Department of
Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies, Educational Philosophy, and General Education

About the department

The department is one of four departments at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University and is built around the Master's degree programmes in Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies - danish, - mathematics, - material culture and - music education; ICT-based educational design; General education; and Educational philosophy. The department's researchers are part of a number of research units.

Programmes

The descriptions of the programmes are only available in Danish.

Masters's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Danish)

Master's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Math)

Master's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Material culture)

Master's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Music education)

Master's degree programme in

General education

Master's degree programme in

ICT-based educational design

Master's degree programme in

Philosophy of Education

Research units

Publications

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Percy-Smith, V. S. (2026). A material perspective on pupils’ experience during museum education as a space for historical consciousness. History Education Research Journal, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/HERJ.23.1.02

Thomsen, M., Misfeldt, M. & Jankvist, U. T. (2026). DEVELOPING MATHEMATICAL COMPETENCIES TO ASSESS CHATGPT-GENERATED OUTPUTS TITLE: Three forms of mediations. In Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Mathematics Education Assessment (pp. 265-281). Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003533764-15

Holflod, K., De Gaetano, C., Costa, C., Luz, F., Groen, M. & Nørgård, R. T. (2026). Game-Making for Cultural Change and Empowered Youth Participation. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 42(2), Article e70197. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcal.70197

Larsen, L. K. (2026). Kohærensmåder: Et kvalitativt studie af, hvordan elever skaber tekstsammenhæng, når de skriver i dansk i 4. klasse. Tidsskrift for Uddannelsesvidenskab, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.7146/djes.v4i2.165533

Sortkær, B., Have, M. & Bundsgaard, J. (2026). Measuring the Effect of a Large-Scale Didactic “Playful Learning”: Intervention on Preservice Teachers’ Preferences and Intentions for Future Practice. In Play-based Teaching in Higher Education Emerald Group Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-368720260000051008

Holflod, K., Bayne, S. & Nørgård, R. T. (2026). Utopia, hope and desire in education futures. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222251412851

Bundsgaard, J., Hanghøj, T., Nielsen, B. L. & Skott, C. K. (2026). What goes on in science, Danish and mathematics teaching? A quantitative Q-method-inspired study of teachers’ and students’ experiences of subject-specific practices. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2026.2623280

Sattrup, L. & Knudsen, L. E. D. (2025). Æstetisk resonans som engagement: En undersøgelse af elevers engagement i naturen på et kunstmuseum. Tidsskrift for æstetik og pædagogik, 3(1), 39-55. https://tidsskrift.dk/taep/article/view/162083/203703

Kjeldsen, T. H. & Jankvist, U. T. (2025). Arguments for history of mathematics in general mathematics education research: A constructive and critical discussion. In S. Lawrence, É. Barbin & L. Puig (Eds.), International Study Group on the Relations between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics, Proceedings of the 2024, ICME Satellite Meeting, HPM 2024 Sydney, 1-5 July (pp. 39-48) https://hpm.sites.uu.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/905/2025/10/HPM-Proceedings-PDF-FIN.pdf

Lindenskov, L. B., Søndergaard, B. D., Justesen, F., Hansen, S. & Scharup, J. (2025). At skabe broer: Matematiklærere og faglærere på erhvervsskolerne samarbejder om at udvikle undervisningsmateriale. Aalborg Universitet. https://tradium.dk/media/4714/tradium-klump_c_samletrapport_ebog.pdf

Thestrup, K. (2025). At stå i det næste: digte om kærligheden til at forske. Forlaget mellemgaard.

Holflod, K. & Hansen, E. A. (2025, Mar). Between preservation and transformation: looking back at the third cultural game jam in Aarhus. https://epic-we.eu/between-preservation-and-transformation-looking-back-at-the-third-cultural-game-jam-in-aarhus/

Ahl, L. M., Helenius, O., Østergaard, M. K., Jankvist, U. T. & Prytz, J. (2025). Beyond Beliefs: Using Scheme Theory to Understand Implementation in Mathematics Education. Implementation and Replication Studies in Mathematics Education, 5(2), 216-241. https://doi.org/10.1163/26670127-bja10031

Kaasby, M. & Hornberger, N. (2025). Biliteracy Metaphor Analysis: Examining multilingual, multicultural pupils' interpretation of canon literature. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 24(2), 316-332. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2022.2105220

Thestrup, K. (2025). Body as center, Technology as play, Community as pedagogy. 1. Abstract from BIN NORDEN, Stockholm, Sweden.

