About the project

The LETRA project (Learning and Knowledge Trajectories in Congregations) seeks to describe and critically analyze the processes of learning and knowledge development in congregations in the (Lutheran) Church of Norway. It simply asks: What do participants and professionals in congregations learn, and how do they learn?

The project involves six researchers for a four year period (2010-2014). The project is designed as a case study of four congregations. In the congregations five groups are studied in detail:

6-year olds
Confirmation participants
Adult volunteers
Pastors and church educators
Diacons

The field work will consist of participatory observation, focus group and individual interview and participants’ logs. A few professionals and participants will be selected for extensive “shadowing”, in order to follow their negations of Christian knowledge through participation in various social practices and activities.

Project description LETRA
For a Norwegian project description, Kortfattet prosjektbeskrivelse LETRA