Background and activities
Education and qualification
Cand mag, STEM 1983. Subjects: Biology zoology, botany, chemistry, geology, landscape planning and ICT.
Cand Scient i zoology 1987. Specialication: Bioresources in landscape planning.
Continuing education: ICT, pedagogic, GIS, science education and research method for PhD-cadidates.
Qualification as Assocoate professor in science education accepted 2013.
Subject field
Sciende Education:
Science didactics
Teaching and learning in Biology-Zoology-Ecology-ICT-Sustainable deveolopment-"Technolgy and Design"
Science and Technology in teacher education and in primary and lower secondary school
Teaching and guidance
ICT for teachers 30 ECTS (Ended)
Science 1 & 2, 30 + 30 ECTS at the "General teacher education" (Ended)
PPU 1 & 2 Sciene education 15+15 ECTS (Ended)
Technology and design 30 ECTS (Ended)
Entrepreneurship in primary and secondary school 30 ECTS (Ended)
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Ongoing, 2015-17:
Science 1 - GLU 1-7 (For elementary school teacher education, grade 1-7), 30 ECTS
Science 2 - GLU 1-7 - (For elementary school teacher education, grade 1-7), 30 ECTS
Science 1 - KFK (Continuing education for teachers grade 1-7 and 5-10), 30 ECTS
University pedagogic, 15 stp.
"ICT and learning" for teacher students, 30 ECTS
Research
Manager:
Techology in primary and lower secondary school: Old map tecnology (compass, paper maps) and new didgital map technology (GPS and GIS systems) i corss subject teaching and learning. Ongioing from 2006.
Use of ICT in science in lower secondary school in and around Trondheim city 2003, 2008, 2010; and in primary school in Trondheim 2010-11.
Classroom experiments using digigtal tools in science in primary school - ongoing from 2014.
Follow-up research connected to continuing education in Entrepreneurship for elementary school teachers.
Follow-up research connected to a cross-department project in entrepreneurship - Faculty of Technology together with the Faculty og Teacher and Intepreter Education at HiST. For more information: http://Entreprenorskap.hist.no
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Participant:
Improving Progress through ICT in Formative Assessment in Science and Mathematics Education - EU-project 2014-16.
(Received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no 612337)
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Publications - look at the database Cristin:
http://www.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/wa/fres?sort=ar&pnr=318368&la=no&action=sok
Academic projects
Use of GPS and didgital map technology (GIS) in teacher education and in elementary school. Granted by SOFF and Norgesunversitet. (Ended).
Entrepreneurship in elementary school - continuing education for teachers. Granted by Utdanningsdirektoratet - Norwegian Directorate of Education. (Ended)
"Building competance and developing courses in entrpereneurship" at the favculties of technologu and teacher eduaction at HiST - Sør-Trøndelag University College. avdelingene for lærer og teknologi ved HiST.
Granted by Norgesuniversitet. (Ended 2013).
Boards and committees
Member of the board for HiST University College strategic ICT project "ISIHiST" - 2012-13.
Member of the HiST University College ICT resource group - 2014-15.
Manager of the Science Section at the Faculty og Teacher and Intepreter Education, HiST - Sør-Trøndelag University College - 2011-2013.
Coordinator of the Science Section at the Faculty og Teacher and Intepreter Education, HiST - Sør-Trøndelag University College - Spring 2014.
Elected vara-member of the board at the Faculty of Teacher and Intepreter Education, HiST - Sør-Trøndelag University College 2013-14.
Elected member of the board at the Faculty og Teacher and Intepreter Education, HiST - Sør-Trøndelag University College 2015, and at the same faculty at NTNU 2016.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2013) Challenges related to interdisciplinary use of digital mapping technology in primary and lower secondary schools. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 67 (3).
- (2013) Elevers konstruksjon av egne temakart i tverrfaglig arbeid i grunnskolen. Kimen.
- (2009) Maps interpreting skills - a classroom experiment with and without ICT among lower secondary school pupils in Norway. Problems of Education in the 21st Century. vol. 16 (3).
Artistic productions
- (2004) Internettbasert kurs i bruk av GPS og digitale kart til bruk i grunnskolen. Tverrfaglig bruk av GPS, digitale kart og geografiske informasjonssystemer. UKJENT. 2004.
Part of book/report
- (2017) Mangfold i naturen, mangfold i skolen. Mangfold gjennom anerkjennelse og inkludering i skolen.
- (2017) ‘Walking a graph’ – primary school students’ experimental session on functions and graphs. Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME10).
- (2016) Manipulative Factors Influencing the Use of Data Loggers in Primary School. Science Education Research: Engaging learners for a sustainable future..
- (2010) ICT: the final solution to teaching and learning or ICT as an expensive learning tool that takes the focus away from subject content learning?. ATEE winter conference 2010: Early years, primary education and ICT.
- (2008) "Med blanke ark?" - Lærerstudenters utgangspunkt for naturfaglig læring. The 9th Nordic Research Symposium on Science Education.
- (2008) Naturfaglæreren i møtet med eleven som IKT-bruker. Planning science instruction : From insight to learning to pedagogical practices.
- (2008) The nature science teacher's meeting with the pupil as an ICT user. The 9th Nordic Symposium on Science Education.
- (2007) Miljø, teknologi og energi. Kursmateriale fra EVINA.
- (2007) Bevegelse og likevekt. Bevegelse og likevekt.
- (2006) Bruk av GPS og geografiske informasjonssystemer (GIS) som didaktisk verktøy i tverrfaglig temabasert arbeid i grunnskolen. Naturfagdidaktikkens mange facetter. Proceedings fra Det 8. nordiske forskersymposium om undervisning i naturfag.
- (2006) Digitale verktøy - innovasjon eller regresjon?. Innovation og aflæring. Pauli Nielsen (red.). Den 9. nordiske læreruddannelseskongres, Færøerne, maj 2006.
- (2006) Bruk av GPS og geografiske informasjonssystemer (GIS) som didaktisk verktøy i tverrfaglig temabasert arbeid i lærerutdanningen. Naturfagdidaktikkens mange facetter. Proceedings fra Det 8. nordiske forskersymposium om undervisning i naturfag.
- (2006) Bruk av IKT i naturfagene. Hemmer eller fremmer dette naturfaglig forståelse. Från naturvetenskap och specialpedagogik till hållbar utveckling inom lärarutbildning.
- (2004) Er det behov for utvikling av nye og endrete arbeidsmåter i natur- og miljøfagsundervisninga på ungdomstrinnet?. Kongressrapport: den 7. nordiske lærerutdanningskongress Bergen 2002 - lærerutdanning mellom akademia og profesjon.