About the group
- The research group Inclusion and Diversity in Education (IncluDEd) conducts high quality, multidisciplinary research and dissemination to help improving inclusion and diversity in education.
- The members share a special focus on the relationships between persons and their environments, integrating their different theoretical, epistemological, and methodological diversity.
- Our research contributes to innovative practices and policies by promoting inclusion and diversity while exposing social inequalities.
- The scientific profile of the group is strongly promoting an enrichment perspective with a focus on the strengths of marginalized groups and individuals.
- We are interested in the voices of those who often are underrepresented in research - whose experiences cannot be stigmatized or reduced to one-dimensional diagnoses, difficulties, or conditions.
Some of our theoretical foundations are:
- Education
- Sociology
- Philosophy of education and special needs education
- Sociocutural learning theories
- Motivational learning theories
- Management theories
- Cultural psychology
- Social psychology
- Phenomenology
- Disability studies
- Ecological and decolonizing theories
- Queer theory
Collaboration
We collaborate with the following institutions
- University of California, Berkeley
- Østfold University College
- Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet)
- Education and Psychological Counseling Services (PPT)
- Various municipalities, schools, and kindergartens (e.g. Alver municipality)
- Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria
- Oslo New University College (ONH)
- University of Lapland
- University of Turku
- University of Eastern Finland
- University of Helsinki
- Tampere University
- California State University, Channel Islands
- Göteborg University
- University College London
- Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
- Pontificia Universidade Catolica PUC – Campinas, Brazil
- East China Normal University
- University of Brasilia, Brazil
- American Psychological Association, APA DIV 52 and 34
- Network of Excellence “Ideas for the Basic Education of the Future”
Teaching
The group contributes broadly to the teaching from bachelor level courses to PhD studies at the Department of Special Needs Education and in the Faculty of educational sciences:
- RSNE4001: Inclusive education and the Nordic model
- RSNE4002: Learners with diverse needs and backgrounds
- RSNE4012: Qualitative research methods and design
- R-SNE4100-Cultural-historical and decolonial approaches to learning, development, and inclusion
- SPED4301: Psychological, Social, and Emotional Difficulties: Externalized Difficulties
- SPED4302: Psychological, Social, and Emotional Difficulties: Internalized Difficulties
- SPED4003: Counselling in Special Needs Education, with test certification
- SPED4004: Assessment in Special Needs Education
- SPED3002: Bachelor thesis
- SPED2100 – Utvikling i et livsløpsperspektiv
- SPED1200: Special education research methodology and research-based practice
- SPED1300: Læring i et livsløpsperspektiv
- UV9118 – Observation methodology and Observation design
- UV9364 - Ecosystemic approaches to sustainable and just education
