Educational sciences

Educational Sciences are about research on learning, knowledge formation, education and teaching. The Research Council supports research on such topics as the social, economic and political conditions of the education system, learning, knowledge accumulation and the use of knowledge, and also ways of enhancing diversity in education and teaching.

The Research Council allocated around SEK 156 million by way of grants for research within educational sciences 2009.

Research portraits educational sciences

Digital Technology Changes Our Way to Learn
– Meet Roger Säljö
Professor Roger Säljö, Göteborg University, Director of the Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction, and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS), has a Linnaeus Grant from the Swedish Research Council. Here you can read an interview with him.
New Media Makes Invisible Natural Sciences Visible
– Meet Lena Tibell
Lena Tibell, Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, has a Project Research Grant from the Swedish Research Council. Here you can read an interview with her.