Professor

Solvejg Jobst

Field of work

I am professor of Educational Science and Academic head of the PhD-program Studies of Bildung and pedagogical practices at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Norway).

My research and work fields include

  • comparative educational research
  • Bildungstheory, Bildungsresearch
  • education and social inequality
  • migration and education
  • intercultural pedagogy
  • teacher research
  • internationalisation
  • scientific theory
  • critical pedagogy
  • praxeological educational research
  • sociology of education.

HORIZON2020: Pioneering Policies and Practices Tackling Educational Inequalities in Europe​​​​ -

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www.pioneered-project.eu 

 

 

 

​​​​​​​Education

2009 –  Doctor Philosophiae Habilitatus (Leipzig University/Germany)

2002 –  Doctor Philosophiae (Leipzig University/Germany)

1998 – Master in Sociology, Education Science, English (University of Leipzig, Germany)

Academic positions

Since 2014 - Professor in Education (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)

Since 2015 - Head of the PhD-program “Studies on Bildung and pedagogical practices” (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)

2009-2014 - Professorship in International and Intercultural Educational Research (University of Magdeburg, Germany)

2002-2009 - Associate Professor (Faculty of Education, University of Leipzig, Germany)

1999-2002 - PhD candidate and research fellow (Faculty of Education, University of Leipzig, Germany)

1998-1999 - Lector/Research assistant for methods of empirical social research (Faculty for Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Leipzig, Germany)

1993-1998 - Student research assistant (Faculty for Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Leipzig, Germany)

 

Courses taught
  • PhD-program "Studies of Bildung and pedagogical practices"
  • Critical Pedagogy, Sociology of Education, Intercultural Pedagogy, Scientific theory, Praxeological theory, Teaching profession, Research methodology   
Research areas

Education and social inequality, educational theory, International and intercultural education, comparative education, educational policy, teacher research 

Research groups
  • HORIZON2020: Pioneering Policies and Practices Tackling Educational Inequalities in Europe​​​​​​​                                                   Website: www.pioneered-project.eu

 

  • ​​​​​​​Research cluster: Critical and Practice-Oriented Educational Research

Publications

  • Paulo Freire in Times of Liquid Integration

    Jobst, Solvejg, Skrobanek, Jan (2024)
  • Kritische Pädagogik und Bildungsforschung Anschlüsse an Paulo Freire

    Baros, Wassilios, Braches-Chyrek, Rita, Jobst, Solvejg, Schroeder, Joachim (2024)
  • Facilitating agency in Norwegian pupils struggling to stay in school—An alternative approach to emancipatory education

    Tokheim, Ivan, Jobst, Solvejg, Dyngeland, Espen Søreide, Kråkenes, Maria Sundfør, Skrobanek, Jan (2024)
  • Janus-faced discourse in contemporary Norwegian policy framing for tackling educational inequality? A critical analysis of contemporary tensions and contradictions

    Jensen, Joakim, Skrobanek, Jan, Jobst, Solvejg (2024)
  • «Skolen har jo som mandat å utjevne sosial ulikhet» – lærerpraksis i en utjevningspolitisk kontekst

    Kvaale-Conateh, Lamin Andre, Jobst, Solvejg (2024)
  • Facilitating Agency in Norwegian Pupils Struggling to Stay in School

    Tokheim, Ivan, Jobst, Solvejg (2023)
  • Mitigating educational inequality by interlinking formal, non-formal and informal education – experiences from alternative educational programs in Spain and Norway

    Jobst, Solvejg, Vázquez-Cupeiro, Susana, Montes, Alejandro, Tokheim, Ivan, Skrobanek, Jan (2023)
  • Is the Concept of Bildung Still Relevant? Rethinking Bildung From a Praxeological Perspective.

    Jobst, Solvejg (2023)
  • Mitigating educational inequality by interlinking formal, non-formal and informal education – experiences from alternative educational programs in Spain and Norway

    Vázquez-Cupeiro, Susana, Jobst, Solvejg, Montes, Alejandro, Skrobanek, Jan (2023)
  • Positiv diskriminering i en skole for alle

    Dyngeland, Espen Søreide, Tokheim, Ivan, Kråkenes, Maria Sundfør, Jobst, Solvejg, Skrobanek, Jan (2023)
  • Smoothening Transitional Risks for Students Struggling to Stay in School

    Jobst, Solvejg (2023)
  • Facilitating Agency in Norwegian Pupils Struggling to Stay in School

    Jobst, Solvejg (2023)
  • Pioneering policies and practices tackling educational inequality in Europe - results from two Norwegian case studies

    Jobst, Solvejg, Jensen, Joakim (2023)
  • Case Study of a Norwegian Pioneering Practice Tackling Educational Inequality

    Tokheim, Ivan, Jobst, Solvejg, Skrobanek, Jan, Jensen, Joakim (2022)
  • Editorial: Globale Solidarität und Verantwortung

    Baros, Wassilios, Jobst, Solvejg, Kell-Delić,, Aida, Hannig, Miriam, Schroeder, Joachim (2022)
  • Researching ‘liquid integration’: breaking new ground for processual and contingent methodology.

