Faculty of Education and International Studies (LUI)

A Nordic-Baltic collaboration has resulted in a handbook for teachers and teacher educators. A follow-up project will now examine how newly qualified teachers can maintain their research literacy.

A survey of 463 daycare centres in Oslo reveals wide differences in how much space children have for outdoor play. While some centres have only 3 square metres per child, others have over 200.

«The wide range of knowledge and expertise that we find among our employees makes our education more research based. In that way, it also benefits children and young people in Norway,» says Sølvi Mausethagen.

Pupils can become aware of their own civic identity when we discuss issues they are concerned about in the classroom, according to a researcher.

We often discuss how assessment should take place. But do we consider the purpose of assessment? asks an OsloMet researcher.

A Grandfather plants a small turnip seed. The turnip grows and becomes gigantic. The Grandfather needs help pulling it out of the ground. How many people does it take for the turnip to come loose?

Driven by a need to study something both relevant to current issues and beneficial to society, he chose the Master's Degree in International Development, Education and Sustainabilities at OsloMet.

Researchers have been looking at what happened when rivers were granted status as legal persons. In New Zealand, they are seeing particularly promising developments in indigenous peoples’ rights and conditions.

Through their semester at OsloMet, exchange students got opportunities to get in touch with the local nature, city, and people.

Professor Hanne Svarstad argues that rapid and just climate action requires that people are offered education to understand the most important consequences of the various climate mitigation alternatives.