liv mjelde

Liv Mjelde is Professor in Vocational Pedagogy. She is a sociologist by training and specialist in Sociology of Education, especially studying the changing relations between vocational and general education from psychological (forms of knowledge), didactic (workshop and classroom learning) and sociological (division of mental and manual labour) perspectives. One of her research fields is gender divisions as they can be observed directly in vocational education, in male and female occupational fields, in relation to movements on the labour marked and in family ideology.  She has published in several languages and has been the keynote speaker in many international conferences. Evaluation of Leonardo da Vinci programmes for the EU Commission has been part of her work. She has been the Norwegian project leader at Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda (2007- 2011) building up a Master degree in Vocational Pedagogy with students from Uganda and Southern Sudan.