Empirical Research on Value Issues in Education
The NERA Network for Empirical Research on Value Issues in Education (network 7) is a network for educational researchers with research interest in empirical studies of value issues, ethics, and values education in school or other educational settings. Thus, the network covering a wide variety of content concerns, among which are:
The network is open to a wide range of empirical qualitative and quantitative methods and approaches, including (but not limited to) ethnography, case study, survey research, interviewing, structured observation, experimental and quasi-experimental design, action research, grounded theory, discourse analysis, life history, conversation analysis, phenomenology, and comparative research. The main focus is on empirical rather than philosophical investigations, even if ethical or other normative theories of course can function as significant perspectives or theoretical tools in the empirical research. The network is open to a broad range of perspectives and theories that emanates from (but not limited to) educational sciences, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology.
The aim of the Network is to provide a forum for and to promote communication and collaboration among educational researcher with research interest in empirical studies of value issues, ethics, and values education in school or other educational settings, and to enhance, stimulate, strengthen, and develop the practice of Nordic research in this domain. The network seeks to develop and enhance knowledge regarding value issues in school settings by exploring and discussing empirical findings, investigating and evaluating effects or outcomes from educational interventions, programs or methods, critically analysing processes, influences, interactions, cultures, or practices in classroom and other school settings, testing, using, or developing theories, discussing empirical methods and new developments in methodologies, and so on.
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- values education - an umbrella concept including concepts such as moral education, character education, citizenship education, civic education, and democratic education
- professional ethics, teacher ethics
- values or morality expressed in everyday school life
- school rules and disciplinary practises in school
- moral development, ethical learning, children and youth's ethics
- school violence, anti-social behaviour, aggression prevention
- peer harassment, bullying, bullying prevention
- school democracy, pupil participation
- children's rights
- peace education
- peer conflicts, conflict management
- prosocial behaviour and development
The network is open to a wide range of empirical qualitative and quantitative methods and approaches, including (but not limited to) ethnography, case study, survey research, interviewing, structured observation, experimental and quasi-experimental design, action research, grounded theory, discourse analysis, life history, conversation analysis, phenomenology, and comparative research. The main focus is on empirical rather than philosophical investigations, even if ethical or other normative theories of course can function as significant perspectives or theoretical tools in the empirical research. The network is open to a broad range of perspectives and theories that emanates from (but not limited to) educational sciences, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology.
The aim of the Network is to provide a forum for and to promote communication and collaboration among educational researcher with research interest in empirical studies of value issues, ethics, and values education in school or other educational settings, and to enhance, stimulate, strengthen, and develop the practice of Nordic research in this domain. The network seeks to develop and enhance knowledge regarding value issues in school settings by exploring and discussing empirical findings, investigating and evaluating effects or outcomes from educational interventions, programs or methods, critically analysing processes, influences, interactions, cultures, or practices in classroom and other school settings, testing, using, or developing theories, discussing empirical methods and new developments in methodologies, and so on.
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