CARNorge
CARNorge (Collaborative Action Research Network in Norway) is an open and inclusive network for supporting Norwegian action research activities.
The network aims to:
- develop and contribute into competence development for academic and professional staff and PhD-candidates conducting action research
- provide sustainable conditions for more and new action research projects in Norway
- create a dialogue arena and research forum with a critical perspective
- develop more knowledge about action research in Norway in terms of public information and in terms of concrete development of new knowledge
Steering commitee
Tove Andersen, OsloMet
Rasa Holen, NMBU
Annfrid Steele, UiT
Kristine Ludvigsen, HVL
Nina C. A. Vasseljen, NTNU
Dag Husebø, UiS
Mission
CARNorge’s vision is to encourage and support action research projects (personal, local, national, and international) developing new practice and theory into a various of scientific fields and professions in general, and into the methodology of action research in particular.
Membership
Please register to be included in the network.
Anthologies
Action Research in Norway vol. 3
In progress. To be published in 2026.
CARNorge on YouTube
History
CARNorge was founded spring 2014. The background for the network was that several action researchers in Norway had met in International conferences over a long time, discussing the need for a National network. As part of the International CARN-conference held in Tromsø 2013, a meeting was held among approximately 20 Norwegian participants decided to meet again in Stavanger during the following spring for establishing a Norwegian sub network of CARN. The meeting was held in April and taking part in constituting CARNorge was Hilde Hiim OsloMet, Erling Krogh NMBU, Liv H. Jensen USN, Geir Skeie UiS, Øystein L. Johannessen SIK, Kari Fredriksen SUS, Oddrun M. H. Bråten NTNU, Roy A. Andreassen HiVOLDA, Jessica Aspfors UIN, Else Stjernstrøm UIT, Dag Husebø UiS and Bente Kvilhaugsvik, HVL.
After the first constitutional meeting, annual network meetings have been held. A steering committee have been elected in the annual meetings, trying to make sure that the committee have been consisting of members coming from the whole country.
Two national antologies have been produced by the network, and several contributions in different National and International conferences.
| Tema-seminars 25/11/2022: James Karlsen, The Action Concept in Action Research 20/01/2022: Dag Husebø, Didaktisk aksjonsforskning 09/02/2023: Marlene Bruun Lauridsen, Interpersonal Competence in Challenging Encounters 27/03/2023: Ann Lisa Sylte, Lærerutdanningsskoler og lærerutdanningsbedrifter i yrkesfaglærerutdanningen (LUSY) Minutes from årsmøtet (Bergen, 22.05-23.05.23) James Karlsen – Grønn omstilling Marit Ulvik and Dag Roness – Aksjonsforskning i høyere utdanning |
Collaborative Action Research Network in Norway
CARNorge is committed to support and improve the quality of professional practice, through systematic, critical, and creative inquiry of goals, processes, and various professional contexts.