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Faculty of Education and Society
Education and Society
The Faculty of Education and Society offers professional training in the fields of schools, culture, leisure and sport. The faculty runs one of Sweden’s largest teacher training programmes, offering students a choice of four degrees: preschool teacher, primary teacher, secondary teacher or vocational teacher.
Education at the Faculty of Education and Society
In addition to programmes and courses for sports scientists, historians, teachers, special needs pedagogues, special needs teachers and study and career counsellors, the faculty also offers second and third-cycle programmes, freestanding courses, continuing professional development and contract education. The faculty is characterised by innovative programme design and collaborations with schools, municipalities, non-governmental organisations and the private sector.
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Programme, Grundnivå | 210 hp
Förskollärarutbildning : Flexibel variant
16 januari, 2023 - 7 juni, 2026 -
Programme, Grundnivå | 210 hp
Förskollärarutbildning : Förskollärarutbildning
28 augusti, 2023 - 17 januari, 2027Open for application -
Programme, Grundnivå | 210 hp
Förskollärarutbildning : Musikprofil
28 augusti, 2023 - 17 januari, 2027Open for application -
Programme, Grundnivå | 180 hp
Grundlärarutbildning : Fritidshem
28 augusti, 2023 - 7 juni, 2026Open for application -
Programme, Grundnivå | 240 hp
Grundlärarutbildning : Förskoleklass och grundskolans årskurs 1-3
28 augusti, 2023 - 6 juni, 2027Open for application -
Programme, Grundnivå | 240 hp
Grundlärarutbildning : Grundskolans årskurs 4-6
28 augusti, 2023 - 6 juni, 2027Open for application -
Programme, Grundnivå | 240 hp
Grundlärarutbildning : Grundskolans årskurs 4-6, arbetsintegrerad utbildning
Various start and end dates -
Programme, Grundnivå | 180 hp
Historia: Inriktning mot kulturarvsstudier
28 augusti, 2023 - 7 juni, 2026Open for application -
Programme, Grundnivå | 180 hp
Idrottsvetenskapligt program : Fysisk aktivitet och hälsa
28 augusti, 2023 - 7 juni, 2026Open for application -
Programme, Grundnivå | 180 hp
Idrottsvetenskapligt program : Sport Management
28 augusti, 2023 - 7 juni, 2026Open for application -
Programmes and courses
Kompletterande pedagogisk utbildning, 60 hp
Har du en akademisk examen från högskola eller universitet sedan...
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Programmes and courses
Kompletterande pedagogisk utbildning, 75 hp
Har du en akademisk examen från högskola eller universitet sedan...
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Programmes and courses
Kompletterande pedagogisk utbildning, 90 hp
Kompletterande pedagogisk utbildning (KPU) 90 högskolepoäng...
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Programme, Avancerad nivå | 90 hp
Speciallärarprogrammet : Grav språkstörning
28 augusti, 2023 - 7 juni, 2026Open for application -
Programme, Avancerad nivå | 90 hp
Speciallärarprogrammet : Matematikutveckling
28 augusti, 2023 - 7 juni, 2026Open for application -
Programme, Avancerad nivå | 90 hp
Speciallärarprogrammet : Språk-, skriv- och läsutveckling
28 augusti, 2023 - 7 juni, 2026Open for application -
Programme, Avancerad nivå | 90 hp
Specialpedagogprogrammet : Specialpedagogprogrammet, 90 hp
Various start and end dates -
Programme, Avancerad nivå | 90 hp
Specialpedagogprogrammet : profil språk- och kommunikationsutveckling, 90 hp
28 augusti, 2023 - 19 januari, 2025Open for application -
Programme, Grundnivå | 180 hp
Studie- och yrkesvägledarutbildningen
Various start and end dates -
Programme, Grundnivå | 90 hp
Yrkeslärarutbildning
Various start and end dates -
Programmes and courses
Ämneslärarutbildning
Vill du arbeta med ungdomar i en spännande ålder på tröskeln til...