    Skrobanek, Jan, Jobst, Solvejg (2022)
  • “Liquid integration” of vulnerable migrant youth. Some general considerations

    Skrobanek, Jan, Jobst, Solvejg, Grabowska, Izabela, Ryan, Louise (2021)
  • Sosial ulikskap i europeiske utdanningssystem er stor. No skal dei forske på kva som kan motverke det

    Jobst, Solvejg, Skrobanek, Jan (2021)
  • PIONEERED: Elaborating the link between social and educational policies for tackling educational inequalities in Europe

    Hadjar, Andreas, Alieva, Aigul, Jobst, Solvejg, Skrobanek, Jan, Grecu, Alyssa, Gewinner, Irina (2021)
  • The Impact Of Covid-19 On Immigration: The Transformation Of Norwegian Migration Policy On Asylum Seekers

    Skrobanek, Jan, Jobst, Solvejg (2021)
  • The Principle of Hope: Bloch’s contribution to the praxiological understanding of education

    Jobst, Solvejg (2021)
  • “Liquid integration” of vulnerable migrant youth. Some general considerations

    Skrobanek, Jan, Jobst, Solvejg, Grabovska, Izabela, Ryan, Louise (2021)
  • Konturen erziehungsissenschaftlicher Migrationsforschung - Eine Einführung

    Jobst, Solvejg, Baros, Wassilios, Gugg, Ricarda, Theurer, Thomas (2020)
  • Cultural hegemony and intercultural educational research – some reflections

    Jobst, Solvejg, Skrobanek, Jan (2020)
  • Bildungsherausforderungen in der globalen Migrationsgesellschaft: Kritische Beiträge zur erziehungswissenschaftlichen Migrationsforschung

    Jobst, Solvejg, Wassilios, Baros, Gugg, Ricarda, Theurer, Thomas (2020)
  • La elevene bli rustet til å møte de store samfunnsutfordringene, Jan Tore Sanner!

    Biseth, Heidi, Lenz, Claudia, Leming, Tove, Huang, Lihong, Anker, Trine, Erdal, Silje Førland (2019)
  • Educable or not? Teacher’s alternatives when connecting curriculum to pupils

    Hestholm, Grethe Nina, Jobst, Solvejg (2019)
  • Educable or not? Teacher’s alternatives when connecting curriculum to pupils

    Hestholm, Grethe Nina, Jobst, Solvejg (2019)
  • Bakhtin's concept of voice: Response and dialogue by Solvejg Jobst to Mikhail Gradovski:Challenging the educational practice for 21st century PhD supervisors: use of Bakhtin's philosophical concepts in Doctoral supervision research

    Jobst, Solvejg (2019)
  • Liquid integration. Thinking beyond conventional understanding

    Skrobanek, Jan, Jobst, Solvejg (2019)
  • Ph.d.programmet"Studier av danning og didaktiske praksiser"

    Jobst, Solvejg (2018)
  • PhD-program “Studies of Bildung and Pedagogical Practices”

    Jobst, Solvejg (2018)
  • The academic profile of the PhD programme "Studies of Bildung and pedagogical practices" relevance and challenges

    Jobst, Solvejg (2018)
  • Research based teaching from BA til PhD

    Jobst, Solvejg (2018)
  • Bewusstseins-Bildung und Schule im Kontext von Glokalisierung

    Jobst, Solvejg (2018)
  • Education and social Cultural inequality

    Jobst, Solvejg (2018)
  • “Liquid Integration” – a New Perspective on Assimilation in the Era of Super Mobilities

    Skrobanek, Jan, Jobst, Solvejg (2018)
  • Migration and Inequality: Object Constructions in the Field of Social Science

    Jobst, Solvejg, Skrobanek, Jan (2018)
  • The Coherence among School Climate Factors and Teachers’ Efforts to Prevent School Bullying

    Baraldsnes, Dziuginta, Rupsiene, Liudmila, Jobst, Solvejg (2018)
  • Vil gjøre doktorgradsprogrammet mer synlig

    Jobst, Solvejg (2018)
  • Fan und Sozialisation

    Skrobanek, Jan, Jobst, Solvejg (2017)
  • Preface to the book: Social Capital and Schooling Decisions:A Multilevel Comparison with Selected Cases in Cameroon and Germany

    Ngeloo, Brenda, Jobst, Solvejg (2017)
  • The Role of Computer Education in the Social Empowerment of Muslim Minority Women in Greek Thrace.

    Jobst, Solvejg, Georgiadou, Keratso (2017)
  • Construction and Reproduction of Power Relations in Educational Research

    Haugen, Ingvild Bjørkeng, Jobst, Solvejg (2017)
  • Theoretical Insights into Bullying and the Teachers’ Practices in Its Prevention from the Perspective of Bourdieu’s Theory

    Baraldsnes, Dziuginta, Jobst, Solvejg (2017)
  • Education, Critique & Change

    Jobst, Solvejg (2017)
  • Vorwort.In:Speicher, Claudia:Die Vorschulzeitschrift BUMMI zwischen Wandel und Beständigkeit.

