About
Heka is a doctoral student at the Center for the Study of Professions at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway. His research focuses on teachers’ pedagogical approaches and professional competencies in relation to teaching and professional practices in response to digitalization, misinformation, and platformization in education. He holds a master's degree in educational sciences with a specialization in communication, technology, and learning from the University of Gothenburg. Heka has extensive international research experience working as a research assistant on the RED (Reconfiguration of Educational In/equality in the Digital World) project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and collaborating with researchers from Sweden, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, and South Africa. Heka has over five years of professional experience as both the head of digital learning and as a secondary and high school teacher at an international school in Bali, Indonesia.
His PhD project explores teachers’ professional knowledge and pedagogical approaches required to effectively empower students to act as responsible, competent, and effective democratic citizens in a world flooded by socio-scientific misinformation and disinformation. The PhD project is part of the SciLMi research project: Meta-Scientific Literacies in the (Mis-) Information Age, a Teacher Academy project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ program.
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Knowledge and Approaches to Teach Socio-Scientific Mis/Disinformation
The flood of socio-scientific information on issues like pandemics, climate change, and natural resource scarcity represents just three of the critical global challenges facing our world today.
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Meta-Scientific Literacies in the (Mis-)Information Age
An international research project addressing the role of education in response to the flood of public disinformation and mistrust against science and research.
