The research strategy of the subject of education is well rooted in the university’s vision to be a global higher education institution with regional involvement. The basic idea is to be responsible for a broad area of knowledge aimed at learning and knowledge formation within the field of education.
The subject of education has four main research groups:
The group has an interdisciplinary base in the subjects of education (UTV) and informatics (DSV). HEEL’s work focuses on the consequences of the emerging digitalisation of society and research issues related to the digitalisation of education, lifelong learning and technology-enhanced learning (TEL). The group’s activity involves formal learning for children and young people as well as participation of adult individuals in the formal education system.
The research group’s areas of interest include leadership, management, governance and school development in the context of education and workplace learning. Educational leadership is defined by the group as more than a function that leads an activity and is seen as the process and context in which a leader interacts with others on specific tasks. School development is stated as a systematic and sustainable process for improving learning and the internal conditions of the activity to achieve the goals of the education. Education refers to all types of formal educational environments from pre-school to adult education. The research areas in focus deal with authority, headship in school/pre-school, teachers’ leadership, school organisation, school development, policy, digitalisation and educational leadership in different types of educational environments, as well as workplace learning.
The research aims to investigate experiences from placements (VFU) as well as learning processes and teachers’ leadership in the didactic space with the focus on young children. Important research areas in the group are aesthetic learning processes and forms of expression in teacher education as well as pre-school education, physical environments for learning, play and creativity, children’s perspectives and agency in pre-school, leadership and norm-critical perspectives. Current research activity by the research group Yngre barn relates to areas such as culture, sustainability and design for learning/learning environments.
Collaboration between School Age Educare Center (SAEC) and school. SAEC and classroom teachers' perspectives om collaboration regarding pupils with special needs.
We are going to study schools’ student health teams’ conditions for working with students in need of special support. The study focuses the schools’ prerequisites to develop their work based on...
This is a project in collaboration with Härnösand municipality and Technichus Science Center with the aim to increase knowledge about gifted students, their needs and prerequisites for development...
The program's goal is to pave the way for a larger project, aiming to develop a strong research environment, which in connection with high-quality education can secure competence and skills in the...
The project aims for teachers, principals and other school staff at two pilot schools and the municipality's other schools to develop methods and routines regarding preventing, detecting and...
This research- and development project aims to develop and try methods, tools, and strategies to increase students' interest in reading. The project is carried out in collaboration with staff at Bö...
In order to reduce problem-creating behaviors in the classroom and at school, increase academic results and create favorable conditions for study peace, a common basic view is needed among the staf...
This is a project in collaboration with Ånge municipality in accordance with the collaboration agreement. The project aims to promote school attendance and prevent school absenteeism.
The specific purpose of the project is to increase the merit values of of boys in particular, at the selected school and to give the teachers an increased didactic competence improve teaching for...