About
Knut Aukland teaches and does research within religion didactics and religion education in teacher education. His research portfolio also includes study of religion and Indian culture and history. Within religion education his research interests include educational design research, VR and 360degree images in education, teachers on Facebook, theory, religion and education in India. He has also done ethnographic research in India on hinduism, jainism, pilgrimage, and religion and science. Aukland has one MPhil from University of Oslo, one Masters from University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Bergen.
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Aukland, Knut (2022). Kunnskapsproblemet og utforsking med ulike metoder: Å lære om vis-a-vis å lære hvordan. Prismet . Vol. 73.
Aukland, Knut
(2021).
Å lære hvordan: Forslag til et nytt mål utover å lære om og av religion.
Nordidactica
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Vol. 11.
https://journals.lub.lu.se/nordidactica/article/vi...
Aukland, Knut (2021). Bridging the research–practice gap on Facebook: a study of online communication between RE teachers and researchers. British Journal of Religious Education .
Aukland, Knut; Tandberg, Håkon Naasen
(2020).
Lærergrupper på Facebook II: RLE-lærergruppa og andre møteplasser.
Prismet
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Vol. 71.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2739139
Tandberg, Håkon Naasen; Aukland, Knut
(2020).
Lærergrupper på Facebook I: RLE-lærergruppa og religionslærerens profesjonsfaglige utvikling.
Prismet
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Vol. 71.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2726092
Aukland, Knut (2019). Hindu Pilgrimage and Modern Tourism. Brekke, Torkel (Ed.). The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism. 7. p. 125-140. Oxford University Press.
Aukland, Knut
(2018).
At the Confluence of Leisure and Devotion: Hindu Pilgrimage and Domestic Tourism in India.
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
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Vol. 6.
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2580926
Stausberg, Michael; Aukland, Knut
(2018).
Introduction: On dragons and elephants: Religion in domestic and international tourism in China and India.
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
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Vol. 6.
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2582559
Aukland, Knut
(2018).
Repackaging India’s Sacred Geography: Travel Agencies and Pilgrimage-Related Travel.
Numen
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Vol. 65.
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/jo...
Aukland, Knut (2017). Pilgrimage expansion through tourism in contemporary India: the development and promotion of a Hindu pilgrimage circuit. Journal of Contemporary Religion . Vol. 32.