Adult learning

Mimer - National network for research on popular education

Mimer has since the founding 1990, been one of the central institutes for research on popular education in Sweden and Scandinavia.

Social Interaction as Educational Practice

The research in this knowledge field analyzes interplay between actors (children, pedagogues, physical artefacts) with different special and social contexts (classroom, sandbox) in different communicative activities (free play, driving lessons).

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Marketisation of adult education and its consequences

The focus in this project is on the marketisation of municipal adult education (MAE), and specifically the consequences of marketisation, through a tendering based procurement system, on teachers' work and profession.

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Validation - recognition of adults prior learning

Validation – recognition of prior learning – means to recognize what people actually know, and particularly the results of learning outside formal education. We develop knowledge about validation, from an individual and an organizational perspective.

Teachers' interpretation and application of curriculum and other governing documents in municipal adult education

Teachers working in municipal adult education (MAE) have a variety of laws and steering documents to relate to in their work. This research project investigates how teachers interpret and apply them in their planning and teaching.

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Interaction between knowledge traditions in non-formal adult education

The project investigates how interaction between different knowledge systems and learning traditions are of importance for the design of non-formal adult education activities in Eastern Africa.

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Research on Vocational Education and Training

Our research environment on vocational education and training has expanded, and from a national perspective it is now among the larger in the field. Our research concerns vocational education and training for young people as well as adults.

Higher vocational education - educational policy and curriculum

What is the function of Swedish higher vocational education? How, and by who is it shaped? Whose knowledge counts and what values shape the educational communication?

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The pedagogy of education in political parties

The project studies internal education in the Swedish parliamentary parties. "Education" here includes all forms of organized practices that are staged in order to contribute to the learning processes of the participants.

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Research in Adult and Popular Education

The research group in adult and popular education is the most prominent one in Sweden as well as one of the larger ones in the world. The group act as national as well as international institutional hub in the research field.

Searching for quality in Swedish municipal adult education

How is quality construed in Swedish municipal adult education? How do school inspectors, head’s of education, principals, career counsellors and teachers talk about quality?

Matematikundervisning inom yrkesutbildning

Mathematics in vocational education

Why should vocational students learn mathematics, what do they learn and how can maths education be organized on vocational programs? The study aims to investigate mathematics education in vocational education, and its relation to the working life.

Flykting med huvudet i händerna framför tomt hus

Migration, learning and social inclusion

What effect do different kinds of educational interventions aimed at learning the Swedish language have for migrants' inclusion in the Swedish labour market and society more widely? What do the migrants themselves have to say about this?