About
Emilia Andersson-Bakken is Associate Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education. She teaches and supervises student teachers at bachelor-, master’s- and PhD-level. She is currently a part of three research projects: KriT (Critical thinking in primary education) where she is a member of the leader team. Beoynd access: improving quality of early years reading instructions in Ethiopia and Classroom activities for the six-year-olds- 20 years on (Klassprax_20).
Her research interests are in the areas of classroom research, Initial education, creativity, critical thinking, classroom discourses. And she has been teaching in teacher education since 2012.
Research groups
Research projects
Completed research projects
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Beyond access: improving quality of early years reading instructions in Ethiopia
The objective of the project is to improve the quality of education for primary grades in Ethiopian schools.
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Classroom activities for the six-year-olds – 20 years on (Klassprax_20)
The project investigates and evaluates the classroom activities of six year old children.
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Critical thinking in primary education
KriT is an interdisciplinary project aiming at developing educational models for critical thinking in primary education using children’s literature and news.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad
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Andersson-Bakken, Emilia
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Bjørkvold, Tuva
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Sandvik, Margareth
(2025).
Children’s Agency for Critical Thinking in Early Literacy Education.
Jegstad, Kirsti Marie; Bjørkvold, Tuva; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia (Ed.).
Enacting Critical Thinking in Primary School. Perspectives from the Classroom.
Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215069678-25-02
Heggernes, Sissil Lea
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Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad
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Tørnby, Hilde
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Andersson-Bakken, Emilia
(2025).
Emergent Critical Thinking Through Picturebook Dialogues.
Jegstad, Kirsti Marie; Bjørkvold, Tuva; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia (Ed.).
Enacting Critical Thinking in Primary School. Perspectives from the Classroom. p. 60-80.
Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18261/978821506
Andersson-Bakken, Emilia
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Reffhaug, Marthe Berg Andresen
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Jegstad, Kirsti Marie
(2025).
‘It’s Not Rocket Science. It’s All About Facilitation and Imagination’: Teachers’ Perceptions of How to Facilitate Critical Thinking in Primary Education.
Jegstad, Kirsti Marie; Bjørkvold, Tuva; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia (Ed.).
Enacting Critical Thinking in Primary School. Perspectives from the Classroom. p. 213-236.
Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18261/978821506
Jegstad, Kirsti Marie
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Bjørkvold, Tuva
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Andersson-Bakken, Emilia
(2025).
Critical Thinking in Primary School - A Large-Scale Design-Based Research Project.
Jegstad, Kirsti Marie; Bjørkvold, Tuva; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia (Ed.).
Enacting Critical Thinking in Primary School. Perspectives from the Classroom. p. 11-35.
Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18261/978821506
Jegstad, Kirsti Marie ; Bjørkvold, Tuva ; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia (2025). Enacting Critical Thinking in Primary School. Perspectives from the Classroom. ISBN: 978-82-15-06968-5. 239 p. Universitetsforlaget.
Hunegnaw, Gedife, Nigistie;
Tkachenko, Elena
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Andersson-Bakken, Emilia
(2024).
Explicit instructional moves in teaching reading in grade one: Observations from four Amharic classrooms.
Bahir Dar Journal of Education.
https://doi.org/10.4314/10.4314/bdje.v24i2.3
Reffhaug, Marthe Berg Andresen
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Andersson-Bakken, Emilia
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Jegstad, Kirsti Marie
(2024).
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues.
Environmental Education Research.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2024.2309584
Tørnby, Hilde
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Heggernes, Sissil Lea
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Andersson-Bakken, Emilia
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Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad
(2023).
Hats off to critical thinking: Anexcursion into Jon Klassen’s hat trilogy.
8 p.
Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift (BLFT).
Vol. 14.
https://doi.org/10.18261/blft.14.1.7
Lind, Andreas Reichelt;
Andersson-Bakken, Emilia
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Sandvik, Margareth
(2023).
Patterns of peer talk in consensus-oriented classrooms: Deliberative argumentation or rush toward consensus?.
Learning, Culture and Social Interaction.
Vol. 40.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100703
Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad
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Andersson-Bakken, Emilia
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Bjørkvold, Tuva
(2022).
Hjemmeskole på barnetrinnet under covid-19- pandemien. Norske elevers og læreres beskrivelser av et endret praksisfellesskap.
20 p.
Nordisk tidsskrift for utdanning og praksis.
Vol. 16.
https://doi.org/10.23865/up.v16.3260
