New Teachers in Nordic Countries – Ecologies of Mentoring and Induction

Eva Bjerkholt is a researcher/ teacher educator at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) and associate professor II at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN). She is the leader of the Norwegian Network for Mentoring Newly Qualified Teachers (Directorate of Education and Training), the leader of the network Newly Qualified Teachers and Induction: A Nordic Cross-sectorial Network. – (NTI) (Nordplus Horizontal) and convener of the Nordic Educational Research Association’s (NERA) - network 25: Guidance, Counselling and Mentoring. Bjerkholt is one of the two leader of the research group “Supervision and mentoring in education and in teacher profession” (USN).

Hannu L. T. Heikkinen is professor of Education at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER), University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has written on teacher education and professional development of teachers, especially from the view of induction and mentoring of newly qualified teachers. He is one of the developers of the Finnish peer group mentoring model (PGM). Heikkinen is the link convener of EERA network ‘Professional Learning and Development’ and holds adjunct professorships in University of Tampere, University of Jyväskylä and Åbo Akademi University in Finland, and in Griffith University and Charles Sturt University in Australia.

Knut-Rune Olsen er dosent i pedagogikk og har vært tilsatt ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge (USN) siden 1994. Før det arbeidet han 14 år i grunnskolen som lærer, sosiallærer, karriereveileder og rektor. Olsen er nå i en emeritusavtale med USN. Olsens faglige spesialområder er didaktikk, læreplanarbeid, og veiledning. Han ledet i mange år arbeidet med veiledning for nyutdannede i Buskerud. De siste 20 årene har han arbeidet mest med undervisning og forskning knyttet til profesjonsveiledning som fagfelt, og deltar i kunnskaps- og forskningsprosjektet STEP: Partnership for Sustainable Transition from Teacher Eduaction to Profession, Becomming a Professional Teacher.