Developing Research Structures and Research Capacity: The Swedish National Postgraduate School in Educational Work (NaPA)

Autor/inn/en	Arreman, Inger Erixon; Erixon, Per-Olof
Titel	Developing Research Structures and Research Capacity: The Swedish National Postgraduate School in Educational Work (NaPA)
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 7 (2008) 4, S.548-556 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.2304/eerj.2008.7.4.548
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Teacher Education; Postdoctoral Education; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Ausland; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Schweden
Abstract	This article focuses on the emergence and development of new research structures and research capacity within Swedish teacher education at the beginning of the new millennium. Since 2001, it has been possible in Sweden to undertake postgraduate and research studies within teacher education--something that was previously impossible. As a result of a national reform, a new research discipline, "educational work", was established at several Swedish universities. At the same time, the National Postgraduate School in Educational Work (NaPA) was created, the responsibility for which was given to Umea University, one of the larger Swedish teacher education providers. The aim of the article is to provide a picture of Swedish national teacher education policies in the first years of the millennium that have generated new research structures, which, in turn, have enabled a rapid and nationally distributed expansion of research within the field of Swedish teacher education. It draws on a combination of policy documents, research carried out by the two authors and reflections on their own experiences, as a former PhD student who now has a doctoral qualification in educational work and as the head of NaPA respectively. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10