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Sissil Lea Heggernes

Sissil Lea Heggernes

Job title
  • Associate Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 42, 0167 Oslo
  • Office number: Q4012
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 992 79 937
  • Office: +47 672 37 074
E-mail
  • sissil-lea.heggernes@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Sissil Lea Heggernes is currently an associate professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, where she teaches children's and young adult literature, culture and English language subject pedagogy. She has published work on intercultural learning through picturebooks and the role of intercultural communicative competence in the Norwegian English language curriculum. Sissil has worked many years in primary and secondary schools. Her research interests include the role of literature and culture in language learning, reading, dialogic learning, critical thinking and language teachers’ professional development.

Field of study

Artificial intelligence   Critical thinking   Intercultural learning   Teaching English as a Foreign Language   Dialogue   Children's literature and Society

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Publications and research

Scientific publications

Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Drange, Eli-Marie D.; Høvik, Knut Øystein (2025). “A small piece of my heart remained”: In-service foreign language teachers’ perspectives on short-term mobility in continuous professional development. Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Learning (NJLTL). Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.46364/njltl.v13i1.1375

Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad ; Tørnby, Hilde ; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia (2025). Emergent Critical Thinking Through Picturebook Dialogues. Jegstad, Kirsti Marie; Bjørkvold, Tuva; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia (Ed.). Enacting Critical Thinking in Primary School. Perspectives from the Classroom. p. 60-80. Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215069678-25-03

Jegstad, Kirsti Marie ; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Jøsok, Evy ; Ryen, Erik ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad ; Tørnby, Hilde (2025). Approaches to critical thinking in primary education classrooms: A systematic review. Educational Research Review.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100711

Holmarsdottir, Halla Bjørk ; Baily, Supriya; Skårås, Merethe; Ramos, Kathy; Ege, April Maute; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Carsillo, Tami (2023). Exploring the Power of Internationalization in Teacher Education. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE). Vol. 7.
https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.5233

Tørnby, Hilde ; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Andersson-Bakken, Emilia ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad (2023). Hats off to critical thinking: Anexcursion into Jon Klassen’s hat trilogy. Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift (BLFT). Vol. 14.
https://doi.org/10.18261/blft.14.1.7

Øien, Ola Buan; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Karlsen, Anne Mette Færøyvik (2023). Flerstemmige perspektiver i norsk utdanningsforskning. Spenninger og muligheter. ISBN: 9788202817985. 229 p. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3458976

Heggernes, Sissil Lea (2023). "Who's that man?" - Stirring teenagers' curiosity through Peter Sís's The Wall. Alter, Grit; Merse, Thorsten (Ed.). Re-thinking Picturebooks for Intermediate and Advanced Learners: Perspectives for Secondary English Language Education. p. 203-224. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3341626

Heggernes, Sissil Lea (2023). Enacting democracy with refugee voices through a picturebook in English language teaching. Øien, Ola Buan; Heggernes, Sissil Lea; Karlsen, Anne Mette Færøyvik (Ed.). Flerstemmige perspektiver i norsk utdanningsforskning. Spenninger og muligheter. p. 11-32. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4947296

Andersson-Bakken, Emilia ; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad ; Tørnby, Hilde (2022). “Men da blir det urettferdig for dem som ikke får!” Bildebøker som utgangspunkt for kritisk tenkning på barnetrinnet. Acta Didactica Norden (ADNO). Vol. 16.
https://doi.org/10.5617/adno.8995

Heggernes, Sissil Lea (2022). Intercultural English teaching in Norway for the 21st century. Dypedahl, Magne (Ed.). Moving English language teaching forward : Festschrift in honor of Ragnhild Elisabeth Lund. p. 141-164. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.166.ch7



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Textbooks

Andersson-Bakken, Emilia ; Jegstad, Kirsti Marie ; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Jøsok, Evy ; Marti, Kristin Torjesen ; Reffhaug, Marthe; Sandvik, Margareth ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad ; Tørnby, Hilde (2026). Kritisk tenking i begynneropplæringen. ISBN: 9788205590939. 100 p. Gyldendal Akademisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5341017



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Research reports

Lund, Ragnhild E.; Burner, Tony; Ommundsen, Åse Marie ; Heggernes, Sissil Lea (2021). Intercultural Learning Through Texts: Picturebook Dialogues in the English Language Classroom. ISBN: 9788283643404. 195 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2777450



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Dissemination

Heggernes, Sissil Lea (2025). Social inequality in picturebooks. Guest lecture. Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich (PHZH).
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4342757

Heggernes, Sissil Lea (2025). Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz by Warren Binford & Michael Garcia Bochenek(2021). Recommended by Sissil Lea Heggernes. Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELEjournal ). Vol. 13.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3314052

Thormodsæter, Øyvind ; Heggernes, Sissil Lea (2024). Find your cake and eat it! Explorative approaches to teaching and learning L2 vocabulary and grammar in context. Honorary conference for Docent Mona E. Flognfeldt: Changing conditions of English and English language teaching (ELT) in Norwegian primary school. . The English Section, OsloMet University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4458108

Heggernes, Sissil Lea (2024). Critical thinking with young learners through picturebooks. Experiences from the interdisciplinary KriT project. ARCLEN Members' Meeting. Association for Research on Children’s Literature in English.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3538964

Heggernes, Sissil Lea (2024). Keynote: Beyond mirrors, windows and sliding glass doors: Socioeconomic inequality in picturebooks. LINN-konferansen 2024 - Høgskolen i Innlandet. Litteratur og litterasitet & Nordisk litteratur.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4312585

Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad (2023). Barne- og ungdomsbøker som ressurs for arbeid med kritisk tenkning: Workshop for skolebibliotekarer i Oslo. Fagdager for skolebibliotekarer i Oslo. Oslo kommune - Utdanningsetaten.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4063578

Andersson-Bakken, Emilia ; Svanes, Ingvill Krogstad ; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Tørnby, Hilde (2023). Emergent critical thinking through picturebook dialogues. NERA. Nordic Educational Research Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4058898

Heggernes, Sissil Lea (2023). Transitioning between space and place in the library: An analysis of Yuyi Morales’s Dreamers. International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) 2023. University of California Santa Barbara.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4539401

Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Drange, Eli-Marie D.; Høvik, Knut Øystein (2023). Interculturality, language learning and professional development through in-service courses for L3 teachers in Norway . NLTL. Institutt for fr.språk og oversetting, UiA og ANPE Norge .
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5040791

Øien, Ola Buan; Heggernes, Sissil Lea ; Karlsen, Anne Mette Færøyvik (2023). Introduksjon: Flerstemmige perspektiver i norsk utdanningsforskning. Spenninger og muligheter. Øien, Ola Buan; Heggernes, Sissil Lea; Karlsen, Anne Mette Færøyvik (Ed.). Flerstemmige perspektiver i norsk utdanningsforskning. Spenninger og muligheter. p. 7-10. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.212.ch0



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