Bjorn H. Nordtveit

Bjorn H. Nordtveit is the former editor of the Comparative Education Review (2013-2023). He is chair of the Department of Education Policy, Research and Administration (EPRA) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 2022, after serving for ten years as Associate Professor at UMass and five years as Research Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has also served as visiting faculty at Zhejiang Normal University. Prior to joining academia, he worked for twelve years (1994-2005) with UNESCO in the Lao PRD and with the World Bank (mostly in West African countries) on non-formal youth and adult education. He has also worked with UNESCO in Iraq as an educational observer. His research, teaching and writing focus on three areas: (i) aid effectiveness in education and development, including public-private partnerships and integrated service provision; (ii) child protection in contexts of adversity; and (iii) critical and alternative epistemologies, including critical auto-ethnography, decolonial methods and critical discourse analysis. His most recent book is Schools as Protection? Reinventing Education in Contexts of Adversity (Springer 2016), and he is currently under contract with Springer for a book on the use of smartphones in educational research.