OsloMet
Name
OsloMet
Country
Norway
Short Description
The Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education (GFU) is part of the Faculty of Education and International Studies (LUI), which educates tomorrow’s teachers from kindergarten through upper secondary school, in close cooperation with the field of practical training. In addition, the Faculty offers development studies and studies in sign language and interpreting. The Faculty’s research and development focuses on practical training and is both profession-oriented and internationally oriented. GFU offers master’s degrees in teacher education and a significant portfolio of continuing and further education for teachers and school leaders. We have strong academic and research environments within school subjects, pedagogy and digital competence.
Contact Person
Professor Dina Tsagari works as a teacher educator in English at GFU, LUI OsloMet. Her research interests include language testing and assessment, teaching/learning, teacher training, materials design and evaluation, differentiated instruction, multilingual and distance education, and learning difficulties. She is editor and author of several volumes, journal papers, and book chapters and the coordinator of the Classroom-based Language Assessment SIG – EALTA and Evaluation and Assessment FoU at OsloMet. She coordinates and participates in research projects on second language assessment literacy, identifying linguistic parameters accounting for progress in proficiency in high-stakes tests and authentic language acquisition in multilingual contexts in various international projects.
Associate Professor Hege Knudsmoen works as an Academic International Coordinator and educator in inclusive education at GFU, LUI OsloMet. Her research focuses on internationalisation in higher education, well-being, sustainable development and inclusive education in schools and in teacher education. At OsloMet she takes part in the research group Special Education and Inclusive Practices (SpecInc), which focuses on children, young learners’ and adolescents’ participation, fellowship, development and learning from kindergarten throughout primary and secondary education. They support and coordinate research and development projects promoting inclusive special education practices for lifelong learning and participation in society, and develop knowledge for the educational programs of the LUI’s research community.