RECAP

Our work places education as a central arena for developing responsible people for a sustainable future.

We focus on:

• Pedagogy for the unforeseen: Developing educational models that form robust individuals who can handle future crises.
• AI and ethics: Exploring the formative consequences of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning.
• Innovative learning environments: Creating student-active learning methods that promote critical thinking and engaged citizenship.

Theoretical basis: Education as a cultural-historical process

The group combines empirical educational research with humanistic intellectual history. This makes it possible to understand education as a process deeply rooted in cultural traditions – and to critically assess what responsibility our culture promotes.

Conclusion: Building bridges between past and future

RECAP offers an important long-term perspective on social responsibility. We argue that responsible actions spring from a shaped character – developed through reflected engagement with the cultural and educational traditions we inherit.

Members

Internal members (NLA University College):

• Francis Borchardt, professor

• Linnéa K. Jermstad, Associate Professor / PhD candidate

• Glenn-Egil Torgersen, professor

• Natalia Alfarnes, lecturer

• Johanna Bokedal, lecturer / PhD candidate

• Øyvind Fosse, Associate Professor

• Gila Hammer Furnes, Associate Professor

• Svitlana Holovchuk, Associate Professor

• Margrethe Løøv, Associate Professor

• Marit Myklebust, lecturer

• Ole Fredrik Norbye, Associate Professor

• Bernt Rune Stray, professor

• Renate Vesteraas, Associate Professor

• Kristin Aadland-Atkinson, lecturer

• Nina Anette Angeltveit, lecturer

External members:

• Herner Sæverot, professor, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)

• Leif Inge Magnussen, professor, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN)

• Helen Dixon, Senior Lecturer, East Carolina University

• Jacqueline Vayntrub, Associate Professor, Yale University

• Hanna Tervanotko, Associate Professor, McMaster University

• Valerie Margrain, professor, Karlstad University / Victoria University

• Jeremy Punt, professor, Stellenbosch University

• Shantelle Weber, professor, Stellenbosch University

• Johan Bergh, Associate Professor, Oslo Nye Høyskole

• Trygve Jakobsen Steiro, Associate Professor, NTNU

• Whitney Muller, Lecturer (PhD), Stellenbosch University