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Hilde Tørnby

Hilde Tørnby

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 42, 0167 Oslo
  • Office number: Q4006
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 37 208
E-mail
  • hilde.tornby@oslomet.no
Affiliation

Field of study

Aesthetics   Critical thinking   English literature   Basic skills - readning and numeracy   Aesthetic education   Visual literacy   Children's literature

Research groups

Research projects

Completed research projects

  • 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

Jensen, Inger Kristine ; Aksland, Charlotte ; Tørnby, Hilde (2025). The Bumblebee Project: Systems Thinking About the Environment. Jegstad, Kirsti Marie; Bjørkvold, Tuva; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia (Ed.). Enacting Critical Thinking in Primary School. Perspectives from the Classroom. p. 104-126. Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215069678-25-05

Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad ; Tørnby, Hilde ; 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/10.18261/9788215069678-25-03

Jegstad, Kirsti Marie ; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Jøsok, Evy ; Ryen, Erik ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad ; Tørnby, Hilde (2025). Approaches to critical thinking in primary education classrooms: A systematic review. Educational Research Review.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100711

Tørnby, Hilde ; Ryen, Erik (2025). ‘She is Not the King.’ Starting Point Activities to Foster Critical Thinking in Primary Classrooms. Jegstad, Kirsti Marie; Bjørkvold, Tuva; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia (Ed.). Enacting Critical Thinking in Primary School. Perspectives from the Classroom. p. 174-191. Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215069678-25-08

Bjørkvold, Tuva ; Tørnby, Hilde ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad (2025). Children’s drawings of school in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Childhood.
https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682251334542

Tørnby, Hilde ; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad (2023). Hats off to critical thinking: Anexcursion into Jon Klassen’s hat trilogy. Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift (BLFT). Vol. 14.
https://doi.org/10.18261/blft.14.1.7

Mohammad-Roe, Siri ; Tørnby, Hilde (2023). “I Wanted to Freeze the Moment”: Blackout Poetry and Student Agency During the COVID-19 Lockdown. Pinhasi-Vittorio, Limor; Ben-Yosef, Elite (Ed.). Using Innovative Literacies to Develop Leadership and Agency: Inspiring Transformation and Hope. p. 65-83. IGI Global.
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5614-9

Andersson-Bakken, Emilia ; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad ; Tørnby, Hilde (2022). “Men da blir det urettferdig for dem som ikke får!” Bildebøker som utgangspunkt for kritisk tenkning på barnetrinnet. Acta Didactica Norden (ADNO). Vol. 16.
https://doi.org/10.5617/adno.8995

Tørnby, Hilde ; Stokke, Ruth Seierstad (2022). Estetiske dimensjoner i litteraturmøter. Tønnessen, Elise Seip; Stokke, Ruth Seierstad (Ed.). Møter med barnelitteratur. Introduksjon for lærere. 2. utg.. p. 357-382. Universitetsforlaget.

Tørnby, Hilde (2020). Picturebooks in the classroom. ISBN: 9788245022636. 156 p. Fagbokforlaget.



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Textbooks

Tørnby, Hilde (2022). Citizenship, Communities and Democracy. ISBN: 9781350262089. 11 p. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Tørnby, Hilde ; Areklett, Kristin Maage; Lindaas, Kristin; Hals, Øystein (2016). New Stunt d-bok. ISBN: 9788211022882. 122 p. Fagbokforlaget.

Tørnby, Hilde ; Areklett, Kristin; Pettersen, Synnøve; Røkaas, Felicia (2015). Stages 10, engelsk for ungdomstrinnet, lærerveiledning. ISBN: 9788203349676. 236 p. Aschehoug & Co.

Tørnby, Hilde ; Areklett, Kristin; Felicia, Røkaas; Pettersen, Synnøve (2015). Stages 10, englesk for ungdomstrinnet. ISBN: 9788203346033. 318 p. Aschehoug & Co.

Tørnby, Hilde ; Areklett, Kristin Måge; Pettersen, Synnøve; Røkaas, Felicia (2014). Stages 9, Engelsk for ungdomstrinnet. ISBN: 9788203346026. 315 p. Aschehoug & Co.

Tørnby, Hilde ; Areklett, Kristin Måge; Pettersen, Synnøve; Røkaas, Felicia (2013). Stages 8, engelsk for ungdomtrinnet. ISBN: 9788203345401. 317 p. Aschehoug & Co.

Tørnby, Hilde ; Areklett, Kristin Måge; Pettersen, Synnøve; Røkaas, Felicia (2013). Stages 8; Lærerveiledning. ISBN: 9788203345425. 319 p. Aschehoug & Co.

Tørnby, Hilde ; Areklett, Kristin Måge; Lindaas, Kristin; Hals, Øystein (2009). Stunt. ISBN: 9788252173413. 358 p. Det Norske Samlaget.



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Dissemination

Andersson-Bakken, Emilia ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad ; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Tørnby, Hilde (2023). Emergent critical thinking through picturebook dialogues. NERA. Nordic Educational Research Association.

Tørnby, Hilde (2023). Artistic voices and layering as affordances of (and for) meaning in the picturebook Migrations, Open Hearts, Open Boarders (2019)​. The 9th International Conference of The European Network of Picturebook Research The Picturebook between Fiction and Reality . The European Network of Picturebook Research.

Stokke, Ruth Seierstad ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad ; Tørnby, Hilde (2023). Childrenʼs Literature and Critical Thinking. Series introduction. Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift (BLFT).
https://doi.org/10.18261/blft.14.1.6

Andersson-Bakken, Emilia ; Bjørkvold, Tuva ; Tørnby, Hilde (2022). Kritisk tenkning i barneskolen. Gjesteforelsning. Oslo kommune.

Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Tørnby, Hilde (2022). “But that’s not fair!” Teaching critical thinking through Jon Klassen’s We Found a Hat. Research and Development Seminar. The English Section, OsloMet.

Tørnby, Hilde (2022). Sustainability in imagined and real spaces in Cicada by Shaun Tan. Communicating Sustainability. University of Glasgow.

Tørnby, Hilde ; Bjørkvold, Tuva ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad (2022). Drawing the homeschool. International CHILDLIFE Conference Children and Young People in Everyday Life and Professional Practices.

Tørnby, Hilde (2022). Bilder som inngang til kritisk tenkning. Jegstad, Kirsti Marie; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia; Bjørkvold, Tuva (Ed.). Kritisk tenkning i barneskolen – teori og praksis. p. 62-63. OsloMet Skriftserie.

Tørnby, Hilde (2022). Før det hele begynner. Jegstad, Kirsti Marie; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia; Bjørkvold, Tuva (Ed.). Kritisk tenkning i barneskolen – teori og praksis. p. 43-44. OsloMet Skriftserie.

Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad ; Tørnby, Hilde (2022). Bildebøker som inngang til kritisk tenkning. Jegstad, Kirsti Marie; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia; Bjørkvold, Tuva (Ed.). Kritisk tenkning i barneskolen – teori og praksis. p. 54-56. OsloMet Skriftserie.



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