Can mental training in primary school affect students' health, well-being and school performance?.
This project will focus on whether and whether mental training can provide students with useful "tools" in life and in their studies.
Education
The research strategy of the subject of education is well rooted in the university’s vision to be a global higher education institution with regional involvement. The basic idea is to be responsible for a broad area of knowledge aimed at learning and knowledge formation within the field of education.
The subject of education has four main research groups:
- Higher Education and E-Learning (HEEL)
- SKOLA (after-school centres, pre-school, lower and upper-secondary school)
- Utbildningsledarskap och Skolutveckling (ULS; Leadership in education and school development)
- Yngre barn (YF; Young children: pre-school, pre-school class)
Research group Higher Education and E-Learning (HEEEL)
The group has an interdisciplinary base in the subjects of education (UTV) and informatics (DSV). HEEL’s work focuses on the consequences of the emerging digitalisation of society and research issues related to the digitalisation of education, lifelong learning and technology-enhanced learning (TEL). The group’s activity involves formal learning for children and young people as well as participation of adult individuals in the formal education system.
Research group ULS
The research group’s areas of interest include leadership, management, governance and school development in the context of education and workplace learning. Educational leadership is defined by the group as more than a function that leads an activity and is seen as the process and context in which a leader interacts with others on specific tasks. School development is stated as a systematic and sustainable process for improving learning and the internal conditions of the activity to achieve the goals of the education. Education refers to all types of formal educational environments from pre-school to adult education. The research areas in focus deal with authority, headship in school/pre-school, teachers’ leadership, school organisation, school development, policy, digitalisation and educational leadership in different types of educational environments, as well as workplace learning.
Research group YF
The research aims to investigate experiences from placements (VFU) as well as learning processes and teachers’ leadership in the didactic space with the focus on young children. Important research areas in the group are aesthetic learning processes and forms of expression in teacher education as well as pre-school education, physical environments for learning, play and creativity, children’s perspectives and agency in pre-school, leadership and norm-critical perspectives. Current research activity by the research group Yngre barn relates to areas such as culture, sustainability and design for learning/learning environments.
Ongoing Research Projects
Create your future
Young people are excluded from education and the labor market in Mellersta Norrland, which has a surplus geography. The aim of the ESF project Create your future is to improve possibilities for wor...
Educational Leadership in Indigenous Sites (ELIS) – The case of Saepmie
In northern Sweden, within the area called Saepmie, Saami and non-Saami live and work integrated. Here, school leaders have a particularly important role in creating understanding, respect and...
EduWell: Education for Health and Learning
The research network EduWell will perform research on school health education in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland with a focus on mental health. The mental health of young people is a major...
Equity in school-age-educare centres: action research on an equal and accessible learning environment in Sundsvall municipality's school-age-educare centres
The project focuses on how teaching in SAEC can be developed and how accessible learning environments can be created to promote pupils' equality in teaching. It is carried out in four SAEC through...
Indoors good – outdoors best
How can nature contribute to children’s learning, health, and well-being – while also creating better working conditions for preschool staff? The project “Indoors good – outdoors best” is a...
Strengthening youth future prospects through practice-based collaboration in youth centres
Youth centre staff see how crime, drugs and vulnerability weaken young people’s future hope and identify a need to strengthen it. The project will map needs and develop a research-based approach wi...
Student Assessment Emotions and Subjectification: Pressing Student Narratives
The project examines how assessment shapes students’ emotions and sense of self through narrative analyses of student experiences. It highlights ethical dilemmas and pressures in schooling and show...
Teachers without borders
The main objective of the project is to create conditions for cross-border cooperation for a stronger border region between municipalities, teachers, higher education institutions and student...
The enablement and constrains of preschools in a government initiative for school improvement
This interview study focuses on peripheral preschools that have participated in a government initiative for school improvement. The term ‘peripheral’ refers to their location relative to larger...
Together for increased school attendance
This is a project in collaboration with Ånge municipality in accordance with the collaboration agreement. The project aims to promote school attendance and prevent school absenteeism.
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