KOSS network
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The KOSS network is funded by the Swedish Research Council and brings together three cross-disciplinary educational research groups: ROSE at Karlstad, SSRG at the IOE London and HuSoEd at Helsinki University. https://www.kau.se/en/rose
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Very pleased to see this paper published.
It is the intro to a Special Issue which brings perspectives on subject didactics from SE, FR, DE, AT and CZ and includes my paper on the tragic demise of subject-specific teacher education in England. @kossnetwork.bsky.social
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It is the intro to a Special Issue which brings perspectives on subject didactics from SE, FR, DE, AT and CZ and includes my paper on the tragic demise of subject-specific teacher education in England. @kossnetwork.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
A critical knowledge-led approach to curriculum research and teacher education across school subjects
This paper introduces and provides an overview of the special issue of this journal on Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Subject Didactics. It describes a perspective on Subject D...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Very pleased to see this paper published.
It is the intro to a Special Issue which brings perspectives on subject didactics from SE, FR, DE, AT and CZ and includes my paper on the tragic demise of subject-specific teacher education in England. @kossnetwork.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
It is the intro to a Special Issue which brings perspectives on subject didactics from SE, FR, DE, AT and CZ and includes my paper on the tragic demise of subject-specific teacher education in England. @kossnetwork.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
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Deadline extended until 30 November.
Call for Papers for Didactica Viva: General and subject-specific didactics as living and responsive fields, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
20 - 22 May 2026
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Call for Papers for Didactica Viva: General and subject-specific didactics as living and responsive fields, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
20 - 22 May 2026
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Conference – Didactica Viva: General and subject-specific didactics as living and responsive fields
The conference aims to bring together researchers from around Europe who are active and interested in didactics research - ranging from subject-specific to general didactics. Contributions in relation...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Deadline extended until 30 November.
Call for Papers for Didactica Viva: General and subject-specific didactics as living and responsive fields, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
20 - 22 May 2026
ivsv.ped.muni.cz/clanky/confe...
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Call for Papers for Didactica Viva: General and subject-specific didactics as living and responsive fields, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
20 - 22 May 2026
ivsv.ped.muni.cz/clanky/confe...
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It was a wonderful experience to become an Honorary Doctor of Teacher Education at last week’s Academic Ceremony at Karlstad University. It has been a great pleasure to work with such an accomplished group of scholars in the ROSE group over the past 10 years.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It was a wonderful experience to become an Honorary Doctor of Teacher Education at last week’s Academic Ceremony at Karlstad University. It has been a great pleasure to work with such an accomplished group of scholars in the ROSE group over the past 10 years.
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Congratulations to CPA colleagues @gracehealy.bsky.social, @drlaurenhammond.bsky.social, Alexis Stones, Emma Newall, Zongyi Deng & @arthurjchapman.bsky.social on their papers and to our @kossnetwork.bsky.social co-authors! Looking forward to continued work together! 3/3
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Congratulations to CPA colleagues @gracehealy.bsky.social, @drlaurenhammond.bsky.social, Alexis Stones, Emma Newall, Zongyi Deng & @arthurjchapman.bsky.social on their papers and to our @kossnetwork.bsky.social co-authors! Looking forward to continued work together! 3/3
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The edition explores 'Powerful Knowledge', 'epistemic quality', and related concepts to make international comparisons between how subjects are modelled in secondary curricula in Sweden, Finland and England - a project developed and funded through the @kossnetwork.bsky.social, 2018-23. 2/3
July 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
The edition explores 'Powerful Knowledge', 'epistemic quality', and related concepts to make international comparisons between how subjects are modelled in secondary curricula in Sweden, Finland and England - a project developed and funded through the @kossnetwork.bsky.social, 2018-23. 2/3
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Great to see that this special edition of the Journal of Curriculum Studies, edited by CPA's Professor Zongyi Deng and @arthurjchapman.bsky.social in collaboration with @kossnetwork.bsky.social colleagues is now 'live', open access, and online. www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcus20/5... 1/3
July 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Great to see that this special edition of the Journal of Curriculum Studies, edited by CPA's Professor Zongyi Deng and @arthurjchapman.bsky.social in collaboration with @kossnetwork.bsky.social colleagues is now 'live', open access, and online. www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcus20/5... 1/3
Call for KOSS network 2026 conference papers.