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Programme, Avancerad nivå | 60 hp
Arbetsvetenskap: Karriärutveckling, magisterprogram
28 augusti, 2023 - 8 juni, 2025Open for application -
Programme, Master’s level | 120 credits
Education: Educational Theory, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
Various start and end dates -
Programme, Master’s level | 120 credits
English and Education: Master’s Programme (Two-Year)
Various start and end dates -
Programme, Avancerad nivå | 60 hp
Historiska studier - magister-/masterprogram
28 augusti, 2023 - 2 juni, 2024Open for application -
Programme, Avancerad nivå | 120 hp
Pedagogik och yrkeskunnande: Masterprogram
28 augusti, 2023 - 6 juni, 2027Open for application -
Programmes and courses
Pedagogik, ämnesdidaktik och specialpedagogik: Magister- och masterutbildning
Vidareutbildningar för dig som har en yrkesexamen för arbete som...
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Programme, Master’s level | 60 credits
Sport Sciences: Sport in Society, Master's Programme (One-Year)
Various start and end dates -
Programme, Master’s level | 120 credits
Sport Sciences: Sport in Society, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
Various start and end dates -
Programme, Master’s level | 60 credits
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Master’s Programme (One -Year)
Various start and end dates -
Programme, Master’s level | 120 credits
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Master’s Programme (Two -Year)
Various start and end dates
Admission to a later part of a programme
You can apply for admission to a later part of a programme if you meet the programme's entry requirements and have already completed studies that are equivalent to parts of the programme.
News and events at the Faculty of Education and Society
Fast track for teachers and preschool teachers
The faculty offers fast tracks for newly arrived academics, on behalf of the Swedish Public Employment Service. The fast track gives newly arrived graduates an introduction to the teaching and preschool teaching professions in Sweden.
Fast track for teachers and preschool teachers
Further training for foreign teachers
Since 2019, Malmö University has been offering the programme Further education for foreign teachers and academics (ULV).
Further education for foreign teachers
Complementary training for foreign academics
The programme is for people who have an academic degree from another country and want to use their foreign qualification in the Swedish labour market. The programme allows you to complement your knowledge and experience, to continue working in your field, or to find a new career direction.
Research at the Faculty of Education and Society
With a strong commitment to society, we conduct multidisciplinary research. The research spans the field of educational studies with a focus on various subjects and forms of education, including teacher training, the broad fields of history and cultural studies, and also sports studies.
Our research often takes place in relation to and in collaboration with society, for example, schools, museums, sports associations, and idea-based organisations. In this way, the faculty contributes, together with other actors, to long-term and scientifically-based solutions for community and school development.
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Research project
The Restart of Sport post the Corona pandemic
susanna.hedenborg@mau.se -
Research project
Digital by default? Older adult citizens and digital welfare interfaces
tobias.olsson@mau.se -
Research project
Learning, prevention and consequences of antisemitism in the Swedish educational system
malin.thor@mau.se -
Research project
Remembering on one's own terms: Possibilities for a democratization of the archives through community archiving
robert.mohammadi@mau.se -
Research project
Online Reflective Writing in higher Education and Lifelong Learning (ORWELL)
eva.wennas-brante@mau.se -
Research project
Learning Swedish in Swedish: Subject-specific text practices in SSL teaching (years 4–6)
robert.wallden@mau.se -
Research project
Accelerating Teaching - Approaching particle accelerators and new scientific research through online professional development
eva.davidsson@mau.se -
Research project
Health in relation to learning and teacher training
lisa.hellstrom@mau.se -
Research project
The sustainable city: How can dialogues enable sustainable innovation in real estate companies?
caroline.wigren@mau.se -
Research project
Spaces for multilingualism? An interdisciplinary study of pedagogical potentials and limitations of multilingual approaches and activities...
