Overview of research projects

Better Provision for Norway's Children in ECEC

Better provision of Norway’s Children in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) was the first major study in Norway to focus specifically on the quality and effectiveness of ECEC.

Beyond access: improving quality of early years reading instructions in Ethiopia

The objective of the project is to improve the quality of education for primary grades in Ethiopian schools. This is done through heightening the capacity and competence of teachers and Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) and higher education institutions in Ethiopia in the area of early years reading instructions.

CENSU - Climate Change Energy Sustainability

CENSU is a Norwegian-Tanzanian-Mozambican university collaboration within education and research which focuses on sustainable gas extraction and governance in the context of vulnerable communities and climate change.

Classroom activities for the six-year-olds – 20 years on (Klassprax_20)

The project investigates and evaluates the classroom activities of six year old children. It sheds light on changes made between "Reform 97" and "Fagfornyelsen L20".

COIL in Deaf Studies and Sign Language

Establish a basis for a sustainable system for a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) module in deaf studies and sign language. COIL can be described as virtual student and staff exchange as a strategic tool for internationalization of the curriculum.

Critical thinking in primary education

KriT is an interdisciplinary project aiming at developing educational models for critical thinking in primary education using children’s literature and news.

DARE – Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality

The project investigates how young people aged between 12 and 30 respond to messages and agents of radicalisation.

Democracy, Equality, Learning and Mobilisation for Future Citizens (DEMOCIT)

How does Norwegian youths develop political efficacy and belief in their own participation in democratic society? The aim of DEMOCIT is to partake in reducing a growing civic empowerment gap within Norwegian democracy.

Developing ICT in Teacher Education (DiCTE)

The overarching aim of the project is to develop ICT in teacher education. The project identifies student teachers’ levels of digital competence when entering and towards the end of their studies. Insight on the integration of ICT is compared across institutions.

DigiGen – The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation

DigiGen aims to develop knowledge about how children and young people use and are affected by the technological transformations in their everyday lives.

EGREEN+ – European Green Mastery

In EGREEN+ we are working to harmonise sustainable European competence certificates for landscaping, gardening and floristry.

Erasmus Mundus Design Measures: MA in Applied Deaf Studies

The MADS project initiates collaborations between seven higher education institutions in Europe and the UK with a view of setting up a new European joint master’s programme in applied deaf studies. It is funded by the Erasmus Mundus Design Measure under the Erasmus+ program.

Flipped classroom in science education (FiNa)

Flipped classroom in science education (FiNa) aims at developing and investigating learning design based on digitally supported flipped classroom in order to facilitate student active learning.

IMaT – Inclusive Mathematics Teaching: Understanding and developing school and classroom strategies for raising attainment

This project aims to strengthen mathematics teaching in Norwegian primary and lower secondary schools, with the specific objective of enhancing problem solving and reasoning skills in students at all levels of attainment, and from all backgrounds.

INTERACT - Interprofessional Interaction With Children and Youth

The aim of the project is to provide the students with knowledge about and experience of interprofessional cooperation and provide the students with interprofessional experience.

Literacies for Health and Life Skills

The “Literacies for Health and Life Skills” (HLS) project aims to develop and implement a new didactic approach that will enable pre-service teachers to facilitate the development of young people´s health and life skills.

Mapping hateful utterances about Muslims on Norwegian Social Media

Based on analyses of big data from Norwegian social media the project aims to map hate speech about Muslims. The project will also conduct a meta-analysis of existing knowledge about hate speech about Muslims.

Mathematics, Science and Computational Thinking (MASCOT)

MASCOT is an interdisciplinary, collaborative and innovative research collaboration that aims to develop knowledge about teaching, learning and assessment processes of computational thinking in teacher education and school. The project is an international collaboration.

New media practices in a changing Africa

The project starts from two significant facts: relatively consistent economic growth in Africa over two decades, and a digital media revolution during the same period. This project aims to understand and explain to what extent and in what ways changes in sub-Saharan Africa are affected by new media through close case-based studies of four African countries (Botswana, Zambia, South-Africa and DR Congo).

PolkaNorski - Polish and Norwegian language and world knowledge development in mono- and multilingual children

The project investigates the development of language skills and world knowledge in Polish-Norwegian multilingual children and their monolingual peers in Poland and Norway.

Prevention of prejudice and promotion of inclusive school environment through increased diversity competence

The main goal of this project is to develop new knowledge on prejudice, hate speech and practices and attitudes that might cause exclusion in the school context that might help teachers develop anti-oppressive and inclusive teaching practises.

Programming and makerspace in schools: Competences for the 21 st. century and adapted training for gifted students

The project is about developing technology-rich teaching programs for use in adapted education for gifted student's.The focus is on the use of programming in teaching as part of a makerspace context.

Research about the Norwegian national school leadership education

Norwegian universities and colleges have since 2009 offered national school leadership programs on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate of Education. The Faculty of Teacher Education and International Studies at OsloMet has been appointed to research these programmes.

Riverine Rights: Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of Rivers

The project will investigate legal cases from New Zealand, Colombia and India, where rivers have been granted personhood rights. It is an interdisciplinary project, spanning perspectives from social anthropology, law, economics and resource governance.

Searching for Qualities

Relations, play, aesthetics, learning. The focus in this project was to investigate and enhance the quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) for children under the age of three years in a context characterized by considerable transitions in Norwegian ECEC.

Strengthening teacher education in lesser taught languages (STELT)

The main aim of the project is to strengthen foreign language teacher education for French, German and Spanish in Norway, due to the need for formally educated French, German and Spanish teachers in Norwegian Lower Secondary schools.

Supporting Content and Language Learning Across Diversity (SCALED)

The aim of the SCALED project is to develop a new online course: interactive and self-study mode that can be adapted to onsite use.

Teacher Education Schools and Teacher Education Workplaces in Vocational Teacher Education

The project looks at development of an organizational theoretical, didactic model for collaboration between educational institution and field of practice, and challenges and needs connected to this.

Teacher Qualification for the 21st century - teachers professional competence (TEQ21)

Future school and society are characterized by rapid changes and technological development, which in turn demand new competences such as creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking. In order to meet these challenges, teacher education programmes need to educate professional teachers who can educate pupils for the future.

Teacher Research Literacy (TREL): Comparative Trajectories in the Nordic-Baltic Region

TREL aims to identify good practices in the Nordic-Baltic educational context. It also envisions workshops, classroom observations, research, and a handbook of good practice for building research literacy.