Education
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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
- Karin Allard
- Tobias Axelsson
- Britt-Marie Bader
- Anette Bagger
- Sanela Bajramovic
- Thomas Barow
- Barbro Bergfeldt
- Andreas Bergh
- Tomas Englund
- Lars Erikson
- Kristin Ewins
- Sara Frödén
- Anna Isberg
- Lisa Isenström
- Josefine Karlsson
- Bibbi Larsliden
- Christian Lundahl
- Andreas Mårdh
- Martina Norling
- Charlotta Pettersson
- Åsa Pettersson
- Ann Quennerstedt
- Anna-Lova Rosell
- Karin Rudsberg
- Magnus Schoultz
- Marianne Skoog
- Oliver St john
- Lisbeth Stedt
- Ulrika Sultan
- Louise Sund
- Britt Tellgren
- Hanna Thuresson
- Asgeir Tryggvason
- Emma Vikström
- Tuula Vuorinen
- Johannes Westberg
- Jonas Ålander
- Johan Öhman
- Ann Öhman
- Carin Fröjd, PhD student
- Ricardo Goncalves, PhD student
- Jeanette Koskinen, PhD student
- Nicklas Lindgren, PhD student
- Jennika Mattisson, PhD student
- Sebastian Piepenburg, PhD student
- Franziska Primus, PhD student
- Patrik Samuelsson, PhD student
- Linnea Urberg, PhD student
- Linnea Waldekranz, PhD student
- Sophie Winkler, PhD student
- Jonny Wåger, PhD student
- Helena Yourston, PhD student
Research groups
- Children, education and human rights
- Critical perspectives on environmental and sustainability education
- Education of people in vulnerable life situations
- Interaction and Learning in Higher Education Pedagogy Practice (ILHP)
- Practice based research in preschool
- Research based education in the health professions
- ReShape - Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education
- Speak up
- The history of educational research and of education
Research projects
Active projects
- A decolonial approach to teaching global justice issues (DecoPrax)
- A School in Crisis: Changing Crisis Discourses and Unchanging Figures of Thought, 1950-2020
- Advances in workplace-based learning in health professions education (AWL-HPE)
- Assessment and support for evaluation in mathematics in the earlier school years
- Challenging segregation through education - a comparative study of local initiatives to challenging school segregation.
- Collaboration for education in compulsory school for pupils with intellectual disability
- Collaboration for inclusive student health issues
- Digital Area for Networking Teachers and Educators (DANTE)
- Environmental and sustainability education meets the reality of schooling
- Formation and Competence Building of University Academic Developers
- From language stimulation towards language teaching: teachers work with early academic languaging in language diverse ECEC settings ? experiences from two Nordic countries
- How to Counteract Racism in Education. A qualitative study of teachers' anti-racist actions
- Newbreed
- OPaData4all
- Respect in contemporary Swedish schools
- Special education perspectives on children's rights
- 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 power and meaning of the concept on inclusion. "Effects from medialization, medicalisation and marketisation".
- The teachers' and their profession in a virtual and expanding staff room - social media as a site for a new professional narrative
- What Happens with Education when the Convention on the Rights of the Child becomes Law?
Completed projects
- Categorization Identities and Communication CIC
- Children's rights in education
- CINLE - Studies of everyday Communication and Identity processes in Netbased Learning Environments
- Dance for, of and with younger children
- Education as greenhouse for children?s and young people?s human rights
- Food and health in educational contexts
- Gender mainstreaming in preschool
- Institutional Settings and Civic Education: A Comparative Study of Different Types of Public and Private Schools
- Meaning-making about reading and writing - a study of younger preschoolers' literacy
- Sustainable and equal preschools
- Teaching global equity and justice issues through a critical lens
- What about Equivalence? Studies in the Use of Language in Educational Policy