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SENTER FOR KUNSTFAG, KULTUR OG KOMMUNIKASJONCENTRE FOR ARTS, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION
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AN ERA SHIFTThe year 2015 was marked by a number of shifts in the activity at the Center for Arts, Culture and Communication (SEKKK). In August, the PhD Program Study of Bildung and Pedagogical Practices started up, while the research program Didactics of Literature and the Fine Arts came to a close at the end of the year, marked by the conference Art towards the world (Kunstfag mot verda) 4th of January 2016. The research program had been a strategic focus in building the PhD Program. It contributed to strengthening research activity in the art disciplines in the Teacher Training Programs, and to ensuring research quality. A fresh report about research at the Faculty of Education has suggested building on the good work already established. Along with these internal changes, Bergen University College has also initiated a process to strengthen collaboration with the University of Bergen. Parallel to this, there is an ongoing process of fusion with Stord/Haugesund University College and Sogn and Fjordane University College. At the time of writing this annual report, the outcome of these processes was not yet known. Meanwhile, SEKKK will continue to profile research in the arts and collaborate in the field of arts and culture - locally, nationally and internationally.
This annual report sums up the research program from 2009–2015 and the various research group profiles generated in the different areas of the program. We are also proud to present the interesting projects of our seven PhD candidates. Finally, the 2015 results will be presented.
Silje Valde OnsrudDirector
Center for Arts, Culture and Communication
Asle Holthe Dean
Faculty of Education
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This program has led and organized projects at the Bergen University College that lie in and between the art subjects; for example, in literature (Norwegian and English), media, dance, drama, music and arts & crafts, in addition to other areas at the Faculty of Education and external research colleges.
Research tasks in the program have built upon the skills, knowledges and theories about a broad register of art forms and combinations of such. In the program, ‘didactics’ has been understood in a broad, cultural sense. All projects have been related to work in kindergarten, schools and cultural life, and some have been based on data collected directly from such practices. The main goal with the program was to develop Didactics in Literature and the Fine Arts as an autonomous and recognized research field within a profession-based university. The program aim was to promote aesthetic formation (bildung) in primary education, higher education and society.
The program was organized in three areas, each of which arranged their own reading and writing seminars: 1. Artistic Research (lead by Professor David Hebert and Center Director Silje Valde Onsrud)
2. Compound Art Expressions (lead by Professor Nina Goga)
3. Aesthetic Formation (Bildung) (lead by Professor Stig A. Eriksson and Dosent Kari Mjaaland Heggstad)
The work done in the program areas resulted in numerous publications and developed new research projects and research groups.
Didactics of Literature and the Fine Arts (2009–2015)
Leader: Professor Aslaug Nyrnes
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Focal points of the program were:
• Literature as art form
• The position and function of the verbal language
• Multidisciplinarity
• The concept of art
• Formation in and through art forms
• Focus on concrete material
• Art as - A form of Recognition - A form of Understanding - A form of Knowledge
• Art subjects as a field of competence and an independent field of work.
Artistic Research developed as a fourth research paradigm, distinct from the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. Research in artistic practices challenge the register of didactical practices in teacher training programs and in the new PhD program. This is an important feature of an innovative teacher training program for future educators in kindergarten, schools and society.
Like every year in the program period, two joint seminars were arranged in 2015:
• 5th of January: Speed and Confidence – Art subjects offensive in the politics of education and research (Fart og sjølvtillit – Kunstfag på offensiven i utdanningspolitikk og forsking)
• 1st of June: Further paths for research in the arts, culture and communication (Vegar vidare for forsking innanfor kunstfag, kultur og kommunikasjon)
• 4th of January: Art towards the World Conference closing the research program (Kunstfag mot verda)
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RESEARCH GROUPS
«Fortellinger om Brød og Blod – et essay i bevegelse» er et prosjekt skapt av den serbiske skuespilleren Sanja Krsmanović Tasić. Forestillingen ble vist i Mimes brønn i forbindelse med konferansen Kunstfag mot verda, 4.1.2016.
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Drama-Theatre-Democracy is a national research project (umbrella project) based on the main research question: «How can drama/theatre contribute to the education of the democratic person, in the intersection of creation, event and work form?»
