Field of work
Teaches geography and didactics in teacher edcuation, Master and PhD-courses.
Leader of the research group COMPETE - Comparative perspectives in Education
Project leader, UTFORSK project on joint master exchange with partners in South Africa
Professor II in geography, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
Scientific Director, Bergen Summer Research School, 2024
- Human geograpy
- Climate and sustainability
- Place and the didactics of place
- Geography didactics
- Political ecology
- Geography didactics and the epistemology of geogphray
- Colonial history and postcolonial representations
- Climate and sustainability in education
- Geographical literacy
Selected publications
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Geografisk tenking og geografifaget i norsk utdanning – historiske linjer og samtidige muligheter.
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Panelsamtale: Urolige tider i geografien? Statusrapport tre år inn i LK20
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Transdisiplinæritet på grensen: Klimakursing og klimaservice på kryss av fag, geografi og epistemologiar
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Roundtable discussion: Critical analysis of South African universities institutional understanding of comprehensive internationalisation: policy and practice. Panelists: John Mashayamombe Helin Bäckman Kartal Erlend Eidsvik
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Fracking, Bildung and a lack of democratic citizenship in communities: What can South Africa learn from Poland?