Educational sciences

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.

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.

CEAD's mission is to promote and carry out research activities on Adult Education and Community Intervention, build and disseminate scientific knowledge with social utility, and support planning and decision-making processes in the field. We believe that education takes place in all spaces and throughout the life cycle. We also believe that adult education can make a significant contribution to the dynamics of social change and improve the quality of life of adults, an adult being any individual from the end of adolescence to the last stages of life.

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La créativité, l'écriture créative, les techniques théâtrales dans l'enseignement/apprentissage des langues étrangères: du français langue étrangère, anglais langue étrangère, espagnole langue étrangère. Nous visons dans le projet de prouver le bienfait de la créativité sur le développement des compétences sociales: l'ouverture ver l'autre, la compréhension de l'autre, le respect de l'autre, l'empathie et sur l'efficacité dans l'apprentissage des langues étrangères dont la finalité est l'autonomie.

- Análisis de la exclusión y de las oportunidades socio-educativas

- Enseñanza, Curriculum y Profesorado

- Escuela y Escolaridad

- Escuela e Instituciones Educativas

- Educación para la Paz

- Eucación Democrática

- Cultura de Paz