Field of work
Professor Emeritus (from 01.08.2016). Has experience and expertise in the following areas within the broad field of drama/theatre and education:
- Drama/drama pedagogy/drama didactics
- Drama in schools
- Drama education
- Applied drama/theatre
- Theatre-in-education - TIE
- Theatre accessing
- Theatre history
- Internationalisation.
Courses taught
- Drama/theatre education and pedagogy, theatre history, applied drama/theatre, aesthetics. Special areas: Bertolt Brecht. Dorothy Heathcote.
- I am now retired, but as a professor emeritus, I am affiliated with the drama community and the Department of Arts Education. I can be requested for teaching assignments and commission work.
Research areas
- Effects of drama/theater and education: http://www.dramanetwork.eu/
- Drama - theatre - democracy: Drama, teater og demokrati (Antologi I - I barnehage, skole, museum og høyere utdanning) - Fagbokforlaget.no
- Bertolt Brecht’s learning play methodology
- ‘Distancing’ / ‘making strange’ in process drama and applied theatre
- Dorothy Heathcote’s theory and method
- https://1drv.ms/b/s!AjebEk9sYsIlhd9LQCdwOrzVijnAlg?e=fKfBx2
Research groups
- Drama in Educational and Social Contexts (DUSK)
- Culture - Criticism - Community
Publications
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Drama Conventions in Educational and Applied Sciences
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Humanizing Education with Dramatic Inquiery. In Dialogue with Dorothy Heathcote's transformative Pedagogy
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Hills like white elephants: a drama conventions approach to short-story
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Conversation with Cecily O'Neill - a video interview. (Presented in Education in the North, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)
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IDEA. Journal Presentation Day
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