Birgit
Brock-Utne
CONSULTANCY WORK
- l976: The study of Social Education at the University of Oslo - an Experiment in Self-management. A Norwegian case-study. Paris: UNESCO. October l976. 54 pages. Commissioned work from UNESCO.
- l977: The changing Tasks of the Teacher. A Norwegian case-study. In: Teacher Tasks in innovative Schools.Vol.II.Paris:OECD. pp.39-8l. Commissioned work from OECD.
- l98l: The role of women as mothers and members of society, in the education of young people for peace, mutual understanding and respect for human rights. Commissioned paper for a UNESCO expert meeting on the role of women in peace education, New Delhi, India, December 7 - ll,l98l.Published in English and French as ED-8l/CON.609/2. Paris: UNESCO. Also as: PRIO-publication S - l2/8l.Translated into French, Bulgarian and Finnish.
- l983: Research on Women and Peace. Commissioned paper prepared on request for the expert group meeting on "the participation of women in promoting international peace and cooperation", held in Vienna 5 - 9 December l983 and organized by the United Nations, Vienna International Centre.98 pp. Background paper for the UN Women's Decade Conference in Nairobi l985.
- l986: The Spirit of Nairobi - the peace and peace education concepts in the document from the Women's Decade Conference. An analysis written on request from the Swedish Ambassador for Disarmament, Maj-Britt Theorin. l5.2.l986.23 pages. Stenciled.
- l987: For UNEP/SIPRI, March l987 resulting in the article: Formal education as a force in shaping cultural norms relating to war and the environment.In: Westing,(ed),l988: Cultural Norms, War and the Environment.Oxford:Oxford University Press.pp.83-l0l. Translated into Russian and published by Mir publishers, Moscow, l989.
- l987: For NORAD,October l987: Rapport fra deltakelse i konferansen (report from participation in the conference:)"Institutional Training Capacity of Universities in Eastern and Southern Africa."30.p.Delivered:DUH,3.plan.6.October l987.
- l988: For NORAD,March l988: A critical analysis of World Bank Report no.6934: Education Policies for Sub-Saharan Africa: Adjustment,Revitalization,and Expansion.34 p.Delivered:The Bureau of Education and scholarships for Overseas Studies.NORAD,Oslo,l5. March l988.
- l988: For NORAD, December l988:Forberedelse til Verdensbankens donorkonferanse angående utdanningssektoren i Tanzania.9 p. ( A preparation for the World Bank donor conference for the educational sector in Tanzania). Delivered:The Bureau of Education and scholarships for Overseas Studies.NORAD,Oslo,l.December l988.
- l989: For DUH, Research Division, July l989: Noen kommentarer til "a draft for the joint AIDS-project Tanzania-Bergen, samt en kort rapport om møtet med AIDS-prosjektet ved Universitetet i Bergen, og noen tanker om videre samarbeid mellom dette prosjektet og AIDS-prosjektet som skal startes opp av WED.(Some comments on the Bergen-Tanzania AIDS-project). Delivered DUH, Oslo,Division for Research:l8.July l989.
- l990: For NORAD/the Norwegian Society for Forestry/ DECO, January l990: A project appraisal of the Faculty of Forestry, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania - written together with Prof.Lars Strand, Ås,Norway, Forest Director Mnzava,Tanzania, Ass.Prof. Adelaida Semesi,Tanzania and Consultant in the Norwegian Forestry Association, Arnulf Ødegaard (team leader). A four-week consultancy work. (three weeks in the field)
- l990: For UNESCO/NORAD, March l990: "Evaluation du projet 504/SEN/ll: Promotion de la formation et de la recherche en economie sociale et familiale au Senegal" written together with Alexis Propovsky and Ann-Kristin Søderlund (both UNESCO,Paris) and O.Dia Keita and Samba Dione (both Senegal). A ten day consultancy work (one week in the field)
- l99l: For UNESCO Institute of Education, Hamburg. Writing of a background paper on suggested tasks for UNESCO to work on in the area of adult education - peace education. For a workshop taking place l8 and l9.April.
- 1992: For NORAD, January/February l992: A project review of the Department of animal science and production. (DASP), Sokoine University of Agriculture. Team work with four in the team, the other three being men and animal scientists, one researcher from Tanzania, one from Ethiopia and the third and team leader: Prof.Hans Wiktorsson, Uppsala Universität, from Sweden. A two week-consultancy with nine days in the field.
- 1992: For Lärarhögskolan in MalmÖ, Sweden, March,l992: An evaluation of the project "Skola för fred" . An evaluation af nine booklets making up a series of teaching material being used in connection with peace education from Kindergarden through high school.
- 1993: For NORAD, October/November l993: A Project Review of the Diploma/ M.Phil. course in Fisheries Biology and Fisheries Management, University of Bergen. Together with researcher Henrik Gislason, Danish Institute for Fisheries and Marine Research from Denmark.(and a local consultant from Tanzania, one from Zimbabwe and one from Sri Lanka) A four week-consultancy with three weeks in the field, field visits to Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka. 7.17.
- .19.1994: For DSE (Deutsche Stiftung für Entwicklung): Resource person at a seminar in the use of qualitative research methods in education in Eastern Africa. At Villa Borsig, Berlin, 29.November - 1.December.
- 1995: For DSE (Deutsche Stiftung für Entwicklung): Resource person at a seminar in the use of qualitative research methods in education in Southern Africa. In Zschortau, near Leipzig, 6.April - 10.April. 7.21.
