Karianne Skovholt

I am a professor of Norwegian didactics and have over fifteen years of experience in teacher education and research management. I teach Norwegian in teacher education and research on language and interaction in school contexts. I am a linguist with expertise in ethnomethodological conversation analysis (CA) and critical discourse analysis (CDA). Within conversation research, I have been particularly interested in how research findings can be used to adjust, improve or change professional practice. Through the project CAiTE, I contributed to developing conversation analysis as an applied research field by developing and testing video-based instructional methods for teacher education and the midwifery profession. By drawing student teachers directly into the classroom through video recordings and analyses of real classroom situations, I offer teaching that is practical and relevant to professional practitioners. What interests me most at the moment is how research on interaction between autistic students and their communication partners (teachers, assistants, fellow students) can produce empirical knowledge that can make life in the classroom and school better for autistic students.