Månad: september 2020

I have since more than fifteen years, in addition to my work as a teacher and principal of the folk high school, studied at Karlstad University on premaster’s and master’s programmes in educational work. 

Through the various projects and development processes I have participated in as an educator and leader, I have become increasingly interested in investigating conditions, practices, discourses and cultures in the pedagogical field with a focus on the positions and dilemmas of educators and managers and, not least, the development, change, idea base and practice of educational organizations. 

My field of interest when I entry the PhD-studies is the practical implications of the concept ”Bildung” and the civic society organizations in Sweden, study-organizations and folk high schools, role in building a democratic infrastructure in the society. In the study I´ve planned to carry out I will be putting a critical view on the established discourse in these matters and try to pay attention to difficulties and tensions that will occur when different institutional logics collide.  

I am driven by reviewing and exposing to understand more and perhaps be able to demonstrate factors that give an increased reflexivity of the practitioners for the teaching conditions of pedagogical work in popular education, especially with bearing on the emancipatory and democracy-developing mission of popular education has been assigned. In my previous studies I have based on a critical approach and reviewed supposed-reality images with the aim of producing a basis for professional reflection on the pedagogical practice. 

Since 2017 I work as an education consultant at Västra Götaland’s Education Association, VGB, with a special assignment from the independent study-organizations and the movement-owned folk high schools in Västra Götaland. During this time, I have also been active in the construction of an organized cooperation between the organized popular education in Västra Götaland and the Faculty of Education at GU. I´m very glad that my board have given me the opportunity to join IPKL as a doctoral student as a part of my ordinary work.

During the last three years I have worked as a lecturer at University West in Trollhättan. I have a degree of bachelor in sociology and a degree of master in child and youth studies. I’m interested in children’s own perspectives on living in vulnerable life situations. I am also interested in children’s rights, participation and influence. I have a professional background as a social worker with focus on children and families. Focus in my phd studies will be on violence and precariousness among children in leisure time centers. I find it both exciting and challenging to start this work. I’m glad to be a part of IPKL.