Bernadette Hörmann

Academic Interests

• Education policy (school accountability, standardisation, international student assessment) from an international and comparative perspective
• «Didactics», curriculum theory, education theory («Bildung»)
• Students’ lived experience of schooling, theory of the lifeworld

Current activities

• Postdoc-project: “Externalization in curriculum-making processes. A comparative study of the Norwegian “Knowledge Promotion Reform” (LK06-16) and the Austrian implementation of achievement standards for basic education”
• Member of the project “Transnational Knowledge Networks and Policy Coalitions. Social Network Analyses of the 2016 Norwegian School Reform” (led by Kirsten Sivesind, Gita Steiner-Khamsi)

Completed projects

• NOESIS (Evaluation of an Austrian school reform, University of Vienna)
• “All Aboard the Good Ship Schooling? Marginalization in an Era of School Accountability” (PhD Project)

Background

• 2017 - Postdoctoral fellow, University of Oslo, Department of Education
• 2017 - Associate Professor, NTNU Trondheim, Department of Teacher Education
• 2015 - PhD, University of Vienna
• 2007-2013 - Research assistant, University of Vienna, Department of Education