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Heidi BisethHeidi Biseth

 Doktorgradsstipendiat ved Storbyprogrammet
 Høgskolelektor, Master i flerkulturell og internasjonal utdanning
Heidi.Biseth@lui.hio.no
 Høgskolen i Oslo
 Avdeling for lærerutdanning og internasjonale studier
 Besøksadresse: Holbergs Terrasse, Stensberggaten 27, kontor HT223
 Postadresse: Postboks 4 St. Olavs Plass, 0130 Oslo
 Tlf.: 2245 2783, mobil: 9599 5313

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Doktorgradsprosjekt:

Title of the project: 

Educators as Custodians of Democracy: A comparative investigation of multicultural  school environments in the Scandinavian capitals

 Project period: 1 January 200731 December 2010

This study explores how educators perceive their task as guardians and advocates of democratic values in our societies. Furthermore, the focus is to investigate and determine how democratic values are implemented in everyday practices in multicultural school environments, through the perspectives of educators and students. The underlying assumption is that the cultural, linguistic, religious, and political diversity among students create an educational environment where educators have to make more than usual endeavors to achieve the necessary training of future citizens. Additionally, these environments offer exceptional opportunities for teaching democracy.
           The research material is provided by 64 educators and 23 students in three junior high schools and 11 senior high schools in the Scandinavian capitals; Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm. To unravel the democratic mandate assigned to the educational sector, educational legislation and legislative regulations have been examined. The results have informed the subsequent in-depth interviews conducted. A comparative and multilevel research design is chosen as it enables me to examine the
multiple ways in which societal factors, educational policies, and practices may vary and interact.

            The major finding emanating from this study is that education for and through democracy appears arbitrary in the schools studied, in all the three countries.  No organized approach to teach democracy and the practical implications of democratic principles in school life exist in any of the schools. The diversity present in the school population is rarely linked to democracy, and hence diversity is made an aberration rather than a natural consequence of democracy.


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FoU-interesser:

Flerkulturell utdanning, demokrati, Citizenship Education, menneskerettigheter, utdanning og utvikling, språk i utdanning
United hands    Multicultural

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Faglige arbeidsområder / undervisning:

Vår 2011:
Undervisning på Master in International Education and Development (Sudan-NUCOOP): "Human Rights, Language Rights and Education", april (Juba, Sudan).

Seminar med prosjektbeskrivelse, Master i flerkulturell og internasjonal utdanning (MIE), mai

Veiledning av to masterstudenter i masteroppgave: Master in International Education and Development (NOMA)
Veiledning av en masterstudent i masteroppgave: Master i flerkulturell og internasjonal utdanning (MIE)
Veiledning av en masterstudent i masteroppgave: Master in Multicultural and International Education (Sudan-NUCOOP)
Veiledning av to masterstudenter i masteroppgave: Master of Philosophy in Comparative and International Education (CIE)
Veiledning av en masterstudent i masteroppgave: Master i pedagogikk




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Nettverksdeltakelse:

Nordic Comparative and International Education Society - NOCIES
Comparative Education Society Europe - CESE
Comparative and International Education Society - CIES
International Association for Intercultural Education - IAIE
Nordic Educational Research Association - NERA



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Publikasjoner:

  • Holmarsdottir, H. B. and Biseth, H. (red.) (kommer). Human Rights and Education. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers
  • Biseth, H. (kommer). Citizenship Education in Scandinavian Multicultural Schools: A Comparative Study of Students' and Teachers' Perceptions. Citizenship Teaching and Learning
  • Andersen, B. and Biseth, H. (kommer). "There will be riots": Disentangling the urban myth of marginalized immigrant youth. I en bok fra Storbyprogrammet ved Høgskolen i Oslo. Oslo: Novus forlag
  • Changezi, S. H. and Biseth, H. (2011). Education of Hazara refugee girls in Diaspora: Education as empowerment and an agent of change. Research in Comparative and International Education, vol. 6, number 1, s. 79-89
  • Biseth, H. (2010). Teaching human rights and education in South Sudan: some reflections. Intercultural Education, vol. 21, number 6, ss. 607-608
  • Biseth, H. (2009). Hvordan har språk- og samfunnskunnskap betydning for deltakelse og medborgerskap? Om språklæreren som demokratibygger. I: Hirsch, K. (red.) Språklæreren som formidler av kunnskap om kultur og samfunn: Dilemmaer og utfordringer i et flerkulturelt læringsmiljø (s. 21-30). Trondheim: Senter for voksenopplæring
  • Biseth, H. (2008). Multilingualism and Education for Democracy. International Review of Education, Online First: (http://www.springerlink.com/content/52757k3x692x2686/) 
  •  Biseth, H. (2006). South Africa’s education language policy and practice: The perspective of the ”Other”. Paper presented at the LEA (Language and Education in Africa) Conference in Oslo, June 2006.
  • Biseth, H. (2006). Democracy and Language in Education: Reflections from a field study in the Western Cape, South Africa. I: Brock-Utne, Birgit, Zubeida Desai and Martha Qorro (eds). Focus on fresh data on the language of instruction debate in Tanzania and South Africa (s. 138-166). Cape Town: African Minds
  • Biseth, H. (2006). "Language in Education influenced by global trends: South African experiences. I: Halvorsen, Torill Aagot (ed). Evaluation of Education – on Whose Terms? (s. 146-168). Report no. 2, 2006. Oslo: University of Oslo, Institute for Educational

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Annet

"Oslolærere må bli flinkere til å takle elever med ulik bakgrunn" - intervju, NRK Østlandssendingen 20/5-2011

"Mangelfull undervisning" - intervju, HiO-nytt 19/5-2011

"Svikter demokratiopplæring" - intervju, forskning.no 29/12-2010

"Nyansert virkelighet" - VG 29/12-2010, debattinnlegg

"Skal vi skremmes til å stemme Frp?" - Aftenposten 23/12-2010, debattinnlegg


"Marginalization of immigrant youths - myths and facts" - The Nordic Page Norway 23/10-2010, intervju

"Ulike grupper mer like" - Aftenposten 25/3-2010, debattinnlegg

Intervju på TV2Nyhetskanalen 23/2-2010

"Lite ekstremisme å finne" - intervjuet av NTB 22/2-2010

"Språk + Demokrati = Sant"

CIES 2008 New Scholars Workshop

Storby PhD Blog

"Skal kurse europeiske lærerutdannere"

"Fruktbart NOMA arbeidsseminar"

"LU sterkt representert på internasjonal kongress"

"Igang med Norad-finansiert masterprogram"

"De første storbystipendiatene på plass"


urbanurban coffeesun during the fall

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