- .23.1996 - 1998: A three year consultancy for DSE (Deutsche Stiftung für Entwicklung) to build up research capacity among young researchers in southern Africa within the area of qualitative research. Planning meeting in Berlin, (26-28. January 1996), workshop in Zimbabwe (17-23 March 1996), planning meeting in South Africa (25 -31 March 1996). Workshop in Malawi (16-21 September 1996) Planning workshop in South Africa (22-27 September 1996) Course director of the South African programme, training seminars in South Africa in last part of January 1997 - (20-29) (introduction, methods), 7-16 of April 1997 (data collection), 19 - 28 of January 1998,(data analysis) in Europe and/or Latin-America August 1998.(presentation of results)
- 1996 - 1999: A three year consultancy for the Norwegian Foreign Ministry\UNICEF and in cooperation with Janne Lexow, DECO. Meetings in Cameroun and South Africa (9 - 25 February 1996) Meetings in Dakar, Senegal and Conakry, Guniea (17 -26 November 1996)This is an institute-based cooperation, cooperation between the Foreign Ministry and the Institute for Educational Research at the University of Oslo. Two master degree students per year will write their theses as part of this project.
- Brief field-notes from a brief field-visit to Guinea 22 - 25. November 1996. Memo to the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Multi-lateral division. Delivered 1.December.
- Brief field-notes from a brief field-visit to Uganda 25 - 27.August 1997. Memo to the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Delivered 8.September.
- Brief field-notes from a brief field-visit to Botswana 1 - 4. September 1997. Memo to the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Delivered 8.September.
- 1998: Brief field-notes from a brief field visit to Niger 22-26 April 1998.Memo to the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Delivered 4.May 1998.
- Review of Support to Educational Development provided by RDSES. Mongolia, Nepal, Eritrea. April 1999. Review commissioned by DANIDA, desk study of the RDSES involvement in Eritrea, 16 days field work in Mongolia. Together with Jeef Bech Hansen (team leader) and Jørgen Billetof from RAMBØLL Consultancy firm and Wim Biervliet from Nuffic in the Netherlands. Main report (30 pp) and Annexes to Main Report (ca. 120 pp)
- 2004: Evaluated
in May 2004 a program in peace education in Bosnia-Herzegovina for DEZA, sveitsisk utviklingshjelp.
Together with Ronald Greber from
- 2004/2005: On a
stock-taking review mission on the use of mother tongue and bilingual education
in
- 2006: Evaluation of a consultancy report on language of instruction in Madagascar requested by the World Bank - June
2006.
Referee work for journals
- For "Nordisk Pedagogik".
- For "The International Review of Education"
- For "Forum for Development Studies."
- For the "Journal of Peace Research."
- For the Malawi Journal of Development Education.
- For the International Journal of Educational Development.
- For Comparative Education Review
GUEST LECTURER, VISITING PROFESSOR
- Since around l967 I have held numerous guest lectures at all of the universities in Norway, especially at the University of Tromsø and Trondheim.
- At the University in Stockholm, Göteborg and Umeå in Sweden.
- At the Danish Teacher Colleges in Copenhagen, and Århus.
- At the Universities of Helsinki, Tampere and Jyväskyla in Finland.
- I have also lectured at Cambridge Institute of Education (l980.
- At Women Center for Development Studies, New Delhi. (December 1980)
- At Columbia Teacher College, New York (l982),
- At the University of Islambad and the University of Peshawar in Pakistan. (1985)
- At the University of Oregon (l985).
- In the fall of l986 I was a Visiting Professor at the University of Umeå, Forum for Women Studies.
- In the spring of l987 I was invited on a lecturing tour of the mid-west in the US to lecture on my book "Educating for Peace - a Feminist Perspective" covering the following institutions: the University of Illinois, Indiana University, Franklin College, Earlham College, Ohio State University and Ohio Wesleyan University, all in the US (l987)
- I was again lecturing at the University of Illinois and Franklin College in the spring of l989.
- In the spring of l992 I was a Visiting Professor of Peace Studies at Antioch University, Ohio. I was also guest lecturing at the University of Minnesota, Purdue University and Franklin College.
- In the fall of 1992 I was guest lecturing at Nordens Folkliga Akademi in Göteborg and at PADRIGU (Peace and Development Research Institute at Göteborg University) for journalists writing on developing countries.
- At the end of March 1993 I was guest lecturing for three days at the Center for International Education at the University of Pittsburgh.
- In 1994 I was guest lecturing twice to doctoral students at the University of Goethenburg, Sweden and once to doctoral students at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
- In 1995 I was guest lecturing at four universities in South Africa.
- In 1996 I was guest lecturing at the University of Lund, and at the SIDA center for development studies at Sandø, Sweden.
- In 1997 I was guest lecturing within the field of development studies to students from the International Summer School at the University of Oslo.
- I was lecturing on "Human rights education with special emphasis on the Croatian situation" at Plitovic, Croatia on Monday the 17th of June 1997 invited by the Croatian Commission to UNESCO and the Council of Europe.
- 7 July 1997 - International Summer school, University of Oslo, four hour seminar on: "Language of instruction in Africa" and "The role of the universities in Sub-Saharan Africa".
- Debated against the Director of NORAD, Tove Strand Gerhardsen, on development aid to education Tuesday 23rd of September 1997 at a seminar arranged by SAIH at the University of Oslo.
- I was invited as key-note speaker at a seminar on "Racismo y Educacion para la Paz in Valencia, Spain (12-14 November 1997) My talk was on multicultural education and development education - similarities between two fields of studies.
- In 1988 I gave two lectures at a SAIH (Students Academic International Help Fund) conference on Tuesday the 10th of February 1998, one on: "Education and Development", one on:"Education in southern Africa."
- Gave a three hour workshop at the Norwegian University of Sports on Wednesday the 18th of February 1998 on: "Intellectual recolonization of Africa - especially in the field of sports."
