Teacher education, school and society

We conduct research on the social contexts of education, schools, teacher training, and teaching. We train teachers for primary, secondary, and higher education. We are also responsible for teaching and research in sociology and gender studies. Our activities aim at social responsibility, multidimensional sustainability, and social justice.

Introduction

Our research focuses on interrelated themes such as social justice, security and equality, violence, socio-ecological sustainability and resilience, intersectionality, gender, immigration, mobility, global education, anti-racism, the ethics of education, internationality, decoloniality, interculturality, and multilingualism.

The research guides the education provided by our unit. We offer degrees of primary school teachers and subject teachers. We also offer university pedagogy studies. Our doctoral studies can focus on education or sociology and gender studies.

Our social advocacy work is based on research activism, pedagogical tools, close cooperation with other social actors, and promoting the accessibility of research data. Our goal is to bring research into social debate and societal change in ways that are understandable, participatory, and impactful.

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