Associate Professor

Thomas Owren

Department of welfare and participation
Thomas Owren
Tel: +47 55 58 79 04
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Bergen
KRONSTAD2 M4-68
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Field of work

Social education (vernepleie), social education theory, disability and equality (CRPD) 

Participation and accommodating participation (building down environmental barriers) for persons with intellectual disability

Including persons with intellectual disability as employees in ordinary businesses, organizational learning related to work disability inclusion

Collective peer teaching (students teaching students) and peer review in higher education

Peer assessment and feedback (students supervising students) on home exams in higher education

Professional supervision, interdisciplinary reflection and reflexivity

Research areas 

  • Collective peer teaching and Peer review
  • Informal coercion
  • Workplace disability inclusion

 

Courses taught
  • MASM530, Milieu Therapeutic Work- Methodological Approaches, Fall 2026
  • MASO591D, Master's Thesis , Spring 2027
  • MASO591D, Master's Thesis , Fall 2026
  • VPD100, Introduction to the Conceptual Basis of the Social Educator , Fall 2026
  • VPD220, The social educator’s social responsibility to work for inclusion and participation , Fall 2026
  • VPD300, Social Education between the Individual Service User and System levels, Spring 2027
  • VPL100, The Conceptual Basis and Professional Boundaries of the Social Educator , Fall 2026
  • VPL210, Healthcare and Health Promotion, Fall 2026
  • VPL220, The Social Educator’s Social Responsibility to Work for Inclusion and Participation , Spring 2027
  • VPL300, Social Education between the Individual Service User and System Levels, Fall 2026, subject responsible
  • VPL390, Bachelor's Thesis , Spring 2027
  • VPLP100, Placement in Milieu Therapeutic Work , Spring 2027
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