of Instruction for Science and Mathematics in Grade Five in Zanzibar: What was the Reasoning Behind the Policy Change?

Cand.ed. Helene Fulland

Language minority children’s perspectives on being bilingual - On ‘bilanguagers’ and their sensitivity towards complexity.

Cand.ed. Ester Fremstad

Taking responsibility toward the public: University academics' imaginaries and experiences.

Master Mari Elken

Standardizing education? The development of the European Qualifications Framework and national qualifications frameworks.

Master Jens Jungblut

Party Politics in Higher Education Policy - Partisan Preferences, Coalition Positions and Higher Education Policy in Western Europe.

Master Robin Ulriksen

The achievement and attainment gap: Influences from home and School.


2015

Master Anders Johan Nordahl-Hansen 

Assessment of Language and Social communication in Children With Autism: Measurement Issues.

Master Magnus Hontvedt

Simulations in Maritime Training. A video study of the socio-technical organisation of ship simulator training.

Master Robsan Margo Egne

Ethiopia in Transition: A Multicultural Education Perspective on Teacher Education Policies, Curricula, and Practices.

Master Hege Yvonne Hermansen 

Knowledge work in the teaching profession: Opening up the black box of teachers' engagement with Assessment for Learning.

Master Christina Elde Mølstad 

State-Based Curriculum-Making - A Study of Curriculum in Norway and Finland.

Master Alfredo Jornet Gil 

The Bodily and Contextual Foundations of Conceptual Coherence and Continuity. Case studies from the teaching and learning of science inquiry.


2014

Master Rose Ephraim Matete

Decentralisation in Tanzanian Education and Teacher Accountability. The Case of Primary School Management in Kinondoni Municipality and Mbeya City.

Master Rolf Steier

Embodied Meaning Making and the Museum: Bodies, artifacts, and spaces in sociocultural approaches to museum learning and design.

Master Elin Borg 

Beyond a dual understanding of gender differences in school achievement: A study of the gender gap among youth in Oslo secondary schools.

Master Martina Vukasovic 

How does Europe matter for higher education change? A study about changes of policy and organization in higher education.

Cand.polit. Jan Arild Dolonen

Collaborative design and use of digital learning resources. Analysing the processes and products of collaborative design and computer-supported collaborative learning scenarios in education.


2013

MSc Crina Damsa

Knowledge Co-construction and Object-oriented Collaboration. A Study of Learning through Collaborative Construction of Knowledge Objects in Higher Education.

Cand.scient. Anders McDonald Sookermany 

On Developing (Post)modern Soldiers - An Inquiry into the Ontological and Epistemological Foundation of Skill-Acquisition in an Age of Military Transformation.

MSc & MA Dorothy Sutherland Olsen 

Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Science-based Technologies: Studies of knowledge creation in nanoscience and nanotechnologies.

Cand.ed. Monika Kvernenes

Bedside Teaching among Novice Medical Teachers. Mapping conceptions of bedside teaching and exploring change within the context of a teaching community.

Master in Education Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite

Local Languages in Schooling as a Right in Education. A Case Study of Curriculum in Zanzibar.

Master in Education Leila Ferguson

Making sense of multiple texts: An investigation into epistemic beliefs and multiple-text comprehension when students read about controversial science topics.

Master in Education Kenneth Silseth

Constructing learning dialogically; Learners, contexts and resources. Exploring how students and teachers participate in game-based learning and digital storytelling in educational settings.

Master in Education Ratib Lekahl

The Realationship Between Children`s Attendance in Norwegian Childcare Centers and Language Behavioral Development During Early Childhood.

Hovedfagskandidat Monica Johannesen

The Sociomateriality of Teaching. Virtual Learning Environments in Teaching Practice.


2012

Cand.polit Hilde Wågås Afdal

Constructing Knowledge for the Teaching Profession. A Comparative Analysis of Policy Making, Curricula Content and Novice Teachers` Knowledge Relations in the Cases of Finland and Norway.

M.A Marie Louise Mifsud

Learning with Mobile Technologies. Perspectives on Mediated Actions in the Classroom.

