Anne-Mette Bjørgen er stipendiat innen fagområdet medie- og kommunikasjonsvitenskap/mediepedagogikk. Avhandlingens arbeidstittel er "Småskoleelevers digitale kompetanser i spenningsfeltet mellom skole og fritid".

Problemstilling/ sammendrag

Anne Mette`s research interests evolves around how we use media technology in education and everyday life.

She has a diverse educational background, including media and communication studies (main subject 1992), sociology, distance education and pedagogy.

In her current Ph.d.-project she studies how three Norwegian primary schools approach and develop pupils` digital competencies emerging from their leisure time digital practices. The data consist of interviews, vide-observations and questionnaire. The project aims at providing empirical content to academic discussions related to the conception of digital competencies (digital literacy), and to schools work with this according to the recent school reform The Knowledge Promotion.

The ambition is to examine how pupils develop digital competencies within and between leisure time and in school, and hence how they define and understand schools` digital practices. Digital technology challenge our accustomed conceptions of knowledge, learning, learning contexts and methods. By drawing on concepts from socio-cultural theory, the pupils´ use of computers are approached as "mediated action" (Wertsch 1991, 1998). Important concepts are competencies, learning, contexts and mediation.

Her phd-project is linked to the Phd-programme Children and youth`s competencies development (BUK)

Before Anne Mette became a Phd-student, she used to work with distance education and educational media at the Centre for Continuing Education at LUC (Sell, HiL). She has been involved in a number of projects and educational programmes. One example is her role as project manager for the Learning Network Oppland, linked to the national project The Learning Network.

Doktorgradsinstitusjon, veileder, stipendiatperiode

Anne Mette er tilknyttet Universitetet i Oslo, Pedagogisk forskningsinstitutt på Utdanningsvitenskapelig fakultet.

Hovedveileder: Professor Ola Erstad, PFI, UiO.
Intern veileder: Professor Pär Nygren, Høgskolen i Lillehammer.
Stipendiatperiode: 1. august 2006 – 1. august 2010.

Faglige publikasjoner:

• Digital practices in school and development of digital competencies - some results from a study of three primary schools in Norway (paper på NERA konferanse i Trondheim 2009)
• Nordkvelle, Y., Bjørgen, A.M. og Fritze, Y. (2008): Fra digitale mapper 1.0 til 2.0? i Allern, M., Engelsen, K. S. (2008): Mapper i digitale læringskontekstar : erfaringar og perspektiv frå høgre utdanning. Noregsuniversitetets skriftserie nr 2.
• Hvilken kompetanse trenger lærere i møte med elevenes digitale kompetanse? i Nygren, P., Thuen, H. (red.) (2008): Barn og unges kompetanseutvikling. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo.