NORD University

The research group studies different aspects in relation to research-based teacher education.

he research group has seven members from the Faculty of Education and Arts, Nord University, and collaboration with researchers from Åbo Akademi University, Oslo Metropolitan University, and the UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

The research group works to develop the interaction between learning and technology in higher education, upper secondary education and in professional life. The research focuses on the teaching of the teacher/instructor and the students’ learning through the use of technology in learning processes.

The group studies learning in interaction in and outside of the school to develop existing expertise on the field. The group is interdisciplinary with an interest in learning as a social phenomenon.

The group focuses on developing existing expertise in the field of classroom research and research on learning in interaction. The group is focused on research that studies interaction and social practice using video (combined with interviews or other ethnographic methods where it is natural).

The special needs education and speech therapy research group is a research community with a particular focus on various subjects within the fields of pedagogy, special needs education, speech therapy and linguistics. It aims to strengthen and develop individual and institutional expertise.

The research group Digitization, Learning, and School Leadership works with issues and opportunities related to the use of digital learning and solutions in and for teaching and leadership in the school. The group has a clear educational research profile in addition to an emphasis on leadership, and its work is also relevant in light of university education and pedagogy.

The research group focuses on music-related learning processes, their structures, contexts, influencing factors, and related didactical aspects.

The projects conducted by the group use mainly empirical approaches; a large spectrum is covered from arts-based research and qualitative studies to quasi-experimental methodological designs.

The research group Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care, and Kindergarten Teacher Education (KIBB) is a multi-methodical, interdisciplinary research group, with an overall aim to work towards increasing quality in both Early Childhood Education and Cares (ECEC) as well as in the Kindergarten Teacher Education.

Fields of research in educational settings are multidisciplinary, with a common focus on extended classroom and varied instructional methods.

Research within the research group focuses on teaching and learning in different environments outside the classroom and the use of different teaching approaches. Furthermore, the research concerns various aspects of teaching and learning, and teaching methods, such as what the types of teaching/learning can entail, and why and how these teaching methods or activities are appropriate in certain contexts.

The research group is made up of members representing various disciplines and professional groups, with the common aim of centering our research on the profession, practice, and development related to kindergarten and school. The research group has partners from several universities and colleges nationally and internationally.

The research group is concerned with studying both which mechanisms increase the risk of alienation, what characterizes children and young people's own experiences with alienation, and what consequences alienation has for the individual child and youth, and for society.

The term outsiders describes a situation where individuals or groups of people stand outside what are considered central social arenas, for example where they do not participate in work life or take education, or where they lack linguistic or cultural connection to the rest of society.