pia.nygard-larsson@mau.se -
Research project
University teachers’ profession in post-pandemic hybrid higher education teaching and learning environment
adrian.lundberg@mau.se -
Research project
Global processing as an indicator of children's conceptual subitizing ability in pre-school classes
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Research project
Nordic voices: The use of oral history and personal memories in public history settings
malin.thor@mau.se -
Research project
Principals’ image of newly graduated teachers
adrian.lundberg@mau.se -
Research project
The Ethical Dilemmas of Digitalization: Vulnerability and Holocaust collections.
malin.thor@mau.se -
Research project
How do co-creation processes affect students' science and sustainability capital and thoughts for future careers?
vildana.basic@mau.se -
Research project
Movement subject knowledge in physical education teacher education
jan-eric.ekberg@mau.se -
Research project
Movements and Transitions in Everyday School Life
joacim.andersson@mau.se -
Research project
Riding Schools as Future Learning Centers for an Environmentally Just Equine Sector and Broader Society
susanna.hedenborg@mau.se -
Research project
"Preschool-Naturing" in the Anthropocene
sanne.bjorklund@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Graphical models and the agency surrounding them: Designing and re-design narrative text in early compulsory school
kim.ridell@mau.se -
Research project
Exiled: Activism, Identity and the African National Congress of South Africa in Sweden
emma.lundin@mau.se -
Research project
Everyday Life, Worklife and Education in Rural Sweden
janna.lundberg@mau.se -
Research project
VALIANT: Virtual Innovation and Support Networks for Teachers, An Erasmus+ KA3 European Policy Experimentation
anna.warnsby@mau.se -
Research project
HistoryLab for European Civic Engagement: open e-Toolkit to train History Teachers on Digital Teaching and Learning
fredrik.alven@mau.se -
Research project
Educational Common Spaces. Passing through enclosures and reversing inequalities ’ — ‘SMOOTH’
liselott-mariett.olsson@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
The Superintendent at the Breaking point: Limitations, threats and opportunities of schools democratic mission
martin.lantz-ekstrom@mau.se -
Research project
Critical thinking Discourses in Mathematics Education on Big Data
christian.hans.andersson@mau.se -
Research project
School architecture for future pedagogies
hanna.hofverberg@mau.se -
Research project
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) in Swedish Early Years Learning Education
shaun.nolan@mau.se -
Research project
Early interventions in preschool setting - engagement and cognitive self-regulation for children with autism spectrum conditions
madeleine.sjoman@mau.se -
Research project
Histories of Refugeedom in the Nordic Countries
malin.thor@mau.se -
Research project
Voices from a Sports World during Lockdown - The Corona Crises as a possibility for change
susanna.hedenborg@mau.se -
Research project
Elite athletes as parents – the structural and financial challenges of family planning
anna.maria.hellborg@mau.se -
Research project
Mistra Sport and Outdoors
susanna.hedenborg@mau.se -
Research project
Experiences and Memories of Sex Education in School
rebecka.fingalsson@mau.se -
Research project
Too young to ride? A study of riding school activities for pre-school children from safety and horse welfare perspectives
susanna.hedenborg@mau.se -
Research project
Multivocal didactic modelling in preschool
catrin.stensson@mau.se -
Research project
DigiCONFLICT: Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts
malin.thor@mau.se -
Research project
Special Education for Teacher Educators (SET)
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Research project
Learning to exercise: the role of upper-secondary schools for elite athletes in the development of training for cross-country skiing
daniel.svensson@mau.se -
Research project
Grendel's treasure: Temporality, authority and the desire for the past
stefan.nyzell@mau.se -
Research project
Jewish and woman. Intersectional and historical perspectives on Jewish women's lives in Sweden during the twentieth and twenty-first...
