Doctoral Programme on Learning, Teaching and Learning Environments Research

About this programme

The Doctoral Programme OPPI educates internationally oriented professional researchers and experts in learning, teaching and learning environments who promote development activity based on scientific evidence in different fields of education. The research and doctoral training themes of the OPPI Doctoral Programme are: studies of the long-term learning processes of basic skills (reading, mathematics, natural sciences) and the related motivation, metacognition and social processes; studies of the possibilities of new technology in learning situations at schools, universities and working life and the reflection of social and technological changes in the development of expertise in different fields; studies of teaching and teacher education, e.g. studies of teachers’ pedagogical thinking and ethical and moral challenges of teaching, learning in interaction, teaching and learning different school subjects, and studies of multicultural education and immigrants' educational paths.