Helen Margaret Murray

Teaching

Culture, English 1-7, 5-10, 8-13

Assessment of teaching practice students

Interests

Indigenous peoples, both in Norway and internationally

Intercultural competence

Multiculturalism

Textbook analysis

 

Research groups and stipends

Member of the Decolonial Research Group

Leader of research group: Indigenous Topics in Education

Receiver of Kvalifiseringsstipend fra Literacy-miljø 2019/2020

 

Activities

Presentation at Colonial Entanglements: Institutions, Memory, Resistance (12-13 September 2018) - “Approaches to teaching about Indigenous peoples in Norwegian secondary schools”

 

Presentation at Practical Pedagogies, Cologne, Germany (1-2 November 2018) – “Indigenous Knowledge in the Classroom)

 

Submitted chapter to upcoming book International Perspectives on Interculturality in English Language Teaching (due 2019/2020) - “Promoting intercultural understanding in textbooks – which lessons can be learnt from representations in EFL textbooks in Norwegian schools?”

 

Lecture 2 year GLU, NTNU as part of Multicultural Week (18 March 2019) – “What do we teach about Indigenous people? How should we teach about them?”

 

Presented at DENOR workshop – Decolonial perspectives on education (4-5 April 2019) – “How should textbook used in English teaching in Norwegian schools teach pupils about Indigenous people’s history and culture?”