Indirect Education: Exploring Indirectness in Teaching and Research

Project owner

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Project period

January 2020 - May 2021

Project summary

Introduction: The wisdom of education  

Chapter 1 Justification: Education is indirect by nature – so what’s the problem?

Chapter 2 Teaching: Four models of teaching. A qualitative study 

Chapter 3 Communication: Janus-faced forms of indirect communication. Interviews and thought experiments 

Chapter 4 Ethics: Where is the boundary between the ethical and the unethical regarding teachers’ indirect actions? A case study

Chapter 5 Time: How may ‘genuine time’ be an integral element in student’s existence? A case study

Chapter 6 Educational research: The direct and indirect paths of educational research 

Chapter 7 The educational researcher: Ironic questioning in educational research  

A Final Word: Do not save time, but lose it!