Course content

The students will carry out a systematic vocational didactic research and development assignment (R&D) within their own vocational field, individually or in collaboration with others. The documentation may take various forms and must show the work processes and results, and enable the work to be understood, in an appropriate way.

Learning outcome

The student can
- Analyse and explain the development and place in the society of the student’s own vocational field and how vocational didactic research and development work can contribute to sustainable development in the specialist field and in the industry.
- Plan, give the grounds for, carry out and assess a vocational didactic research and development (R&D) assignment
- Choose, describe and justify choices of working methods/techniques in the vocational didactic R&D assignment
- Use existing research documentation, specialist sources and national mandatory guidelines to illuminate and understand the student’s own R&D work.
- Document the student’s own R&D in a way that suits the target group for the R&D assignment and that provides a basis for assessing the quality of the R&D work.
- Present and disseminate the results of the student’s own R&D assignment and participate in professional and vocational didactic debate.
- Contribute to sustainable development in the student’s own specialist field and the vocational training in the student’s own Vg1, Vg2 and Vg3 [1st, 2nd and 3rd years of upper secondary] classes or in parallel training in a firm.

Compulsory assignments

• Groupwork
• Presentasjon
• guidence

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

It is normally required that all courses in the first year of the programme should be approved before beginning the master thesis.

Credit reductions