- Gave an invited key-note lecture at the CESE conference in Groningen, Holland on the 7th of July on "The Nordic dimension in education - does it exist? Where are the Nordic countries heading?"
- 27 July 1998 - International Summer school, University of Oslo, four hour seminar on: "Language of instruction in Africa" and "The role of the universities in Sub-Saharan Africa".
- Peace education in an era of globalization. Lecture given at Universitat Internacional de Menorca, Spain on Friday 18 September 1998. 22pp.
- Taught a week's course on "peace education and socialization" in the Master of Peace Studies programme at the University of Peace in Stadtschlaining, Austria, 27 - 31 of October 1998.
- Gave an invited key-note lecture at the Norwegian Educational research conference at Lillehammer, Norway on the 18th of November 1998 on "Norsk utdanning i et globsliseringsperspektiv" (Norwegian Education in the era of globalization).
- Gave a talk on "fredskorpsere som brobyggere" (the Peace Corps workers as bridge builders between cultures) at the Jubilee seminar of the Peace Corps 11.December 1998.
- In 1999 (9 July 1999) four hour seminar on: "Language of instruction in Africa" and "The role of the universities in Sub-Saharan Africa" at the International Summer school, University of Oslo.
- Taught a week's course on "peace education in an era of globalization" in the "Summer School on Peace and Conflict" arranged by the University of Osnabrück, Germany July 11 - 16 1999.
- Invited key‑note lecture held on Friday September 10th at the Oxford International Conference on Education and Development 1999. Education for all ‑ in whose language?
- Gave a two hour lecture at Elverum videregående skole (secondary school) on Friday 8.October on:Skolegang i Afrika (Schooling in Africa) to more than hundred secondary school students.
- Gave a two hour lecture at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo on Thursday 21 October 1999 on: "Feminist perspectives on peace and development studies."
- Taught a week's course on "the culture of peace" in the Master of Peace Studies programme at the University of Peace in Stadtschlaining, Austria, 25 - 30 of October 1999.
- Gave a two hour lecture at the University of Sports, Oslo, on Friday 19.November 1999 - Curriculum work in Africa - recolonization or liberation?
- Gave an introduction to a seminar on my book: Whose Education for All? held at the UNESCO Institue of Education Friday 10.December 1999.
- Gave a two hour lecture on "Utdanning i Afrika" (education in Africa) at "Faglig pedagogisk dag" at the University of Oslo 3.January 2000
- Two lectures for the Council of OD (operation a Day's Work) on Saturday
the 26th of February 2000, on: "Education and Development."
- Education in Africa. Lecture given at Iowa State University. Tuesday
29.February. 2000.
- From theory to activism and back to theory. Lecture given at Iowa State
University. Monday 6 March. 2000
- Whose Education for All?Case‑studies from and field‑trips to Swaziland,
Uganda, Botswana, Niger and Guinea.
Paper presented at the CIES 2000 conference in San Antonio, Texas 8 ‑ 12
March 2000 and a slightly different version at the NASEDEC conference in Oslo
15-17 June.
- Peace education in a globalized world ‑ what are the challenges? Invited
key‑note lecture held at the International Seminar on Peace Education in
Murcia, Spain on Tuesday 11.April 2000
- Gave a three hour lecture at the University of Sports, Oslo, on Friday
19.May 2000 - Curriculum work in Africa - recolonization or liberation?
- Gave a two hour lecture on 27th of June 2000 at UiO- partly together with prof.emeritus Torstein Harbo- to the Erasmus Intensive Programme on Comparative Education on: What is comparative education?
- Gave a two hour lecture on 28th of June 2000 at UiO to the Erasmus Intensive
Programme on Comparative Education on: The Nordic dimension in comparative
education. Does it exist?
- 26 July 2000 - International Summer school, University of Oslo, gave a
three hour seminar on: "Whose Education for All?"
- Gave two papers at the IPRA (International Peace Reaserch Association)
conference in Tampere, Finland, one in the Peace Education Commission (From
micro to macro in peace and development studies) on Sunday the 6th of August,
one in the Women and Peace Commission on Monday the 7th of August 2000
("Feminist perspectives on peace and development studies")
- Taught a two week's course on "the culture of peace and
education" in the Master of Peace Studies programme at the University of
Peace in Stadtschlaining, Austria, 18 - 29 of September 2000.
- 21 September 2000 spoke at an International Alert conference in London
on: Whose Education for All?
- 27 September 2000 spoke on:"Education for all - in whose
language" at a seminar at the Institute of Linguistics at the University
of Stockholm, Sweden.
- 17 November 2000 gave a poster session at the African Studies
Association conference in Nashville, Tennessee on: Whose Education for All?Case‑studies
from and field‑trips to Swaziland, Uganda, Botswana, Niger and Guinea.
- 24 November 2000 - gave a three hour lecture at the University of
Sports, Oslo, on - Curriculum work in Africa - recolonization or liberation?
- 4
December 2000 gave a lecture in German entitled: "Die Rekolonisierung der
Afrikaner durch Bildungsarbeit und Bildungspolitik" at the Freie
Universität, Berlin.
- 13 December 2000 talked on "Quality of Education and international
exchange in education" at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.
- Presented a paper on Norwegian threatened as an academic language at the
CIES conference in Washington DC on Wednesday the 14th of March 2001.
- Peace education in a globalized world ‑ what are the challenges? Invited
key‑note lecture held at the University of Barcelona, Spain on Friday 20.April
2001
- Gave a four hour lecture at the University of Sports, Oslo, on Friday 8.June 2001 - two on Curriculum work in Africa - recolonization or liberation? Two on the educational system in South Africa.
