Research events

Open-mindedness is a virtue highly valued in educational contexts. However, does open-mindedness imply a tendency to reject firm beliefs? To embrace any idea? This seminar points to the need for qualified arguments. Also, to the ways in which open-mindedness may require synergy with other intellectual virtues if our aim is to promote a just and open society.

Master Rachel Sweetman at the Department of Education defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

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

Master Jørgen Smedsrud at the Department of Education defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

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

Welcome all to this open lecture with professor David F. Labaree, Stanford University, USA.

Welcome all to this open lecture with Dr. Rebekka Horlacher, University of Zurich.

Welcome all to this open lecture with Professor Daniel Tröhler, University of Vienna / University of Oslo.

Master Rachelle Esterhazy at the Department of Education defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

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

Master Anna Therese Steen-Utheim at the Department of Education defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

Students' sense making of feedback. Dialogue, interactions and emotions.

Welcome all to this open lecture with Dr. Tyler Watts, New York University.

Welcome all to this open lecture with Professor Cybele Raver, New York University.

Master Renate Andersen at the Department of Education defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

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

Presenter in this seminar is Hanni Muukkonen, Professor in Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, Finland.

Welcome to this open seminar with Professor Helen Gunter, University of Manchester, UK.

Master Marianne Takvam Kindt at the Department of Education defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

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

Welcome to an interesting hour with Professor Sara de Freitas.

Master Suitbert Emil Lyakurwa at the Department of Education  defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

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

The Learning, Motivation, and Well-Being -research group is hosting an open guest lecture by professor Lars-Erik Malmberg (Oxford University, UK) on intraindividual research on students’ learning experiences.

The Learning, Motivation, and Well-Being -research group is hosting an open guest lecture by professor Lars-Erik Malmberg (Oxford University, UK) on the use of multilevel structural equation modeling.

Cand.polit. Ann Merete Otterstad at the Department of Education defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Dr.Philos. 

Title of the dissertation:

Staying with the trouble. Cartographing early childhood research methodologies. Postqualitative passages and shifts with new empiricism.

Cand.polit. Thomas Eri at the Department of Education defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

Teacher and Librarian Partnerships in Literacy Education. Contradictions, Barriers and Opportunities.

Department of Special Needs Education, Department of Education and Department of Teacher Education and School Research are hosting an open seminar on October 18th. The speakers are the internationally renowned professors, James Wertsch, Washington University in St.Louis and Per Linell, Linköping University.  

Professor Julian Sefton-Green, and commentators, will give a talk about the new book Learning beyond the School.

Welcome to open lecture with Professor Marianna Papastephanou. Introduction by Professor Torill Strand, comments by Professor Inga Bostad.