Field of work
Janne Iren Robberstad is the coordinator of the EU Erasmus+ GSO4SCHOOL, a Strategic Partnership project in 5 countries.
She is the Production Manager of the Global Science Opera which was the H2020 SWAFS project "Developing an Engaging Science Classroom (Creations)" International flagship initiative during the years 2016-2018 (globalscienceopera.com).
Robberstad is a PhD-student and an Assistant Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), connected to the Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports. In her PhD-work she researches the relationship between sustainability and creativity in an artistic design-process within education.
She coordinated of the EU Erasmus+ “Creativity, Arts and Science in Education” (CASE) a Strategic Partnership project in 5 countries.
She is also involved in developing “Global Hands-On Ocean”, as part of her participation in the Norwegian Research Council's INTPART iScope-project focusing on advancing knowledge on ocean-health in education.
Through these projects, she has taught internationally in a variety of EU-funded (and other) contexts, including arts education workshops in Japan, USA, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Portugal and Chile. Her work-experience includes 15 years in the folk high schools teaching theatre, fashion- and costume-design and arts and crafts. She has also earned a living as a visual artist and scenographer in her own company for over a decade. Robberstad has a masters degree in creative disciplines and learning-processes from HVL.
Publications
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Embodied eco-embroidery Creative craftsmanship in sustainable STEAM-education
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Meet the Global Science Opera
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NASA, Goddard’s Office of Communications, StoryLab: “Meet the Global Science Opera” https://video.ibm.com/recorded/131485342
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“Broderi i samspel” Presentasjon under nettverkskonferanse for kunst og håndverk i UH-sektoren
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Robberstad, Janne Iren Eco-creativity in the GSO4SCHOOL - Key Note, GSO4SCHOOL international final conference, Athens, Greece, 2022 17th December 2022
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Towards a rationale for science-art integration as a transdisciplinary signature pedagogy
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Broderi i samspel
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The GSO4SCHOOL Teachers’ Guidelines. Written with R. Doran and M. Sotiriou
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The GSO4SCHOOL Framework and Master Plan. Written with P. Stergiopoulos and M. Sotiriou
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“The Global Science Opera” World Space Week Romania
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Creativity, Educational Design and Teacher Education in the Global Trans-disciplinary Classroom - Key Note, NAFOL conference 2021
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"Futures of Education-GHOU 2020 - Learning to become." G-HOU, 2020. Rollinde, Emmanuel, Carl Pennypacker, Rosa Doran, Hassane Darhmanoui, Toshihiro Handa, Kathan Kothari, Fraser Lewis, Janne Robberstad, and Colleen Megowan. Global Hands-On Universe (GHOU)
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Robberstad, J., Doran, P., & Ben-Horin, O. (2021) GSO4SCHOOL Teachers Guidelines.
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Robberstad, J. (2021) Learning Science Through Ecoscenography, CASE
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Evig Teatermagi
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“The Global Science Opera – global transdisciplinary education” Key-note speaker at SPACE-conference in Porto, Portugal 30th March, 2019
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Understanding through Opera: Increasing children's engagement with climate change through cross-cultural collaboration. Kearney, D. & Robberstad, J. (2019) Paper presented at The 7th EUGEO Congress on the Geography of Europe in conjunction with the 51st Conference of Irish Geographers, NUI Galway, 15 May 2019., Galway, Ireland
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Dialogue and materiality/embodiment in science|arts creative pedagogy: Their role and manifestation
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“The Global Science Opera”, presentation-talk at the 11th International Meeting of Astronomy and Astronautics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Undress my Ego
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Sustainable Design – Ecoscenography and Creativity.
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Creativity and Ecoscenography in the Global Science Opera . https://hvlopen.brage.unit.no/hvlopen-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2452703/Robberstad_Master.pdf?sequence=1
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Global Science Opera (GSO), Ghost Particles Demonstrator. Co-authors: S. Sotiriou and P. Stergiopoulos.