Christian Lomsdalen

Position

PhD candidate, in Religious Studies

Affiliation

Work

Ph.D candidate on a project regarding the right to be exempted on religious, philosophic, or life stands grounds in the norwegian primary education. This is a continuation of my master thesis in the didactics of religion from the University of Bergen.

I have a background from the norwegian school system, where I mainly taugth in secondary school. My educational background is in social studies and the humanities with bachelor degrees in political science (NTNU, 2009), study of religion (UiB, 2017), and history (UiB, 2021). This has been continued with masters degrees in peace and conflict transformation (UiT, 2012) and didactics of religion (UiB, 2019). This has been complimented with Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) (UiB, 2013), and continuing education in teaching controversial topics (UiB, 2019) and sex education (HiOA, 2017; INN, 2021).

I am a member of the research group Educational Law and are admitted as a member of the research school Religion-Values-Society (RVS).

Since 2016 I have been publishing and creating the podcast Lektor Lomsdalens innfall that deals with different aspects of and perspectives on education and the norwegian school system.

Teaching

University of Bergen

RELV100 – Religion, Culture, and Society

RELDI112 – Subject Didactics in Religious Studies 2 (for primary and lower secondary school) – Teacher Education Programme

DIDAREL1 – Subject Didactics in Religious Studies 1 (for upper secondary school)

DIDAREL2 – Subject Didactics in Religious Studies 2 (for lower secondary school)

RELV302L: Specialization Course with Semester Paper (Teacher Education Programme)

Thematic Seminar for Teacher Education Programmes

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Individual Lectures

MGBPE201

MGUPE201

MGUKR201A

MGUKR401

MGBPE401

Publications

Academic article

Academic book chapter

Conference lecture

Master’s thesis

Non-fiction monograph

Popular science article

Professional article

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

Akademiske tilknytninger

Forskningsgrupper

Forskningsgruppen Utdanningsrett

"Barns rettigheter i skole og barnehager følger både av internasjonale konvensjoner Norge er bundet av, samt av nasjonale lover og forskrifter. Barn er i dag selvstendige rettssubjekter som blant annet har rett til å bli hørt og bli involvert i avgjørelser som angår dem selv, og barnets beste skal være et grunnleggende hensyn ved den endelige beslutningen.

Vi er en tverrfaglig sammensatt forskningsgruppe som har fokus på hvordan barns rettigheter blir implementert i barnehage og skole."

Forskningsgruppen ledes av Marianne K. Bahus (external link) og Camilla Herlofsen (external link).

Nettside: Utdanningsrett.no (external link).

Forskning og undervisning om kontroversielle tema

Forskerne i gruppen er opptatte av hvordan man kan forske på temaer som ofte skaper diskusjon og uenighet, og hvordan slike tema blir behandlet og undervist om, både i skolen og i høyere utdanning. Forskergruppen ble stiftet våren 2022, og består av forskere fra Universitetet i Bergen, Universitetet i Stavanger, og undervisere fra Raftostiftelsen. 

Nettside: Forskning og undervisning om kontroversielle tema

Forskernettverk

Norsk Religionspedagogisk Forskerforum

"NoReFo – wants to encourage and increase research in the field of religion, beliefs and education in Norway, and to promote national cooperation about RE research. It aims at initiating and arranging opportunities for sharing knowledge, experiences and results related to the research of the members through seminars and conferences with a focus on research, cooperation with national and international colleagues with a related research interest, and through facilitating publication of relevant research."

Nettside: NoReFo.no (external link).

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