M.phil Heidi Biseth

Educators as Custodians of Democracy. A Comparative Investigation of Democracy in Multicultural School Environments in the Scandinavian Capitals.

M.phil Blackson Kanukisya

Globalization Impacts on Adult Education - A Comparative Study of Adult Education Policies and Practices in Tanzania and Uganda.

M.phil Romulo Pinheiro

In the Region, for the Region? A Comparative Study of the Institutionalisation of The Regional Mission of Universities.

M.phil Moshi Mussa Kimizi

Language and Self-Confidence: Examining the Relationship between Language of Instruction and Students' Self-Confidence in Tanzanian Secondary Education.


2011

Cand.ed. Kristin Børte

Software Effort Estimation as Collaborative Planning Activity.

M.Phil. Greta Bjørk Gudmundsdottir

From Digital Divide to Digital Opportunities? A Critical Perspective on The Digital Divide in South African Schools.


 2010

Cand.polit. Thomas de Lange **

Technology and Pedagogy: Analysing Digital practices in Media Education.

Cand.polit. Pål Fugelli

Intersubjectivity and Objects of Knowledge: Making Sense Across Sites in Software Development.

Cand.polit. Cecilie Flo Jahreie **

Learning to Teach. An Activity-theoretical Study of Student Teachers’ Participation Trajectories Across Boundaries.

Cand.polit. Øystein Gilje

Mode, Mediation and Moving Images. An Inquiry of Digital Editing Practices in Media Education.

Cand.paed. Anniken Furberg **

Scientific Inquiry in Web-based Learning Environments. Exploring technological, Epistemic and Institutional Aspects of Students' Meaning Making.


2009

M.Phil. Sheri Lee Bastien

HIV Prevention Among Young People in- and out- of- school in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

Cand.philol. Karianne Skovholt

E-mail Literacy in the Workplace. A Study of Interaction Norms, Leadership Communication, and Social Networks in a Norwegian Distributed Work Group.

Cand. philol. Håvard Skaar

Digital Media Literacy: Children in and out of School.

M.phil Teklu Abate Bekele

Learning Impacts of Technologies in Higher Education. Methodological and Theoretical Issues in and for Research.


2008

Cand.paed. Kirsten Sivesind

Reformulating Reform. Curriculum History Revisited.


 2007

Cand.polit. Ivar Solheim

Learning by Bootstrapping: A Study of Constructivist Multimediated Learning.

Cand.polit. Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke

Understanding Conceptions of Professional Responsibility.

M.Phil. Mwajuma Siama Vuzo

Revisiting the Language Policy in Tanzania: A Comparative Study of Geography Classes Taught in Kiswahili and English.

M.Phil. Halima Mohammed Mwinsheikhe

Overcoming the Language Barrier. An in-depth Study of Tanzanian Secondary School Science Teachers' and Students' Strategies in Coping with the English-Kiswahili Dilemma in the Teaching/ Learning Process.

Cand.paed. Veslemøy Rydland

Expressing Own Voice in Peer Interaction. A Longitudinal Study of Second-language Learners in Preschool and First Grade.


 2006

M.Phil. Lakshman Kumar Punchi Wedikkarage

English as Medium of Instruction for Collegiate Level Science Classes in Sri Lanka: Theory, Policy and Practice.

M.Phil. Liu Fengshu

Modernization as Lived Experiences. Identity Construction of Young Adult Only- children in Present- day China.

M.Phil. Rosah Moonga Malambo

Understanding School Health and HIV/AIDS Education in Zambian Culture.


2005

Cand.paed. Arne Lervåg

Prediction of Development in Beginning Reading and Spelling: A Norwegian Latent Variable Study.

M.Phil. Halla Holmarsdottir

From Policy to Practice. A study of Implementation of the Language- in- Education Policy (LiEP) in Three South African Primary Schools.


2004

Cand.paed. Hans Christian Arnseth

Discourse and Artefacts in Learning to Argue. Analysing the Practical Management of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning.

Cand.polit. Elaine Munthe

Teachers' Professional Certainty. A Survey Study of Norwegian Teachers' Perceptions of Profession Certainty in Relation to Demographic, Workplace, and Classroom Variables. 

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