The purpose of the project was: to coordinated a common professional R&D-effort, to instigate research as a strategy, and to enhance and strengthen self-understanding in the field of drama/theatre.
The project brought together the various research communities of the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (the UHR-sector) and engaged in traditional research projects, practice-led research and pedagogical development work. Art, research and pedagogy are balanced knowledge arenas representing different epistemological forms. They are all important parts of a whole when research results are generated and disseminated via practice and theory. The ambition to elucidate drama/theatre across institutional borders involved an innovative approach that constituted a paradigm shift in which art and education intersect. A consolidated drama/theatre field is necessary in order to illuminate and assess the distinctive character of theatre.
The umbrella project was divided into six theme-based research groups (clusters): education and schooling, marginality, health, for and with young children, site specific, and arts-based research.
Participants in the research group: Professor Stig A. Eriksson, Professor Kari Mjaaland Heggstad, PhD Candidate Katrine Heggstad, Associate Professor Mette Bøe Lyngstad, Associate Professor Tone Stangeland, Associate Professor Kari Thorkildsen, Assistant Professor Siv Ødemotland, Associate Professor Karen Sofie Foss, Associate Professor Anne Ørvig.
Drama – Theatre – DemocracyLeader of the research group: Professor Stig A. Eriksson and Professor Kari Mjaaland Heggstad
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The Grieg Academy Music Education research group (GAME) was created in 2015 as a collaboration between music education researchers at Bergen University College and the University of Bergen for the purpose of establishing and promoting new research projects in the field of music education. GAME will work for:
• Development of new knowledge that stimulates critical reflection on pedagogical and learning practices in music education
• Development of, and recruitment to, postgraduate music education studies on the Master and PhD-levels.
• Active conference participation and presentations of GAME-related research projects, in local, national, and international settings.
• Expanding contact and collaboration with other research environments and individual scholars in Norway and abroad.
• Planning and implementation of events in Bergen for knowledge sharing across the music teaching profession. GAME is currently led by Professor David Hebert.
Participants in the research groupProfessor David Gabriel Hebert, Assistant Professor Aslaug Furholt, Associate Professor Silje Valde Onsrud, Associate Professor Tiri Beate Bergesen Schei, Associate Professor Tom Eide Osa, Associate Professor Steinar Sætre
GAME - The Grieg Academy Music Education Research GroupLeader of the research group: Professor David G. Hebert
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The main objective of the NaChiLit research project is to challenge the various ways in which nature is understood within the field of children’s literature. The research project focuses on how the verbal and visual representations of nature found in children’s literature actually shape children’s local and global environmental awareness when expressed in written and oral texts.
Nature is perhaps the most complex word in the language (Williams, 1976:184). Nature is not only a physical entity but also a cultural concept. Few ideas in Western culture are as intimately connected and intertwined as ‘nature’ and ‘child’, and children’s literature offers one of the most extensive sources for the study of ideas about nature, the environment and the role of humans in relation to these (Lesnik-Oberstein 1998:216).
In NaChiLit, children’s literature is understood to consist of digital and analogue literary texts, non-fiction texts, news articles and white papers, as well as pictures and moving images primarily addressed to children and young adults. All examples and findings are examined in relation to an analytical matrix developed by the NaChiLit research group.
The strategic challenge facing the NaChiLit project is accountability in relation to the various ways in which studies of literature should examine and concretize the role verbal and visual texts play in conceptualizing nature. Consequently, it may be claimed that literature, poetic or didactic, is essential for the socialization of children if they are to become members of the human community responsible for the future care of the planet.
Participants in the research group: Associate Professor Tone Birkeland, Associate Professor Hege Emma Rimmereide, Professor Ture Schwebs, Professor Aslaug Nyrnes, PhD Candidate Ahmed Akef Khateeb , Associate Professor Lykke Harmony Alara Guanio-Uluru, PhD Candidate Berit Westergaard Bjørlo, Associate Professor Marianne Røskeland, Professor Nina Goga and external researchers: Kristin Ørjasæter (Director of NBI, Oslo), Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg (Associate Professor at University of Århus) og Giorgia Grilli (Professor at the University of Bologna).
