Our research is based on the assumption that educational institutions, such as the family, the school, the university and organizations for non-formal education, are expressions of cultural and social expectations, which are often sanctioned and directed by legislation but organized, guided, funded and controlled in very different ways.

Educational research always takes place within situations marked by unequal power relations, normative assumptions and sociocultural expectations.Therefore, examining how knowledge production is dependent on and reflects contextual factors is paramount.

Educational discourse, practice and research has traditionally been shaped by strong moral motives, the normative-ethical background of which has remarkably been little analyzed.