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Torill Strand Author & Editor

Torill Strand is Professor at the University of Oslo’s Department of Education. Her competencies range from meta-theory to social epistemologies, educational philosophy and theory, cosmopolitanism and semiotics. Her current research explores narratives and genealogies of justice in education. Strand has written and edited numerous books and special issues, and has published widely in international journals. Her recent titles include “Alain Badiou on political education”, “Reification as a forgetting”, “Thinking Democracy and Education for the Present: The Case of Norway after July 22, 2011”, “Climate Justice and Education” and “Cinema, Philosophy and Education” (forthcoming). Strand served as president elect of the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Education until 2018. She is currently a member of the International Network of Philosophers of Education (INPE) board and part of the HumStud research group at the University of Oslo.