Nature in Children’s Literature (NaChiLit) Leader of the research group: Professor Nina Goga
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«Song in Formation» is a newly established research group in the Department of Music at Bergen University College. The group has a broad competence in this field and experience with performative expression. In addition, the members have been involved in the now closed program in Didactics of Literature and the Fine Arts and are involved in the new PhD program Study of Bildung and Pedagogical Practices.
Overarching aims• To provide a meeting place for the disciplin with binding responsibility • To investigate the connections between voice and formation • To motivate research on the significance of vocal expression in school and spare-time activities • To gather and make available knowledge related to voice use, song and transmission • To examine song as a complex art expression, and the formative and didactical potential in this • To develop a common research platform• To collaborate on subject-related and scholarly articles and presentations • To work to extend the international network in this field
About the projectThe aim is to gather and develop knowledge about song as it serves the purpose of formation. The voice is important as a communication tool for pupils at school. Our aim is to contribute to the literature related to healthy voice use and performative expression, to the links between voice and emotions, and to the consequences of muscle tension for voice use.
Song in FormationLeader of the research group: Associate Professor Dr.art. Tiri Bergesen Schei
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The agenda for this group may include many perspectives on song: as a cultural phenomena, as an impression and an expression, as talent, as identity, as a profession, and a subject, as sound, technique and perception, and as a spare-time activity.
Participants in the research group: Project manager and Associate Professor Tiri Bergesen Schei, Associate Professor and PhD Silje Valde Onsrud, Associate Professor Bjørg Solsvik Åvitsland, Associate Professor Anne Kristine Wallace Turøy, Assistant Professor Trine Daviknes
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PHD CANDIDATES
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GoalThe goal of the investigation is to create an understanding of social/cultural formation, in relation to the needs and forms of educational drama.
About the projectThis project consists of an investigation of the concept of social and cultural formation, what we in Scandinavia call Danning, in the context of educational drama. The project investigates three discourses that are interwoven in this concept: 1. The concept of aesthetical experience, as developed in the philosophy of John Dewey. 2. The German theatre-pedagogical approach to learning through drama/theatre, called Theaterpädagogischer Bildung. 3. A concept of performative formation, which is connected to both American and German theories of performance and performativity.
Supervisors Professor Bjørn Rasmussen (NTNU) Professor Stig A. Eriksson, Bergen University College
Drama as formation: Transformative and performative features in the arena of dramaProject manager: PhD Candidate Arne Kristoffer Tynæs
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GoalThe goal of this PhD project is to investigate the borders of drama pedagogy through reminiscence drama among people who are suffering from dementia.
About the projectThree key concepts will be highlighted: ‘empowerment’, ‘fiction’ and ‘memories’. The study consists of fieldwork at one nursing home, exploring drama conventions and the work of reminiscence with people who have dementia.
The project is threefold:A: Sign and Silence: How can you meet people with dementia in a respectful way?
B: Throw Dust of the Storeroom: How can reminiscence drama evoke memories and create good moments?
C: Form and Findings: How can the forms and findings of the work contribute to research in the drama discipline?
SupervisorsProfessor Aslaug Nyrnes, Bergen University CollegeProfessor Helen Nicholson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Drama, Dementia, Dignity: A study of the borders of drama pedagogyProject manager: PhD Candidate Katrine Heggstad
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GoalThe aim of the project is to examine how representations of nature and childhood are present in contemporary literary texts for children. The study will discuss the selected texts in light of perspectives from the fields of ecocriticism and Bildung-theories.
About the projectRomantic philosophers, and especially Jean-Jacques Rousseau, suggest that there is a positive link between nature and childhood. I will draw upon his main work, Emile (1762), to examine how contemporary representations of children interacting with nature explore this link.
Within this theoretical approach I will analyze literary texts for children in order to answer important questions such as “How is this interaction shaping the child’s development or even its identity?” and “Is the connection an element in shaping the child´s environmental awareness?”
SupervisorsProfessor Nina Goga, Bergen University CollegeAssociate Professor Lykke Harmony Alara Guanio-Uluru, Bergen University CollegeProfessor Aslaug Nyrnes, Bergen University College
Ecocriticism and Bildung-theory: studies of contemporary Norwegian literatureProject manager: PhD Candidate Ahmed Akef Khateeb
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GoalIn my PhD project I aim to study what relevance teachers and students see in grammar teaching in multilingual Norwegian L1-classrooms.
