Research into educational resources and didactics

Area of focus: Research into educational resources and didactics

USN’s focus on research into educational resources and didactics has the following main objectives:

  • to develop a general and subject-specific educational resource didactic for use in schools and teacher training programmes
  • to develop and disseminate knowledge of the significance of educational resources for learning, teaching and the school institution.

Currently, the focus area operates with two projects: Exploring Nordic Education and Practical Exegesis of Educational Resources.

Our projects

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Exploring Nordic Education

The project “Exploring Nordic Education” looks into the historical circumstances of the educational resource situation in Norway and the other Nordic countries.

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Practical Exegesis of Educational Resources

How do educational resources influence practice, and how does practice influence resources? The project “Practical Exegesis of Educational Resources” aims to evaluate and establish a set of terms to define the relationship between the subject-related and didactic potential inherent in educational resources, and how these utilised in specific learning and teaching situations.

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