About
I'm an historian (dr. art, from the University of Oslo, 2003) who primarily have worked and published on modern intellectual and educational history. The works include a thesis about Opus Dei and the so called Spanish technocracy under the last part of the Franco regime and books about the history of the University of Oslo, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, the editorial Pax Forlag as well as the Norwegian Workers' Union.
Field of study
The history of education Trade unions History of Science History of Universities Pedagogics - Education Stat, bureaucracy
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Life Mastery as an Educational Phenomenon in Curricula
PhD project examining how "life mastery", "life capability", "well-being" or "life skills", as a historical educational-philosophical phenomenon, appears in Norwegian curricula in the period of 1939-2020.
Completed research projects
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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
Helsvig, Kim Gunnar
(2025).
Reform og styringskrise – den lange veien til Utdanningsdirektoratet.
ISBN: 9788202895907.
19 p.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/https://cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog
Børhaug, Kjetil;
Helsvig, Kim Gunnar
(2025).
Samfunnsfaget i maktperspektiv.
Børhaug, Kjetil; Helsvig, Kim Gunnar (Ed.).
Kampen om samfunnsfaget.
Pax Forlag.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5272877
Børhaug, Kjetil;
Helsvig, Kim Gunnar
(2025).
Innledning: kampen om samfunnsfaget.
Børhaug, Kjetil; Helsvig, Kim Gunnar (Ed.).
Kampen om samfunnsfaget.
Pax Forlag.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5272875
Børhaug, Kjetil;
Helsvig, Kim Gunnar
(2025).
Kampen om samfunnsfaget.
ISBN: 9788253045085.
346 p.
Pax Forlag.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5272874
Helsvig, Kim Gunnar
(2025).
Samfunnsfaget fra sosialdemokrati til kunnskapssamfunn.
26 p.
Pax Forlag.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5272873
Børhaug, Kjetil;
Helsvig, Kim Gunnar
(2023).
Kampen om faget - eit forskinsoversyn med vekt på lærarane si rolle.
Nordidactica.
Vol. 2.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3114406
Helsvig, Kim Gunnar
(2022).
Den amerikanske drømmen som mareritt og mulighet. Michael J. Sandel,. The Tyranny of Merit. What’s Become of the Common Good? , London: Allen Lane 2020.
Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon.
Vol. 49.
https://doi.org/https://www-scup-com.ezproxy.oslom
Helsvig, Kim Gunnar
(2022).
Kunnskapssamfunnet og nasjonen - den internasjonale vendingen.
Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT).
Vol. 39.
https://doi.org/10.18261/nnt.39.1.2
Helsvig, Kim Gunnar
(2021).
Grunnskolelærer.
Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven).
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3807458
Helsvig, Kim Gunnar
(2021).
Det lange 1968 i norsk pedagogikk og skole.
Dørum, Knut; Tønnesson, Øyvind; Vaags, Ralph Henk (Ed.).
Arven etter 1968. p. 233-255.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3246037