Kristensen, V. & Fougt, S. (2025). Børnenes U-landskalender: Evaluering af undervisningsmaterialet. Aarhus Universitet.

Møller, T. E., Christensen, E. P., Christensen, P. L., Højgaard, T. & Buhl, M. (2025). Børn koder kunst: Computationel tankegang som en vej til kreativ udtryksform. BUKS - Tidsskrift for Børne- og Ungdomskultur, 41(71), 35-56.

Prytz, J., Ratnayake, I. G., Jankvist, U. T. & Ahl, L. M. (2025). Building on success: The possibilities to reproduce the MIST project in different educational settings? In M. Bosch, G. Bolondi, S. Carreira, C. Spagnolo & M. Gaidoschik (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME14) (pp. 3869-3876). European Society for Research in Mathematics Education. https://scientificnet.sharepoint.com/sites/CERME14/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?viewid=5214e03d%2D9971%2D496f%2D9672%2D7a277b8a0a2c&id=%2Fsites%2FCERME14%2FShared%20Documents%2FCERME14%20Proceedings%2FProceedingCerme14%5F20251203%2Epdf&parent=%2Fsites%2FCERME14%2FShared%20Documents%2FCERME14%20Proceedings

Heger , S. (2025). Child Writers and Their Perceptions of Agency in Author Schools. Jeunesse - Young People, Texts, Cultures, 17(2), 244-264. https://doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse-2024-0029, https://doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse-2024-0029

Caeli, E. N., Pedersen, C. S., Zambach, S., Misfeldt, M. & Bundsgaard, J. (2025). Computer Science Education in Secondary School: A Real-Life Approach to Teaching Students Technology-Critical Aspects of AI. In ITiCSE 2025 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2 (pp. 727-728) https://doi.org/10.1145/3724389.3731271

Prytz, J., Ahl, L. M., Jankvist, U. T. & Ratnayake, I. G. (2025). Contextualising quantitative results: qualitative analysis of causes and effects in the Swedish boost for mathematics project, 1995–2016. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2025.2587958

Søndergaard, B. D., Lindenskov, L. B., Justesen, F., Hansen, S., Scharup, J., Granerud, L. S., Johansen, M. & Lindhardt, B. (2025). Creating bridges: Mathematics teachers and teachers of the craft at vocational schools collaborate on developing teaching material. In T. Sundtjønn (Ed.), ALM31 : Proceedings from hybrid conference for Adults Learning Mathematics, Lund, 1-2 July 2014 (pp. 36). Adults Learning Mathematics - A Research Forum. https://alm-online.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ALM31-_Proceedings_final-without-doi.pdf

Nørgård, R. T., Holflod, K., Eriksson, E. & Hansen, E. A. (2025). Cultural Game Jams: Inclusive, pluriversal, and transversal design approaches in game jams. Paper presented at NordMedia 2025, Odense, Denmark.

Eriksson, E., Costa, C. E., Goncalves, M., Nunes, I., Groen, M., Niederer, S., Holflod, K. & Nørgard, R. T. (2025). Cultural Game Jams with Youth: A Multiple-Site Case Study. In N. Yamashita, V. Evers, K. Yatani & X. Ding (Eds.), CHI EA 2025 - Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-8). Article 666 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706667

Bach, C. C., Gregersen, R. M., Højsted, I. H., Pedersen, M. K. & Jankvist, U. T. (2025). Design Implementation: the Transition from Design Principles to Implementation Principles. Implementation and Replication Studies in Mathematics Education, 5(1), 48-70. https://doi.org/10.1163/26670127-bja10025

Holflod, K., Eriksson, E. & Hansen, E. A. (2025). Designing with ambiguity: Iterating Equity in Game Jam Design. International Journal of Games and Social Impact, 3(2), 54-83. https://doi.org/10.60543/ijgsi.v3.n2.03

Aagaard Rasmussen, J. & Thestrup, K. (2025). Det åbne laboratorium – mellem GAI og analoge materialer. Abstract from Mange veje til teknologiforståelse, København, Denmark.

Beck, N. K., Thestrup, K., Gislev, T., Büyükgüzel, S. & Eckardt, M. R. (2025). Det eksperimenterende fællesskab møder generativ kunstig intelligens (GAI). 1-1. Abstract from Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Netværks Konference 2025, Kolding , Denmark.

