Education

Education has existed as a subject at Uppsala University since 1907. The first professor of the subject, Bertil Hammer, was also the first professor of education in Sweden. Over the past 50 years, more than 160 doctoral theses in education have been submitted to Uppsala University. At present, some one hundred individuals have been admitted to third-cycle studies in the subject at Uppsala and of these, roughly a third are actively working on their thesis.

The field of education deals with phenomena associated with upbringing, education and other systematic influences of significance from the viewpoint of society. People's learning and the conditions for learning within various human areas of activity are also studied under education. Learning is people's development of knowledge, competence, perceptions and attitudes. Educational phenomena can be studied on different levels:

On an individual and group level, such as changes in the individual and in their conditions for learning and the interplay between individuals in different social groups
On the level that relates to the education situation, the organisation and management of it and the methods of teaching, upbringing and other systematic influences
On a societal level – the educational activities in relation to the various goals of society in a historical and comparative perspective.