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Central to the subject is how teaching, learning and abilities develop in the encounter between people in different environments and contexts. We investigate didactic issues from a broad, societal perspective, which does not necessarily take its starting point in school with its subject division.
In Sweden, everyone should, despite background and ability, have equal opportunity to education and a career. But how does society tackle this challenge? What are determining factors in school performance? Research within the field take on some of our times greatest challenges such as equality, integration, and migration.
Educational philosophy is about philosophical foundations for pedagogical issues. It can be about epistemological, moral-philosophical and aesthetic studies regarding learning, teaching, school and education in national and international contexts.
Education and migration is a joint effort in developing research-based knowledge concerning how education can best be organized and conducted in order to provide equal opportunities in a time of societal and demographic change. The initiative is made possible by a new grant of SEK 32 million from the Swedish Research Council.
Within this theme, our researchers are interested in health as a societal and cultural phenomenon. The research includes, amongst others, studies of the concepts and norms surrounding health, illness, and functionality, as well as how they are constructed and the influence they have on people’s lives.
In this theme we look at how education and teaching is formed from a sociological and historical perspective. What are the connections between education and societal change? How is inequality perpetuated or thwarted? What role do class, gender, and ethnicity play in different contexts?
Within this theme, we aim to better understand differences between education systems, globally, as well as international educational issues. The research is interdisciplinary, aiming at holistic analyses of educational concerns from an international and comparative perspective, both current and historically.
Researchers within life-long learning, knowledge acquisition, and the development of civil society are interested in learning as a life-long process, which is not exclusive to formal education.
Within this field we are interested in how individuals learn and develop, as well as leadership in a constantly changing working life. Central to these questions are influencing processes and processes of change, as well as skill, professional, and organizational development.
When you hear the word pedagogy, you may think of school, teaching, and how children learn. However pedagogy as a research area is about so much more. It is about how we learn and develop in different situations, environments, and throughout all phases of life. From school to higher education, in daily life, during leisure time, and in working life.
Research within higher education has the ambition to understand and analyse learning processes and their result on both students, university teachers, and groups or higher education organisations.
What happens in our schools affects many and involves almost everyone. We have a special interest in how schools are run, how they are organized and managed, but also how they develop in step with a changing society. We approach the field with from both a contemporary and educational historical perspective.
As education systems and working life become increasingly fragmented, varying, and transnational, the journey from education and into workplace has become both more complex and more demanding. Conditions are created and critical choices are made long before entering workplace, where secure careers and long-term employment are no longer a given.
Within this theme, we are interested in how people learn their vocation and how they develop in various vocational fields. Central to vocational education is both upper secondary and municipal adult education (komvux).
