Graduate school – ROCIT

In 2022, a new graduate school called ROCIT – Research on Collaboration in Teacher Education started in collaboration with seven other higher education institutions. Within the framework of the collaboration, two doctoral students are doing their research studies at KMH. The purpose of the graduate school is to improve teacher education.

Development of teacher education

The ROCIT graduate school in educational sciences, with a focus on research on collaboration in teacher training, is a collaboration between eight universities. The purpose of the graduate school is to improve teacher training by improving and strethening the connection between academia and school.

Within the framework of the collaboration, two doctoral students are conducting their research studies at KMH.

The graduate school aims at developing models for long-term and sustainable structures for cooperation between schools and universities in and through the teacher education programs. Central to postgraduate education are questions about professional practice's own knowledge development and knowledge production. An important goal is to develop the understanding of the tension between experience-based and scientifically based knowledge, as well as of teachers' work situation and the organizational conditions for the development of the teaching profession.

Starting point in ULF

The research school takes its point of departure from the Swedish government's program called ULF – Development, Learning and Research, whose purpose is to develop models for long-term and sustainable structures for collaboration between schools and universities in and through teacher education. All higher education institutions in the graduate school are included in one of the program's regional nodes and have worked on these issues during 2017-2021.

The graduate school is a collaboration between Lund University, Malmö University, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Uppsala University, Södertörn University, Linnaeus University, University of Gävle and the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH.

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