Thank you very much, Liv!

for good cooperation for 31 years - so far

Abstract

The first time we met was when you interviewed me about my master's thesis on Selbu-knitting in 1992, you as editor of the journal Forming i skolen, now called Form. At the time, I was a new employee at SLFO, while you had already worked there for 8 years. The first thing we collaborated on was Reform 94 for upper secondary school, me as continuing education manager at VEIF and you as professionally responsible for continuing and inservice education courses for teachers in upper secondary school. The National office for inservice teacher training courses, which at the time was responsible for training teachers in Norway, had received NOK 1 million and we got the whole pot, because we were the only ones who already had the plans ready for inservice teacher training courses. Many who did not previously have the competence to teach the subject Drawing, shape and colour in upper secondary school, gained it overnight in connection with the restructuring of the school structure. But they had to get a six-month unit, 30 credits, in Drawing, shape and colour to be able to teach the subject. This applied, among other things, to hairdressers, because Drawing, shape and colour became a basic course for that subject, as well. In order for this study offer to become nationwide, we created 15 local study centres around the whole country. The teachers on these courses were to a large extent former PPU students of yours. In addition, we started distance learning with live TV lectures with some of the leading professionals at the time. This was in collaboration with Arild Boman at the University of Oslo, and the broadcasts went on TV-Norge, which did not itself have daytime broadcasts at the time. So, the course participants at all the course locations could watch the broadcasts, but so could anyone else who happened to switch on TV-Norge. We kept getting comments from other people who had seen us on TV.