Ongoing POTENT projects
Researchers in POTENT are involved in various projects. Here is an overview of our current and past projects.
Main content
Multimodal texts in the subject of English – affordances and assessment
Student teachers’ development of multimodal text competence and their assessment of learners’ multimodal texts
Discussions of controversial issues in the classroom
The post-truth era and English language education: Critical literacies and interculturality anthology
Multimodality in Teacher Education in Norway
Challenging binary thinking through popular music
Binary thinking, i.e. the inclination to reduce complex phenomena to a set of mutually exclusive dualities such as "right" or "wrong", "true" or "false", can be regarded as a symptom of post-truth discourse. This project explores how popular music can be used as a basis for addressing and challenging binary thinking in the English language classroom. The project has multiple aims:
to develop a methodology for using popular music as a pedagogical resource when thematizing binary thinking in educational contexts
to develop a methodology for incorporating exploratory teaching in teacher education courses
to explore the above issues in an intercultural perspective, drawing on empirical data from international educational contexts