Didactica Viva: General and subject-specific didactics as living and responsive fields
20-22 May 2026
Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Didactica Viva: General and subject-specific didactics as living and responsive fields
20-22 May 2026
Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
July 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Call for KOSS network 2026 conference papers.
Didactica Viva: General and subject-specific didactics as living and responsive fields
20-22 May 2026
Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Didactica Viva: General and subject-specific didactics as living and responsive fields
20-22 May 2026
Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Great to hear from Professor Tomas Janik, Masarjk Univesrity about the next @kossnetwork.bsky.social conference in the Czech Republic in May 2026. Call for papers as below. 7
May 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Great to hear from Professor Tomas Janik, Masarjk Univesrity about the next @kossnetwork.bsky.social conference in the Czech Republic in May 2026. Call for papers as below. 7
Thanks to Dr Wilton Lodge for such an excellent opening to the #KOSS2025 conference with your opening keynote 'Towards racially just research and scholarship practices'
May 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Thanks to Dr Wilton Lodge for such an excellent opening to the #KOSS2025 conference with your opening keynote 'Towards racially just research and scholarship practices'
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KOSS began meeting in 2018 and explores paradigms of knowledge and curriculum in a range of contexts, starting with Swedish, English and Finnish models, supported by Swedish government funding. www.kau.se/en/rose/exte... 2/2
Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education, KOSS
The network Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education, KOSS, bring together three cross-disciplinary educational research groups, rooted in several academic disciplines from S...
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May 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
KOSS began meeting in 2018 and explores paradigms of knowledge and curriculum in a range of contexts, starting with Swedish, English and Finnish models, supported by Swedish government funding. www.kau.se/en/rose/exte... 2/2
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We have been delighted to broaden the base of KOSS in recent years, engaging with German and Czech colleagues, for example. CSSRG is the @cpaucl.bsky.social research group involved in KOSS. 3 www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...
Curriculum Subject Specialism Research Group
Conducting and promoting research into subject-specialist teaching. We are interested in all areas of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, and the role of knowledge in school teaching.
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May 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
We have been delighted to broaden the base of KOSS in recent years, engaging with German and Czech colleagues, for example. CSSRG is the @cpaucl.bsky.social research group involved in KOSS. 3 www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...
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Exciting to be attending @dr-willo.bsky.social’s keynote today on racially just research and scholarship, opening-up our @kossnetwork.bsky.social event, with @cpaucl.bsky.social and Czech colleagues in the room and by 32 colleagues joining us online. 1/2 @ioe.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Exciting to be attending @dr-willo.bsky.social’s keynote today on racially just research and scholarship, opening-up our @kossnetwork.bsky.social event, with @cpaucl.bsky.social and Czech colleagues in the room and by 32 colleagues joining us online. 1/2 @ioe.bsky.social
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Excellent new article from Professor Brian Hudson
Hudson, B. (2025) The demise of subject-specific teacher education in England, Journal of Curriculum Studies, dx.doi.org/10.1080/0022...
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Hudson, B. (2025) The demise of subject-specific teacher education in England, Journal of Curriculum Studies, dx.doi.org/10.1080/0022...
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The demise of subject-specific teacher education in England
This paper addresses the demise of subject-specific teacher education in England in recent years. In doing so it considers the national policy context and historical developments of education in th...
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May 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Excellent new article from Professor Brian Hudson
Hudson, B. (2025) The demise of subject-specific teacher education in England, Journal of Curriculum Studies, dx.doi.org/10.1080/0022...
