Tradisjonen gir fakultetet en god anledning til å invitere personer som gjennom sin forskning og formidling har bidratt til å løfte fram viktige problemstillinger på feltet utdanningsvitenskap.
Forelesningen tjener som en inspirasjonskilde både for studenter og ansatte, og den bidrar til å knytte internasjonale kontakter som fakultetet også senere kan ha glede av.
Helga Eng-forelesningen holdes normalt i september, og ansvaret for forelesningen går på omgang mellom fakultetets institutter. I tilknytning til æresdoktorkreeringen ved Universitetet i Oslo, vil fakultetets kandidat holde Helga Eng-forelesningen.
Helga Eng-forelesningen ble etablert som et årlig arrangement i 1997, i kjølvannet av opprettelsen av det utdanningsvitenskapelige fakultet.
År | Foreleser | Tittel |
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2022 | Æresdoktor 2022; Pamela Grossman, Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania | The dream of a common language: Identifying core practices for teaching |
2019 | Professor Patricia Alexander, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, College of Education, University of Maryland, USA | Redefining Literacy for All in the 21st Century: The Nexus of Text, Critical Thinking, and Technology. |
2018 | Dekan ved University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education, USA, professor Pam Grossman. | A Language for Teaching, A Framework for Improvement. |
2017 | Professor Jan-Eric Gustafsson, Göteborgs Universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik | Schooling and Cognitive Abilities |
2016 | Professor Marianna Papastephanou, University of Cyprus, Department of Education | Democracy, Education and Patriotism of a Kind: but what kind? |
2015 | Professor Ian Menter, Universitetet I Oxford | What is a teacher in the 21st century and what does a 21st century teacher need to know? |
2014 | Æresdoktor 2014; Professor Charles Hulme, University College London. | Is neuroscience a useful guide to developing educational interventions? |
2013 | Professor Stefan Thomas Hopmann | The End of Schooling as We Know It? The Rise and Fall of Public Schooling. |
2012 | Professorene Lynn og Douglas Fuchs, Vanderbilt University | Unlocking Learning? Towards Evidence-informed Policy and Practice in Education |
2011 | Professor Andrew Pollard, Institute of Education, London. | Unlocking Learning? Towards Evidence-informed Policy and Practice in Education |
2010 | Professor Sverker Sörlin, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) i Stockholm | Kunskapspolitik med mänskligt ansikte – är det möjligt? |
2009 | Professor Donald Broady, Utbildningsvetenskapeliga fakulteten, Uppsala universitet, (Avholdt januar 2010) | Utbildningsvetenskapens egenart |
2008 |
Professor Cathrine Elizabeth Snow Harvard Graduate School of Education, |
Researcher-Practitioner Collaborations: Under what conditions do they actually improve educational practice? |
2006 | Professor Gudmund Hernes | Læringskoalisjonen: Hva den er og hvordan vi skal få den til å fungere. |
2005 | Yrjö Engeström, Professor, Ph.D. Universitetet i Helsinki |
Studying learning and development as expansive phenomena. |
2004 | Professor, dr. phil. Kirsten Drotner, Syd-dansk universitet. | Medier og dannelse - pedagogiske utfordringer for et komplekst samfunn |
2003 | Professor dr.phil. Per Schultz Jørgensen | Kompetansebegrepet - vitenskap, praksis eller politikk? |
2002 | Professor John Macbeath, University of Cambridge | Leading in a time of change. |
2001 | Professor Wolfgang Klafki, | Key Problems of the Modern World - Central Dimensions of Curriculum for International Education. |
2000 | Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching. Teachers College Columbia University | Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century. |
1999 | Professor Carol Weiss, Harvard University | Studying the Linkage between Evaluation and Educational Policy. |
1998 | Professor Edgar W. Jenkins, School of Education, University of Leeds | Who Owns Teachers' Work? |
1997 | Professor James Wertsch, Department of Education, Washington University in St. Louis | Language and Identities: Unresolved Issues and Challenges for the future. |