Homepage of
Knut Andersen
a brief summary in English
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Welcome to my homepage!
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My name is Knut Andersen. I´m a teacher of natural sciences at
Oslo University College - faculty of educational studies.

Originally I´m a biologist - with a masters degree in population dynamics of freshwater fishes.  But most of my time I´ve worked as a teacher in the Norwegian parallel to a secondary school "ungdomsskolen"  from seventh to ninth grade. As a teacher I caught special interest in integrating natural sciences in the teaching of cross-curricular subjects, mainly by use of different approches to project-teaching. Thus I was given the pleasure of teaching all subjects in norwegian secondary school except gymnastics. I also served several years as the headmaster´s assistant. The particular school  I was working at - "Ringstabekk"  holds some international reputation for being fairly advanced in adapting and developing modern teaching methods such as Story-Line and project working.

I am a co-author of several text-books of natural sciences for grades five to ten in the norwegian school system.

Finally for the last six years i hav been working at the college; doing teachers training. I also cooperates with the staff at a secondary school outside Oslo; functioning as a consultant of school development.

Outside work I sing 1st base in a men´s quire:
"Sangselskabet Guldbergs Akademiske Kor (G.A.K.)"
wich has a remote connection to the University of Oslo.

Bangladesh

In March - 02 and in October/November 02 I have been travelling together whith my collegue Hilde Harnæs to Bangladesh in order to give two times two five-days courses in science education to teacher-trainers of Bangladesh. You will find a "hot link" to Hildes excellent Bangladesh information site in the table below.

Hot Links

Department of natural sciences
 The Guldberg´s Academic Singing Society
N.W.Damm & Søn AS
E-mail me
 Manchester
 Hilde´s Bangladesh page