Home-team workshop: 26–27 October 2021

With members working with studies of religions and worldviews in education at Department for Teacher Education, NTNU. Participants: Oddrun M. H. Bråten, Øyvind Soltun Andreassen, Renate B. Eggen, Eli-Anne V. Eriksen, Camilla S. Jørgensen, Lars Unstad, Geir Skeie, Jess Heise Rasmussen.

National conference: 9-10 November 2021

National conference in Trondheim about one of the “core element” of the new Norwegian National Curriculum: “exploring religion and worldviews through different methods”. This was facilitated by Camilla S. Jørgensen and Øyvind S. Andreassen. Keynotes by Rob Freathy, University of Exeter and Øystein Brekke, Oslo MET. Following the conference, a special issue was published in Prismet.

Course for teachers: 8 November 2021

Course for teachers in the RE-searchers methodology, in Charlottenlund School, with guests from Lunde school, Stavanger, with Rob Freathy and Jonathan Doney from the University of Exeter. This was facilitated by cooperating teachers Bjarte Mongstad and Gunvor Wendel, and Renate B. Eggen and Inge Andersland also participated in the event.

RLE forum: 9 May 2021

Eli-Anne Vongraven Eriksen introduces the topic “core elements” of the new National Curriculum in Norway through a reflection about: “Exploring existential questions and answers”.

RLE forum: 11 February 2021

Meeting with Meerke Bientie who educator in the Sami congregation in the South-Sami area within the Church of Norway is. She talked about the religion of the congregation, their church life and how they manage religious education within that congregation. In addition, Renate W. B. Eggen gave some insights into her own research vis a vis Sami topic in the new national curriculum from 2020.

RLE forum: 11 November 2021

Ingrid Aspelund and Karoline Slåttum from The European Wergeland Centre on what teachers need to know to teach about the events concerning 22nd of July. They have been working with Camilla Stabel Jørgensen, Jakob Maliks and Tatjana Kielland Samoilow on a project about 22nd of July in schools. They presented from the project, focusing on what teachers need to know to teach about the events concerning 22nd of July.

PhD Viva: 24 June 2021

Lars Unstad, Thesis: Reading in Religious Education in secondary schools: Disciplinary reading, disciplinary literacy and competences
 

PhD Viva: 16 December 2020

Eli-Anne V. Eriksen: Thesis: Continuity and change: Individualization processes in young Muslim women’s knowledge acquisition and practice of Islam in Trondheim.

Project Development seminar Brekstad 13.–14.2.2020

With the purpose of developing the project MOVe into a larger research project, later named InDeep.

RLE forum: 26 September 2019

Ola Erik Domaas and Geir Skeie presented a historical overview of Norwegian RE in school and teacher education and the future RE plans to be implemented from august 2020.

RLE forum: 9 May 2019

Asbjørn Dyrendal introduced his research on conspiracy theory. He invited to a discussion on how to work with the theme in RE and Social Science education in school.

RLE forum: 15 November 2018

Sebastian Klein from Falstadsenteret presented inside information, in form of personal letters, from a local Jewish minority experience of persecution, arrest, and resistance during World War II.

RLE forum: 25 May 2018

Two teachers, Bjarte Mongstad and Gunnvor Wendel, presented their project on moving boundaries between two school subjects, KRLE and Social Science in lower secondary school, while teacher educators, Yngve Skjæveland and Oddrun M. H. Bråten, reported from their observations as researchers in the project.

Dag Hallvar Nestby presented his recently published article on identity development in RE (Norsk Pedagogisk Tidsskrift nr. 4 2017), receiving a prepared response from Jesper Aagaard Petersen.

Networking in Stockholm: May 2017

Oddrun Bråten, Geir Skeie, Camilla Jørgensen, Tove Steen-Olsen, Robert Jackson, Jenny Berglund and others participated. 

Honorary Doctorate to Professor Robert Jackson: 8-10 March 2017

Professor Robert Jackson was awarded NTNUs honorary doctorate. As part of the program the research group invited guest lectures and jazz musicians to a seminar on October 9th. Professor Jackson remains the Institute of Teacher Education (ILU), NTNUs only honorary doctorate (to date 2023).

Guest Lecture: 13 February 2017

Jenny Berglund: Teaching og Islam in secular societies.

Eli-Anne V. Eriksen: Women’s formation of knowledge and practice in Islam.

REL-forum: 13 December 2016

Camilla S. Jørgensen: Ethical Excursions

Introduction to discussions based on Jørgensen’s tryouts of “Ethical Excursions” with students.

RLE-forum: 8 November 2016

Renate B. Eggen: Beginners training in RE. Introduction to the topic Based on Eggen’s experience of teacher training for preschool teachers.

Guest Lectures: 5-6 April 2016

Public guest lecture by Professor Robert Jackson and guest lecture by associate professor Judith Everington, University of Warwick.

Guest Lecture: 12 January 2016

Lars Laird Iversen, MF, About Community of Disagreement and Whiteness and Religion.  
 

Seminar: Developing RE project, 25 September 2015

Action Research, introductions by Tove Steen-Olsen, NTNU and Dag Husebø, University of Stavanger