IRED Seminar
 PORTRAIT OF TEACHERS
AND TEACHER EDUCATION IN NORWAY 

• Theme: "Portrait of Teachers and Teacher Education in Norway"

• Date and time: Tuesday, May 28, from 1:30pm-5pm

• Venue: IRED office, 4 Ba Huyen Thanh Quan Street, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City

• Speaker: Professor Elaine Munthe (University of Stavanger, Norway)

• Seminar schedule: 1:30pm-2:00pm: Welcome and Networking; 2:00pm-4:00pm: Professor Elaine Munthe’s presentation; 4:00pm-5:00pm: Q&A

• Target participants: education leaders, administrators, officials, university lecturers, school leaders, teachers and researchers

• Organizer: The Institute for Research on Educational Development (IRED)

• Language: English-Vietnamese translation

• Participation fee: Free of charge

Why the seminar?

Education reform has been a key topic in enhancing education quality in Vietnam.  Improving education quality demands competent teachers who play a vital role in student learning.  Therefore, effective teacher education is one of the very solutions to provide qualified teachers.  Regarded an education expert in teacher education in Norway, where teacher education reform has been taking place in full force, Professor Elaine Munthe will share with the education community in Vietnam her insights and experience on this important and timely topic. She is Professor of Education of University of Stanvanger, Norway.  She also currently serves as the Chair of a panel appointed by the Norwegian Ministry of Education to study the implementation of a teacher education reform and leads many research projects on assessing the quality of teacher education in Norway.

Seminar content

• Teachers in Norway before, now and future (their status, role, capacity, and responsibility)

• Best practices and strategies in teacher education in Norway (recruitment, training methods of teacher education at Norwegian universities, teacher development, output of teacher ed in universities, national plan or strategy in teacher development)

• Discussion of one of research projects on teacher educationin Norway

• Teacher education reform in Norway

About Professor Elaine Munthe

Elaine Munthe, Professor of Education, is based at the University of Stavanger in Norway.  She is currently the Chair of a panel appointed by the Norwegian Ministry of Education to study the implementation of a teacher education reform (2010-2015), and is involved in two large research projects - Qualifying for Professional Careers (QPC) and Teachers as Students (TasS).  QPC questions and compares how formal education qualifies across professions (nursing, teaching, social work) and Munthe is providing her expertise on teacher education.  At the TasS project, Professor Munthe is supporting one of the project’s most important research questions - How does field practice in teacher education support teacher students’ learning.  She is also involved in testing an intervention intended to enhance students’ professional knowledge.

Elaine Munthe is a member of a research program board at the Norwegian Research Council (2005-2015) where the main goal is to strengthen practice-oriented research among teacher educators.  She also served as an Editorial Board Member of Educational Research Review.  Professor Munthe has authored and co-authored over 10 books on her professional expertise.  She has also published textbooks and scientific articles in Norway and internationally.  Professor Munthe has a background teaching in both elementary and secondary grades.  She has lived and worked in the USA, Curacao, Pakistan, Laos and Norway.