- 31 July 2001 - in the programme in Development Studies at the
International Summer school, University of Oslo, gave a three hour seminar on:
"Whose Education for All?"
- Gave a two hour lecture on 5th of September 2001 to the Erasmus
Intensive Programme on Comparative Education on: The global forces affecting
the education sector to-day - the universities in Europe as an example.The
programme was held in Dresden,Germany.
- Gave a paper on Thursday September 20ieth at the Oxford International
Conference on Education and Development 2001. The last developments in the
language of instruction in Tanzania.
- Was a panelist in a debate on "patriarchy and war" in the
Student Association of the University of Oslo on Thursday 18th of October 2001.
- Gave a paper on : The most recent developments concerning the debate on
language of instruction in Tanzania. at
the first NETREED conference held at Gausdal Høyfjellshotel, Norway from the 7th to the 9th
of January 2002
- Gave a paper on :The battle over the language of
instruction in Tanzania at the NAI Research Forum, Uppsala on Thursday 24
January 2002
- Gave a paper on: The westernization/Americanization of the African universities
- Gave a paper on :The intellectual
recolonization of Africa at the University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South
Africa on Friday 8.February 2002
- Gave a lecture on: “Læreplanarbeid i
post-koloniale Afrika” at the Norwegian
University of Sports Saturday 23.February 2002.
- The ambigious language of
instruction policy in Tanzania and how teachers try to cope with it. Presented at the CIES conference in Orlando, 9.March
2002.
- Utenlandske
studenter på master-kurs i Norge. Hvordan kan vi med kurs-opplegget fremme et
godt sosial-pedagogisk klima? Lecture at the University of Bergen Tuesday 9.April
2002.
- Language Policies and Practices in Africa – some preliminary results
from a research project in Tanzania and South Africa..Presented together with Halla B. Holmarsdottir: at the LOITASA
launch in Morogoro,Tanzania 21-24 April, 2002.
- Educating for peace and educating about peace.A three hour seminar on:
"Peace Education" in the programme in Peace Studies at the International Summer school, University of
Oslo Friday 26 July 2002
- Education in Africa – problems and challenges. Invited lecture arranged by Osaka University, Japan, 9th of October 2002.
- The formulation of educational policy and the coordination of aid Invited talk at a meeting arranged by JICA (the Japanese development aid) in Tokyo on the 20ieth of November 2002
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- Development aid to the education sector in
Africa - lessons of experience
- Bistandsmaktenes
innflytelse når det gjelder undervisningsspråk i Afrika – ideologiske og
økonomiske føringer. Utarbeidet for NFRs fagkonferanse: ”Globalisering og
marginalisering. Flere- og tverrfalig forskning om utviklingsveier i Sør” avholdt
8-9 januar 2003 på Quality Airport Hotel, Gardermoen
- Education and development aid - Lessons of
Experience from Africa. Invited key-note
address given to the annual conference of Danish development researchers on
Thursday 6 March 2003 at
Djursland,Denmark.
- The merits and problems of code-mixing and code-switching in the African classroom. Paper presented at the CIES 2003 conference in New Orleans 12-16 March 2003.
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- Gave a talk on code-mixing and code-switching in the African classroom at a
seminar on bilingual education at Stockholm University 4.6 2003
- Gave a lecture on Globalizaton and Higher Education in Africa at the
EU-funded GENIE network conference in Nicosia , Cyprus July 7 – 14. 2003
- Gave a joint paper with co-operating partner Zubeida Desai
from the University of Western Cape Expressing oneself through
writing - a comparative study of learners’ communication skills in Tanzania and
South Africa at the Oxford conference September 8 -12. 2003 at New
College, Oxford University, England
- October 7. 2003 : Key-note speaker
at a Norwegian Council for Higher Education Conference on Policies and Models
for International Co-operation in Higher Education - Focusing on co-operation
with institutions in South - held at Solstrand Hotel, Os near Bergen
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- October
29-30. 2003 - Speaking on Education and
Development at Høgskolen in Agder in Kristiansand
- November
2. 2003 : Speaker on The Language Issue in Africa at the Globalization
conference in Oslo
- November
14. 2003: Gave a lecture on “language and education” at the University of
Bergen
- November
21. 2003 – Gave a lecture on the LOITASA
project at the University of Western Cape in South Africa
- December 8 –10. 2003 - Gave a paper “But English is the language of science and technology” – the language
of instruction in Africa – with a special look at Tanzania
- January
26 -28. 2004 – Gave the paper “But
English is the language of science and technology” – the
language of instruction in Africa – with a special look at
Tanzania”
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- May 7. 2004 - Gave a three hour lecture at the University of Sports, Oslo, on Friday 7.May 2004 - two on Curriculum work in Africa - recolonization or liberation? One on education as poverty reduction in developing countries.
- October 1. 2004 -
Gave a paper and oral presentation at the NFU (Norsk Forening for
Utviklingsforskning) annual conference held at the University of Bergen. The
title: Teaching through a familiar
language versus teaching through a foreign language – a look into some
secondary school classrooms in Tanzania
- November 28 – December 16. 2004: Teaching a three week course at the International MA program in
Peace and Development Studies of the University Jaume I, Castellón, in
- January 4: 2005. Lecturing at the
”open day” of the
- February
18. 2005 – Gave a seminar as a follow-up to my lecture the day before.
- February
22. 2005 - Gave a talk on: Teaching of
social psychology, guidance and counselling at an African university. Sponsored
by the Department of Educational Psychology and African Studies.
- February
24. 2005 - Gave a talk on: Peace
Research with a diversity perspective – a look to
- March
3. 2005 – Gave a talk on “Women – Education – Development with a focus on
- March
4. 2005 – Gave a talk on “The effects of globalization on Higher Education in
Africa” to the progressive faculty club at
- March
10. 2005 – Gave a talk on: The Language of Instruction” issue in
- March
28. 2005 – Gave a talk on “Women – Education – Development with a focus on
- May 6.
2005 - Gave a three hour lecture at the
- September 11 – 16.2005: Gave a paper on “Learning through a familiar language versus learning
through a foreign language – a look into
some secondary school classrooms in
- October 24-26.2005: Gave a paper on: Adult literacy - in
whose language? International UNESCO conference at SAS Radisson,
- December 7. 2005 -
Gave
a paper on: The interrelationship between
language and culture. NETREED conference at Beitostølen Høyfjellshotell
- February 24. 2006. Gave an invited key-note lecture:
Education for All in Africa – but in Whose Language at the
- March 31. 2006 – Panel speaker in a plenary round table in the
Association of Norwegian Non-fiction
writers - Royal Christiana Hotel in
- April 27. 2006 - Gave an invited
guest lecture in Norwegian on Education and Development at the
SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
- A.S.S.U.scholar (Associated Students Stanford University) l957/58 and with a Fulbright travel grant.
- Scholarship from the Swedish state, fall l968 to study teacher training in Sweden, based at Malmø Teacher College.
- Research grant in l975 from the Council for Peace and Conflict studies to do a study on the stereotypes children hold of other nations.
- Three year research grant from the Ministry of Education,
- l976-l979 to conduct a study on innovations in schools.The main questions for study were:Why do schools develop so differently even when they have the same resources and are in the same area? What characterizes innovative schools?
- Three year research grant from the Norwegian Research Council for the Humanities (NAVF),l986-l989 to study the education mothers and fathers give their sons.Is there any difference in the ideals and practices of feminist mothers of sons from those of more traditional mothers? Or in the ideals and practices of more traditional fathers compared to those fathers who have worked with changing their male role and have spent more time than normal with their sons?
- Research grant l989/90 from the educational Division,NORAD, to conduct the research project:Future expectations of high- achieving secondary school girls".
- Travel grants from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry to partici- pate in the conferences of the International Peace Research Association in Gyor, Hungary in l983, in Sussex, UK in l986 and in Rio, Brazil l988 and in the UN Special Session for Disarmament, New York l982.
- Travel grant from NORAD to participate in the UN Women Decade Conference in Nairobi l985.
- A DAAD scholarship for two months in the fall of l991 to sit working on the manuscript "Recolonization of the African brain" in Hamburg, Germany. I had an office at the UNESCO Institute of Education, a guest research flat in "Gästehaus der Universität Hamburg" and got good assistance from "Institut für Afrikakunde". Numerous other smaller travel grants from the Institute for Educational Research, from the Norwegian Research Council for the Humanities, from the Nordic Committtee on Peace Research and from the Foreign Ministry.
SABBATICALS, LEAVES OF ABSENCE
- In the fall of l968 I had a study leave from my job as Lecturer at Tromsø Teacher's College and a scholarship to study teacher training in Sweden, at Malmø Teacher's College. That leave resulted in the book: Praktisk Pedagog- ikk i Lærerstudiet. Oslo: Aschehoug. l970.
- In the fall of l980 I had a sabbatical leave from the University of Oslo and it was used to write the book: Ungdomsskoler i utvikling.Universitetsforlaget.l98l.
- In the academic year l98l/l982 I had an unpaid leave of absence from the University of Oslo and had the position of Researcher at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo.This is where I started the work on: Educating for Peace.A feminist Perspective. New York: Pergamon Press.l985.
- I had another sabbatical leave in the academic year l986/ l987 I was a Visiting Professor in Sweden at the University of Umeå and in the US for part of the time and also wrote my doctoral thesis which was published in August l989 under the title: Feminist Perspectives on Peace and Peace Education. Pergamon Press.l989.
- Since the fall of l987 until January 1992 I worked at the Faculty of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam under an arrangement partly paid by the University of Oslo and partly by the Norwegian Development Agency,NORAD.
- I had a sabbatical from the University of Dar es Salaam in the fall of l991 and spent three months of it at the UNESCO Institute of Education in Hamburg, Germany on a DAAD scholarship. Started writing "Recolonization of the African mind."
- I had leave without pay from the University of Oslo in the first part of l992 and spent the first part of it doing first an evaluation study for NORAD and then one for the Teacher College in Malmö, Sweden. The last three months of that term I spent as a Visiting Professor of peace studies at the University of Antioch, Ohio.
- Research leave - October 1993. I spent four weeks at the UNESCO Institute of Education, Hamburg working on the manuscript the "Recolonization of the African mind."
- Leave with pay in the fall term of 1995. I spent one month of the time at the UNESCO Institute of Education, Hamburg, one month lecturing at four universities in South Africa and one month doing a consultancy in Namibia.
- Research leave - October 1997. I spent four weeks at the UNESCO Institute of Education, Hamburg working on the book on the "Recolonization of the African mind."
- Research leave - November 1998. I spent four weeks at the UNESCO Institute of Education, Hamburg finalizing the book on the "Recolonization of the African mind."
ACTIVITIES AT WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN l987 - 2000
- Stockholm,Sweden l987.March l4 - l9:A seminar at SIPRI sponsored by SIPRI/UNEP to discuss the project: Cultural norms,war and the environment. Presented the paper: Formal education as a force in shaping cultural norms relating to war and the environment.
- A lecturing tour of the US l987,April 8 -25,covering:University of Illinois,Indiana University,Earlham College,Franklin College,Ohio State University,Ohio Wesleyan University,some high schools and churches. Gave talks on: Women and peace, peace education, masuclinity,sports and the education for violence, feminist theories on development.
