Mirjam Væring-Skogrand
Winner of the Lærerprisen
The 2024 Teacher’s Prize is awarded to Mirjam Væring-Skogrand at Christian Upper Secondary School Trøndelag.
Mirjam Væring-Skogrand at Christian Upper Secondary School Trøndelag receives the Teacher's award for her rapport “Resilience – Developing the competence to face unknown situations in practice, and an attempt at understanding students", in which she reflects on how the students experience and handle resistance to new learning situations.
Væring-Skogrand conducts two surveys among students participating in the Holberg Prize School Project, measuring their motivations and attitudes during the project period. She concludes that her results show that resilience can be trained.
The Holberg Prize School Project
20 upper secondary schools and more than 1000 students from all over Norway participate in the Holberg School Programme each year. The students are assisted by scholars, and the projects are integrated into the students' regular curriculum. Three research projects are awarded prizes of NOK 30,000, NOK 20,000 and NOK 10,000 respectively.
The finalists are announced in mid May, and the Holberg Prize School Project Award Ceremony is held during the Holberg Week in early June each year.
The Holberg School Project Jury
Jørn Ljunggren ( Chair ), Researcher, Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, OsloMet
Åsta Dyrnes Nordø, Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Bergen
Fredrik Nilsen, Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy and First Semester Studies, UiT Arctic University of Norway
Elise Farstad Djupedal, PhD Candiate in Pedagogy, Department of Teacher Education, NTNU
Tale Birkeland Engebretsen, Teacher in Norwegian, History and German, and Head of the Writing Centre at Porsgrunn Upper Secondary School.