Lise-Kari Berg

Lise-Kari Berg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education at Oslo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Education and International Studies. She specializes in arts and crafts education, with a strong focus on practical and professional knowledge, bodily learning, and multimodal documentation in pedagogical contexts.

Her research interests span a wide range of topics in arts-based education, including phenomenological perspectives on learning through making, the role of practice in deep learning, and the integration of aesthetic processes in teacher training. She explores how artists' books and visual collages can serve as alternative texts to document artistic research and student work.

The recent publications indicate a consistent focus on the didactics of arts and crafts, particularly how practice leads to deep learning and how teachers develop professional competence. Her work often involves collaboration with colleagues like Øyvind Standal and Jeanette Helleberg Dybvik, and she contributes significantly to national and international educational discourse through conference presentations and peer-reviewed journals.

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She has supervised various dissemination and research projects, particularly in the context of teacher education and curriculum development. Her work includes integration of alternative activities like hobby horse riding into physical education and adapting art education during the pandemic. She is involved in research groups such as Challenging Picturebooks in Education, Design Literacy, and Classroom Research.

She leads Area of Responsibility 4 in her department and contributes to the development of sustainable and creative pedagogies. Her research is closely tied to practical classroom applications and teacher professional development.