- Copenhagen,Denmark l987, May 27 - 3l, conference by the Danish Peace Foundation at Louisianna.Participated in round-tables and debates.
- Moscow, USSR l987,June 20-27, International conference on women- a follow-up of the Nairobi l985-conference.Participated in round-tables and debates.
- Dublin,Ireland,l987,July 5 - ll,Third International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women Studies.I gave the opening key note lecture.
- London,UK,l987,August 2-ll,lecturing on "feminist perspectives on peace and development" at the University of London, Institute of Education at the Center for Research on gender.
- Stockholm,Sweden,l987,September 25-27,lecturing on peace education at a peace conference organized by Swedish professionals against Nuclear Arms.
- Arusha,Tanzania,l987,September 28-October l:ESAURP conference on University Capacity in Eastern and Southern Africa. Observer for NORAD, wrote a report from the meeting.
- Ås,Norway, l988, June l6-l8, key-note lecture on "the World Bank policies on education in Sub-Saharan Africa" at a conference on Education and production put up by the Nordic Association for the Study of Education in Developing Countries.
- Oslo, Norway l988, July 3l-August 6, lecturing on "feminist perspectives on peace" at the Nordic Women Festival.
- Santiago,Chile, l988, ll.August: Lecture on women and peace to Chilean peace researchers.
- Rio,Brazil,l988,August l5 - 2l, the biannual conference of IPRA- the International Peace Research Association. Gave a paper on: Underdevelopment and the Oppression of Women: A Feminist Perspective.
- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1988, November 23-25, a mini-donor conference on the problems in the educational sector in Tanzania.
- University of Illinois, 1989, March l3-l5, conference on women and peace: keynote lecture on women and peace education.
- Franklin College, Indiana, 1989, March l6, lecture to the staff on "similarities between the oppression of the third world by the industrialized countries and the global oppression of women by men." Later the same day a lecture to the students on: "Sports, masculinity and the education for violence."
- International Studies Association conference in London, l989, March 28- April l, chaired a session on peace studies and presented a paper on "Feminist perspectives on peace."
- UNESCO Institute of Education, Hamburg, FRG, l989, April l7-l9, discussion with board of directors and part of the reseach staff of the Institute and its policies.
- Institute for African Alternatives, conference on Alternative Development Strategies for Africa held at the University of Dar es Salaam, l2 - l4, l989. Presented the paper: The Schooling Prospects of Tanzanian Female Students in a Situation of Economic Crisis.
- Conference of PAND (Performing Artist for Nuclear Disarmament) International in Joensuu, Finland, l9 - 23 June l990.
- The 25th Anniversary Conference of IPRA (the International Peace Research Association) in Groningen, Holland, 2 - 6 July l990. 12 pp. Gave the following key-note lecture: The Feminist Experience and Social Change in Europe and Africa.
- Seminar organized by WED (Women,Education and Development) in Morogoro, Tanzania, l6-20 September, l990. Gave the paper: The expectations of some secondary school students in Tanzania concerning their future life, education and jobs.
- Workshop on adult education and peace at the UNESCO Institute of Education, Hamburg, FRG, 18-19 April l99l.
- Seminar on women and peace at the Danish Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Copenhagen, 20.April l99l.
- Lecturing on "Friedensforschung - Frauenforschung - Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede" at a luncheon-seminar at Zentrum für interkulturelles Lernen at the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on Thursday May 2, 1991.
- Lecturing on "a feminist theory of development" and on "women,education,development" at the Oslo International Summer School, July l991.
- Introducing the theme: Recolonization of the African brain" at a seminar at the UNESCO Institute of Education, Hamburg,Germany, on Wednesday October 16, 1991.
- Franklin College, key-note speaker at a conference on "cross-cultural transitions." at Franklin College, Indiana 21 March 1992.
- Purdue University, gave lectures on "Feminism and Peace education" at Purdue University, 24 and 25 of March 1992.
- University of Minnesota, gave a lecture at the University of Minnesota 10 of April 1992 on: "The potential of feminist insights for peace and development studies."
- Antioch University, gave a lecture at Antioch University, Department of Education 1.of June 1992 on: What is peace education?
- Gave a talk for the Quaker Community in Rockford Chapel i Yellow Springs, Ohio 9 of June 1992. Theme: "Reflections by a cultural commuter"
- International Summer school, University of Oslo,10.of July 1992 lectured on:" The potential of feminist insights for peace and development studies."
- IPRA conference, University of Kyoto,Japan, presented the paper: "Linguistic rights as human rights."in two commissions during the IPRA-conference, 27 of July untill l of August 1992.
- Göteborg, key-note speaker at a conference on "Women and adult education" at Nordens Folkliga Akademi, Göteborg on the 6 and 7. of October 1992.
- NAVF, panelist at a conference on "Norsk pedagogisk vitenskap".(Norwegian educational research), arranged by NAVF and held at Sundvollen near Oslo, 7 until 9.oktober 1992.
- Key-note speaker: "Norsk utviklingshjelp sett fra mottakernes perspektiv" (A recipient perspective on Norwegian development aid) at a conference arranged by the Norwegian section of SID (Society for International Development) Friday 16. October 1992 in Ingeniørenes Hus in Oslo.
- Lectured on "traditional education in Africa" at the Eli seminar series at the University of Oslo 29 of October 1992.
- Lectured on "The language situation in Africa" at an international ELI-seminar in Oslo 27. November 1992.
- Gøteborg, key-note speaker at a conference on developing countries, held for journalists at PADRIGU (Peace and Development Institute of Göteborg University) 4.December 1992.
- Hamburg, UNESCO Institute for Education, gave a paper on the Women,Education,Development research group in Dar es Salaam at an International Seminar on Women's Education and Empowerment, 27 January to 2.February 1993.
