The research conducted at the Centre for Primary and Lower Secondary Education Research is primarily aimed at practice-oriented educational science and school research with a special focus on didactics and pedagogy, i.e. research questions about teaching and learning in the formal education system at primary and lower secondary school level. In this connection, we are highly preoccupied with links between the formal primary and lower secondary school system – in all its complexity – and other systems. This applies, for example, to the link between research, teacher training and teaching practices in school; it applies to the link to other levels of education (both transitions from day care to primary school and from lower secondary school to upper secondary education), and it applies to the link to life outside school and what may be called the connection between informal and formal learning.
