Curriculum Studies

Curriculum Studies as a field of research and area of knowledge deals with matters relating to the content of education and teaching. The subject of curriculum studies is deeply rooted in both scientific traditions and teaching practice. The research questions which constitute the core of curriculum studies arise in the meeting between specific subject matter and the teaching and learning of this subject matter which takes place under some form of activity. It is therefore interesting, for example, to study the content of the teaching and what makes this choice legitimate, who the teaching is directed to and how their learning process works, how the subject material is handled in the teaching and who has power over the selection process.

Curriculum Studies as a field of research and area of knowledge therefore deals with questions found at the point of intersection between an area of activity/knowledge and education, teaching, learning and socialisation, in terms of both cognitive and normative content. The third-cycle subject of Didactics was established at Uppsala University in autumn 2002.