Monica Hauge Skaten

Field of work

A social anthropologist by training, I have broad interests in education and society. My work focuses in particular on social inequality, democracy and citizenship, and international collaboration in education. I am also affliated to KINDknow - Kindergarten Knowledge Centre for Systemic Research on Diversity and Sustainable Futures.

At the Stord campus, I teach social studies in both the primary teacher education (GLU) and early childhood teacher education (BLU) programmes.

Currently, I lead the research group Education, Democracy and Inequality.

As the "FoU-contact" for Tjødnalio School and Rubbestadneset School, I help strengthen partnerships between teacher education and local schools. Read more about the collaboration here: Lærerutdanningsskoler og lærerutdanningsbarnehager - Høgskulen på Vestlandet

My research involvement includes the following projects:

• Enhancing anti-bias competences of ECE through video-coaching - Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
• Artemis - Høgskulen på Vestlandet (WP4 - Research collaboration)
• Utenlandsreisen starter hjemmefra! Kultur og strukturendring for varig internasjonal mobilitet - Høgskulen på Vestlandet (Going Abroad Starts at Home! Cultural and structural change for lasting international mobility)
• Antrobot: Elevers relasjon til chatboter i klasserommet (Pupils’ relationships with chatbots in the classroom)

• 4-life with Peak Point – Using VR technology as a health-promoting tool in teaching about mental health and life skills (RFF Vestland)