This is our reserach
Our research concerns learning, teaching, didactics and dramaturgy in various contexts of education. We aim to develop, describe, analyze and understand different learning situations and teaching practices that take place in the classroom and other learning arenas.
We are an interdisciplinary research group that covers the subjects Norwegian, mathematics, pedagogy, music, social studies, English and natural sciences.
How do we research?
We mostly work with qualitative methods such as video, interviews, fieldwork and participant observation. Intervention studies are also an important method in our research group.
We do performative studies where we try out and experiment with different aesthetic teaching qualities. We develop innovative ways of communicating research, for example video, picture narration, podcast, and digital teaching courses.
Collaboration partners and networks
The research group use a learning lab, a professional workshop, which we use to develop and research teaching and learning. We have widespread cooperation with schools and teachers.
We are part of an international network for dramaturgy in didactic contexts. We participate in national networks on teaching reading and literature.
Current projects
- Teaching reading! To create a professional community around reading for all students
In Leseløp! (Teaching reading!), funded by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir), reading researchers and students (future teachers) at the University of South-Eastern Norway collaborate with teachers in a selected municipality to improve reading for students.
At the same time, students are trained in reading in close cooperation with the field of practice. Specifically, each reading course is based on a major or minor «reading problem», identified in reading research, but also based on a needs analysis conducted in the partner municipality. We develop, test, evaluate and document reading instruction based on reading theory.
Publications
Tony Burner, Karl Christian Alvestad, Trond Stølen Gustavsen, Suela Kacerja, Lise Camilla Ruud, Geir Sigvard Salvesen and Delia Schipor report from the second round of qualitative data from the evaluation project «Evaluation of how LK20 is realized in specific subjects 2021-2025», abbreviated EvaFag2025.
Tony Burner, Karl Christian Alvestad, Eirik Brazier, Trond Stølen Gustavsen, Suela Kacerja, Lise Camilla Ruud, Geir Sigvard Salvesen and Delia Schipor point in this report, among other things, to the need for arenas to further develop professional communities and collaborative cultures in connection with professional renewal.
Authors Fride Lindstøl og Jannike Ohrem. Narratives and analyzes from the classroom. The book is written on the basis of classroom observations and conversations with students and teachers in several subjects at different levels.
Authors Kåre Kverndokken og Jannike Ohrem Bakke (red.). How are we going to unleash ideas in students and enable them to write good text? These are some of the basic Norwegian academic questions that this book seeks to answer.
Authors Kåre Kverndokken og Jannike Ohrem Bakke (red.) Why, how and what should students read? How are we going to enable them to develop the best possible reading skills, good reading comprehension and the ability to think critically? These are some of the questions the book seeks to answer.
External members
Associate Members
- Mette Moe, Associate Professor at Oslo Met
- Hanne Reidun Storstein, Department manager and practice teacher at Varden ungdomsskole
