Collaboration

The Department of Child and Adolescent Studies has the opportunity to offer a wide range of commissioned training courses for various employers. The department can also conduct seminars, lectures, evaluations and research assignments. Of course, courses can be tailored to the needs of the client. Read more via the link below about which commissioned training courses we currently have and how you can get in touch with the person responsible for them.

Preschool Didactic Rooms (formerly Pedagogical and Theoretical Rooms) is a collaboration and a meeting place where active preschool teachers and preschool managers in the Stockholm region meet researchers, teacher educators and students at Stockholm University.

The purpose of Preschool Didactic Rooms is to develop the content of preschool didactics in the long term by highlighting and making visible ongoing work on this in preschool and in preschool teacher education, and by extension, to create common research questions in these areas.

Seminar in progress:

Being in the world - we open the door to Preschool Didactic Rooms.

Currently running preschool didactic rooms are:

• Preschool didactic rooms with a focus on natural sciences and sustainable development
• Preschool didactic rooms for language and neuroscience.

The Preschool Summit is a recurring event that connects preschool and research. The event is organized by the City of Stockholm in collaboration with Stockholm University.

Preschool Summit 2025

BUV will hold the next Preschool Summit together with Södertörn University and the City of Stockholm, in Aula Magna. Date for the next event is November 28, 2025.

For program and registration see the City of Stockholm website

The Swedish National Agency for Education offers support to principals whose schools have low knowledge results and who are assessed to have difficult conditions to improve students' results on their own.
The Swedish National Agency for Education also offers support to preschools with difficult conditions.

Their mission is to use targeted efforts to strengthen the preschool, the school and the principal (the municipality or the preschool/school board if it is an independent preschool/school) in the work of planning, following up and developing the education according to their specific goals and needs.

Contact at Department of Child and Youth Studies:

Eva Kane, senior lecturer, eva.kane@buv.su.se

Emelie Westberg-Bernemyr, lecturer, emelie.bernemyr@buv.su.se

Collaboration takes place through Stockholm Teaching & Learning Studies (STLS), which is a platform for teaching development research in subject didactics. STLS serves as a meeting place for researching teachers in different subjects.

Petra Petersen, PhD in pedagogy and lecturer at BUV, is network leader in STLS.
E-mail: petra.petersen@buv.su.se

Stockholm Teaching & Learning Studies (STLS)

The country's program managers for Preschool Teacher Education from universities and colleges will participate to discuss current issues, make contacts and draw attention to current development areas.

The network meets every spring from lunch to lunch plus a digital half-day meeting in the autumn. During the most recent meetings, discussions have included the reduced application pressure, how to reduce the number of students who fail their examinations or their work-based education, VFU, and how to increase participation in mandatory components. 

The meetings also involve monitoring the world around them as participants hear how other universities and colleges work and what issues they are currently working on.

Contact at the department: Mie Josefson

The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) is an international, scientific community with the primary goal to support an active research culture in the field of learning and instruction.

EARLI

SIG 19 - Religions and Worldviews in Education