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Mona-Lisa Angell

Mona-Lisa Angell

Job title
  • Associate Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 42, 0167 Oslo
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 38 900
E-mail
  • mona-lisa.angell@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Mona-Lisa Angell's research spans across pedagogy, art, philosophy, and politics, and explores possibilities for planetary, epistemic, and social justice.

Angell graduated as a preschool teacher from the University College of Oslo's pilot project Multicultural Preschool Teacher Education in 2005. She holds a master degree in multicultural and international education from the University College of Oslo and Akershus (2008), and a Ph.d. in Humanities, Culture, and Education Science from the University of Southeast Norway (2025).

Angell is currenty Co-editor of the journal Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM). She served as the editor-in-chief of the journal Barnehagefolk from 2010 to 2017. She has taught pedagogy at the University College of Vestfold (2007-2010), the Inland University of Applied Sciences (2017-2018), and OsloMet University (2018- today).

Thesis:

Angell, M.-L. (2025). Mellom foreldreomsorg og barnehagepedagogikk: En fenomengraferende utforskning gjennom kunstneriske og performative prosesser. [Doctoral thesis]. Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3210341   

Research groups

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Otterstad, Ann Merete ; Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da ; Fønnebø, Bente ; Jensen, Maybritt ; Malone, Karen; Myrvold, Hanne Berit ; Nakata, Reiko Hayashi; Myhre, Cecilie Ottersland ; Waterhouse, Ann- Hege Lorvik (2026). Earthly Childhood Methodologies. Malone, Karen; Angell, Mona-Lisa; Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da; Fønnebø, Bente; Jensen, Maybritt; Myhre, Cecilie Ottersland (Ed.). Earthly Methodologies as Unfolding Childhoods. p. 1-18. Springer Nature Singapore.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-0430-4_1

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2026). M4: Drawing the Anthropocene. Malone, Karen; Angell, Mona-Lisa; Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da; Fønnebø, Bente; Jensen, Maybritt; Myhre, Cecilie Ottersland (Ed.). Earthly Methodologies as Unfolding Childhoods. p. 77-103. Springer Nature Singapore.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-0430-4_4

Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Andersen, Camilla Eline ; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2026). Foreldresamtalens og barnehagepedagogikkens (brutale) optimisme: En performativ litteraturstudie. Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.23865/ntpk.v12.7152

Malone, Karen; Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da ; Fønnebø, Bente ; Jensen, Maybritt ; Myhre, Cecilie Ottersland ; Myrvold, Hanne Berit ; Nakata, Reiko Hayashi; Otterstad, Ann Merete ; Waterhouse, Ann-Hege Lorvik (2026). Earthly Methodologies as Unfolding Childhoods. ISBN: 9789819204304. 258 p. Springer Nature Singapore.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-0430-4

Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Andersen, Camilla Eline (2025). Editorial. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM). Vol. 15.
https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.6493

Osgood, Jayne; Andersen, Camilla Eline ; Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2024). Editorial. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM). Vol. 15.
https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.6045

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2024). C(h)ords of Care. International Journal of Education and the Arts. Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.26209/ijea25si1.20

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2022). Drawing Attention to the Wonders of Parental Care: A Methodological Inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry. Vol. 29.
https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004221142807

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2019). Foreldreansvarets vilkår i Agderprosjektets førskoleopplegg. Pettersvold, Mari; Østrem, Solveig (Ed.). Problembarna. Manualer og metoder i barnehage, skole og barnevern. p. 208-234. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4573178

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2014). Dancing the Tightropes: Rhizoanalysis revisited. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM). Vol. 5.
https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.1222



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Textbooks

Hogsnes, Hilde Dehnes; Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Nordtømme, Solveig Irene (2010). Barnehagens læringsliv: kritiske perspektiver. ISBN: 9788245008036. 194 p. Fagbokforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4938639



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Research reports

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2025). Mellom foreldreomsorg og barnehagepedagogikk: En fenomen-graferende utforskning gjennom kunstneriske og performative prosesser. ISBN: 9788272069956. 241 p. Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge/Universitetet i Søraust-Noreg.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3210341



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Dissemination

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2026). Å møte barn og deres familier:En invitasjon til å gruble over (grensene for) barnehagens oppgaver og ansvar. Personalmøte for Ahus-barnehagene . Ahus-barnehagene.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5572348

Bjelkerud, Agnes Westgaard; Pope, Liv Alice; Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Andersen, Camilla Eline (2026). Hospicing modernity in ECEC: A different starting point for research concerning socioeconomic inequalities and social justice. ECER 2026. European Educational Research Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5560031

Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Myrvold, Hanne Berit (2026). Editorial. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM). Vol. 17.
https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.6492

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2026). Om foreldresamarbeid og foreldresamtaler: En invitasjon til å tenke om igjen. Universitetsbarnehagenes seminar. Barnehagelærerutdanninga Oslomet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5572362

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2025). Foreldresamarbeid. Regional kompetansehevingsdag for barnehagene i Valdres. Valdres kommune.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5572369

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2025). Foreldres komplekse omsorgsarbeid. Vol. 41.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5572484

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2024). Klausine Røtnes - en barnehagepioner. Barnehagefolk. Vol. 40.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4105334

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2023). Making/Thinking with neglected things: ​Cultivating the art of paying attention ​. NERA conference. Oslo Metropolitan University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3928465

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2023). C(h)ords of Care. Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education. Manchester Metropolitan University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5234854

Angell, Mona-Lisa (2022). Seeing/Drawing as a mode of research: ​Zooming in on the in/visibilities of parental care for their young child​. NERA conference. School of Education Reykjavik.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4359230



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