By educating teachers and school leaders based on leading school research ILS aims to shape future education in Norway. The department employs around 140 people consisting of researchers, techical and administrative staff, and has about 1000 students. We are located at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Oslo. The department was established in 1996, but has a history with roots as far as to Pedagogical Seminar, which was established in Oslo in 1907.
Educating teachers, mentors and school leaders
Today ILS manages the 5 year master's programme in subject didactics, and offers teacher education full time and part time, as well as through the cooperation Teach First Norway.
ILS also offers the Master Programme in Educational Leadership, educates mentors for beginning teachers, and offer continuing education for rectors. The department is also part of a course in science didactics for teacher educators.
Research, development and cooperation with schools
Our employees conduct research within the fields of teaching and student learning, teacher education, teachers' professional development and school leadership. They take part in national as well as international research projects.
ILS also hosts several research groups. These groups consist of researchers across the different departments at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, who share common academic interests and collaborate on research and publications.
The department also hosts a Nordic Centre of Excellence, Quality in Nordic Teaching (QUINT), and Norway's first Centre for Excellence in Education Initiative, Centre for Professional Learning in Teacher education (ProTed), in cooperation with UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. ILS has an extensive collaboration with schools across the country throughout our activities, including 18 university schools and more than 100 partner schools.
Unit for quantitative analysis in education (EKVA) is a research unit at the department with a portfolio significantly linked to large international studies. The unit´s activity is based on high method competence regarding quantitative analyses and high competence in subject didactics. The department also has a unit supporting researchers and students working with audio and visual data, Teaching Learning Video Lab (TLVlab).
ILS runs the transdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access electronic journal Acta Didactica Norden.
| Academic publications | 118 |
| Master programmes, five year | 1 |
| Master programmes, experience-based | 1 |
| One-year programmes | 2 |
| Courses | 65 |
| Programs for Continuing Education | 3 |
| Academic Full-time equivalents (FTEs) | 81 |
| Administrative Full-time equivalents (FTEs) | 38 |
| Postdoctoral Fellows | 4 |
| PhD research fellows | 22 |
| Budget | 89,9 MNOk |
| Part of budget funded from external sources | 87,4% |