Ansvarsområder
- As a professor of pedagogy, my main work revolves around teaching and supervision of students enrolled in the International Teacher Education for Primary Schools (ITEPS) which educates students to become teachers in international schools worldwide. I also teach courses in the Norwegian Teacher Training Degree Program (5-year Masters).
- I also co-lead the research group "Minorities and Education" at USN.
- Reviewer: Among others, Cambridge Journal of Education; Education in the North; Whiteness and Education; Cogent Social Sciences; Social Compass – International Review of Sociology of Religion.
- Member of the adjudication committee for doctoral examination (University of Oslo), 2nd opponent. Master Emmanuel Wilson Walla at the Department of Education will be defending the thesis "HIV/AIDS, TRADITIONS AND EDUCATION IN SOUTH SUDAN" for the degree of Phd.
- Opponent, PhD defence: School of Governance, Law and Society, University of Tallinn, Estonia. Doctorate student Mohammed Abdullai, thesis entitled "Cultural Barriers and Enablers of Integrating Educational Migrants from the Global South: The Case of Graduate Students in Europe". 11.05.22.
Publikasjoner
Thomas, P. (2022). Doing Critical Pedagogy Together: A case study in a Norwegian postgraduate program. Journal of Transformative Education. Sage Publications. Online first. May 2022.
Thomas, Paul and Kuyini Alhassan, Abdul-Razak. "Challenging Antisemitism: A Pedagogical Approach in a Norwegian School" (Book chapter). Volume 4 Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences, edited by Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat and Lawrence H. Schiffman, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 345-368. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-017 Level 2 publication (NSD). Part of the research group "Minorities and Education".
Paul Thomas, Abdul-Razak Kuyini Alhassan & Anne Liv Kaarstad Lie (2020) Bunad, minorities and belonging in Norway, National Identities: Critical Inquiry into Nationahood, Politics & Culture (Routledge) DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1851669. Part of the research group "Minorities and Education".
Thomas, P., & Røthing, Å. (2017). Exploring feminism in a multicultural classroom: using Bend it Like Beckham as a tool in a high school class. Intercultural Education, 1-19. Level 2 article in CRistin /NSD.
Thomas, P., & Selimovic, A. (2015). “Sharia on a Plate?” A critical discourse analysis of halal food in two Norwegian newspapers. Journal of Islamic Marketing, 6(3), 331-353. Winner of the 2016 Emerald Literati Awards
Thomas, P. (2014). Deliver us from Literalism. In Christians and Evolution: Christian Scholars Change Their Mind. Ed. Berry, R.J. Oxford: Monarch.
Thomas, P. (2012). Religious education and the feminisation of witchcraft: A study of three secondary schools in Kumasi, Ghana. British Journal of Religious Education, 34(1), 67-86. Level 2 article in CRistin /NSD.
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Popular science production: lectures, media etc.
Vårt Land. (06.08.2023). Elever kan ikke tvinges til vestlige idealer.
Aftenposten (08.08.2022). Fremmer eller hemmer Sjaman Durek kampen mot rasisme?
Romerikes Blad (05.15.2021). Evnen til å leve med forskjeller.
(10.06.2020). Opinion piece. "Gjør Jesus svart igjen!". Vårt Land.
(2018). NrK Radio 22.04.2018. Ytring. Participant in the debate about Somali children who are sent to Quran schools in Somalia.
(2017). Speaker: IPED seminar. University College of Southeast Norway. “Norwegian-Somali parents who send their children to schools in Somalia”. 15.12.17. Kongsberg, Norway.
(2016). One of two keynote speakers at a seminar arranged by The Norwegian Association of Religious Education Teachers (23 April 2016). Theme: Challenges in the classroom.
(2014). Parents-Teachers pilot project at Hellerud high school, east Oslo (December 3, 2014). Responsible for one of two classrooms which comprised part of the ‘Parents-Teachers project’. The objective was to liaise closely with parents (for under 16 year old students) for a year and evaluate results on several indices.
(2012). Dagsavisen. "Multikulturalisme - en menneskerett" (Multiculturalism – a human right».