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Background and experience
Ellen Berg is employed as an associate professor in physical education and sports at the Department of Teacher Education and Outdoor Studies.
Berg is trained as a lecturer in physical education and sports at HINN (formerly Elverum Teacher College). She has completed the first and second part of special needs education with a focus on physical disabilities at UiO and holds a master's degree in sports science with a specialization in sports pedagogy from NIH.
Berg has worked as a physical education and sports teacher, and department head in upper secondary school, and has 20 years of experience as a special educator/sports educator at TRS Competence Center for Rare Diagnoses at Sunnaas Hospital.
Berg holds a PhD in sports science from NIH since 2013, where the topic of her dissertation was inclusive physical education for students with physical disabilities. The book 'Physical Education - Space for Everyone' published by Fagbokforlaget in 2021 is based on findings from the doctoral study and recent research.
In further work, she is particularly focused on the student-teacher relationship, recognition, and interaction as the foundation for developing an inclusive physical education subject. Interprofessional work, and how various actors both within and outside the school arena affect the student's participation and learning in physical education, is central here.
Areas of responsibility
- Teaching and course responsibility at bachelor and master level
- Supervision at master and PhD level
- Program leader for 4-5 years in Teacher Education in Practical and Aesthetic Subjects for grades 1-13, physical education and sports
- Leadership and collaboration partner in several research projects
Teaching
Pedagogy, subject didactics, inclusive physical education, adapted education, school-home collaboration, interprofessional work, health in physical education, perspectives on disability, recognition, adapted physical activity, method and scientific theory in qualitative research, narrative research, research ethics.
Research
Berg conducts research on both physical education, teacher education, and physical activity and disability, with particular emphasis on the following areas:
- Inclusive, recognizing, and socially just physical education
- Interprofessional work
- School-home collaboration
- Practitioner research (e.g., action research, self-study)
- Narrative approach to teaching and learning
- Involvement of children in research
- Student involvement in physical education teacher education
Projects
- (Re)examining and developing pedagogies for social justice in Norwegian physical education
- Adults with Achondroplasia and their experience with physical activity - Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospita
- Democratic practicum in PETE (DEMPRA)
- Improving practices together (IMPRATO) - OsloMet
- Narrative Approach to Teaching and Learning in Teacher Education
- Redesigning Physical Education Teacher Education
- Students’ experience of meaningful physical education