Social Anthropologist with ethnographic fieldwork from Sumatra, Indonesia (2012-13), and Aarhus, Denmark (2015-2017). The work from Indonesia analyses a group of nomadic hunter-gather-gardeners resilience in a world of deforestation and pressure to sedentary life. The work from Denmark explores the values of small business owners in and their resilience against liberal market capitalism. I also hold a teacher degree (2019) and have several years experience from teaching in different levels in Norway. Current research: Participant Observation in Early Childhood Education and Care Centers, Leadership and Management in Early Childhood Education and Care Centers, Playworlds as a Way to Engage Adult Role in Early Childhood Education and Care Centers. Publish on entrepreneurship, political and economic anthropology
Responsibilities
Current responsibilities:
- Teacher in Perspectives on diversity and inequality (IFOS)
- Leader of two networks in ECEC professional development in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care Centres (ECEC)
- Teacher in Religion, Identity, and Society
- Teacher in Leadership and development (LSU) in Early Childhood Education teacher education
- Social science in Early Childhood Education and Care Teacher Education (SRLE)
Previous responsibilities:
- Teacher in Social Sciences in Early Childhood Education Teacher Education (SRLE)
- Teacher in Leadership and Management in public organization (BLLEDP)
- Spring 2024: Contemporary Studies in Kinship and Gender at University of Oslo https: https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/sai/SOSANT2270/#course-content
- Cross Cultural Management at Campus Ringerike: See more here
Competences
Research interests
- Assessment practices in schools and kindergartens
- Values (Social, moral, material, values, conflicts)
- Minorities (Power, racism, discrimination)
- Gender (Gender identity, sexuality, dichotomies, gender relations, matriarchy/patriarchy, women)
- Kinship (Family, conflicts, relations, inheritence, forms of)
- Religion and cosmology (Rituals and ritual practices, identity, belonging, values)
- Culture (Identity, change, conceptualization, community, conflicts)
- Economic anthropology (Exchange, work, capitalism, moral economy, human economy, neoliberalism, neoliberal market capitalism)
- Political anthropology (neoliberal academia, NPM)
- Entrepreneurship
- Management, leadership
- Organizations
- Play and learning
Methods:
- Ethnography
- analysis
- Qualitative methods
- Fieldwork
Teaching subjects:
- Management and leadership
- Organization theory and organisational development
- State institutions and politics
- Politics in the kindergarten
- Diversity
- Culture
- Gender and kinship
- Social inequality
- Public institutions
- Formative assesment
- Academic writing
- Cross cultural management
- Entrepreneurship, business, management
- Organizations and organizational leadership/management
- Play and adult role in play
- Learning and play
Research
- Head of the research project Leadership and Organizational Development in ECEC centers (Ledelse og utvikling i en lærende barnehage)
- Researcj project leader Anthropology in ECEC centers (Antropologisk metode i barnehagen)
- Part of the research project Conceptual Playworld as a method for play-based learning in preschool teacher education
- Leader of research project Playworlds as incentive to work with Adults' role in Children's Play
- Entrepenreuship and management
- Anthropology as education
- Political anthropology