Research at the Faculty of Education and International Studies is driven by curiosity and a focus on contributing to meet challenges in the society. The research must be relevant and of high quality.
Our approach to research, innovation and development is:
- to promote free, knowledge-based and critical thinking in our disciplines
- to promote democratic participation in society
- to educate and form candidates for independent, knowledge-based professional practice.
We are proud that our research and development work is of high international quality and is relevant to the professions we educate for. We have several projects in collaboration with partners in Norway and internationally, and would like to collaborate with more.
We make it possible for our employees to conduct research
All permanent academic staff at the faculty have time set aside for research and development work in their positions. Different positions have different R&D time allotted to them. All employees in teaching and research positions are members of one of the faculty's 30 research groups.
The research groups at the faculty embrace disciplines such as professional science, vocational knowledge, educational research, pedagogy, didactics, play, education, learning, art research, philosophy, global understanding, sustainability, diversity, language and interpretation.
Research groups at the faculty
Department of Early Childhood Education
- BLEST - sustainability, play, aesthetics and technology
- Cultural Diversity and Multilingualism in a Global Perspective
- Kindergarten Teacher, Professional Qualification and Educational Research
- KunstForsk – Arts-based- and artistic research
- Language and Learning Environment in Early Years - ECEC to Primary School (SAMBA)
- Leadership and Organisational Development
- Methodological un-twinings with kindergarten-and research studies
- Philosophy, Art and Culture
- Professions and Professional Ethics in Early Childhood Care (ProfEt)
- Quality of Life in Early Childhood Education
- Small Children, Large Cities: Kindergarten Qualities, Inequalities, Communicative complexities
Department of International Studies and Interpreting
- Body, Learning and Diversity
- Challenging Picturebooks in Education: Rethinking Language and Literature Learning
- Classroom Research
- Digital Learning Arenas
- Educational leadership
- Evaluation and Assessment (EnA)
- Research and Development Work on the Lower Primary Level With a Focus on Initial Education
- Special Education and Inclusive Practices (SpecInc)
- Task Design in Mathematics Education
- Teacher Education as a Process of Bildung: Dialogical and Critical Perspectives
- Text and Disciplinary Didactics
Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education
Department of Vocational Teacher Education
- Collaboration School—Working Life
- Lifelong Learning
- Technology in Work and Learning
- Vocational Education and Training in Transformation (VETT)
- Vocational Knowledge in a Diversity Perspective
Faculty researchers are also part of the research network The lives of Children and Professional Practice
Artistic research and development
Artistic research and development is defined as equal to other types of research in Norway. Several researchers at our faculty work with artistic research.
Artistic research and development at OsloMet (in Norwegian)
Research projects
The Faculty is involved and manages many research and development projects that are funded by external contributors, such as the Research Council of Norway and the European Commission, but also has projects that researchers carry out within their own working hours or that have received internal funding from the faculty or the university.
We also conduct research for stakeholders, where the academic communities write applications and are awarded research projects.
Publications from the faculty researchers (nva.sikt.no)
Innovation and development
Research is closely linked to innovation and development. We work to develop both our own educational practices, and the arenas for which our students educate themselves. We therefore work together with partners, but also close to the students and their workplaces.
We are active in OsloMet's committees, such as the Committee for Social Improvement and Innovation. Innovation and development take place in all parts of the organisation, including at the National Centre for Multicultural Education (NAFO), which is part of our faculty (nafo.oslomet.no, in Norwegian).
