Graduate School in Lifelong Learning

The Graduate School in Lifelong Learning is a special doctoral programme based in the interdisciplinary research environment of the Adult Education Research Group. It was assigned the status as a Graduate School in 1999, and since funded by the Danish Research Academy.
Within an interdisciplinarity and problemoriented research environment the school aims at combining the highest level of academic research with current societal challenges in the fields of learning, training and education. International networking and exchange has a high priority.
By January 2011 the programme held appr. 50 ph.d. students, research fellows as well as students funded by other sources. Enrolment normally takes place in August/September, but deviations may be considered.
Our research into learning, teaching, pedagogy and education encompasses the broader societal and cultural contexts. The subjective perspectives on education - questions of gender, generation, every day life, stages in the life course, etc. - as well as the societal functions of qualification, differentiation and integration are as fully important as questions of teaching method. The perspective of working life and the cultural change in concepts of work and labour are particularly important themes. Cooperation with teachers and planners on development and evaluation of educational programmes are frequent. In accordance with the general profile of Roskilde University research programmes are interdisciplinary and problemoriented.
Current ph.d.projects are for instance on professions, working life, gender, childhood, bullying and life history. Theoretically critical theory, theories of modernity and cultural studies are pursued alongside with theories of socialiation and qualification.
In autumn terms two types of seminar series are offered: One for "beginners" and one for the experienced ph.d.students. The former offers introduction to educational research, methodology and study planning. The latter offers thematized seminars on central issues in educational research - e.g. work and labour, learning environment, etc.