Jorunn Møller is Professor Emerita (from August 1, 2019) at Department of Teacher Education and School Research, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo.
Academic interests
Research interests are within educational leadership, reform policy, governance and accountability. She is currently leading the research group “Curriculum Studies, School Leadership and Educational Governance” at the Faculty of Educational Sciences. Møller has been a manager of several research projects examining successful principalship, the implementation of school reform, accountability, and school leadership identity. As a member of the LE@DS-network (led by Prof. Helen Gunter at the Manchester University) she has for several years been involved in comparative work on New Public Management (NPM) and education reform. She is also involved in international research networks in the field of successful school leadership. From 2011 – 2016 she was the leader of a cross-disciplinary project designed to disentangle the complexity of legal standards and principals’ professional judgment. At present, she is, in collaboration with Associate Professor Tina Trujillo and Associate Professor Ruth Jensen, engaged in a project which examines the values, goals, and practices of public school principals in two distinct political contexts – the United States and Norway.
Teaching and supervision
Leads and teaches the Master programme in Educational Leadership at the University of Oslo, in which she has been engaged in design and enactment from the very beginning in 2003. She is also involved in the design, delivery and evaluation of a broad range of in-service projects, in-service education and workshops for school principals, superintendents and teachers.
During 2009 – 2016 she was engaged in in the National Graduate School in Educational Research and was leading track 3: “ Educational leadership, school reform and educational governance”. She has supervised a number of candidates who have successfully defended their PhD, and is repeatedly used as opponent at doctoral defences and as a member of evaluating committees in the Nordic countries.
Invited international key note contribution
- Invited to provide a keynote address at the World Education Leadership Symposium and Network, in Zug, Switzerland, September 6-8, 2017: Educational Leadership in the Pursuit of Purpose. Rethinking Social Justice and Equity as Key Values in the School of the Future.
- Invited to provide a keynote address at ECER 2016, Dublin, 26 – 28 august, 2016: Leading Education beyond what works.
- Educational Reform as Boundary Work. A keynote address presented at BELMAS Annual Conference, Manchester on 20th-22nd July 2012.
- Scandinavian approaches to school leadership. Invited Presentation at the International Conference “Improving School Leadership”, OECD, Copenhagen, 14 – 15 April 2008.
- School Leadership and Accountability – Moving beyond Standardization of Practice. An Invited Presentation at the 20th World ICSEI Congress in Portoroz, Slovenija, January 3 – 6, 2007.
- Successful School Leadership - A Norwegian Perspective. A keynote address presented at the 20th World ICSEI Congress in Portoroz, Slovenija, January 3 - 6, 2007
- Democratic Leadership in an Age of Managerial Accountability, A keynote address presented at ICSEI’s Annual Conference Copenhagen, January 3-7, 2002
Educational background
Degrees
- 1995: Ph.D.: University of Oslo
- 1985: Advanced Degree/Master Degree in Education
- 1974: Bachelor of Art: Geography, Art and Education
- 1971: Degree from Teacher Education College.
Employment history
- 2002 to present: Professor at Department of Teacher Education and School Development, University of Oslo.
- 1995 - 2002: Associate Professor at Department of Teacher Education and School Development, University of Oslo.
- 1992 - 1995: Assistant Professor at Department of Teacher Education and School Development, University of Oslo.
- 1989 - 1992: Research fellow at Department of Teacher Education and School Development, University of Oslo.
- 1986-1989: Consultant at the office of the County Superintendent in Oslo and Akershus (with the responsibility of implementing the National Curriculum and In-Service Training of principals and superintendents).
- 1980-1986: Teacher in a lower secondary school in Oslo and co-operating teacher at a Teacher Training College in Oslo.
- 1974-1980: Primary school teacher
Appointments
- 2013- 2016: Leader of the research group CLEG – Curriculum Studies, Educational Leadership and Governance; http://www.uv.uio.no/english/research/groups/cleg/index.html
- 2009 - 2012. Elected Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo
- 2009 - 2016: Leading track 3 “Educational Leadership, School Reform and Governance” in the National Graduate School, (NATED). http://www.nated.uio.no/research/track3/index.html
- 999 – 2001: Elected president of the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA).
In addition, Elected Member of the Norwegian Research Council’s Committee for Independent Research Projects in Social Sciences (2004 – 2006) and NFR’s Committee for Evaluation of Educational Reform 97 (1999 – 2003).
Member of Editorial Boards
- Journal of Professional Capital & Community; http://www.jpccjournal.com/
- International Journal of Leadership in Education; http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tedl20/current
- Journal of Educational Administration and History; http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjeh20/current
- Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability; https://link.springer.com/journal/11092
- Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, EMAL , https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/educational-management-administration-leadership#editorial-board
Visiting Professor at other Universities
- 2014: University of California, Berkeley, USA. (2 months).
- 2006: University of Cambridge, UK and University of Washington, Seattle, USA (3 months).
- 2006: University of Wahington, Seattle, (3 weeks).
- 2001: University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Sydney, Australia (2 months).
- 2006-2008: Professor II (adjunct position) at the University of Tromsø, Norway.