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Øystein Lund Johannessen

Centre for Intercultural Communication (Forsker 1) - VID Specialized University

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Øystein Lund Johannessen/ Research professor/ e-mail: oystein.johannessen@vid.no/ Phone: +47 51516276/ Cell: +47 95924486/ PB 226 Sentrum, 4001 Stavanger, Norway, www.vid.no

Collaborations
Department of Cultural Studies and Languages, University of Stavanger (UiS); Department of early childhood education, UiS; Centre for Learning Environment, UiS; Institutt for sosialfag, UiT; Directorate for Children, youth and families (BUFDIR); Directorate for Education (UDIR); Dublin City University, Irland; Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Ungarn); Collaborative action research network (CARN); International seminar on religions education and Values (ISREV)

About

Øystein Lund Johannessen has a professional background as a primary school teacher, adviser and second language teacher for refugees and since 1992 researcher at the Centre for Intercultural Communication (SIK). He holds a PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Stavanger and a Cand. Polit. / master’s degree in social Anthropology from the University of Bergen. At SIK, Lund Johannessen has worked as a researcher and consultant, senior researcher and administrative manager. He is now research professor in Intercultural Education. His professional involvement has been particularly in the fields of intercultural competence in public services, intercultural education and religious education. Within these fields, he has extensive experience as a leader and partner in projects designed according to principles from trailing research, action research and action learning. From 2007 to 2012, Lund Johannessen was head of one of two sub-projects in the RCN-funded action research project Religious education and diversity, where the participants were researchers and primary and lower secondary school teachers with practice in the field of religions-worldviews and ethics. His PhD thesis from 2015 was entitled Cultural competence in religious education? A study in religious education teachers’ practice in the religiously diverse classroom. Here the focus was (K)RLE teachers' work with student diversity in their own classes and the cultural awareness and intercultural competence they developed. From 2013-2018 Lund Johannessen was engaged in the international research project Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies (ReDi) led by the Academie der Weltreligionen at the University of Hamburg (2013-2018). Together with colleagues at the University of Stavanger, he conducted research on interreligous activities and religious and philosophical dialogue in the Oslo area and in Western Norway, and on dialogue as a didactic tool in the subject of religion and ethics in upper secondary school. In recent years, Lund Johannessen has conducted research and published particularly within the thematic areas 1) religious education and diversity of religions and non-religious worldviews, 2) interreligious relations and dialogue, and 3) diversity and inclusion in education. Together with colleagues from the University of Stavanger and OsloMet, he is a participant in the COST Action network Transnational Collaboration on Bullying, Migration and Integration at School Level (TRIBES) in a working group that conducts research on schools’, school owners' and school authorities' preparedness and practice for inclusion of newly arrived migrant students and support for their second language and subject learning.

Academic disciplines

General education

Subject didactics

Social sciences

Social anthropology

Subjects

Action research

Intercultural Competence

Intercultural Education

KRLE

Religious education

Interreligious dialogue

Education and Development

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Europe

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Southern Africa