@brianhudson.bsky.social @ukpolicywatch.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @embracescitt.bsky.social
Hudson, B. (2025) The demise of subject-specific teacher education in England, Journal of Curriculum Studies, dx.doi.org/10.1080/0022...
@brianhudson.bsky.social @ukpolicywatch.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @embracescitt.bsky.social
Pleased to see this paper is available - it is one of a collection for a special issue of JCS on “Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Subject Didactics” based on a paper presented at the @kossnetwork.bsky.social conference at University of Trier in 2024.
dx.doi.org/10.1080/0022...
dx.doi.org/10.1080/0022...
The demise of subject-specific teacher education in England
This paper addresses the demise of subject-specific teacher education in England in recent years. In doing so it considers the national policy context and historical developments of education in th...
dx.doi.org
May 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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New article out today!
Niemelä, M. A., Niemi, K., Salmenkivi, E., & Stones, A. (2025). Powers of knowledge in secondary religious education curricula of Sweden, England, and Finland. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1–19. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
Niemelä, M. A., Niemi, K., Salmenkivi, E., & Stones, A. (2025). Powers of knowledge in secondary religious education curricula of Sweden, England, and Finland. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1–19. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
Powers of knowledge in secondary religious education curricula of Sweden, England and Finland
What might the powers of knowledge in religious education (RE) be; what knowledge and abilities does RE provide to pupils in lower secondary education? These questions are asked through this study ...
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March 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New article out today!
Niemelä, M. A., Niemi, K., Salmenkivi, E., & Stones, A. (2025). Powers of knowledge in secondary religious education curricula of Sweden, England, and Finland. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1–19. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
Niemelä, M. A., Niemi, K., Salmenkivi, E., & Stones, A. (2025). Powers of knowledge in secondary religious education curricula of Sweden, England, and Finland. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1–19. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
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Delighted 2C this @ioe.bsky.social & @kossnetwork.bsky.social open access special edition of the Journal of Curriculum Studies taking shape. So far we've papers looking @ religious education, history & geography in comparative perspective in England, Sweden & Finland. Congratulations, colleagues! 1
With thanks to @hurlumhei.bsky.social for reminding us, here's a note announcing a new series of curriculum papers from CPA colleagues and our partners in the @kossnetwork.bsky.social from Helsinki and Karlstad that will be collated soon in a special edition of the Journal of Curriculum studies. 1/4
April 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Delighted 2C this @ioe.bsky.social & @kossnetwork.bsky.social open access special edition of the Journal of Curriculum Studies taking shape. So far we've papers looking @ religious education, history & geography in comparative perspective in England, Sweden & Finland. Congratulations, colleagues! 1
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Finally (@ least until more papers in the special edition R published open access), congratulations to Amna Khawaja, Mikko Puustinen, @arthurjchapman.bsky.social & Kenneth Nordgren on their open access @kossnetwork.bsky.social paper comparing history curricula www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 4/4
April 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Finally (@ least until more papers in the special edition R published open access), congratulations to Amna Khawaja, Mikko Puustinen, @arthurjchapman.bsky.social & Kenneth Nordgren on their open access @kossnetwork.bsky.social paper comparing history curricula www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 4/4
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Congratulations 2 CPA's Alexis Stones Mikko Niemelä & Eero Salmenkivi (Helsinki) & @hurlumhei.bsky.social (Karlstad) on this open access @kossnetwork.bsky.social paper on the powers of knowledge in 2ndry religious education curricula in England Finland & Sweden! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 3
April 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Congratulations 2 CPA's Alexis Stones Mikko Niemelä & Eero Salmenkivi (Helsinki) & @hurlumhei.bsky.social (Karlstad) on this open access @kossnetwork.bsky.social paper on the powers of knowledge in 2ndry religious education curricula in England Finland & Sweden! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 3
