Associate Professor

Thomas Owren

Department of welfare and participation
Thomas Owren
Tel: +47 55 58 79 04
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Bergen
KRONSTAD2, M4-68
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Field of work

Social education (vernepleie), social education theory, disability and equality (CRPD) 

Participation and accommodating participation (building down environmental disabling barriers)

Including persons with intellectual disability as employees in ordinary businesses

Students teaching students (collective peer teaching) in higher education

Professional supervision, as well as creating interprofessional rooms for reflection and reflexivity

Research areas 

  • Informal coercion in public services to persons with intellectual disability
  • Workplace disability inclusion
  • Collective peer teaching

 

Courses taught
  • PHA508, Master's thesis, Fall 2024
  • PHA508, Master's thesis, Spring 2025
  • VPD220, The social educator’s social responsibility to work for inclusion and participation , Fall 2024
  • VPD300, Social Education between the Individual Service User and System levels, Fall 2024, subject responsible
  • VPD300, Social Education between the Individual Service User and System levels, Spring 2025, subject responsible
  • VPL130, Normative and Deive Goal-Directed Therapy, Spring 2025
  • VPL210, Healthcare and Health Promotion, Fall 2024
  • VPL220, The Social Educator’s Social Responsibility to Work for Inclusion and Participation , Spring 2025
  • VPL300, Social Education between the Individual Service User and System Levels, Fall 2024, subject responsible
  • VPL310, Welfare, Interaction and Project Work, Spring 2025
  • VPL390, Bachelor's Thesis , Spring 2025, subject responsible
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