Nørgård, R. T. (2025). De videregående uddannelser i en brydningstid: mellem tradition, teknologi og transformation. Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Tidsskrift, 20(38). https://doi.org/10.7146/dut.v20i38.157180

Thestrup, K. (2025). Digital Child Power (panel abstract) + Klaus Thestrup´s contribution: The experimenting community – a pedagogy for agency. 1-2. Abstract from BIN NORDEN, Stockholm, Sweden.

Norup, M. (2025). Digitale fagportaler i brug i danskfagets litteraturundervisning – En empirisk undersøgelse af litteraturdidaktiske aktiviteter fra forlagsproducerede læremidler til undervisning i udskolingen. [PhD dissertation, Aarhus University].

Kabel, K. (2025). Du og vi: Fra subjekter til litteraturfortolkning. In Kontekstualiseret grammatik i praksis KvaN.

Tannert, M., Kabel, K. & Bendixen, S. F. (2025). Elevers metasproglige repertoire om egne tekster i danskfaget. In W. Collin, I. S. Hansen, T. T. Hougaard & K. Schriver (Eds.), Møde om Udforskningen af Dansk Sprog (Vol. 20, pp. 373-387). Aarhus Universitetsforlag. https://projekter.au.dk/fileadmin/projekter/Muds.dk/rapporter/Muds20.pdf

Højgaard, T. (2025). Enhancing mathematical modelling competency through textbook design. Americal Journal of Education and Learning, 10(2), 95-116. https://doi.org/10.55284/ajel.v10i2.1504

Kaasby, M. (2025). Et kronotopisk møde mellem elever og kanonlitteraturens konceptuelle metaforer i en biliteracykontekst. [PhD dissertation, Aarhus University].

Ratnayake, I. G., Ahl, L. M., Prytz, J. & Jankvist, U. T. (2025). Examining the impact of facilitator-researcher collaboration on teacher professional development in BfM and MIST initiatives. In C. K. Skott, M. Blomhøj, A. Eckert, R. Elicer, R. Herheim, B. Kristinsdóttir, D. M. Larsen, G. A. Nortvedt, P. Nyström, J. Ö. Sigurjónsson & A. L. Tamborg (Eds.), Proceedings of NORMA24 The tenth Nordic Conference on Mathematics Education Copenhagen, 2024 – Interplay between research and teaching practice in mathematics education: Skrifter från SMDF, Nr. 19 (pp. 289-296). Svensk Förening för Matematikdidaktisk Forskning. http://matematikdidaktik.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/NORMA24-proceedings.pdf

Costa, C., Holflod, K., Nørgård, R. T., Gonçalves, M. D. C., Nunes, I. & Fernandes, P. A. (2025). Exploring Cultural Game-Making With Youth: A 20-Year Systematic Review. Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media, Article 15554120251382358. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120251382358

Grønhøj, E. O., Wong, B. & Bundsgaard, J. (2025). Exploring young people’s perceptions and discourses of technology occupations through descriptive drawings and a questionnaire. Computer Science Education, 35(2), 267-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2024.2385876

Højgaard, T. (2025). Facilitating Students’ Development of Mathematical Competencies by Means of Textbook Design: A Danish Case Study. European Journal of Mathematics and Science Education, 6(2), 127-135. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmse.6.2.127

Heger , S. (2025). Fantasiens afgørende rolle i skriveundervisning. Tidsskrift for Danskdidaktisk Forskning, 1(1). https://tidsskrift.dk/tdf/article/view/162076

Pio, F. (2025). Fire socialsystemer inden for dansk musiklæreruddannelse: Om forskellige forståelser af forholdet mellem musik og pædagogik. In Ø. Varkøy & S. G. Nielsen (Eds.), Musikkpedagogikk: mangfold og bærekraf (pp. 127-146). Cappelen Damm Akademisk. https://doi.org/10.23865/cdf.253

Højgaard, T. & Sølberg, J. (2025). Forskere: Færre læringsmål garanterer ikke mere frihed til lærerne. Folkeskolen. https://www.folkeskolen.dk/fagplaner-faelles-mal-matematik/forskere-faerre-laeringsmal-garanterer-ikke-mere-frihed-til-laererne/4797144

Vangsøe Færch, J. (2025). Fractions and their representations: a textbook analysis using Duval’s four registers. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 69(7), 1537-1553. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2024.2434820

