En väldigt festlig och fin dag på jobbet idag. Tänk, för inte så länge sedan (känns det som) hälsade vi Kristina välkommen som nyantagen doktorand, och idag var det disputation. Fyra års studier är fullgjorda, varav två på distans under pandemin – bra kämpat!
Last year Apostolia started her PhD studies here at IPKL. This is her presentation:
I have a teaching background in different subjects such as history, psychology and philosophy. After I completed my bachelor I got accepted in the International Master in Educational Research at Gothenburgs university where I had the opportunity to develop my research skills and expand my knowledge in the education field. During and after my studies I worked in different international preschools in Gothenburg as an educator. My research interest focuses on teachers’ professional digital competence in the preschool class. In particular, what teachers need to support students digital skills and abilities according the new curriculum suggestions. I am looking forward to meet my new colleagues and be part of the IPKL team!
Annika känner vi sedan tidigare då hon har arbetat som adjunkt på IPKL, och även tagit sin licentiatexamen här, men sedan en tid tillbaka är hon åter i en ny roll. Här får hon presentera sig:
Jag är doktorand i Barn och ungdomsvetenskap vid institutionen pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande sedan hösten 2020. Jag är antagen som doktorand på 50% och arbetar övriga 50% på Center för skolutveckling.
I oktober 2014 tog jag min Licentiatexamen. Licentiatuppsatsens syfte var att bidra med kunskaper om förskollärares beskrivningar av barngruppsstorlekens betydelse för de egna arbetsvillkoren, samt för villkor för barns, lek, lärande och välmående i förskolan. Avsikten med utvecklingen av licentiatuppsats till doktorsavhandling är att utifrån vunna resultat fördjupa kunskapen och rikta fokus mot hur förskollärare organiserar arbetet i olika barngrupper och vilka möjligheter eller hinder det skapar för barns emotionella, kognitiva och social utveckling och lärande utifrån ett kvalitetsperspektiv. Avhandlingsarbetet grundar sig i Bronfenbrenners utvecklingsekologiska teori, vilken fokuserar på de villkor som skapas inom och mellan olika system och påverkar barns lärande och utveckling i förskolan. Studien är kvalitativ och dataproduktionen i det fortsatta arbetet planeras att ske i olika steg. Dessa innefattar observationer och intervjuer i förskolan utifrån studiens frågeställningar.
My name is Madeleine Brodin Olsson and I’m a PhD students at IPKL and the PRECEC_SCS research school. I have studied a master’s program in educational leadership at the Department of Education and Special Education (IPS). My research interest is to follow how a work team in the preschool is educated in a new theoretical perspective: play-responsive teaching. I really look forward to my time as a doctoral student!
I´m one of the new PhD students in child and youth studies within the research school PRECEC_SCS. I have worked at IPKL as a lecturer for a few years, and now shifting focus towards research. As a teacher at IPKL I was mostly involved in courses on language and communication. Throughout the years and multiple discussions with colleagues and students the interest for exploring how language could be understood as social sustainability has grown. Consequently, I applied for the research school, and now have the opportunity to conduct research within this area.
My field of interest is multilingualism, children´s play, teachers’ participation in and organization of play, and how this can be understood as aspects of social sustainability.
I’m looking forward to this journey, and this new role at the institution. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or just for a chat.
I am a newly admitted doctoral student at IPKL. I have a background in medicine, public health research and health education. I have studied and collaborated with public health research teams in both Egypt and Sweden. My previous work experiences also include clinical and pedagogical tasks. In 2020, I earned a graduate degree in the International master’s program in “Information Technology and Learning” at Gothenburg University.
PhD student in child and youth studies within the research school Play-Responsive Early Childhood Education and Care for Social and Cultural Sustainability (PRECEC_SCS). My background is in Early Childhood Education (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Educational Research (Gothenburg University). I have worked as a preschool teacher in an international preschool and as an intern research assistant at Dublin City University. My research interests include; multilingualism, intercultural education, play-responsive teaching and education for social and cultural sustainability.
My main research interest is oriented towards the educational institutions, how they frame the living conditions of both children and teachers. My PhD studies will focus policy and policy enactment within leasure time centers. Methodologically, I am primarily inspired by ethnography, the chosen method for my magister’s thesis which explored the ambivalence high school students in a socio-economically disadvantaged neighborhood show in relation to school and schoolwork. My professional background is as a preschool teacher, most recently working with the youngest children focusing on teaching and creating learning environments that empower children and make room for their wishes and interests. Fresh out of the master’s program in child and youth studies here at IPKL I’m both glad and humbled to be a part of the institution.
This is Kalliopi Moraiti, one of our new PhD-students
My underground degree was in Home Economics and Ecology (Harokopio University of Athens), which I completed in 2016. During my bachelor’s degree, I was an Erasmus student for two semesters at the Faculty of Economics and Geography (University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic). Returning to Harokopio University I helped co-found a non-governmental organization of Erasmus Student Network named ESN-Haro. After graduating I conducted an Erasmus internship at the Greek Parents Association in Gothenburg where I was teaching the Greek language and the subject of Home Economics and Ecology. In 2017, I started the International Master of Educational Research at Gothenburg University. My master dissertation explored education for sustainable development through play-based learning in early childhood. During this study period, I worked as a preschool teacher in a Greek and English school. After graduating I conducted another Erasmus internship as a research assistant at Dublin City University (Centre of Human Rights and Global Citizenship) where I was engaged in projects regarding Climate Change Education.
In September 2020, I was delighted to be accepted as a PhD student in education within the research area of Learning and IT. I’m working at IPKL within the BALANCED project. I am very enthusiastic to be an active member of an academic community again. My research interests include; equality in education, teacher agency, professional learning, digitalization in schools, and digital platforms.
In my personal life, I like traveling, volunteering, and spending quality time with friends and my sisters.
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.
