Pedagogy
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.
Concepts such as leadership, development, learning, identity, creation of meaning, relationships, diversity and inclusion, are all central to this research area. What is it that forms, influences and develops us? How does our understanding of the surrounding world, as well our actions, change, based on the experiences we have? How and why do values, knowledge, and skills emerge. An important perspective in this research is how conditions for learning, bildung, and education are shaped by the society we live in. Both present day and historically.
Our research is characterised by diversity and contributes to well-informed decision-making related to many societal questions. The department collaborates extensively with the surrounding society’s various interest groups, organisations, and authorities. Collaborations with the surrounding society also aim at, and towards, the labour market and professional demands for education and development, as well as, complex societal challenges which require scientifically based collaboration and mutual learning.
- Didactics, Teaching, and Learning
- Diversity and Inclusion in Education, Working-life and Society
- Educational Philosophy
- Education and migration
- Health, Pedagogy, the Individual, and Society
- Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Education
- International and Comparative Education
- Life-Long Learning, Knowledge Acquistion, and the Development of Civil Society
- Organisation Pedagogics - Learning and Leadership in Working-Life
- Research in Higher Education
- School Governance, Organisation, Development, and Leadership
- Transitions and Turning Points in Education and Working-life
- Vocation, Vocational Education, and Professional Development
Didactics, Teaching, and Learning
Central in this field is how knowledge, learning, and skills develop in the interaction between people in different environments and contexts. We examine didactical questions from a broad, societal perspective, which is not limited to only examining schools and subjects.
Didactics, Teaching, and Learning
Diversity and Inclusion in Education, Working-life and Society
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.
Diversity and Inclusion in Education, Working-life and Society
Education and migration
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.
Education and migration
Health, Pedagogy, the Individual, and Society
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.
Health, Pedagogy, the Individual, and Society
Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Education
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?
Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Education
International and Comparative Education
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.
International and Comparative Education
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
Organisation Pedagogics - Learning and Leadership in Working-Life
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.
Organisation Pedagogics - Learning and Leadership in Working-Life
School Governance, Organisation, Development, and Leadership
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.
School Governance, Organisation, Development, and Leadership
Transitions and Turning Points in Education and Working-life
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.
Transitions and Turning Points in Education and Working-life
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).