Ingrid Carlgren

The learning study as an approach for “clinical” subject matter didactic research

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the conceptual classification of learning study as a research approach.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is mainly theoretical, drawing on articles concerning classroom‐based research approaches as well as on some distinctions between a university‐based science of the universal and a clinical science of the particular.Findings – The main argument of the article is that learning studies can neither be subsumed under “design and development research” (because this type of research does not include the professional actor) nor under “teacher research” (because it does not pay much attention to theoretical knowledge) nor should it be regarded as a hybrid between design experiments and lesson studies. In spite of similarities to both it should rather be described as clinical research (in analogy to medical clinical research). The use of teachers’ experiences and tacit knowing in the knowledge‐producing process, the iterative process of specification ...

CA‐Studies of Learning—From an Educational Perspective

It has been a pleasure and a highly rewarding endeavour to read and reflect on the collection of papers in this issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. It is a rare thing to read...