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Congratulations 2 CPA's @gracehealy.bsky.social & @drlaurenhammond.bsky.social & Profs Gabriel Bladh & Sirpa Tani on this open access @kossnetwork.bsky.social paper on the powers, possibilities & constraints of geography curricula in England, Finland & Sweden! 2/2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Congratulations 2 CPA's @gracehealy.bsky.social & @drlaurenhammond.bsky.social & Profs Gabriel Bladh & Sirpa Tani on this open access @kossnetwork.bsky.social paper on the powers, possibilities & constraints of geography curricula in England, Finland & Sweden! 2/2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Curricula are camels, written by committee, & heteroglossic, reflecting the various aims & discourses of their multiple makers. Excited 2C this @kossnetwork.bsky.social paper published - reflecting on history curricular aims comparatively, across 3 countries & combining conceptual lenses. 1/2
March 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Curricula are camels, written by committee, & heteroglossic, reflecting the various aims & discourses of their multiple makers. Excited 2C this @kossnetwork.bsky.social paper published - reflecting on history curricular aims comparatively, across 3 countries & combining conceptual lenses. 1/2
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The review by @brianghudson of 'Teacher Education and Its Discontents' is published. He says: ‘The case study of the recent English education reform by Lisa Murtagh and Louisa Dawes should be required reading for all education policy makers in England.’
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March 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Here are the slides from @brianhudson.bsky.social's keynote 'A critical knowledge-led approach to curriculum research and teacher education across school subjects' to the ROSE (Research on Subject-specific Education) Day Conference at Karlstad University on 17th December.
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(PDF) A critical knowledge-led approach to curriculum research and teacher education across school subjects
PDF | This keynote begins by outlining an approach to curriculum research and teacher education across school subjects that has been developed in... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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December 19, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Here are the slides from @brianhudson.bsky.social's keynote 'A critical knowledge-led approach to curriculum research and teacher education across school subjects' to the ROSE (Research on Subject-specific Education) Day Conference at Karlstad University on 17th December.
doi.org/10.13140/RG....
doi.org/10.13140/RG....
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I look forward to celebrating research in subject didactics at Karlstad Uni next week and especially to my keynote on ‘A critical knowledge-led approach to curriculum research and teacher education across school subjects”
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December 10, 2024 at 8:57 PM
I look forward to celebrating research in subject didactics at Karlstad Uni next week and especially to my keynote on ‘A critical knowledge-led approach to curriculum research and teacher education across school subjects”
www.kau.se/rose/kalende...
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Please forward this free webinar invite from the UNESCO supported International Teacher Task Force : Friday 29 November 2024 Inclusion and Equity Learning Event 1: Attracting people with disabilities to the teaching profession.
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Inclusion and Equity Learning Event 1: Attracting people with disabilities to the teaching profession
In the build-up to Global Disability Summit 2025 to be held on 2-3 April in Germany, the Inclusion and Equity in Teacher Policies and Practices Thematic Group are delighted to invite you to attend thr...
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November 20, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Please forward this free webinar invite from the UNESCO supported International Teacher Task Force : Friday 29 November 2024 Inclusion and Equity Learning Event 1: Attracting people with disabilities to the teaching profession.
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Delighted to announce the publication of A Teacher’s Handbook of Global Citizenship Education in the Post-Primary Classroom with Oak Tree Press - written by Seánín Hoy, Gearóid O’Brien &Stephen O’Brien.
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November 14, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Delighted to announce the publication of A Teacher’s Handbook of Global Citizenship Education in the Post-Primary Classroom with Oak Tree Press - written by Seánín Hoy, Gearóid O’Brien &Stephen O’Brien.
Available on Amazon: amzn.eu/d/04aaFEl
and from Oak Tree Press: oaktreepress.ie/news/new-tit...
Available on Amazon: amzn.eu/d/04aaFEl
and from Oak Tree Press: oaktreepress.ie/news/new-tit...