Diversity and intercultural communication in education (FLEKS)
The research group is interdisciplinary with a main focus on social sustainability.
The research group is interdisciplinary and emphasizes social sustainability. The focus areas are, among other things, children and adults with a minority language background and their everyday life in kindergarten, school, and higher education.
Ongoing projects
Publications
- Sønsthagen, A. G., Eggum, E., Pedersen, L., & Skoglund, R. I. (2026). Moving beyond collaboration to co-creation with families in early childcare institutions – a study of workshops with parents and staff. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1–15.
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Bergersen, A., & Massao, P. B. (2022). En analyse av makt og kultursensitivitet blant utvekslingsstudenter til og fra det globale sør gjennom faget Global Knowledge. I J. Klein, A. Bergersen, & A. S. Larsen (Red.), Utenlandspraksis for lærerstudenter: Global og interkulturell kompetanse (s. 41-63). Universitetsforlaget.
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Bergersen, A., & Massao, P. B. (2025). Studentmobilitet for kvalitet i høyere utdanning: Hva kan vi lære av stemmer fra Zambia og Tanzania? Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE), 9(1).
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Bergersen, A., & Sønsthagen, A. G. (2025). Power and majority discourses in education - critical perspectives. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE), 9(1).
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Conolly, J., Abraham, G. Y., Bergersen, A., Bratland, K., Jæger, K., Jensen, A. A., & Lassen, I. (2025). Beyond exceptionalism: Decolonising the Nordic educational mindset. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE), 9(1).
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Klein, J., Bergersen, A., & Larsen, A. S. (2022). Utenlandspraksis for lærerstudenter: Global og interkulturell kompetanse. Universitetsforlaget.
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Sønsthagen, A. G. (2025). Fleirkulturelt foreldresamarbeid i barnehagen. Samlaget.
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Sønsthagen, A. G., & Massao, P. B. (2025). Racialized narratives about multicultural parental collaboration in early childhood education and care: Normality understood as whiteness. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE), 9(1).
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Sønsthagen, A. G., & Street, K. (2024). Parent–Staff Collaboration in Norwegian Early Childcare Centers: An Investigation into the Structural Validity of and COVID-19 Related Differences in Responses to the Parental Survey. Nordisk barnehageforskning, 21(3), 467-491.
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Vattedal, M., & Bergersen, A. (2022). Intercultural communication as an important element in student mobility. I J. Klein, A. Bergersen, & A. S. Larsen (Red.), Utenlandspraksis for lærerstudenter: Global og interkulturell kompetanse (s. 84-102). Universitetsforlaget.
- Birkeland, J., Fimreite, H., & Sønsthagen, A. G. (2022). Den kompetente barnehagen. Tre tilnærmingar til leiing og kunnskapsutvikling. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
- Massao, P. B. & Bergersen, A. (2024). (De)Coloniality in Teacher Education: Reflections on Student Teachers’ Mobility from the Global North to the Global South. Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk: Special Issue on Education and Coloniality in the Nordics, 10(3), 144–157
- Pedersen, L., Bjørnestad, E., Nornes-Nymark, M., Engesæter, M., & Aadland, E. (2022). Kvalitet i samspelet mellom barn og personale i norske barnehagar. Nordisk barnehageforskning, 19(3).
- Sønsthagen, A. G. (2021). Den lærande linjeleiaren i fleirkulturell kompetanseheving. https://www.barnehage.no/flerkulturell-kompetanseheving/den-laerande-linjeleiaren-i-fleirkulturell-kompetanseheving/215841
- Sønsthagen, A. G. (2021). Dette påverkar tilsette sitt syn på foreldre med flyktningbakgrunn. https://www.utdanningsnytt.no/fagartikkel-flerkulturell-flerkulturell-pedagogikk/dette-paverkar-tilsette-sitt-syn-pa-foreldre-med-flyktningbakgrunn/299898
- Sønsthagen, A. G. (2021). Leadership and responsibility : a study of early childcare institutions as inclusion arenas for parents with refugee backgrounds Faculty of Humanities, Sports and Educational Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway]. Horten.
- Sønsthagen, A. G. (2023). The learning early childhood education and care institution as an inclusion arena. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1-14.
- Sønsthagen, A. G. (2024). Lærande linjeleiarar si rolle i utviklinga av barnehagen som ein lærande organisasjon. Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift, 108(2), 140-152.
Networks
- ANGEL - Academic Network on Global Education & Learning
- Norsk nettverk for bærekraft og utdanning
- The Nordplus network Global & Intercultural competence through practicum in the global south (GIPS)
- Nordic Network for Intercultural Communication (NIC)
Collaborations
- David Livingstone College of Education, (DALICE), Zambia
- University of Zambia, School of Education, Department of Language and Social Sciences , Zambia
