15 projects

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UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Understanding how to support the early learning opportunities of children from under-resourced communities

Mobility grants North America in educational research (UTNAM) enables researchers at The department of Education, University of Oslo to invite Prof. C Cybele Raver and Dr. Tyler Watts, New York University, to visit University of Oslo spring of 2019. Raver and Watts are currently working on a numb...

Awarded: NOK 96,164

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Oslo

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Theories of Difference: Pedagogies and Practices (Workshop)

The call for proposals seeks to fund workshops that will improve teacher education to benefit society at large, while Norway’s Education Law §1.1 states that “education shall give insight into cultural diversity and show respect for individual views” as well as “promote democracy, equality, and a...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Buskerud

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Funding of a 20% position for Prof. Eric Dearing at the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development-Renewal

The objective of this project was to take advantage of Professor Eric Dearing's expertise on consequences of ECEC and social inequality for children's cognitive, academic, and behavioral development throughout the school years. The UTNAM grant allowed Prof. Dearing to hold a 20% position at the D...

Awarded: NOK 0.91 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Oslo

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Pedagogy for the 21st century - working with "post- theories" in Norwegian early childhood education

The members of the project group related to the project Pedagogy for the 21st century: working with post-theories in Norwegian early childhood education were professor Ninni Sandvik, Østfold University College, ssociate professor Camilla Eline Andersen, Innlandet University College and professor ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Reorganizaton of international standardized measurement tools of ECEC quality

In the GoBaN project, international standardized observation instruments for measuring quality in children's Learning Environment are used. The most well known instruments are ITERS-R (Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scales-Revised) and ECERS-R (Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales-Revised...

Awarded: NOK 42,458

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Optimizing learning opportunities for students in preschool and beyond

The present UTNAM-grant represented a unique opportunity to invite two of the leading scholars in preschool education and childhood development from the US, Professor Carol Connor and Professor Deborah Vandell, to collaborate with researchers at the Department of Education at University of Oslo. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Application for funding of a 10% position as Professor 2 at the University of Oslo for Dr. Meredith Rowe

The aim of the UTNAM project was to benefit from Professor Meredith Rowe's expertise on child language development, important contributing environmental factors, as well as the implications of this development for child learning, academic prospects and cognitive development. The project has fin...

Awarded: NOK 0.67 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Oslo

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Policy transfer in education

The POLTRANS project brought a top U.S. researcher, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Ph.D., Professor of Education at Teachers College (TC), Columbia University, and her colleagues in New York, together with researchers within the research group Curriculum Studies, Leadership and Educational Governance (CLEG...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Oslo

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

From Practice to Publication: Sharing BioCEED Excellence Through Discipline-Based Educational Research

The Centre of Excellence in Biology Education (bioCEED) was awarded its status as a Norwegian Centre of Excellence in Education by NOKUT in 2014. Among bioCEEDs goals is to develop and spread new pedagogical practices for biology, while creating a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) cultu...

Awarded: NOK 68,000

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Vestland

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Challanges of Digital Pedagogies: Lecture, Workshop, and Seminar with Dr. Kari Kraus

This is an application for funds to bring Dr. Kari Kraus for a series of events at NTNU: a keynote talk during the Futurescapes Symposium accompanying the Meta.Morf. Biennale in Trondheim, a digital pedagogies workshop, and a separate seminar on teaching, technology, and gender in March, 2016. ...

Awarded: NOK 58,000

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Application for funding of a 20% position as senior researcher for Dr. Eric Dearing at the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development

Etter instruks fra Cathrine Skjolden er ikke denne posten aktuell for sluttrapport av UTNAM-bevilgning. Vi leverer naturligvis en populærvitenskapelig fremstilling av resultatene hvis det skulle være behov.

Awarded: NOK 0.84 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Oslo

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Researching and Documenting Multi-disciplinary Inquiry-Based Educational Projects in Hordaland and Rogaland

Write a Science Opera (WASO) is a creative professional development approach to inquiry-based science and art education. WASO is an application of the widespread Write an Opera method, which has been successfully implemented in many countries during the p ast three decades. WASO integrates scienc...

Awarded: NOK 41,000

Project Period: 2013-2015

Location: Vestland

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

NIFU Annual Conference 2013: Researcher role in change

In May 2013, NIFU organize a seminar on conditions for knowledge production in which changes in the research population/staff is an important issue. We will place particular emphasis on the technical and strategic challenges Norway is facing in the recrui tment of researchers to scientific, techn...

Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Professor II; Lesson Study in Teacher Education

Awarded: NOK 0.68 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Rogaland

UTNAM-Mobilitetsmidler Nord-Amerika innenfor utdanningsforskning

Reacting to the Past in English Instruction at the University of Agder

Dr. Sean Taylor, Associate Professor of history at University of Minnesota, Moorhead, was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Agder during the academic year 2011-2012. One of his greatest contributions while in Norway was to facilitate and evaluate a new and innovative teaching pedagogy ent...

Awarded: NOK 20,000

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Agder