This department runs one of the country’s largest preschool teacher training programmes, as well as primary teacher training specialising in after-school recreation.

Education at Childhood, Education and Society

Education at the Department of Children, Youth and Society is designed to advance knowledge of children’s learning, emphasising play, development and meaning-making.

Childhood and Learning

The specialisation Childhood and Learning involves the study of childhood and the learning and living conditions of younger children. One important element of the subject is preschool didactics with an emphasis on play, development and meaning-making, as well as the development of preschool learning environments. The preschool’s quality, pedagogical development and roots in an educational philosophical understanding of its activities and conditions are areas in which the department works, both in education and research.

Recreation Instructor

The primary teacher degree specialising in after-school recreation includes the advance course Recreation Instructor in combination with one of the following subjects: visual arts, sports and health or music.

Research at Childhood, Education and Society

The department’s research is conducted from humanistic and social science perspectives with a focus on preschool teaching, historical and social aspects of childhood and education, after-school activities and pedagogical philosophy.

Research groups, researchers, publications and projects 

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Research topics

Child and Youth Studies

Child and youth studies is an interdisciplinary field with a focus on childhood as both a period in life and as a social...

Pedagogy

Education/pedagogy concerns the study of pedagogical processes in different cultural and interpersonal contexts. The main objec...

Research environments

Childhood and Education

The research group Childhood and Education focuses on a variety of issues concerning childhood and education. Researchers are...

Philosophical Studies of Education (PSE)

The research group Philosophical Studies of Education (PSE) organises researchers who engage in foundational questions...

The Child’s Best Interest

The Convention on the Rights of the Child, including children's digital rights, forms the basis for the activities of the...

Collaboration

The department collaborates with other higher education institutions, municipalities, individual preschools and after-school centres through research projects and continued professional development, all within the framework of childhood studies and professional preschool teaching and recreation centres.

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