- Oslo, U-landsseminaret (seminar on the developing countries),Tuesday 2.March 1993, lecture on: The intellectual recolonization of Africa.
- The 1993 Conference of the Comparative and International
Education Society, CIES, in Kingston, Jamaica, March 16 to 19, 1993.
Presentation of the following three papers: a. The distinction between education
about peace and development and value centered education intended to promote
them. Written for the IBE-sponsored project entitled: The role of education in
promoting cultural and international understanding through the full development
of the individual. Paper presented at an Invited programme session on: Value
Centered Education, an international comparison chaired by Prof.dr.Douglas Ray,
the University of Western Ontario.
b. Development aid to the education sector in Tanzania - impressions from the recipient side.
c. Educating All for Positive Peace: Education for Positive Peace or Oppression? Invited panel session on: "Educating all for positive peace: goals, strategies, and consequences," chaired by Prof.dr.Mark B.Ginsburg, Institute for International Studies in Education, the University of Pittsburgh.
- University of Pittsburgh, 22 - 24 March, 1993 lecturing
on:
a. Educating All for Positive Peace: Education for Positive Peace or for Oppression?
b. Donor policies for the education sector in Africa.
c. Is there an intellectual recolonization going on in Africa?
- Hamburg, Unesco Institute of Education, 21-30 April 1993, discussion on the UNESCO input into Education for All.
- Umeå: Feminist Didaktik - the how, what and why to teach women. Key note speech at an international conference on Feminist Pedagogy and Women Friendly Perspectives in Distant Education in Umeå, Sweden, 13 of June 1993.
- International Summer school, University of Oslo, 12.of July 1993 four hour seminar on: A feminist perspective on peace and development studies."
- International Summer school, University of Oslo, 14.of July 1993 four hour seminar on: "Women and education in Africa."
- "Vestlig utdanningsmodell som kulturimperialisme", (Educational models from the west as cultural imperialism) lecture given at a one-day seminar (27.August, 1993) arranged by SAIH - studentenes og akademikerenes internasjonale hjelpefond and "Operasjon Dagsverk". (Norwegian Students and Academics' International Assistance Fund)
- ATEE (Association of Teacher Education in Europe), Lisboa, Portugal, 4 - 10 september, 1993. Presented the paper: "The distinction between teaching about peace and teaching for peace" to the working group on Human Rights and Peace Education. (Working group 13)
- NORRAG (Northern Policy Research Review Advisory Network on Education and Training) workshop in Oxford, United Kingdom, 23 - 28 September, 1993. Presented the paper: Development aid to the education sector in Tanzania - impressions from the recipient side.
- International workshop at Soria Moria Hotel near Oslo, 6 - 8 October 1993 to discuss "Guidelines for values for the humanistic and international dimension of education." Arranged by the Ministry for Church, Education and Research together with the UNESCO-Commission of Norway and CIDREE (the Consortium of Institutions for Developent and Research in Education in Europe.
- NASEDEC (Nordic Association for the Study of Education in Developing Countries) conference on "Quality of Education in the Context of Culture in Developing Countries, University of Tampere, Finland, 13 - 15 January 1994. Presented the paper: "Reconstruction of Textbooks and Curricula in Africa - a feminist perspective"
- 26.May 1994 - lectured at "Pedagogiska Institutionen, Göteborgs Universitet," Sweden to the doctoral students on "peace education from a feminist perspective."
- 26.June - 6.July 1994 - CESE (Comparative Education Society in Europe) conference in Copenhagen. Presented the paper: The role of aid in education for development.
- 27.August 1994 - lectured at "Landesinstitut für Weiter-bildung, Soest, Germany on "Feministische Perspektiven über Frieden und Friedenserziehung". The lecture was held in German.
- 13.October 1994 - lectured at "Pedagogiska Institutionen, Göteborgs Universitet," Sweden to the doctoral students on the research project "A Mother's boy".
- October 1994 - lectured at "Unikom," University of Tromsø, Norway to the doctoral students on the research project "Mitt prosjekt - min metode" - om bruk av deltakende observasjon og aksjonsforskning i Mønsterplan-prosjektet" (my project - my method -on the use of participant observation and action research in the lower secondary school project.)
- 29.October - 5.November 1994 - participated in the IPRA (International Peace Research Association) conference in Malta. Presented the paper: Education for all - education for structural violence or for self-reliance?
- 17.February 1995 - lectured on "Women and education in Africa" at a SAIH seminar arranged by the students in Trondheim, Norway.
- 26.March 1995 - lectured on: Women through four UN conferences" and on "Women, education and development" for a regional meeting of the UN Associations in the north of Norway held in Tromsø.
- 8 May 1995 - The challenges for peace education" lecture held for staff and students of PSY (Pedagogisk seminar for yrkeslærere - vocational teachers) at Bygdøy.
- 17 June 1995: The Role of Higher Education in Africa. Paper presented at the NASEDEC Conference on the Role of Aid in the Education for All, 15 to 17 June, Ås, Norway
- ll and 12 July 1995 - International Summer school, University of Oslo, four hour seminar on: "A feminist perspective on peace and development studies" and "Women and education in Africa" on the llth and "Language of instruction in Africa" and "Developmnt aid to the education sector in Africa" on the 12th.
- "The power to define the curriculum" talk in the concluding panel of an intenational conference on "New trends in curriculum construction" - University of Oslo Saturday 12 of August 1995.
- Globalisation of learning - the role of the universities in the South - with a special look at Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Education and Development under the theme: "Globalisation and Learning." New College, Oxford, UK, 21st - 25th September 1995.
