Research in focus: School
Research projects
Our reserach spans several areas, from teaching methodologies and learning environments to inclusion and identity. The focus is on sustainability, language learning, maths, sex education, cultural heritage, school choice and learning resources. Research explores how we can promote equality, critical thinking and health in the classroom, and how societal and historical factors shape education.
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Research projectResearching the Teaching and Learning of Action Competence in Relation to Sustainability
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Educational background, language learning strategies and language development among adult second-language learners of Swedis
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Experiences of subject integrated teaching on sexuality, consent and relationships at special schools
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The School's Work with LGBTQI Issues in Grades 1-6. A Research Study
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To establish a sense of community: The local cultural heritage in social studies education in primary school
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Teaching materials in visual arts education - policy, discourse and materiality in secondary school
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Comprehensive school allocation through school choice: How local civil servants organize for freedom of choice and equal opportunity
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Drama and poetry in the EFL primary classroom.
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Assessment in mathematics with a focus on digital resources and students' identity development
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Doing School, Doing Mathematics
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The psycho-culture of school health care 1940–1990: Between school education and medical care
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Teachers' Deracialization Practices – How Can Teachers Utilise Their Anti-racist Ambitions in Their Work?
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Health in learning and teacher training (HILL)
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The Mathematics is MInE - Mathematics education for Inclusion and Equity
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How do co-creation processes affect students' science and sustainability capital and thoughts for future?
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Movements and Transitions in Everyday School Life
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Equity perspectives in school-based mental health promotion
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"Preschool-Naturing" in the Anthropocene
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Critical thinking Discourses in Mathematics Education on Big Data
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School architecture for future pedagogies
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Experiences and Memories of Sex Education in School
Exploring knowledge, meaning, and education in research
On movement skills as knowledge
On movement skills as knowledge
How do we learn to feel confident when moving our bodies? How can different perspectives on knowledge and learning affect the subject of sport and health? Gunn Nyberg is a professor of sport science specialising in pedagogy. A film about Gunn Nyberg's research illustrated by Oskar Aspman.
Big questions small people
Big questions small people
Liselott Mariett Olsson's research is about how children create meaning and ask questions about existential, philosophical and metaphysical problems, and how preschools can help children explore these issues.
Is education a private or a public good?
Is education a private or a public good?
Hanna Sjögren's research looks at how the Swedish state school sector presents school choice to parents and how this shapes understandings of the fundamental aims and responsibilities of education. Far from being a unified system, uneven market logic results in different experiences for parents dependent on where they live.
Multilingualism
Supporting pupils' language development
Supporting pupils' language development
Pia Nygård Larsson's research focuses on how teachers can support pupils to develop language and subject literacy through inclusive language.
How we see multilingualism needs to be advanced
How we see multilingualism needs to be advanced
The value of knowing more languages and how this knowledge should be practically utilised in schools is not consistent with research. So finds researcher Adrian Lundberg, who is the editor of the latest special issue of International Journal of Multilingualism.
Maths teaching from the students' perspective
Maths teaching from the students' perspective
Read a study by Petra Svensson Källberg and Helena Roos, senior lecturers in mathematics education, exploring the significance of a student perspective in mathematics education research. The study analyses the intentionality of research texts and highlights how context and discourse shape the student perspective.
Researchers in grades and assessment
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Ingmarie Danielsson Malmros - Senior lecturer
History didactician with a focus on assessment.
ingmarie.danielsson.malmros@mau.se
+46 40 665 86 60
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David Rosenlund - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Researches aspects of teaching, assessment, and grading.
david.rosenlund@mau.se
+46 40 665 82 23
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Margareta Serder - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Researches international knowledge assessments such as PISA and the role of commercial actors in schools.
margareta.serder@mau.se
+46 40 665 71 17
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Pär Widén - Senior lecturer
Researches how grading and assessment techniques emerge and change over time, and how discourses about school and education evolve.