About the projectToday, the traditionally monolingual classroom has been replaced by a more heterogeneous group of students, and L1-users and L2-users of Norwegian should have the same learning opportunities. In the Norwegian subject curriculum (L1), there are objectives which imply that grammar is a resource in a multilingual context. Together with general statements promoting the value of language diversity and multiple language use, there is one particular objective after first class of Upper Secondary School, which relates to this issue, stating that the students “should be able to explain grammatical characteristics of Norwegian in comparison with other languages”. This is clearly an objective that requires a multilingual pedagogy in the classroom. On the other hand, literacy is the main focus in the curriculum, and as a result, grammar teaching is often reduced to a purely text-linguistic level. Nevertheless, it has been claimed that “the legitimization of the grammar discipline in the L1 curriculum has moved from language skills to language awareness” (Hertzberg 2008).
SupervisorProfessor Agnete Nesse, Bergen University College
Metalanguage and language awareness. Teachers̀ and students̀ beliefs about grammar in the multilingual L1 Norwegian classroom
Project manager: PhD Candidate Aasne Vikøy
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GoalTo identify and examine musical practices and aspects of learning and identity in digital games and game culture.
About the projectThe purpose of this research is to investigate how musical agency can be constructed in playing video games and by participating in the Internet game culture. This research is designed as an instrumental multiple case study consisting of three separate cases. Each case represents a different way of interacting with music in the gaming context, and each is expected to provide a unique perspective on how musical agency can be constructed, as well as on issues regarding learning and identity in the world of video games. The musical gameplay phenomenon is transnational, and the participants in the research are game music composers, fans, performers and game developers from different parts of the world. The theoretical framework includes play and game theories, as well as psychological, sociocultural and digital cultural perspectives on the concepts of game experience, learning, and culture.
SupervisorsProfessor Lauri Väkevä, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts HelsinkiProfessor Andrew Brown, Queensland Conservatory of Music, Griffith UniversityProfessor Catharina Christophersen, Bergen University College
Musical gameplay. Experience, action and learning in the world of video gamesProject manager: PhD Candidate Sigrid Jordal Havre
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GoalThe aim of the project is to examine how a selection of picturebooks reappropriates and recreates literary and visual works of art.
About the projectSome of the selected picturebooks repurpose previously published Norwegian poems by combining poems and illustrations. Another group of books integrates visual art references with literary narratives. The study examines how the intermedial character of the picturebooks generates new ways of experiencing and interpreting the original works. Another issue is the question of how the picturebooks seem to address both children and adults. The project includes perspectives from intermedial theory, adaptation theory and theories of aesthetics.
SupervisorProfessor Nina Goga, Bergen University College Associate Professor Henning Laugerud, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen
Picturebooks’ recreations of poems and paintingsProject manager: PhD Candidate Berit Westergaard Bjørlo
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GoalThis PhD project focuses on the educational perspectives of collaborative processes in which children and young adolescents compose music together with professional artists. The aim is to contribute to an ongoing discussion of creative processes in the field of music teacher education and music teaching through studies and analyses of composition projects in formal and informal learning contexts.
About the projectMore research on collaborative creative processes in music education is needed in order to understand the development of musical material, interpersonal relations and knowledge formation in these contexts. Asking how creative competencies in composing music can be taught, learned and developed, this research is based on three case studies in which professional artists and children meet in collaborative creative processes to compose music. Interviews with focus groups and project leaders, observations and video-recordings of the creative process, in addition to the musical material itself, make up the empirical data in all the cases.
