Karlstads universitet

Problem-based — knowledge-based — school development
is based on the meeting between research and practice, a meeting that will produce new experiences and learnings. New questions will result in new domains to develope. This web-site is about that meeting. It will due to that continuously change and expand...
Most of the pages are written in Swedish so far, but we hope that we gradually will be able to publish articles of common interest in English.

The impact of network on sustainable school development
Paper presented at ICSEI 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand » pdf

Findings so far:
• School development is problem-based.
• School development is facilitated if teachers and school leaders are involved in problem based learning about problems and dilemmas that the school has to handle.
• The process of school development is supported by knowledge-based problem solving.
• A deepened understanding of the problem is an important point of departure for learning.
• Teachers' learning about the problems of their daily work is the core of the development process.
• The quality of a school depends on how problems are understood and defined and on the quality of the problem solving process, that is, how knowledge is transferred into actions.
• The understanding of the character of problems is dependent on the conception of the mission of the school in relation to changes in the surrounding world.

» Hans-Åke Scherp is the director of research and the chief of the development projects. Together with his »colleagues he organises meetings between practitioners and the research and mutual meetings between practitioners.