Kathrine Bordevich

Kathrine Bordevich

Ph.d Research Fellow
Faculty of Humanities, Sports and Educational Science
Department of Educational Science
Campus Porsgrunn (D-3179)
+47 35 02 63 14 / 97572734
Kathrine Bordevich is a research fellow in cultural studies and teaches special education, with the main focus on mental health, relationships in the school community and children's challenges with mathematics and sensory loss. Kathrine has a background from the Psychological Educational Service, as a teacher and with work with children and adults with physical and mental disabilities. She has a master's degree in psychology and currently works in education in BA and Master's in Special Education. Kathrine is the leader of the research group "Upbringing and Education" together with Inger Kjersti Lindvig and the leader of the research project "In search of good practices - competence development in special education". She is also a research fellow in the longitudinal research project "Youth, implementation and school dropouts in Telemark" (UngSA) and the development project Marginalization and Co-created Education (MaCE), an Erasmus + project with England and Denmark

Responsibilities

  • Leader of the research group "Upbringing and Education"
  • Leads the research project "In search of good practices - competence development in special education"
  • Course responsibility and / or teaches courses at BA, GLU, master's and further education in Spes.Ped.
  • Contributes in relation to the region's competence boost in special pedagogy and inclusive work
  • Supervisor for BA and master's students in Spes.Ped and GLU

Competences

2017- 2020 Phd. course; Culture theory (USN), Narrative methods in child and youth science (NTNU), Culture Education (USN), Science Theory, Research Ethics and Research Methodology (HSN) and Child and youth culture, participation and democracy (HSN) 

2016 - 2023 Nordic Masters in Vision Education and Rehabilitation, (University of Gothenburg and USN) 120 ECTS

2008 Macroeconomics (Høgskolen i innland) 

2007 Cand. Polit. Psychology, (NTNU) 120 ECTS 

2002 Can.mag. Psychology (with a subject pedagogy, sociology), (NTNU) 260 ECTS

CV

2021- 2026 Leader of the research project "In search of good practices - competence development in special education". 

2018 - ) Deputy and leader of the interdisciplinary research group "Upbringing and education". The group consists of members from health sciences, social sciences and pedagogy. The current focus is on youth.

2017 - ) Project co-worker in "Youth, implementation and school interruption in Telemark" (UngSA) a 20-year qualitative longitudinal research work on drop-out using ethnographic narrative interview method. Funded by USN and FARGE funds.

2017 - 2020 Project co-worker in the development project Marginalisation and Co-created Education (MaCE) in collaboration with England (University in Cumbria) and Denmark (VIA). The project is an Emasmus plus project.

2019 - 2023 Member of the board of the Eikholt Foundation, National Center for Deafblind, User Representative, Drammen

2018 - 2019 Mobility Therapist for People with Impaired Vision / Blindness (University of Gothenburg)

2006 - 2018 Psychological advisor in PPT Færder municipality

2008 - 2009 Career test, created in collaboration with a fellow Ph.D. student at HIVE, on order from study guide.no (The aim was to help young people, associating the profession's interests and skills (Holland's theories) to different personality traits (The Big Five) against a guidance of different occupational choices. In Norwegian; Career tests; https://www.facebook.com/Karrieretesten/

2006 - 2007 Environmental therapist and persoling assistant to a multifunctional girl with MLD, a progressive disease, Horten municipality

2000 Teacher in Årvoll children and secondary school (from 1st - 9th grade), Oslo 

1996 - 2006 Environmental therapist, Kongeveien dagenter, Horten municipality. Day center for 35 adults with mental and physical disabilities

1998 - 2005 Environmental therapist, Basebamanningen, Horten municipality. Appartments for 20 adults with easily mental disabled disabillities

Test Expertise; Expertise within the field of special educational work; ability mapping (WISC, WAIS), memory, behavior and concentration mapping (Våletesten, Brown, BREIF, SDQ, ASQ, VOT, ASEBA, CBCL, ADDES, 5-15, CVI), mathematics mapping (Adler, LOC, Ostad, Myhre, Alle teller, MIO, Tegne-regne-prøven, Lunde), reading and writing mapping (STAS, Arbeidsprøven, Carlsten, God leseutvikling) and language mapping; (Språk 6-16, Språk 5-6, 20 spørsmål, TRAS, TROG, Alle med).

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