- Utdanning i Afrika - problemer og utfordringer. Talk given at Ugandaforeningen Saturday 30. September 1995.
- Forces for Decolonizing the African mind. What could South-Africa learn from the failures of other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa? Key-note lecture at the colloquium on "Decolonizing the mind" held at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, 12 - 13 October 1995.
- Lectured on "Validity and reliability in qualitative research in education" at the University of the North, South Africa on the 16th of October 1995.
- Lectured on "Forces for Decolonizing the African mind" to the staff at Lovedale College in Alice, South Africa on the 19th of October 1995.
- Lectured on "Forces for Decolonizing the African mind" to the staff at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, South Africa on the 19th of October 1995.
- Lectured on "The African child's educational problem is a linguistic problem" to students at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, South Africa on the 19th of October 1995.
- Lectured on "Forces for Decolonizing the African mind" to the students at the University of Zululand, South Africa 23 of October 1995.
- Lectured on "Internationalisierung des Bildungswesens - eine kritische Perspektive" at a conference on "Bildung zwischen Staat und Markt" - the 15 conference of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft" held in Halle, Germany from the 11. to the 13.March 1996.
- Lectured on "Internasjonalisering av undervisningen" at the College of Teacher Education at the University of Lund, Sweden on 10.May 1996.
- Lectured on "Multicultural education and development education - similarities and challenges to peace education" at the 16th general conference of IPRA, Brisbane, Australia, 8 - 12 July 1996. Presented a paper with that title.
- Lectured on "Utdanning som frigjøring" at a SAIH seminar, Ytre Enebakk Friday 27.September 1996.
- Lectured on "the UNICEF project on basic education with a main emphasis on the girl child" at a seminar arranged by KUF/NORAD/the UNESCO Commission at Sundvolden Tuesday 8.October 1996.
- Participated in a panel on "the challenges of international education in the Norwegian school system" at a seminar arranged by KUF/NORAD/the UNESCO Commission at Sundvolden Wednesday 9.October 1996.
- Lectured on "the UNESCO Institute of Education in Hamburg" for the Norwegian UNESCO Commission on Thursday 10.October 1996.
- Lectured on "Reliability and validity in qualitative research within education in Africa" at the NASEDEC conference in Copenhagen Friday 18.October 1996. Presented a paper with that title.
- Lectured on "Udanning i Afrika - bistandens rolle" to Master degree (hovedfag) students in "samfunnsgeografi" (social geography) on Wednesday 23.October 1996.
- Lectured on "Utdanning i Afrika - med særlig vekt på Tanzania, Namibia og Sør-Afrika" at a seminar organized by "Lærerforbundet" Thursday 24.October 1996.
- Lectured on "A feminist perspective on peace and development studies" and on "Reliability and validity in qualitative research within education in Africa" at a seminar for development workers at SIDAs course at Sandø, Sweden on 11.December 1996.
- Key-note lecture at the Jubilee Conference of the Nordic Society for Educational Research under the theme: Equality and gender. In Gothenburg, Sweden, 6 - 9 March 1997.: Kunnskap uten makt - en gjenvisitt på et forskningsfelt - eller: "Dere feminister fra 70-tallet."
- Lectured on "Human rights education with special emphasis on the Croatian situation" at Plitovic, Croatia on Monday the 17th of June 1997.
- 7 July 1997 - International Summer school, University of Oslo, four hour seminar on: "Language of instruction in Africa" and "The role of the universities in Sub-Saharan Africa".
- Paper "Academic excellence in a geo-politically changed South Africa" presented at the Fourth International Conference on Education and Development under the theme: "Education and Geopolitical change." New College, Oxford, UK, 11 - 15th September 1997.
- Debated against the Director of NORAD, Tove Strand Gerhardsen, on development aid to education Tuesday 23rd of September 1997 at a seminar arranged by SAIH at the University of Oslo.
- I was invited as key-note speaker at a seminar on "Racismo y Educacion para la Paz in Valencia, Spain (12-14 November 1997) My talk was on multicultural education and development education - similarities between two fields of studies.
- Gave two lectures at a SAIH (Students Academic International Help Fund) conference on Tuesday the 10th of February 1998, one on: "Education and Development", one on:"Education in southern Africa."
- Gave a three hour workshop at the Norwegian University of Sports on Wednesday the 18th of February 1998 on: "Intellectual recolonization of Africa - especially in the field of sports."
- Gave an invited key-note lecture at the CESE conference in Groningen, Holland on the 7th of July on "The Nordic dimension in education - does it exist? Where are the Nordic countries heading?"
- 27 July 1998 - International Summer school, University of Oslo, four hour seminar on: "Language of instruction in Africa" and "The role of the universities in Sub-Saharan Africa".
- Peace education in an era of globalization. Lecture given at Universitat Internacional de Menorca, Spain on Friday 18 September 1998. 22pp.
- Taught a week's course on "peace education and socialization" in the Master of Peace Studies programme at the University of Peace in Stadtschlaining, Austria, 27 - 31 of October 1998.
- Gave an invited key-note lecture at the Norwegian Educational research conference at Lillehammer, Norway on the 18th of November 1998 on "Norsk utdanning i et globaliseringsperspektiv" (Norwegian Education in the era of globalization).
- Gave a talk on "fredskorpsere som brobyggere" (the Peace Corps workers as bridge builders between cultures) at the Jubilee seminar of the Peace Corps 11.December 1998.
- 9 July 1999 - International Summer school, University of Oslo, four hour seminar on: "Language of instruction in Africa" and "The role of the universities in Sub-Saharan Africa".
- Taught a week's course on "peace education in an era of globalization" in the "Summer School on Peace and Conflict" arranged by the University of Osnabrück, Germany July 11 - 16 1999.