The scope and aim of the curriculum research network is to serve as an encounter for different curriculum research approaches. Curriculum theory is a way of describing the philosophy of certain approaches to the development and enactment of curriculum. Within the broad field of curriculum studies, it is both a historical analysis of curriculum, see e.g. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 34(2), and ways of viewing current educational curriculum and policy decisions and curriculum as product, process and praxis.

The network has been rather stable over many years and has had between 10-20 contributions every year from all the Nordic countries. There is an ongoing encounter of different curriculum research approaches and traditions within the network and there has been a mix of single papers and different kinds of collections of papers through the years.

During the years the network has served as a base for different international performances (AERA, EERA) and meetings with German and American researchers within the didactic and curriculum theory fields (Didaktik meets Curriculum: see e.g. Gundem & Hopmann eds: Didaktik and/or Curriculum 1998 Peter Lang) and through the last years there has also been international and national curriculum theory conferences supplementing the NERA-network conferences on curriculum research, in Uppsala 2005 (Forsberg ed. Curriculum Theory Revisited) and in Örebro 2007.

(updated September 1, 2008)