KÄKK Graduate school - Knowledge, Subjects and Quality in Teacher Education and Classroom

The graduate school offers doctoral positions in various subjects and is held together by joint courses and seminars and focuses on practice based research. It aims to develop knowledge of how different content in specific school subjects is transformed in teaching. The Graduate School is a collaboration between Karlstad University, Halmstad University and University West. These institutions all have a long tradition and interest in practice based research and research on subject specific education. The graduate school is anchored in a strong research environment with well established international contacts and networks such as the KOSS network.

What does the graduate school Käkk offer?

In Sweden, there is a need for subject specific competence and research in teacher education, which makes käkk-doctoral students attractive in the labor market after they have completed their doctoral studies.
The interest in practice based research is huge in educational science right now. Through the graduate school, our doctoral students have the opportunity to develop education and teaching in both primary and / or secondary school as well as in teacher education
Through the graduate school, the doctoral students gain access to strong research environments in subject specific education and a university-wide and international research network

Coming events

2024-03-06 13:30-15:00
60% seminar
PhD stud. Anna-Clara Rönner
Title: To be announced
Reader: Dr Jenny Byrne, Associate Professor in Education, University of Southhampton
Location: 5F 416 (prel.) and zoom (link will be added soon). Text will be available approximately two weeks before the seminar.

2024-06-05 13:00-15:00
Licputation
PhD stud. Pernilla Olsson
Reader: Natalia Ganuza, professor i svenska språket med inriktning mot sociolingvistik vid Institutionen för nordiska språk, Uppsala universitet

Publications & Presentations

Käkk & Media (In Swedish)