Schoolage Educare
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You will explore outdoor pedagogy with focus on environments for learning. Value base and conflict issues within the Swedish school will also be introduced. Multimodal expressions, including but not limited to drama, visual art and music, will be an integrative part of the course.
The course is offered for international exchange students and for students who have applied for the course as a free standing (single subject) course.
Classes are conducted twice a month approximately. In addition to the classes, you will work in study groups and visit various school-age educare facilities in groups.
Teaching Format
The course is delivered on campus as well as via the learning and collaboration platform Athena and study visits.
Education on campus will have both theoretical and practical content and consists of lectures, seminars, group tasks, literature seminars, project work, presentations and assignments.
Study Guide
In the study guide document, you will find more information about the course structure and examinations. The study guide will be available at least one month before the course starts.
Study Guide UB129F Autumn semester 2025 pdf, 305.6 kB.
Seminars, study visits, group tasks and web-based tasks are mandatory. Absence can be compensated in accordance with instructions by the course tutor. With an absence over 45% from the obligatory sessions the student is considered not to have taken the course and must re-register in order to complete the course at a later stage.
Assessment
The cource is examinated in the following ways:
- Individual log, outdoor environment for learning, G = Pass, U = Fail
- Group presentation, learning theory, G = Pass, U = Fail
- Group presentation, study visits, G = Pass, U = Fail
- Individual paper, grading A-F.
Seminars, study visits, group tasks and web-based tasks are mandatory. Absence can be compensated in accordance to instructions by the course tutor. With an absence over 45% from meetings on campus, the student is considered not to have taken the course and must reregister in order to complete the course at a later stage.
Re-examination
Please see information in the study guide.
Examiner
How to apply
Application - a Step by Step Guide
It is important that you docucment your eligibility and language proficiency in your application. You can find more information at universityadmission.se:
Documenting English proficiency
Exchange students
Please note that exchange students apply according to a separate routine.
More information about studying at Stockholm University
New student at Stockholm University
If you have questions about the content of the course contact the course leader.
If you have administrative questions regarding admissions, registration, registration of grades, the learning and collaboration platform Athena etc. please contact the course administrator.
Course leader: Eva Kane, e-mail: eva.kane@buv.su.se
Course administrator: Malin Håkansson, e-mail: malin.hakansson@buv.su.se
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