Research group
History of Education and Sociology of Education
The research group has an interest in the meaning and evolution of educational systems. The changing conditions of education are highlighted both historically and in present-day terms, on a conceptual and policy level.
Bildarkivet, Svenska Filminstitutet
Group description
Among the research themes that are dealt with in ongoing are research projects are issues of internationalization, social hierarchies and knowledge.
The school in Sweden is supposed to be equal, but where children and young people live and which school they attend has become of decisive importance for their opportunities to reach the national knowledge requirements. Two schools that break this pattern piqued the researchers' curiosity.
This study aims to, from a historical perspective, create an in-depth understanding of the relationships between school and museum. It focuses on the educational aspects of collections, both in the school (museum-in-school) and in the museum (school-in-museum) and how this dynamic relationship changed over time 1880-1980.
In this project, focus is on the formation of the school subject psychology in different discursive practices where the subject of psychology has been present during the period 1960-2015.
This project examines how high achieving students decode school practices and embark on a successful educational career. The project aims to capture the mechanisms and factors that contributed the academic success of 52 students from households with high or low educational background, with parents with migrant or of non-migrant background.
The underrepresentation of certain groups in higher education, particularly among STEM academics and students , leads to lack of diversity. This reduces the resilience of the STEM sector and limits the ability of reliant industries to innovate and to respond to global challenges.
Residential segregation in combination with school choice polices has lead to increased school segregation, and this is no longer solely an urban phenomenon.
Digitization has had a transformative impact on museum practices in recent years, including the work with exhibitions. The aim of this project is to produce knowledge about the effects of digitization in relation to the exhibition medium and to visitors' meaning-making.
Research shows that an increasing segregation has created a tangible inequality between different municipalities and individual schools. Where children and young people live and which school they attend has become of decisive importance for the possibility of reaching the knowledge requirements and continuing their studies.
The national graduate school “Schooling in perspective: A graduate school in applied history of education” started 2020. It is a unique investment in educational history research that aims to make a fundamental contribution to the international field of history of education by developing research in applied history of education.
Academic pedagogy has often been severely questioned in public debates in Sweden, but also considered as central to school and society. Although this contested role has been observed many times throughout its disciplinary history, pedagogy has been much less historically investigated than most other social science disciplines.
The development of post-war European educational research is still little known yet today researchers and the project will examine the accelerated growth of educational research in post-war Europe and the US.
During the covid pandemic, the Swedish school student movement emerged as a major critic of distance education, but what has it looked like historically? How did the school student movements come about and how have they developed?
The aim of this project is to shed new light on the history of democracy in schools by exploring the emergence and transformations of the school based student movement.
Considering their long existence and position in the secondary education of elites in Swedish society, research on boarding schools is surprisingly limited.
The purpose of the project is to describe the role that parents have played in the formation of the Swedish school and to investigate parents' trust in the school as an institution and how this has changed over time.
The aim of the project is to examine changing and enduring attitudes towards epilepsy and how these changes have affected access to school and education for people with epilepsy.
It is currently estimated that there are up to 300 000 Kenyan citizens working in the Gulf states on temporary contracts. Conditions for women domestic workers are particularly harsh. Reports of physical, psychological and sexual violence are frequent.
