Educational sciences

The research group is set up with the overall goal to strengthen the mathematics didactic research at Nord University and, in this way, both contribute to the enhancement of the research competence of the members of the group and to the improvement of the mathematics teacher education.

Knowledge building and knowledge in education are central to the group's work. This target formulation indicates a normative positioning but is also aimed at studies of forms of knowledge and knowledge practices in education. The group has an interdisciplinary profile linked to studies of the use of technology in education, and also to surveys of knowledge, knowledge practices and educational practices in school subjects, curricula, political documents etc.

The research group will work within the framework of a socio-cultural form of linguistics – in practice that means different variants of what is often referred to as sociolinguistics.

Trance-disciplinary research group on linguistic, cultural, historical and didactical topics concerning Saami and Indigenous issues. The group consists of scholars at the Faculty of Teacher Education and Arts, from campuses both in Lule Saami and South Saami traditional territories.

The research group is a forum for the discussion and collaboration in the field of literary research, with emphasis on literary reading and literary education; in particular, the examination of the interfaces between literary studies, literary history and literary didactics (ger. Literaturdidaktik). For example, we wish to explore how literary studies inform literary didactics, and vice versa.

Cross-disciplinary research group focusing on how war, conflict and acts of terrorism affect societies by the way they are remembered, and how the memories of such experiences may be used by various agents in processes of collective commemoration, political governance and educational practices.

The Nord Research Group for Children’s Literature in ELT aims to deepen interdisciplinary and international connections for children’s literature in language teaching. The group's projects embrace children’s literature, education and English Language Teaching (ELT) research.

The research group University Pedagogy is interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary oriented. Thematic facilities are university pedagogical practice in different contexts.

Through strategic and targeted research collaboration with local, national and international research networks and other partners, the group will contribute to strengthening and developing the university staff's teaching and supervision competence, in order to contribute to increasing students' learning outcomes

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).