Society, Culture and Identity

Socially oriented subjects for preschool and years 1-6

The department is responsible for teacher training courses in socially oriented subjects at first-cycle level. These courses integrate subject and subject-specific didactics in geography, history, religion and social science. Both a classroom and critical social perspective are applied to the courses.

Head of subject

Frank Roxenby

Degree of Master of Arts/Science in Secondary Education

History and Learning

Specialist teacher training in history integrates three aspects of the subject: subject knowledge, methodology and didactics. This will prepare you for professional practice as a history teacher. The programme is permeated by the understanding that the actions of people in the past continue to have effects into the future. Today, we live with the problems and opportunities created for us by those who came before us. In the same way, we are creating the conditions for the people who will come after us. We are both creations and creators of history.

Heads of subject: 

• Cecilia Axelsson Yngvéus
  Ingmarie Danielsson Malmros

Religious Studies and Learning

Issues of religion and ethics, and religion’s role in society, are constantly being raised today, both in Sweden and around the world. A modern, global, inclusive and diverse society places many demands on people. 

Heads of subject:

• Martin Lund
  Erica Lundqvist

Social Science and Learning

Social Science and Learning studies and problematises social issues based on people, society and politics. 

Head of subject:

• Jan Anders Andersson
• Janna Lundberg

History and Learning

In History and Learning, we study social changes over time from sociohistorical and cultural analytical points of departure. Starting with a bottom-up approach, specific people and their living conditions are the focus of attention from perspectives such as class, gender, generation and ethnicity. The subject focuses on how living conditions and cultures have and continue to change in interaction with social structures and ecological conditions. The interplay between humans as culture creating protagonists and their social, political and ecological surroundings are therefore studied through the lens of change. Critical cultural analysis provides a theoretical perspective that permeates the subject. The production, consumption, communication and reception of history and cultural heritage is studied from a social perspective. 

Head of subject: 

Stefan Nyzell

Study and careers counsellors

The study programme for study and careers counsellors is a combination of behavioural science, social science, counselling methodologies and work placement (VFU). The programme deals with theoretical aspects of sociology, psychology, pedagogy and working life and the labour market.

Head of subject: 

Maria Mäkinen

Third-cycle studies: History and Didactics

History and Didactics studies how societies and their citizens’ living conditions and experiences change over time. This research is characterised by a striving to write history ‘from the bottom up’, thus rendering visible the perspectives of previously marginalised groups.

The didactics of history are closely linked to this question: how is history produced, conveyed and received, both in an educational context and in society at large?