Birkeland, Nils R.

Nils Rune Birkeland is Associate Professor at the Department of Nordic and Media Studies at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. His recent research activities are located in the intersection between education and media research, employing critical discourse analysis and text linguistics investigating school accountability and standards-based testing in educational steering/-management. He has participated in the ASAP-project (Achieving School Accountability in Practice) funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2004 -2008).