Stockholm university

Josefin Forsberg Koel

About me

Josefin Forsberg Koel is a PhD candidate at in Early Childhood Education and Care since 2020. Josefin is a former preschool teacher, and has a master´s degree on the topic. 

Research

Josefins research interest concerns children´s everyday life in institutions, children´s rights, value issues and power relations. Her PhD project more specifically studies children´s privacy in preschool. Through an ethnographic approach and starting from children´s point of view, the study aims at an empirical understanding of when and how preschool children express privacy - and what values are at stake when they do. The project is supervised by Åsa BartholdssonAnna Ålund and Anne-Li Lindgren.

Research projects

Publications

Backman Prytz, S. & Forsberg Koel, J. (2023). Girls’ and boys’ play in the home corner and doll house: Gendered expectations and hierarchies in Swedish preschool in the middle of the 20th century. Nordic Journal of Educational History, 10(1), ss. 41-64. https://doi.org/10.36368/njedh.v10i1.236