Municipal adult education (MAE) consists of both basic and upper secondary adult education, special education for adults and Swedish for immigrants. Teachers working in these activities have a variety of laws and steering documents to relate to in their work. There are laws, an adult education curriculum and various syllabuses.
This research project investigates how teachers in MAE interpret and apply curricula and other steering documents in their planning and teaching. In a first step, a survey is carried out aimed at those who work as teachers in all different parts of MAE. In a later part of the project, a larger number of teachers will also be interviewed.
The project is carried out by Linköping University in collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and on behalf of the Swedish National Agency for Education. The project includes professors Andreas Fejes and Per Andersson, who are both project managers, and Johanna Köpsén, all at the Division of Education and Adult Learning, Department of behavioral science and learning at Linköping University and Mattias Nylund at the Department of Pedagogy and Special Education at the University of Gothenburg.