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Knut Aukland

Knut Aukland

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 42, 0167 Oslo
  • Office number: Q5069
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 472 98 662
  • Office: +47 672 36 280
E-mail
  • knut.aukland@oslomet.no
Affiliation

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

Research projects

Ongoing research projects

  • Practical placement in the Global South

    The purpose of the project is to enhance practical placement in the Global South to achieve a more stable and permanently increased number of students, based on a more quality-assured collaboration with the Global South.

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Aukland, Knut (2025). “Learning How” to Explore Religion and Worldviews. Ubani, Martin (Ed.). Religion, Learning, Literacy. Theories and Concepts for Twenty-First Century Public Education. p. 110-110. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96829-7_6

Kvia, Anne Siri ; Aukland, Knut (2024). What is reflexivity? A scoping review of reflexivity and related concepts in Religious Education. British Journal of Religious Education.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01416200.2024.2423351

Aukland, Knut (2024). A methodological turn in RE. British Journal of Religious Education.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01416200.2024.2319805

Aukland, Knut ; Andersland, Inge; Smith-Gahrsen, Martin; Lindhardt, Eva Mila; Kvia, Anne Siri ; Hansen, Simon Simchai (2023). VR in RE and moral education: report from a conference symposium at the NCRE 2022. Journal of Beliefs and Values.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2023.2207149

Hansen, Simon Simchai ; Aukland, Knut (2023). Å utvikle etisk kompetanse med 3H-modellen: En studie av et etikkdidaktisk undervisningsdesign med VR. Nordidactica.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3369700

Olkvam, Hannah Johnson; Aukland, Knut (2023). Er Jesus hvit? Fargeblindhet og antirasistisk religionsundervisning. Prismet.
https://doi.org/10.5617/pri.10364

Aukland, Knut (2022). Kunnskapsproblemet og utforsking med ulike metoder: Å lære om vis-a-vis å lære hvordan. Prismet. Vol. 73.
https://doi.org/10.5617/pri.9699

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. Vol. 44.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01416200.2021.1920366

Aukland, Knut (2021). Å lære hvordan: Forslag til et nytt mål utover å lære om og av religion. Nordidactica. Vol. 11.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2994033

Aukland, Knut ; Tandberg, Håkon Naasen (2020). Lærergrupper på Facebook II: RLE-lærergruppa og andre møteplasser. Prismet. Vol. 71.
https://doi.org/10.5617/pri.7877



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Research reports

Aukland, Knut ; Iversen, Ragnhild Laird ; Tømmerås, Heidi Hansen ; Thomas, Andrew John; Schanke, Åge J. ; Kvia, Anne Siri ; Andersland, Inge (2020). Ti uløste Problemer: KRLE & Religion og etikk, 2020-2030. 40 p. KRLEpodden.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5174382

Aukland, Knut ; Stausberg, Michael; Keul, Istvan; Frøystad, Hanne Kathinka (2016). Tours, trade, and temples. Hindu pilgrimage in the age of global tourism. ISBN: 9788230831649. Universitetet i Bergen.
https://hdl.handle.net/1956/15550



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Dissemination

Aukland, Knut (2024). Lærerstudenter fra UiS om 10 uløste problemer.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3438097

Aukland, Knut (2024). Lærerstudenter fra UiS om utforsking.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4573647

Aukland, Knut ; Andersland, Inge (2024). Skjulte skatter 5: Danmark, Danmark og bibel.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3808890

Aukland, Knut ; Andersland, Inge (2024). Skjulte skatter 4: Big 5, Hans Olav Lahlum og KRL-snacks.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3984018

Aukland, Knut ; Andersland, Inge (2024). Skjulte skatter 2: Benjamin Bloom, KRLE og musikk, Torbjørn Røe Isaksen.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4134349

Aukland, Knut ; Andersland, Inge (2024). Skjulte skatter 1: Flimmerutredningen og Heid Leganger-Krogstad.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3798872

Aukland, Knut (2024). Translating Indic religious pluralism and tolerance back to European education: Exploring how teaching about religion can support diversity and inclusion. Sustainability, Global Diversity, Inclusion, and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Department of Education, University of Calcutta.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5063388

Aukland, Knut ; Andersland, Inge (2023). Å lære hvordan.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3309391

Aukland, Knut ; Lugowe, Jeffrey Allan (2023). Trenger vi KRLE?.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3490501

Lugowe, Jeffrey Allan; Aukland, Knut (2023). Trenger vi egentlig KRLE-faget i skolen?.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4158915



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