Daugaard, L. M., Samoilow, T. K. (Ed.), Frønæs, T. S. & Oseland, M. (2025). Frokostmøte – Lesekultur: Hvordan styrke lesing i skolen?. Pictures, Video and sound recordings (digital), Litteraturhuset i Trondheim. https://litteraturhusetitrondheim.no/studio/frokostmote-lesekultur-hvordan-styrke-lesing-i-skolen/

Jensen, L. X., Christensen, I.-M. F., Stegeager, N., Stenalt, M. H., Nørgård, R. T. & Godsk, M. (2025). GenAI og danske tidsskrifter: Muligheder, retningslinjer og etiske problemstillinger. Abstract from Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Netværks Konference 2025, Kolding , Denmark.

Bülow, M. W. & Bang-Larsen, A. (2025). Generativ AI som dialogpartner i læremidler: – en undersøgelse af potentialer i læremiddelintegrerede bogbots. Unge Pædagoger, 86(2), 29-39. Article 4.

Geraniou, E., Mavrikis, M., Jankvist, U. T. & Misfeldt, M. (2025). Generative AI in Mathematics Teaching: Lessons from spreadsheets through the lens of double instrumental genesis. In M. Bosch, G. Bolondi, S. Carreira, C. Spagnolo & M. Gaidoschik (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME14) (pp. 2448-2455). European Society for Research in Mathematics Education. https://scientificnet.sharepoint.com/sites/CERME14/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?viewid=5214e03d%2D9971%2D496f%2D9672%2D7a277b8a0a2c&id=%2Fsites%2FCERME14%2FShared%20Documents%2FCERME14%20Proceedings%2FProceedingCerme14%5F20251203%2Epdf&parent=%2Fsites%2FCERME14%2FShared%20Documents%2FCERME14%20Proceedings

Christensen, M. V. & Kabel, K. (2025). Grammatikundervisning – på tværs af sprogfag. Sammenlignende Fagdidaktik, 8, 53-72. https://doi.org/10.7146/sammenlignendefagdidaktik.v2025i8.157362

Daugaard, L. M. (2025). Grievable and ungrievable lives in the language classroom: Notes on the reception of Ukrainian students in Danish schools. Abstract from EELC10 - 10th Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication, København, Denmark.

Toft-Nielsen, C. & Nørgård, R. T. (2025). Hopepunk games: utopia studies meets hauntology. Abstract from NordMedia 2025, Odense, Denmark.

