The projects focus on critical literacy perspectives on the social science subjects in culturally diverse classrooms.
Questions concerning the future and what constitutes a good life represent central existential issues in the lives of many young people. One of the key aims of education is to prepare students to become active democratic citizens and responsible adults who are equipped for future studies and working life. At the same time, the media […]
The object of study is what students need to learn in order to handle historical accounts in a constructive manner and how teaching can be designed to teach them this. Previous research highlights that a large proportion of students have difficulties in handling this central aspect of the history subject. Research also shows that a […]
The research in this project is conducted from an inclusive perspective, i.e. it will ultimately help teachers to both reach and develop more students. The research questions are primarily posed from two different starting points that can act as obstacles to inclusive teaching: language and culture. Research concerning the disciplinary language deals with concepts and […]
Disciplinary literacy in the social-science subjects of history, religious education, civics and geography will be explored in this project. With the goal of strengthening, the students´ subject knowledge it will seek to identify and develop effective teaching strategies for the social science subjects in multilingual classrooms compulsory School (year 7-9). The project includes teaching newly […]
This project seeks to contribute knowledge of how disciplinary literacy practices are shaped and transformed when teachers infuse knowledge about reading, writing and language in the teaching of social studies. Its specific focus is disciplinary literacy practices in middle-school related to geography, history and civics. Involving teachers who implement influential methods for working with subject-specific […]
In this project rural lives, living conditions, and work lives are the interests for an analysis of the intertwinement of private life (Smart 2007), education and working life. The project started in deep interviews with twelve informants leading rural lives. The interviews resulted in the findings that rural lives are created through creative pathways to […]
This project addresses the affective turn in social science didactics. The place of emotions in social science education is a newly risen topic in social science education. The social science classroom has often been seen as a place where emotions do not belong, the classroom only leaves space for rationality. At the same time education […]