- education and social inequality
- education policy
- home-school cooperation and parental involvement in school
- geographical educational differences
- youth in the north and in the Arctic
- rural education
Chair of the research group EDU-NOR EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY IN THE HIGH NORTH
LATEST PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Aakvaag, Gunnar C. & Unn-Doris K. Bæck (Eds.) (2024): Robuste fellesskap. Sosiologiske perspektiver på fellesskap i Norge (Robust community. Sociological perspectives on community in Norway). Oslo, Norway: Fagbokforlaget. Open access
Archer, Margaret S., Unn-Doris K. Bæck, and Tone Skinningsrud (Eds) (2022). The Morphogenesis of the Norwegian Educational System. Emergence and Development from a Critical Realist Perspective. Routledge. Routledge Studies in Critical Realism.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters:
Bæck, Unn-Doris K. (upcoming Aug 2025): Navigating Change – Adult Learning Systems in Norway from 1990 onwards, in Desjardins, Richard & Kalenda, Jan (Eds.): A Modern Guide to Adult Learning Systems. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bæck, Unn-Doris K. (2024): Utdanning som fellesskapsskapende prosjekt (Education as a community creating project”, in Aakvaag, Gunnar & Unn-Doris K. Bæck (Eds.): Robuste fellesskap (Robust community). Oslo, Norway: Fagbokforlaget.
Aakvaag, Gunnar C. & Bæck, Unn-Doris K. (2024): Å studere det norske fellesskapet som robust fellesskap (Studying the Norwegian community as a robust community), in Aakvaag, Gunnar & Unn-Doris K. Bæck (Eds.): Robuste fellesskap (Robust community). Oslo, Norway: Fagbokforlaget. https://doi.org/10.55669/oa240201
Bæck, Unn-Doris K. (2024): Approaches to spatial inequalities in a Nordic welfare state – the case of Norway. Research in Education, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00345237241242992
Bæck, Unn-Doris K. (2022): Towards a critical realist ontology of spatial education analysis, in Archer, Margaret S., Unn-Doris K. Bæck, and Tone Skinningsrud (Eds). The Morphogenesis of the Norwegian Educational System. Emergence and Development from a Critical Realist Perspective. Routledge. Routledge Studies in Critical Realism. Routledge.
Archer, Margaret S., Unn-Doris K. Bæck, and Tone Skinningsrud (2022): Introduction, in Archer, Margaret S., Unn-Doris K. Bæck, and Tone Skinningsrud (Eds). The Morphogenesis of the Norwegian Educational System. Emergence and Development from a Critical Realist Perspective. Routledge. Routledge Studies in Critical Realism. Routledge.