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Name	Job title	Email	Phone	Building
Auning, Mette Nicoline Rehhoff	PhD Student	meau@edu.au.dk	+4587151136	A
Beck, Niels Kristian	Assistant Lecturer	nbeck@edu.au.dk		1483, 651
Berndsen, Mette	PhD Fellow	metteberndsen@edu.au.dk	+4587151129	A, 307c
Blomhøj, Morten	Professor	blomhoej@edu.au.dk	+4521560754	A, 309c
Bols Slåttvik, Anja	PhD Student	absl@edu.au.dk	+4587151174	1483
Bundgaard, Mette Amalie Fischer	PhD Student	mafb@edu.au.dk	+4587151134
Bundsgaard, Jeppe	Professor	jebu@edu.au.dk	+4531192607	A, 307f
Bussenius, Laura Østergaard	PhD Student	labu@edu.au.dk	+4587151158	1483
Caeli, Elisa Nadire	Research Assistant	elisa@edu.au.dk	+4593508366
Caviglia, Francesco	Associate Professor	caviglia@edu.au.dk	+4541663378	1483, 652
Dalsgaard, Christian	Associate Professor	cdalsgaard@edu.au.dk	+4521664955	1483, 648
Daugaard, Line Møller	Associate Professor	linemd@edu.au.dk	+4551490979	1483, 649
Ejersbo, Lisser Rye	Emeritus	lre@edu.au.dk	+4561342694	A, 105
Eliasson, Stine	Research Fellow	stel@edu.au.dk	+4587152112	A, 311c
Eriksen, Camilla Nordstrøm	PhD Fellow	cano@edu.au.dk
Færch, Julie Vangsøe	PhD Student	jvaf@edu.au.dk		A, 311c
Fougt, Simon Skov	Associate Professor	sifo@edu.au.dk	+4593521980	A, 301c
Gerster Johansen, Stine	PhD Student	sgj@edu.au.dk		A, 311c
Haastrup, Lisbeth	Associate Professor	liha@edu.au.dk		A, 307c
Hauer, Kristiane	Part-time Lecturer	hauer@edu.au.dk		A, 303a
Heger, Stine	Research Assistant	stine.heger@edu.au.dk	+4587152684	A, 303a
Heiden, Thomas	Part-time Lecturer	trhe1@edu.au.dk		A, 303a
Hejsel, Tina	PhD Student	th@edu.au.dk	+4587151159	1483
Højgaard, Tomas	Associate Professor	tomas@edu.au.dk	+4520567003	A, 309a
Holflod, Kim	Postdoc	kimh@edu.au.dk	+4587151195	1483
Hudlebusch, Tina	Special Consultant	tihu@edu.au.dk	+4523382444	A, 311a
Jankvist, Uffe Thomas	Professor	utj@edu.au.dk	+4587162941	A, 301b
Kabel, Kristine	Associate Professor	kabel@edu.au.dk	+4593521760	A, 307d
Knudsen, Lars Emmerik Damgaard	Associate Professor	lada@edu.au.dk	+4530226763	A, 307b
Laraignou, Anders Simmelkiær	PhD Student	ansl@edu.au.dk
Larsen, Line Kjærgaard	Research Assistant	lkl@edu.au.dk	+4587152334
Lauridsen, Anja Rousing	PhD Student	arla@edu.au.dk	+4587151206
Laursen, Helle Pia	Associate Professor	heen@edu.au.dk	+4587163874	A, 307f
Lindenskov, Lena	Emeritus	lenali@edu.au.dk	+4526306681	A, 105
Lindhardt, Eva	PhD Student	evli@edu.au.dk	+4587151132
Megerlig, Kenneth R. Madsen	PhD Fellow	megerlig@edu.au.dk		A, 311c
Nørgård, Rikke Toft	Associate Professor	rtoft@edu.au.dk	+4520466756	1483, 650
Olsen, Lise	PhD Student	lo@edu.au.dk		A, 211c
Østergaard, Maria Kirstine	Postdoc	mko@edu.au.dk	+4587151162	A, 301d
Pedersen, Alex Young	Part-time Lecturer	ayp@cas.au.dk	+4587152038
Pedersen, Cecilie Svane	Research Assistant	csp@edu.au.dk		B, 333
Percy-Smith, Victoria Sofie	PhD Fellow	vps@edu.au.dk	+4587151201	A, 307b
Plummer, Christelle	PhD Student	c.plummer@edu.au.dk
Ravn, Malis	PhD Fellow	mrav@edu.au.dk	+4553835456	A, 211b
Røjel, Katrine Formann	PhD Fellow	kfr@edu.au.dk	+4587152582	A, 303a
Rørbech, Helle	Associate Professor	hero@edu.au.dk	+4593521225	A, 305a
Schilhab, Theresa	Associate Professor	tsc@edu.au.dk	+4587163612	A, 307c
Sørensen, Kristin Meulengracht	Part-time Lecturer	krim@edu.au.dk		1483
Stausbøll, Nana Emilie Krogh	PhD Student	nans@edu.au.dk		1483, 627
Stovgaard, Mikkel	Associate Professor	stovgaard@edu.au.dk	+4551906192	A, 307e
Thestrup, Klaus	Associate Professor	kthestrup@edu.au.dk	+4521551302	1483, 654

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Head of department

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Department administrator

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Lisbeth Hartmann

Danish School of Education

Department of
Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies, Educational Philosophy, and General Education

About the department

Programmes

Masters's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Danish)

Master's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Math)

Master's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Material culture)

Master's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Music education)

Master's degree programme in

General education

Master's degree programme in

ICT-based educational design

Master's degree programme in

Philosophy of Education

Research units

Educating for Viable Futures

EMBodied EDucation (EMBED)

Philosophy of education

Publications

Staff

Contact

Head of department

Mikkel Stovgaard

Department administrator

Department of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies, Educational Philosophy, and General Education

About the department

Programmes

Masters's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Danish)

Master's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Math)

Master's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Material culture)

Master's degree programme in

Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (Music education)

Master's degree programme in

General education

Master's degree programme in

ICT-based educational design

Master's degree programme in

Philosophy of Education

Research units

Educating for Viable Futures

EMBodied EDucation (EMBED)

Philosophy of education

Publications

Staff

Contact

Head of department

Mikkel Stovgaard

Department administrator

Department of
Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies, Educational Philosophy, and General Education