Department of Culture and Learning

Centre for Education Policy Research (CfU)

The Research Group Centre for Education Policy Research (CfU) conducts research about education and education politics.

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Department of Culture and Learning

Centre for Education Policy Research (CfU)

The Research Group Centre for Education Policy Research (CfU) conducts research about education and education politics.

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The research group Centre for Education Policy Research conducts research into education and education politics and how policies are transformed and implemented in governance, in the curriculum, in teaching and instruction, in pedagogies and in forms of evaluation in regional, national and transnational contexts.

Emphasizing interdisciplinarity and comparative perspectives, we draw on approaches from sociology, history, ethnography, aesthetics, political science, cultural and critical race studies, and didactics and curriculum studies. The research centre is based in Aalborg and Copenhagen.

We add to knowledge regarding four societal challenges and issues:

Equality, inequality and diversity
Governing, participation and autonomy
Periphery, polarization and social cohesion
Discipline, citizenship and creativity.

Mission and International Networks

Mission

International networks

Members of CfU have a number of international collaborative networks, conferences, projects and publications.

Notable networks include:

“Reforms in Education: A European Research Network” with head of CfU, Mette Buchardt, as co-director. including international workshops, invited speakers, international research stays, and fully funded conference participations
“Nordic Educational Research Association” (NERA) with annual conferences
“Policy Studies and Politics of Education” in the European Educational Research Association (EERA) with annual conferences
“Ethnography and Education” (E&E) with annual conferences in Oxford
“International Standing Network of the History of Education” (ISCHE) with an annual conference
“Adult Education Policy” European Society for Research on the Education for Adults (ESREA)
Centre for Global and Comparative Policy Studies on the Education and Learning of Adults (GloCoPoS), an international research centre situated at the University of Verona
“Comparative Education Society Europe” (CESE)
“Nordic Comparative and International Education Society” (NOCIES)

Featured CfU projects

Educating newcomers to the welfare state.

Mette Buchardt (PI) Professor and Head of Centre for Education Policy Research at Department of Cultural and Learning leads together with Karen N. Breidahl (CO-PI), Associate professor at Department for Politics and Society, leads this 3 1/2 year project on the history of frontline organizations' impact on Danish welfare state development.

Education access under the reign of testing and inclusion

Across the globe, education today takes place in a setting between competing agendas: one is the testing agenda and the other is the inclusion agenda. These agendas hold major implications in terms of access to education for students all over the world.

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Centre for Education Policy Research (CfU)

Mette Buchardt, Head of Research Centre

Kroghstraede 3 - 3.232
9220 Aalborg East, Denmark

buchardt@ikl.aau.dk

Centre for Education Policy Research (CfU)

Centre for Education Policy Research (CfU)

Mission and International Networks

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