Course description
The course aims to provide an introduction to Nordic popular education as a research field in order to develop and deepen the theoretical and methodological traditions of various empirical studies. The course covers texts on popular education in a broad sense. Through lectures, seminars, group work, and individual studies, various ways of analyzing, understanding, and critically relating to empirical studies are highlighted, with these studies also being examined from epistemological and ethical perspectives.
Requirements and Selection
Entry requirements
Admission to the course requires admission to a postgraduate programme at the Faculty of Education or alternatively to other social or behavioral science postgraduate programmes.
Selection
If there are more applicants then the number of seats the following order of priority will apply:
- Doctoral students at the Faculty of Education, University of Gothenburg
- Doctoral students at another faculty, University of Gothenburg
- Doctoral students accepted at Chalmers
- Doctoral students admitted at other universities
Other information
The course is aimed at PhD students in the social sciences and humanities with an interest in Nordic popular adult education (Nordic Bildung) in a broad sense. Participants will have the opportunity to present papers connected to their own dissertation work, but the course can also be taken as an empirical, theoretical, or philosophical orientation in areas such as Bildung, popular adult education, and adult learning.
Course syllabus
FOU2400
Reading and reference list
Reading and reference list for the course
Department
Department of Education, Communication and Learning
Subject
Humanities, Social Science, Educational Science
Type of course
Subject area course
Keywords
Nordic popular adult education, Nordic Bildung, Nordisk folkbildning