malin.thor@mau.se
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2023 | Article in journal
Chutes and Ladders: Gendered Systems of Privilege and Marginalization in University Science Teaching
Katherine Doerr
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2023 | Conference paper
Promotypes: Prototyping Games for a University Game Production Pipeline
Edward Morrell, Annakaisa Kultima, Ylva Grufstedt, Tomi Kauppinen
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2023 | Chapter in book
Pathways towards a critical and anti-racist heritage education
Carolina Jonsson Malm
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2023 | Chapter in book
Handle with care: post-secrecy records as cultural heritage
Peter Bauer
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2023 | Chapter in book
An archive on the move: Tracing contested and vulnerable archival spaces of the polish research institute archive
Malin Thor Tureby, Kristin Wagrell, Jenny Sjöholm
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2023 | Conference paper
Visual Thinking Strategies in the English language classroom in Sweden: A “meta-visual-lingual” activity in the service of language teaching
J. Shaun Nolan
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2023 | Collection (editor)
(Un)contested Heritage. Archives, Museums and Public spaces
Cecilia Axelsson Yngvéus, Malin Thor Tureby, Cecilia Trenter
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2023 | Chapter in book
Uniting a Scattered Heritage: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Heritagization of Swedish Sports
John Berg
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2023 | Chapter in book
Remembering Racism: Prospections of an Anti-Racist Monument and Memory-Site in Malmö
Robert Nilsson Mohammadi
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2023 | Chapter in book
Introduction
Martin Lund, Harriet E. H. Earle
Doctoral studies
The Faculty of Education and Society offer doctoral studies in:
Science and Mathematics education
Courses
We offer doctoral courses for those accepted as doctoral candidates at Malmö University or any other educational institution.
Doctoral courses in English at the Faculty of Education and Society
Doctoral schools
Doctoral schools bring together doctoral students with a common focus. The Faculty of Education and Society runs and takes part in several doctoral schools.
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Content | DOCTORAL SCHOOL
Doctoral school: Education, Learning and Globalisation
The doctoral school Education, Learning and Globalisation is a...
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Content | DOCTORAL SCHOOL
Doctoral school: FinnFram
FinnFram is a doctoral school focused on career learning, career...
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Content | DOCTORAL SCHOOL
Doctoral school: FontD
The Swedish National Graduate School of Science and Technology...
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Content | DOCTORAL SCHOOL
Doctoral school: Learning in Multicultural Societal Contexts
The doctoral school brings together doctoral students who are...
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Content | DOCTORAL SCHOOL
Doctoral school: Pedagogy and Vocational Skills
The doctoral school focuses on the design of research projects i...
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Content | DOCTORAL SCHOOL
Doctoral school: Relevancing Mathematics and Science Education (RelMaS)
The Doctoral school Relevancing Mathematics and Science...
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Content | DOCTORAL SCHOOL
Doctoral school: Sustainable Movement Education
The doctoral school Sustainable Movement Education in schools an...
Departments at the Faculty of Education and Society
The Centre for Teaching and Learning
The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CAKL) is a university-wide centre that offers education and carries out research within teaching and learning in higher education, widening recruitment and widening participation and more. We support teachers in conducting their teaching and students in developing their learning.
Centrum för samverkan
Centre for Collaboration

The Centre for Collaboration supports and drives development through interaction with the surrounding community. The goal of our collaboration is to achieve a mutual exchange where our knowledge and expertise at the University will benefit the whole society.
Collaborate with the Faculty of Education and Society
Let's collaborate. Our researchers, teachers, project managers and students are ready to support your organization. Together we can meet challenges and need for development. We take on tasks for schools, sports- and cultural organizations and businesses. We offer competence development, education, research, assessment and follow up.
Our research is conducted in close relation to the surrounding society.
More collaborations
Contact us
Do you have questions about education and studies? Email our student office:
studexp.ls@mau.seFaculty management
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Anders Linde-Laursen - Dean/Professor
anders.linde-laursen@mau.se
040-665 82 22Education and Society
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Tobias Olsson - Pro dean/Professor
Head of Research
tobias.olsson@mau.se
040-665 78 21Department of Culture, Languages and Media
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Torun Mattsson - Vice Dean/Senior lecturer
Head of Education
torun.mattsson@mau.se
040-665 81 78Department of Sports Sciences
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Margareta Serder - Vice Dean/Senior lecturer
Head of Collaboration
margareta.serder@mau.se
040-665 71 17Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society