Gunn Elisabeth Søreide

Title: Associate Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 39 75

Cellphone: +47 994 89 753 SMS

E-mail: Gunn.Soreide@iuh.uib.no

Visiting address: Christiesgt. 13

Knowledge building and knowledge processes

Educational policy

Discourse analysis

Narrative analysis

Publications in Cristin

Current project:

”Knowledge transfer and learning practices in knowledge organisations” - This project will investigate how various formal and informal practices facilitate learning, knowledge development and knowledge transfer in knowledge organisations in competitive surroundings. The project will thus focus on characteristics of learning situations and educational practice that are conducive for learning and how these practices are perceived by leaders and employees

 

 

Norwegian educational policy (NOREDPOL) - Politicians and policymakers in countries across the globe tend to describe the challenges for the educational sector and the policy initiatives confronting these challenges in similar terms. Although policy rhetoric appears to be globalized, the question whether the policies themselves also are globalized in the sense that they are understood and implemented in the same way nationally and locally remains to be investigated more closely.  This project consequently take Norwegian educational policy initiatives, values, arguments and discourses as a point of departure and explore the connection between these and a) what could be described as global policy and b) various local educational policy practices. The project is addressing the way educational policy is shaped and enacted in relation to knowledge and competence development, school leadership, diversity, inclusion, democratic education and educational identities.There are three main aims for the project; firstly we wish to illuminate and explore the relationship between global educational policy initiatives, national and/or local educational policy and various educational practices. What are the relationships, tensions, conflicts, overlaps and/or references between these levels of the educational system? Secondly we aim to identify characteristics of «Norwegianess" in Norwegian educational policy, and thirdly we aim to illuminate how various theoretical and methodological approaches to analysis of policy documents and initiatives will inform each other and collectively generate a nuanced understanding of policy processes in a national context.

 

Previous projects:

PhD-project: Narrative construction of Teacher Identity. This project investigates how teacher identity is narratively constructed by several actors, such as teachers, policy documents and The Union of Education Norway. Conceptual framework and methodological approach is informed by poststructuralist, narrative and discursive perspectives.

Participant in Productive Learning Cultures I and II – a NUFU financed capacity building research network with members from Norway, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa.

Research-group leader "Knowledge, Education and Democracy"

 

Teaching at various courses BA and MA in EDucation

 

Tutoring MA-students and PhD-Candidates