Education
Subject information
Contact
Research domains
- Humanities-Social sciences
Research environments
Education is a broad social science subject. The discipline takes an interest in the processes that are active in Bildung, education, learning, teaching, communication and socialisation. The subject also studies the conditions for these processes, their content and design, and their consequences. In educational research at Örebro University, didactics, curriculum theory, educational policy and educational history have a strong presence, and there is a specific interest in education for democracy, human rights and sustainability.
The educational research is conducted mainly within four groups:
Education and Democracy brings together researchers who are active in curriculum theory, educational history, didactics and educational philosophy. A common hub is the interest in how education takes shape in different societal contexts and historical times, as well as the consequences that follow.
ESERGO works with empirical and theoretical studies of environmental and sustainability education, with a specific focus on the ethical and political aspects. An overall goal for the group is to create new ways of understanding the relationship between social and ecological systems and how this can and should be included in education.
ReCEL brings together researchers and doctoral students at Örebro University who conduct research on children's education and learning. The members of the group are united by an interest in pedagogical practices for younger children (0-12 years), both in formal education and informal educational activities for this age group.
Special education, education and learning ask questions about what knowledge, teaching and learning are, for whom and how this comes about. Research often concerns the relationship between individual and society and aspects of accessibility, participation, inclusion and exclusion.
Researchers
- Julie Allan
- Karin Allard
- Karin Alnervik
- Erik Andersson
- Emma Arneback
- Tobias Axelsson
- Anette Bagger
- Sanela Bajramovic
- Andreas Bergh
- Tomas Englund
- Lars Erikson
- Päivi Fredäng
- Sara Frödén
- Lillemor Huononen
- Lisa Isenström
- Bibbi Larsliden
- Germund Larsson
- Anne Lillvist
- Christian Lundahl
- Andreas Mårdh
- Martina Norling
- Sam Paldanius
- Charlotta Pettersson
- Ann Quennerstedt
- Anna-Lova Rosell
- Karin Rudsberg
- Marianne Skoog
- Lisbeth Stedt
- Louise Sund
- Britt Tellgren
- Asgeir Tryggvason
- Johannes Westberg
- Johan Öhman
- Anna Öhman
- Ann Öhman
- Carin Fröjd, PhD student
- Ricardo Goncalves, PhD student
- Hany Hachem, PhD student
- Charlotta Hallman, PhD student
- Josefine Karlsson, PhD student
- Jeanette Koskinen, PhD student
- Nicklas Lindgren, PhD student
- Sebastian Piepenburg, PhD student
- Franziska Primus, PhD student
- Magnus Schoultz, PhD student
- Hanna Thuresson, PhD student
- Linnea Urberg, PhD student
- Emma Vikström, PhD student
- Linnea Waldekranz, PhD student
- Sophie Winkler, PhD student
- Helena Yourston, PhD student
Research teams
- Children, education and human rights
- Communication, speech, language and hearing
- ESERGO (Environmental and Sustainability Education Research Group Örebro)
- Ethics in special educational research and practice
- Practice based research in preschool
- Science teaching in preschool and school
- Special Educational Research
- Örebro Social Sciences and Humanities Big Data Studies
Research projects
- A School in Crisis: Changing Crisis Discourses and Unchanging Figures of Thought, 1950-2020
- Assessment and support for evaluation in mathematics in the earlier school years
- Collaboration for inclusive student health issues
- Dance for, of and with younger children
- Digitalizing national tests in mathematics
- Educating for fair play? Child and youth soccer games and the behavior of coaches and parents.
- Food and health in educational contexts
- Formation and Competence Building of University Academic Developers
- From language stimulation to language teaching - an intervention study about preschool teachers work with language shower teaching
- How to Counteract Racism in Education. A qualitative study of teachers' anti-racist actions
- Meaning-making about reading and writing - a study of younger preschoolers' literacy
- Newbreed
- Professional Responsibility versus Accountability
- Respect in contemporary Swedish schools
- Special education perspectives on children's rights
- Students in upper secondary schools' experiences of special needs support
- Sustainable and equal preschools
- Teaching global equity and justice issues through a critical lens
- The digital reading companion
- The Disembedded Laboratory - Torsten Husén and the Internationalisation of Educational Research for Policy
- The First Choice: The Expansion of Preschool, its Marketization and Increased Importance for Families? Educational Strategies
- The line between secondary and higher education
- The teachers' and their profession in a virtual and expanding staff room - social media as a site for a new professional narrative