SupervisorsProfessor Catharina Christophersen, Bergen University CollegeAssociate Professor Jill Halstead, University of Bergen
The Dynamics of Collaborative Creative Musicking: Facilitation, Reflection and InteractionProject manager: PhD Candidate Tine Grieg Viig
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Silje Valde OnsrudSenterleiar
Aslaug NyrnesProfessor, dr.art
Dag Ove VarebergSeniorkonsulent
Jorunn Spord BorgenProfessor II
Simon BorgProfessor II
Tilsette ved SEKKK:Berit Westergaard BjørloStipendiat
Sigrid Jordal Havre Stipendiat
Katrine Heggstad,Stipendiat
Ahmed Akef KhateebStipendiat
Arne Kristoffer TynæsStipendiat
Tine Grieg ViigStipendiat
Aasne VikøyStipendiat
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Liv Marit Aksnes Associate Professor in Rhetoric and Literature
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Monica Bader Associate Professor in English Language
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Catharina ChristophersenProfessor in Music Education
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Gro Merete Eide Assistant Professor in Arts and Crafts
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Jan Emil EllingsenAssociate Professor in Sports
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Stig A. Eriksson Professor in Drama Education
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Forskarar tilknytta SEKKK
Tone Birkeland Associate Professor in Children’s Literature
Anna Birketveit Associate Professor in English
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Berit Westergaard Bjørlo PhD Candidate in Children’s Literature
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Stein Bakke Associate Professor in Music Education
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Karen Sofie Foss Associate Professor in Dance
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Aslaug Furholt Assistant Professor in Music Education
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Nina GogaProfessor in Children’s Literature
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Lykke Harmony Alara Guanio-UluruAssociate Professor in Children’s Literature
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David G. Hebert Professor in Music Education
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Kari Mjaaland Heggstad Professor in Drama Education
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Katrine HeggstadPhD Candidate in Drama Education
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Torunn Bakken Hauge Associate Professor in Music Education
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Egil Haugland Associate Professor in Music Education
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Sigrid Jordal Havre PhD Candidate in Music Education
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David G. Hebert Professor in Music Education
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Kari Mjaaland Heggstad Professor in Drama Education
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Katrine HeggstadPhD Candidate in Drama Education
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Jon HoemAssociate Professor in New Media studies
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Ahmed Akef Khateeb PhD Candidate in Children’s Literature
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Silje Valde OnsrudAssociate Professor in Music Education
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Aslaug Nyrnes Professor in Rhetoric and Literature
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Mette Bøe Lyngstad Associate Professor in Drama Education
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Anne Paulsen Assistant Professor in Arts and Crafts
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Åse Bjørg Høyvoll KallestadAssistent Professor in Norwegian Literature
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Hege Emma Rimmereide Associate Professor in English
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Per Arne Michelsen Associate Professor in Norwegian Literature
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Sara Hoem Iversen Associate Professor in English Language
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Ture SchwebsProfessor in digital text culture
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Jostein StalheimAssociate Professor in Music Education
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Tone StangelandAssociate Professor in Drama Education
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Tiri Bergesen ScheiAssociate Professor in Music Education
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Marianne Røskeland Associate Professor in Norwegian Literature
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Arne Kristoffer TynæsPhD Candidate in Drama Education
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Rigmor Davidsen Titt Assistant Professor in Music Education
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Anne Kristine Wallace TurøyAssociate Professor in Music Education
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Kari ThorkildsenAssociate Professor in Drama Education
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Marit RongAssociate Professor in Theology
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Kristel ZilmerAssociate Professor in Rhetoric and Literature
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Anne ØrvigAssociate Professor in Drama Education
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Bjørg Solsvik ÅvitslandAssociate Professor in Music Education
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Siv ØdemotlandAssistant Professor in Drama Education
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Gro Ulland Assistant Professor in Norwegian Literature
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Arne Wik Associate Professor in Arts and Crafts
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Dag Ove VarebergSenior Executive Officer
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Tine Grieg ViigPhD Candidate in Music Education
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Åsne VikøyPhD Candidate in Norwegian Language
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Njål VindenesAssociate Professor in Music Education
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Arne Kristoffer TynæsPhD Candidate in Drama Education
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BESØKSADRESSESenter for kunstfag, kultur og kommunikasjon (SEKKK)Inndalsveien 28, Campus Kronstad
POSTADRESSEHøgskolen i BergenSenter for kunstfag, kultur og kommunikasjon (SEKKK)Postboks 7030, 5020 Bergen
KONTAKTPERSONARSenterleiar Silje Valde Onsrud:
+47 55 58 57 84 [email protected]
Seniorkonsulent Dag Ove Vareberg+ 47 55 58 58 37 [email protected]