    Speicher, Claudia, Jobst, Solvejg (2016)
  • Religion und Religiösität von Jugendlichen

    Skrobanek, Jan, Jobst, Solvejg (2016)
  • Tackling “othering” as a main challenge of teacher education by facing cultural and social diversity

    Jobst, Solvejg (2016)
  • Ph.d.-studiet "Studier av danning og didaktiske praksiser"

    Jobst, Solvejg (2016)
  • Intercultural Education Research and Practices: Disrupting the normal?

    Jobst, Solvejg (2016)
  • Education in the era of global capitalism: thoughts on educational policy and educational practice

    Jobst, Solvejg (2016)
  • The glocal teacher between solidarity and difference: Challenges of education

    Jobst, Solvejg, Trippestad, Tom Are (2016)
  • Construction and Reproduction of Power Relations in Educational Research

    Haugen, Ingvild Bjørkeng, Jobst, Solvejg (2016)
  • Εκπαιδευτική Πολιτική και πρακτική στο πλαίσιο της παγκόσμιας ανάπτυξης (Utdanningspolitikk og danningspraksis i globaliseringskonteksten)In: Βασίλειος Μπάρος, Mαρία Δημάση Θεοδώρα Γκαμπράνη, Γρηγορία-Kαρολίνα Κωνσταντινίδου (ed.): ΠΑΙΔΙΚΉ ΗΛΙΚΊΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΤΑΝΆΣΤΕYΣΗ Προκλήσεις για την Παιδαγωγική της Ετερογένειας (Barndom og migrasjon-utfordringer for heterogenitetspedagogikk), 325-368.

    Jobst, Solvejg (2016)
  • The Social Capital Theory in the Light of a Centre-Peripheral Comparison

    Ngeloo Abamukon, Brendan, Jobst, Solvejg (2016)
  • International and Intercultural Teaching - Myth and Reality

    Jobst, Solvejg (2015)
  • Intercultural research in critical and democratic perspective

    Jobst, Solvejg, Franz, Anja (2015)
  • Teacher Education Reform in Germany and Norway.

    Jobst, Solvejg, Werler, Tobias Christoph (2015)
  • Herkunfsbezogene Benachteiligung im Bildungssysten: Herausforderung fuer Praxis, Forschung und Gesellschaft

    Jobst, Solvejg (2015)
  • Interkulturelle Bildungsforschung als Sozialtechnologie?

    Jobst, Solvejg (2015)
  • Structures of identification in Curriculum – European examples

    Trippestad, Tom Are, Jobst, Solvejg (2015)
  • Structures of identification in Curriculum – European examples

    Jobst, Solvejg, Trippestad, Tom Are (2015)
  • Book Review: Comparative Education at Universities World Wide.

    Jobst, Solvejg (2014)
  • The redefinition of “Bildung” in the context of global education policy: New and old challenges for educational science & Pedagogy

    Jobst, Solvejg (2014)
  • Vertrauen, Bildung und Europa: Ergebnisse und Schlussfolgerungen aus einem internationalen Lehrervergleich.

    Jobst, Solvejg (2014)
  • Soziale Ungleichheit als theoretische und methodische Herausforderung interkultureller Bildungsforschung

    Jobst, Solvejg, Skrobanek, Jan (2014)
  • Das humanistische Bildungsideal im Kontext der neoliberalen Bildungspolitik: Zur Notwendigkeit eines praxeologischen Verständnisses von Bildung.

    Jobst, Solvejg (2014)
  • Globale Entwicklungen in Bildungspolitik und Bildungspraxis: Theoretische und empirische Betrachtungen.

    Jobst, Solvejg (2013)
  • Cultural Differentiation or Self-Exclusion. On Young Turks’ and Repatriates’ Dealing with Experiences of Discrimination in Germany

    Jobst, Solvejg (2010)
  • Teacher education in Germany for and after Bologna: Trends, problems and perspectives. In: Karras, K. G./Wolhuter, C. (ed.): International Handbook on Teacher Education Worldwide. Issues & Challenges for Teacher Profession.

    Jobst, Solvejg (2010)
  • Bildung, Erziehung, Sozialisation: Grundbegriffe der Erziehungswissenschaft.

    Jobst, Solvejg (2010)
  • Profession und Europäisierung. Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Lehrerhandeln. Institution und gesellschaftlichem Wandel.

    Jobst, Solvejg (2010)
  • Migration und Ungleichheit. Objektkonstruktionen im sozialwissenschaftlichen Feld

    Jobst, Solvejg, Skrobanek, Jan (2009)
  • Devaluation of cultural capital. A comparison between Pierre Bourdieu und Paul Willis

    Jobst, Solvejg, Skrobanek, Jan (2009)
  • "Begrenzung" durch kulturelles Kapital? Zu Bedingungen regionaler Mobilität im Kontext der Kapitalientheorie Pierre Bourdieus

    Skrobanek, Jan, Jobst, Solvejg (2006)