About
Frode Restad has a background in pedagogy and a doctorate in children and young people's competence development. Restad has broad experience working with development of school- and learning environment in Norway, including in depth research on the development of the Norwegian national curriculum (LK20) and how this has been understood and implemented by teachers and leaders in schools. Restad's research interests include teaching and curriculum making, social and emotional learning, community building, bullying and exclusion in kindergartens and schools. He specializes in qualitative methods with emphasis on interviews, observation, and document analysis, and on children and young people's participation in research. Restad has extensive experience as a project- and process manager and as a senior adviser at the Norwegian Directorate of Education and Training working with national schemes and policy for competence development, and the Government's Partnership Against Bullying.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
General education Subject didactics
Subject areas
Analysis of the curriculum Disciplinary didaktik General didactics Curriculum theory Community creating didactics Violence and bullying
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Lyng, Selma Therese ; Hægeland, Linda; Aanerud, Henriette; Restad, Frode (2023). Relasjonsbygging og profesjonsutvikling for FoL i skolen. Walseth, Kristin; Standal, Øyvind Førland (Ed.). Folkehelse og livsmestring - med utgangspunkt i fagene. Universitetsforlaget.
Restad, Frode
(2021).
Exploring the problems and potential of curriculum-making for social learning: Implications for policy and practice.
15 p.
Curriculum Journal.
Vol. 32.
https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.113
Restad, Frode
; Mølstad, Christina Elde
(2020).
Social and emotional skills in curriculum reform: a red line for measurability?.
Journal of Curriculum Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2020.1716391
Restad, Frode
(2020).
Is there a hole in the whole-school approach? A critical review of curriculum understanding in bullying research.
24 p.
Nordic Studies in Education.
Vol. 40.
https://doi.org/10.23865/NSE.V40.2610
Restad, Frode
(2019).
Revisioning the Fifth Element. Can critical realism reconcile competence and Bildung for a more sustainable twenty-first-century education?.
Journal of Critical Realism.
Vol. 18.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2019.1655254
