Welcome!
Welcome to the blog for the project, “Negotiating Values in Teacher Education”. You can find out more about us by visiting the “About” page, or the HVL project website.
The NeVa project was created to strengthen teachers, teacher educators and researchers in promoting the 2020 educational curriculum reform in Norway, also called “The Value Promotion in Education” curriculum (LK20). Clashes of values occur not only in political debates, but have become a part of our daily experience, in classrooms, neighborhoods and throughout Norway. Because teachers play a significant role in the formation of future citizens, the NeVa project seeks to promote knowledge that will support teachers and teacher educators in the negotiation of values and in fostering democratic participation. Being rooted in and being able to reflect on our own personal values is a necessary part of successful classroom management when value clashes arise. By shifting the focus from difference to interconnectedness, the project aims to foster an appreciation of complexity through constructive dialogue and collaborative problem-solving.
The NeVa project’s core research aims are:
To explore how values are currently understood and negotiated: We will explore how teachers and teacher education students understand the values of LK20, and how conflicting values are currently negotiated in schools and in teacher education.
To develop research-based methods that support teachers and teacher education students with knowledge and skills in handling how values are interpreted and negotiated.
To inform national policy directives and aid local authorities and teacher education institutions in the implementation of a values-based pedagogy
In addition to providing the public with information from our research, events, and personal insights, this blog will provide a space for the exploration of values, for engagement with other ways of being in the world, and for the practice of reflexive approaches to our own life and learning.
If you have comments or suggestions for topics that can be explored here, please send an email to the project leader.
Solstrand seminar, Fall 2025
The NeVa team met in November 2025 to discuss our research plan for 2026. Among other things, we reflected on the key concepts that shape our research direction: reflexivity, recognition, value negotiation, and critical thinking. In addition, we welcomed our two new Ph.D. candidates—Leona Mihaljović-Kolčić and Linda Eide Onarheim—to the project.