Lise-Mari Lauritzen

Tittel: Det skal helst gå godt - Skjønnlitteraturens bidrag til undervisningen om folkehelse og livsmestring i norskfaget på videregående skole

Avhandlingen vil bli tilgjengelig i Munin

Du kan følge prøveforelesning og disputas på mediasite (https://mediasite.uit.no/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/a183c2edf9664b8ebf6583705a39307d21) eller delta fysisk. 

Prøveforelesning starter 10:10 samme dag og sted. 

Sammendrag av avhandlingen:
This dissertation contributes to the implementation of the interdisciplinary topic public health and life skills in the Norwegian Language Arts in upper secondary school. It combines humanities and social science approaches with the aim of examining teaching materials, methods and teachers’ perspectives based on 13 qualitative interviews. First, the challenges that current conceptualizations of public health and life skills can create for teachers are examined. Second, literature as teaching material is discussed, and finally the transferability of narrative medicine to the teaching of life skills is examined. Among the dissertation’s key findings is that there is an impression that public health and life skills have been introduced as a response to increasing prevalence of mental illness among young people, which can affect teachers’ role and purpose in society. Several findings indicate that it can be challenging to find a place for life skills in the Norwegian Language Arts, due to a focus on exams and management by objectives, among other things. On the other hand, there are possibilities for including life skills as a part of a Bildung perspective. Literature creates an aesthetic space where experiences related to life skills, such as dichotomies, stereotypes, typecasting and externalization of problems can be investigated. Affective narratology can also help to increase the understanding of emotional structures. Narrative medicine demonstrates how fiction can unite disciplines, without compromising their respective professional frameworks. Narrative medicine is based on the connection between close reading of literature and the development of attention to others.

Veiledere: 

Hovedveileder Førsteamanuensis Linda Nesby, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Biveileder Førsteamanuensis Yngve Antonsen, UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Bedømmelseskomité:

Første opponent: Førsteamanuensis Hallvard Kjelen, Nord universitet
Andre opponent: forsker Katarina Bernhardsson, Lund universitet
Leder av komiteen: Førsteamaneunsis June T. Forsberg, UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Leder av disputas: instituttleder Siw Skrøvset, Institutt for lærerutdanning og pedagogikk

De som ønsker å opponere ex. auditorio kan sende epost til disputasleder Siw Skrøvset (siw.skrovset@uit.no) innen kl. 14:00 på disputasdagen.