par.widen@mau.se
+46 40 665 81 05
Researchers in reading
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Dennis Augustsson - Senior lecturer
Research focus on design, media production, and pedagogy.
dennis.augustsson@mau.se
+46 73 073 97 67
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Eva Wennås Brante - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Research focus on pedagogy, didactics, and the importance of images for reading comprehension for people with dyslexia.
eva.wennas-brante@mau.se
+46 70 418 93 68
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Magnus Persson - Professor
Researches the importance of reading and the role of literature in society.
magnus.persson@mau.se
+46 40 665 82 36
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Kim Ridell - Lecturer
Research focus on language and literature didactics with a focus on reading and writing instruction in the early years of primary school.
kim.ridell@mau.se
+46 40 665 85 04
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Emma Tornborg - Senior lecturer
Researches the interaction between media and children's literature, especially picture books.
emma.tornborg@mau.se
+46 73 091 15 95
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Robert Walldén - Associate Professor
Research focus on subject literacy, text practices, and knowledge-building interaction in second language teaching.
robert.wallden@mau.se
+46 40 665 80 94
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Marie Öhman - Head of department/Associate Professor
Research focus on critical reading studies in preschool and teacher education.
marie.ohman@mau.se
+46 40 665 89 37
Researchers in mental and physical health
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Lisa Hellström - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Research focus on young people's mental health, life skills, the school's health-promoting work, and bullying.
lisa.hellstrom@mau.se
+46 40 665 70 42
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Ann-Louise Ljungblad - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Research focus on relational pedagogy, inclusive teaching, children's rights, and difficulties in mathematics.
ann-louise.ljungblad@mau.se
+46 72 206 24 49
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Helena Andersson - Senior lecturer
Research focus on special educational interventions in preschool.
helena.andersson@mau.se
+46 40 665 81 65
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Alexander Jansson - Lecturer
Research focus on equity in physical education and health.
alexander.jansson@mau.se
+46 40 665 74 87
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Vanja Lozic - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Research focus on educational science and strategies against youth crime.
vanja.lozic@mau.se
+46 40 665 72 01
Researchers in multilingualism
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Anders Jakobsson - Professor
Focused on science didactics, literacy, and multilingualism.
anders.jakobsson@mau.se
+46 40 665 80 16
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Pia Nygård Larsson - Professor
Focuses her research on subject literacy and the linguistic dimensions of teaching from a multilingual perspective.
pia.nygard-larsson@mau.se
+46 40 665 83 25
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Adrian Lundberg - Senior lecturer
Research focus on multilingualism, equity, and politics in education.
adrian.lundberg@mau.se
+46 40 665 80 85
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Manuela Lupsa - Senior lecturer
Research on multilingual students' language and knowledge development and language and subject-integrated teaching.
manuela.lupsa@mau.se
+46 40 665 71 39
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Cristina Nordman
Research focus on language and literature didactics with a particular focus on pedagogical translanguaging in subject teaching.
cristina.nordman@mau.se
+46 40 665 78 19
Researchers in school leadership, organsiation and development
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Magnus Erlandsson - Senior lecturer
Research focus on leadership, the governance of the Swedish school system, organisation, and leadership.
magnus.erlandsson@mau.se
+46 40 665 80 58
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Anna Jobér - Associate Professor
Research focus on change within school and education with a particular focus on political and social processes.
anna.jober@mau.se
+46 70 442 40 11
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Jaana Nehez - Policy officer
Research focus on school development, school leadership and professional learning.
jaana.nehez@mau.se
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Hanna Sjögren - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Research focus on school placements, school choice, and homeschooling.
hanna.sjogren@mau.se
+46 40 665 80 49
Researchers in digitalisation
Researchers in school from a historical perspective
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Fredrik Alvén - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Research focus on historical consciousness, the use of history, and historical culture in the teaching of history in Swedish schools.
fredrik.alven@mau.se
+46 40 665 82 87
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Thom Axelsson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Researches childhood and school from a historical perspective.
thom.axelsson@mau.se
+46 40 665 86 45