Curriculum Vitae
of
Geir Grenersen
Associate Professor
Faculty of Humanities
Department of Documentation Studies
Born: August 13, 1955
Place of Birth: Bjerkvik, Nordland County, Norway
Citizenship: Norwegian
Adress: Kveldroveien 38, 9007 Tromsø, Norway
Telephone: 77646555 (work) 77919889 (home)
Email: geir.grenersen@hum.uit.no
Education
University of Tromsø 1992 - 1996
:Ph.D. Social Science/Pedagogy 1996.
Thesis: Cultural Revival in a Markesami Core Area - in the Tension between Research, Politics and Traditional Knowledge.
University of Tromsø 1981 - 1983:
M.A. (Cand.Polit) 1983 Social Science / specialization in School Researh.
Thesis: Teacher at an Island. A Discussion of Moral, Roles and Strategies in the Teaching Profession.
University of Tromsø 1975 - 1978:
B.A. (Cand.Mag) 1978 Social Science / specialization in School Researh (interdisiplinary study combining sociology, anthropology, philosophy and pedagogy)
Teaching Positions
01/78 - 08/79 Teacher Norwegian Ground School
08/83 - 07/84 * 08/87 - 07/88 Lecturer , Faculty of Education. Tromsø University College
08/88 - 07/92 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Finnmark College
08/98 - Associate Profesor, Department of Documentation Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Tromsø (UoT)
Courses Taught
Tromsø University College:
Pedagogy, Bachelor courses
Special Pedagogy, Bachelor courses
Socialization Theory, Graduate seminar
Finnmark University College:
Social Theory, Bachelor courses
Social Pedagogy, Bachelor courses
Multicultural Perspectives, Bachelor courses
UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ
Lower division course (grunnfag):
Documentation and Society
Media- and Document Analysis
Intermediate division course (mellomfag/bachelor):
Communication and Meaning
Documentation and the Public Sphere
Sociological Perspectives in Media- and Documentation Studies
Upper division course (hovedfag/master):
The Social Aspects of Documentation,
Documentation and Institutions
Perspectives on Communication
Fieldwork in Cultural Researh
Master in Indigenous Studies:
Knowledge and Self - Representation
Researh Positions
08/79 - 07/81 Research Assistant The Red Isles Projekt, University of Tromsø (state sponsored shool research project, evaluating new decentralised models for rural schools in costal areas of Northern Norway)
08/84 - 07/87 Project Director (84/85) and Researcher Bicultural Early Education in Sami Coastal Areas of Northern Norway, Nordland Researh Institute (Project sponsored by the Bernhard van Leer Foundation)
08/92 - 07/95 Researh Scholar Department of Pedagogy, University of Tromsø
08/98 - Associate Professor Department of Documentation Science, University of Tromsø.
Administrative Positions
08/84 - 08/85 Project Director Bicultural Early Education in Sami Coastal Areas of Northern Norway, Nordland Researh Institute (Project sponsored by the Bernhard van Leer Foundation).
08/90 - 08/91 Head Department of Social Work, Finnmark College.
08/95 - 07/98 Director Center for Development in Childrens Welfare in Northern Norway ( State sponsored program for researh and development in Child Welfare).
08/99 - 08/00 Head Department of Documentation Science, University of Tromsø.
Other current positions
2000 - 2002 Deputy Chairman Steering Committee, The Roald Amundsen Centre for Artic Researh, University of Tromsø.
2001 - Board member Saami Researh Centre, University of Tromsø.
1998 - 2002 Board Member Research Committee, Faculty of Humanities
2003 - Head Election Committee, Faculty of Humanities
Member of different groups concerning the reorganisation of researh, education and administration at the Faculty of Humanities.
Research areas and interests
Since 1979, in preparation for my master thesis, I have been doing fieldwork in various local communities in Northern Norway: Rødøy, Andøy, Tysfjord, Hattfjelldal, Markebygdene i Skånland og Evenes, Bjerkvik, Vassdalen, Gratangen. Over the years my main interest have been the multi-cultural situation in Northern-Norway and Sabmi - the Sami Core Areas in Northern Scandinavia and Russia. Areas of research: Socialization, traditional and modern knowledge systems, documentation- and learning systems, politics of recognition, field-work methodology.
Selected writings 1990 -
Books:
Grenersen, Geir: Ved forskningens grenser (Researh at the Borders), Spartacus Forlag, Oslo 2002.
Articles, Papers:
The New Sami Exibition at Tromsø Museum, AntropologNytt, 2001.
Genre, Concepts and Personal Experience in Field-Work Studies. Paper to the 8. National Conference in Sociology, Longyearbyen, june1998.
Ethnicity and Forms of Documentation in Social Work, Center for Development in Childrens Welfare/ Norwegian Researh Council 1998.
A Study on Culture and Ethnicity: Between the Boundaries of the Classic Scientific Ideal and Personal Experience in "Social Work — Praxis, Research and Politics", Trondheim 1997.
Cultural Revival in a Markesami Core Area - in the Tension between Research, Politics and Local Peoples Selfunderstanding, Ph.D. Thesis University of Tromsø, 1996.
Fieldwork, Text and Experience, paper, conference on "Social Work and Postmodernity", Lancaster may 1996.
Social Work in a Sami Context, paper, Center for Development in Childrens Welfare, 1995
The Hidden Sami Identity in Northern Norway - Presenting some Dilemmas for the Social Researcher, paper National Conference in Social Anthropology, Tromsø May 1993.
Current Research
Documentation- and Learning Centres in a Socio-Cultural Perspective.
The increasing tension between traditional- and modern knowledge systems have led to an awearness in indigenous communities in Northern Norway for the presentation, maintainance and development of local knowledge systems. For this purpose, many Sami communities have initiated, and in some instances build what often is named Cultural Centres. These are multi-purpose centers containing museums, libraries, archieves, documentation materials, educational departments. Multi-media technologies, educational purposes (language, distant educational courses, cultural education etc).
I am currently developing an action-orientet researchproject where the learning- and socialization aspect of these ceters are put in focus.