RESEARCH CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL TEACHING AND LEARNING
UNIVERSITY OF OULU KAJAANI
UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM
This research centre was founded in 1999. The purpose of the centre is to carry out research on developmental impact of teaching and learning at different phases of human life-span.
Our special focus is on early years and school age, but other related problems are studied as well e.g. development of educational teams, agency postures of teachers, and learning in village schools.
We have different activities
Research projects:
- academic post graduate and graduate research
- research contracts
- network projects
Methodological seminars
Development projects
Courses on developmental teaching and learning
- research on developmental practices
- development of conceptual models of human development
- research on developmental transitions
- research on relations between teaching, learning and child
development
- research on cultural contexts of development
The themes and projects
- preverbal development in the family context
- beginning of day care
- play, creativity and imagination
- narrative learning
- developmental didactics
- transitory activity systems, learning potential and transition to school
- approaches and theoretical models of development
Our research sites
- "Silmu"-club for creative play for young children (1) 3 - 6 years, 1 day a week
- day care centre "Ratamo", department for small children 1 - 3 years
- experimental groups (5) of vertical integration (joint instruction in two cities Hyvinkää and Kajaani 4-8 years)
- laboratory at Kajaani campus
Foreign research contacts
We have foreign research contacts to:
- EU-US consortium of the fifth dimension: UCSD, Denver, Miami, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Ronneby, Kajaani
- Moscow Institute of Pre-school and Family Education
- Centre for Innovative Education Vilnius, Lithuania
- Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania
- Skapande Centrum, Karlstad, Sweden
- Petrozavodsk State University, Russia
- Tallinn Pedagogical University, Estonia
- Research Centre "Eksperiment" Riga, Latvia
