Educational sciences

The research group Social Justice and Diversity in Education aims to facilitate interaction and promote research at Nord University. The group is multi- and interdisciplinary and formed around research focused on diversity, multilingualism, minority perspectives, societal sustainability, social justice in education, democracy and teacher education.

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.

​Teacher educators' professional practice and practical knowledge (TEPPP) researches teachers' educators' professional practice and teacher educators as a professional group. The research focus is on conditions that constitute the teacher educators' practice landscape and the challenges teacher educators met in everyday practice as well as the various levels in which these challenges are met.

The research group Digital Arts Lab has defined Creative Innovation, in the intersection between the humanities, arts, design and crafts and ICT, digitalisation and AI, as its thematic focus. Our projects are often rooted in or linked to education and arts & culture dissemination. With regards to this, we are interested in the whole spectrum of learners, users, and audiences; older and young learners, new and established users, and fresh and experienced audience members.

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.