Faculty Member, Department of Teacher Education
Buskerud University College, Human Rights
About
Lena Lybæk, PhD, is Associate Professor at Buskerud University College, Norway. She has a PhD from Durham University in England, and has worked with moral, intercultural and interreligious education in teacher education colleges in Norway since 1999. She has co-developed Buskerud University College’s international and interdisciplinary MSc program in Human Rights and Multiculturalism, where her main teaching and research responsibilities are. Since 2008 she has been assisting dean at the Faculty of education with the responsibility of Research development and internationalization. She has worked with development projects internationally. She has taken part in developing an international teacher education for primary schools. She has participated in a development project in Human Rights and intercultural education in cooperation with National Institute of Education on Sri Lanka. Most recently she has led a British Council funded project on diversity, Human rights and citizenship education in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Her particular research interests are cultural and religious diversity and human values. Related areas are: intercultural education and citizenship, religion and migration, anthropology, gender, and human dignity/human rights. Her interest is in how human beings create meaningful existences, and how these are expressed in narratives, actions and practices.
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