Didactics
Didactics is the art and science of teaching and learning. It is a field within education that seeks to answer three central questions: What should be taught, how should it be taught, and why should it be taught?
Didactics encompasses questions about the selection of knowledge, teaching methods, and how learning takes place in different contexts. It can be seen as the planning, implementation, and analysis of teaching, with a particular focus on why certain goals, content, and methods are chosen. The well-known didactic triangle – what, how, why – is often used as a tool for analyzing and planning teaching and learning. Thus, didactics concerns the relationships between the teacher’s choice of content and methods, and what students actually learn.
At Stockholm University, didactic research is divided into general didactics and subject didactics, which concerns specific school subjects.
- Didactics for responsible and sustainable societies
- Language Education
- Life-Long Learning, Knowledge Acquistion, and the Development of Civil Society
- Mathematics Education
- Research in Higher Education
- Science Education
- Swedish as a second language
- Teaching and Learning in Arts
- Teaching and Learning in Humanities
- Teaching and Learning in Social Sciences
- Vocation, Vocational Education, and Professional Development
Didactics for responsible and sustainable societies
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.
Didactics for responsible and sustainable societies
Life-Long Learning, Knowledge Acquistion, and the Development of Civil Society
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.
Life-Long Learning, Knowledge Acquistion, and the Development of Civil Society
Swedish as a second language
Swedish as a second language is a multifaceted research area with high social relevance. Within this area, we conduct research on the multilingualism of children, young people and adults, language development and language use in school and other formal and informal educational contexts, in workplaces and in society.
Swedish as a second language
Teaching and Learning in Humanities
Teaching and Learning in Humanities are based on humanistic school subjects such as history, religious studies and philosophy. The interest focus towards what the subjects are in relation to what it could or should be in school, society, higher education and professional training.
Teaching and Learning in Humanities
Teaching and Learning in Social Sciences
Teaching and Learning in Social Sciences are based on social science subjects such as social studies, geography, economic subjects and psychology. In a broad sense, the interest is focused on what the subjects are in relation to what they could or should be in school, society, higher education and professional training.
Teaching and Learning in Social Sciences
Vocation, Vocational Education, and Professional Development
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).
Vocation, Vocational Education, and Professional Development
