University of Oslo
The University of Oslo (UiO) is a particularly active internationoal centre for semiotic and community-oriented Cultural Psychology. Our group is present at the Department of Special Needs Education and at the Department of Psychology, both in research and teaching. Cultural Psychology at UiO is cultivated by an interdisciplinary, multicultural, and creative group that believes in science as a collective enterprise, and always happy to host visiting scholars and students.
Research at UiO
We work on topics related to environment, inclusion and diversity in education and society, decolonization, community empowerment and liberation, with a special focus on epistemology and qualitative methodology. Diversity and intellectual curiosity at UiO are producing a flourishing research activity.
The Cultural Psychology people are involved in several research groups:
Working with students
Several students have many opportunities to work with Cultural Psychology in undegraduate and graduate education. Every semester, our group is hosting several exchange students and PhD. Exchange students can study in English and being involved in research projects with their Norwegian classmates, and supported in early scientific publication.
Cultural Psychology is taught in the following courses:
- R-SNE4100 – Cultural-historical and decolonial approaches to learning, development, and inclusion
- PSY4506 – Human Rights, Democracy and Reconstruction after Conflict: A community based approach
- UV9364 – Ecosystemic approaches to sustainable and just education
Some International publications by our students:
- Norvaišaite, A., & Tateo, L. (2024). Development of performative identities in autism writers’ autobiographies. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2024.2407660
- Wee, H. L., Karkkulainen, E. A., & Tateo, L. (2023). Experiences of Epistemic Injustice among Minority Language Students Aged 6–16 in the Nordics: A Literature Review. Education Sciences, 13(4), 367. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13040367
- Maria Virginia Machado Dazzani, Kristine Stadskleiv, Min He, Luca Tateo (Eds) (2025). Research-Based International Student Involvement: The Research-Tandem Model. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78837-6
Representative
Luca Tateo is professor of Theory, Epistemology and Methodology of Qualitative Research at the University of Oslo, Norway and coordinator of the International Research Master in Special Needs Education. He is the author of the Routledge textbook Fundamentals of Cultural Psychology. He is co-editor in chief of the Journal “Human Arenas. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Psychology, Culture, and Meaning”, Springer, and editor in Chief of the book series “Innovations in Qualitative Research”. He is a member of the board of the Network of Excellence “Ideas for the Basic Education of the Future” on Innovative Learning, Teaching Environments and Practices, based at East China Normal University in Shanghai. He is chair of the International Environmental Justice Committee of the Division 52 – Global Psychology of the American Psychological Association. His current research interests cover the general areas of ecosystemic and decolonizing epistemologies; environmental and epistemic injustice; cultural psychology of education and inclusion; the aesthetic dimension of psychic life; the epistemology, methodology and history of psychological science. His forthcoming editorial projects are: the Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and the Planet: Environment, Climate Sustainability and Nature; and the Elgar Encyclopedia of Cultural Psychology.
