Umeå
University was the first university in Sweden to create a faculty
of teacher education. The faculty is responsible for undergraduate
education and teacher training, graduate education, including
the Ph.D. programme and research into teacher education at educational
work.
There
are three main areas for the Ph.D. programmes offered at the faculty:
educational work, education and subject didactics. PhD programmes
run four years (Full-time), and are carried out at a department
or as part of a National Post-Graduate School.
Educational
Work
Educational work is studied at the five departments of the faculty
of teacher education. Areas of research are theory and practice
of educational work and teaching methods. These departments has
a leading role in developing previously under-researched areas
such as pre-school, recreational work and teaching in aesthetic
subjects. Educational work is exclusively a research topic. It
is founded in a profession, not in an academic subject. A (somewhat
flawed) simile is medical clinical research.
The
high priority given educational work at the university is the
reason Umeå University was designated the coordinating institution
for the National Post-Graduate School of Educational Work.
Entry
Requirements
To be admitted to the Ph.D. programme in educational work, the
student is required to have
• A university degree, with a completed undergraduate theses
of at least 15 ECTS
• A teaching qualification (in Sweden typically part of
the university degree)
• Two year’s teaching experience
Subject
Didactics
Didactics is the scientific field that tries to identify, characterise
and understand the phenomena and processes that are a part of
– or could be a part of – actual and potential education
and learning.
Many
departments associated with the faculty of teacher education have
developed research and Ph.D. programmes that study the teaching
process in the relevant academic subject. Below is a list of current
programmes into subject didactics.
The
Ph.D. students in subject didactics are organisationally tied
to the institution of the subject of study.
Entry
Requirements
To be admitted to Ph.D. programmes in subject didactics, the student
is required to have
• Swedish university degree with at least 90 ECTS in the
subject of study, including an undergraduate thesis of at least
15 ECTS or
• A foreign Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, including
courses in the subject of study corresponding to the Swedish C
level (90 ECTS), including a research project or undergraduate
thesis.
A completed
teaching qualification gives the student extra merits.
Education
The department of Education at Umeå University has a long
tradition of research into areas relevant for teacher education.
There is a wide variety of Ph.D. projects at the department of
education, from action research programmes of learning in ICT-environments
to studies of historical documents.
Entry
Requirements
To be admitted to Ph.D. programmes in education, the student is
required to have
• Swedish university degree with at least 90 ECTS in education,
including an undergraduate thesis of at least 15 ECTS or
• A foreign Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, including
courses in education corresponding to the Swedish C level (90
ECTS), including a research project or undergraduate thesis.
A completed
teaching qualification gives the student extra merits.
Ph.D.
programmes (Syllabi)
• Biology, didactic profile
• English, didactic profile
• French, didactic profile
• Physics, didactic profile
• History, didactic profile
• Chemistry, especially analytical chemistry, biophysical
chemistry etc.
• Mathematics, didactic profile
• Education
• Educational work
• Swedish, didactic profile
• German, didactic profile
National
Post-Graduate Schools
• The National Post-Graduate School in Educational Work
(NaPA)
• The National Post-Graduate School in Science and Technology
Education Research,
• The National Post-Graduate School of Gender studies
• Mathematics, didactic profile
• Swedish, didactic profile
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