Fred Rune Bjordal

Norwegian version of this page Department of Education, ICT and Learning

Norwegian version of this page Position

Assistant Professor

Contact

fred.r.bjordal@hiof.no

Study place

Halden

Office nr.

E1-040

The PhD project and "The Digital Society"

My PhD project is part of The Digital Society, an interdisciplinary strategic research initiative at Østfold University College. The preliminary title of the PhD project is Teachers' Professional Knowledge in the Age of Digitalisation.

The overall purpose of the project is to investigate lower secondary school teachers’ professional knowledge, and the epistemic teacher-student relationship in digitalized classrooms from policy to practice in the Norwegian context.

Academic interests

Education in the digital society
Teacher professionalism
Identity in educational contexts
Agency in educational contexts
Discourse analysis

Courses taught

Teaches pedagogy at:

Reviewer for

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research,

Background

Work Experience

2006-2018: Kråkerøy lower secondary school, Fredrikstad

Education

PhD Programme The Study of Professions at OsloMet.
MA education, University of Bergen
MA music education, Bergen University College
General teacher training programme, Bergen University College

Research groups

Tags: Professionalism, Teacher professionalism, Agency, Professional agency, Digitalization, Identity

Bjordal, Fred Rune & Spernes, Kari Iren (2023). Managing compulsory school experiences and educational theory as a basis for student teachers’ reflections. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. ISSN 0031-3831. doi: 10.1080/00313831.2023.2228825.
Bjordal, Fred Rune & Gjerskaug, Mette Maria Rønsen (2022). Sånn er vi, og sånn er du. Analyse av informasjonsskriv fra ungdomsskole til foreldre på 7. trinn. In Maugesten, Marianne & Spernes, Kari Iren (Ed.), Overganger i skolen. Fra barnetrinnet til ungdomstrinnet.. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-06093-4. p. 183–198.
Bjordal, Fred Rune & Søreide, Gunn Elisabeth (2020). The Discursive Governing of Elementary School Student Identity in Norwegian Educational Policy 2000–2015. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research (ILJTER). ISSN 1694-2493. 19(1), p. 136–158. doi: 10.26803/ijlter.19.1.8. Full text in Research Archive

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Bjordal, Fred Rune & Søreide, Gunn Elisabeth (2024). Constructing Teacher Identity in Children’s Screen Media: A Nordic Perspective.
Bjordal, Fred Rune & Spernes, Kari Iren (2022). Lærerstudenters erfaring fra egen grunnskoletid som grunnlag for refleksjon om klasseledelse.
Bjordal, Fred Rune & Gjerskaug, Mette Maria Rønsen (2022). That's How We Are and That's How You Are: An Analysis of Letters Written from Lower-Secondary Schools to the Parents of Students in the Seventh Grade.
Bjordal, Fred Rune (2022). The presence of digitalization in teachers’ professional identity.
Bjordal, Fred Rune (2022). Teachers' sense of professional agency in digitalized teaching environments.
Bjordal, Fred Rune & Gjerskaug, Mette Maria Rønsen (2022). Analyse av informasjonsskriv fra ungdomsskole til foreldre på 7. trinn.
Bjordal, Fred Rune (2021). Tracing expectations for teachers’ epistemic agency historically in policies on digitalization in the cases of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
Bjordal, Fred Rune (2021). The Epistemic Teacher-Student Relationship in the Age of Digitalisation.
Bjordal, Fred Rune (2021). Teachers' Professional Knowledge in the Age of Digitalisation - A short presentation of the PhD project at The Digital Society Gathering.
Bjordal, Fred Rune (2020). Teachers' Professional Knowledge in the Age of Digitalisation.
Bjordal, Fred Rune & Afdal, Hilde Wågsås (2020). Teachers' professional knowledge in policy documents concerning digitalisation of Norwegian and Swedish compulsory school.
Bjordal, Fred Rune & Søreide, Gunn Elisabeth (2019). The discursive construction of student identity in Norwegian education policy documents.
Bjordal, Fred Rune (2010). Elever med prestasjonsangst. Bedre Skole. ISSN 0802-183X. p. 47–52.
Afdal, Hilde Wågsås; Bjordal, Fred Rune & Hoff-Jenssen, Reidun (2020). Femårig grunnskolelærerutdanning på masternivå – ny og utfordrende : Et følgeforskningsprosjekt ved Høgskolen i Østfold : Delrapport 2. Skriftserien fra Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge Horten. ISSN 978-82-7860-450-2.
Afdal, Hilde Wågsås & Bjordal, Fred Rune (2019). 5-årig grunnskolelærerutdanning på masternivå - ny og utfordrende. Et følgeforskningsprosjekt ved Høgskolen i Østfold. Delrapport 1. Skriftserien fra Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge. ISSN 978-82-7860-394-9.
Bjordal, Fred Rune (2016). Kompetanse - Danning - Tilpasning : En analyse av hvordan tre diskurser forhandler om elevidentitet i politiske dokument. Universitetet i Bergen.
Bjordal, Fred Rune (2007). ”Hvem sier at jeg har prestasjonsangst?” En refleksiv analyse av begrepet prestasjonsangst. Høgskulen på Vestlandet.

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Published Aug. 20, 2018 12:00 AM - Last modified Aug. 18, 2023 3:19 PM