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Productive Learning Practice

The research group Productive Learning Practice is headed by Professor Sølvi Lillejord, Professor Olga Dysthe and Professor Kari Smith, and consists of educational researchers from the Department of Education. The participants are all involved in ongoing research on education, more specifically on topics with relevance to applied education, focusing in particular on ICT and learning, higher education, professional knowledge and school related issues. In contemporary educational research the relevance for practice is pertinent. As applied education is the prioritized research area for educational research at the University of Bergen, we are well situated in the competition for external funding. Researchers in Productive Learning Practice are studying problems of diverse and contested concepts of knowledge with relevance to various learning processes – whether they are individual, intersubjective or in organisations. Questions related to continuous professional development and lifelong learning are put in focus. Furthermore, the understanding of what it means to be literate and employable throughout life is of vital importance in contemporary education. In several of the subprojects, research questions centre on how the introduction of ICT influences, challenges and changes traditional educational activities and learning processes. The research group is examining issues which can help us, as educators, to plan for the future, to be ahead of and initiating changes.

Scientific Advisory Committee:

Professor Thomas Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Professor Etienne Wenger, USA
Professor Harm Tillema, University of Leiden , The Netherlands


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