- Trial lecture starts at 10am
- Public defence starts at 12 noon
Title of trial lecture: Will be made known 14 days before the doctoral trials
Read the thesis in NVA here: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5273977
Disputation chair: Vice Dean, Professor Anne Haugland Balsnes
Assessment committee:
- Monica Klungland, Associate Professor, University of Agder (internal and chair of the committee)
- Mari-Ann Letnes, Associate Professor in Pedagogy, Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences
- Lars Emmerik Damgaard Knudsen, Lecturer, Danish School of Education (DPU) – Didactics Programs, Emdrup
Supervisors in the doctoral work:
- Supervisor Professor Kristian Nødtvedt Knudsen
- Supervisor Professor Lisbet Skregelid
Summary of thesis
In this dissertation, I explore how digital media and tools can be used in creative and relational processes within the subject of Art and Crafts in primary school. The research is grounded in an a/r/tographic methodology (Irwin et al., 2006), in which I, as researcher, move between artistic, pedagogical, and scholarly positions.
My research highlights that when children encounter the digital in open and exploratory ways, technology can be experienced as malleable, embodied, and relational. Through a series of workshops, first-grade pupils used tablets to explore, create, and investigate together, inspired by contemporary art.
The dissertation also illuminates how the teacher’s role is challenged and expanded when digital media and tools are introduced in Art and Crafts education. At the same time, the subject provides a space for posing critical questions about the role of technology in schools. The digital can both open and constrain, and my dissertation contributes new perspectives on how technology can be approached with critical awareness and reflection.
What to do as an online audience member
The disputation is open to the public. To follow the trial lecture and the public defence online, register on Zoom.
https://uiano.zoom.us/j/63936459977?pwd=PMs4axSmOL8ooY5i0ZV4ojCtPzbSq5.1
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Opponent ex auditorio:
Deadline for the public to pose questions is during the break between the two opponents.
Questions ex auditorio can be submitted to disputation chair Dean Marit Wergeland marit.wergeland@uia.no .