Research Areas

The research at the School of Education and Communication in Jönköping focuses on the conditions of education and communication.

The research takes place in four research areas:

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CHILD

CHILD is an international research profile which focuses on interventions, participation, learning, health and everyday functioning of children with special needs. Associated with the Swedish Institute for Disability Research, CHILD offers a leading European research programme in disability.

Lifelong Learning

The research area Lifelong Learning comprises research within adult learning and education, popular education, work-life learning and informal learning. The research group is associated to Encell, the National Centre for Lifelong Learning hosted by Jönköping University.

Media and Communication Science

Media and communication studies is a broad and social scientific/ humanistic research field. It aims at analyzing, explaining and understanding mediated communication in terms of its social and cultural prerequisites as well as its significance for people, organizations and society.

School Based Research and Development

School Based Research and Development has been a research and education field in Sweden since the middle of the 1900's. The field has clear connections to teacher education and to the different areas of pedagogic research within the school system.