Invited to participate in a panel discussion concerning: COSMOPOLITAN EDUCATION

Tone Kvernbekk is a distinguished professor of philosophy of education at the Institute of Educational Research, University of Oslo, where she teaches philosophy of science at Master and Doctoral levels. She received her PHD in 1995 from the University of Oslo. Her dissertation was awarded His Majesty the King's gold medal. For the past few years she has also been a Guest Professor at the Norwegian Defence Staff and Command College and holds central appointments in several international academic organizations. Her academic work can mainly be characterized as epistemology and philosophy of science applied to various problems and topics in educational theorizing; including forms of educational theory, the theory-practice problem, and more recently the concept of practice. In recent years she has been working with the configuration, uses and abuses of narrative and narrative research in education; again from a philosophical (mainly epistemological) perspective. Among other things she has tackled such topics as effects of hindsight on the configuration of narrative, the explanatory power of narrative, and narrative truth. Amongst her later publications are: "On the argumentative quality of explanatory narratives" (2003), "On identifying narratives" (2003), and "Truth matters. The correspondence theory of truth meets an educational theory" (2007).