Research
Outdoor education, learning, arbanity, philosophy and youth culture.
Teaching
Outdoor education and skill development, Outdoor ed. in school and different kind of Outdoor activities.
Short biography
Jørgen Wiedemann Eriksen is an associate professor at the Department of Teacher Education and Outdoor Studies. In 2011 he defended his dissertation about Soldiers’ reach for optimized performances. His master degree was about outdoor education as an arena for integrating young immigrants.
Eriksen has been employed at Norwegian School of Sport Sciences since 2001 (the military) and started to work at Department of Teacher Education and Outdoor Studies in 2017.