To make the Invisible Visble (TIV) - Network building in relation to didactics in to school-age educare

Extended education as School-age educare is a school form expanding all over the world and recognized as an important learning environment, despite its limited research base.

The overall purpose of the collaboration is to build a sustainable research network to explore, explain and compare the content and the practical implementation of the concept didactics in School Age Educare Centers (SAEC) in Sweden, Switzerland and Australia.

The background for the research idea is the urgent need of a theoretical basis for the concept didactics in SAEC in many countries. The concept exists in reality but is not conceptualized in a scientific theory.

The partners will work together in recurring network meetings with analysis of official statistics, policy documents, questionnaires, interviews with individuals and groups from SAECs, and stocktaking of previous research.

This cooperation will be strengthened and stabilized above all within the institutions of the four participating universities.

Another important aspect of the network collaboration will be continued work in the national networks, which will involve meeting policy makers and stakeholders as a base of the continued national and international network collaboration.

The network will also invite more countries and universities to join during the grant period to strengthen and broaden the contextual perspective of the research area. There is also a plan for a future larger research application including more countries.