Education and Science research group
The Education and Science Research Group (EduS) assembles scholars from the humanities, and natural, social and educational sciences. We work with projects seeking to explore different pedagogical spaces, teacher- and student identities, and learning strategies. The group’s interests are among others how knowledge and identities are formed within various educational institutions and disciplines, how subject cultures, understanding of knowledge, language and pedagogical practices affect teaching- and identity processes, how the power relationships within these processes are challenged, and in what ways they are gendered.
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In our work, we primarily draw on qualitative methods such as interviews, discourse analysis, observations and ethnography. We ask: How do subject cultures, understanding of knowledge, language and pedagogical practices affect teaching- and identity processes? How are the power relationships within these processes challenged, and in what ways are they gendered?
Ongoing projects and activities
- Anita Hussénius is PI for the research project How Does Matter Matter?
- Anita Hussénius: “Intervention of gender perspectives in Competence Centre Batteries Sweden - BASE”. This competence centre involves partners from UU, KTH, Chalmers, as well as from the industry and is funded by Vinnova.
- Kristina Andersson is responsible for gender and equality issues in AddLife. AddLife is a competence centre financed by Vinnova with the aim to support competence development in additive manufacturing for the life sciences.
Completed projects
- Representations, participation and perspectives - where are the Children in preschool pedagogic documentation?
PhD project, Catarina Wahlgren - Becoming a biologist – students’ identity work in higher biology education
PhD project, Katerina Pia Günter - Gender issues in Mozambican Higher Education Institutions with focus on Women participation in research and university governance: a case study of the Pedagogical University
PhD project, Juvêncio Manuel Nota - Trainee physics teachers’ negotiation of professional identities in the intersection between the disciplinary discourses of educational science and physics
PhD project, Johanna Larsson - In the borderland between academic disciplines and school science - Science faculty as teacher educators
Kristina Andersson, Anita Hussénius, Annica Gullberg, Kate Scantlebury, Maja Elmgren, Per Nordström, Susanne Engström
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council - Staging the successful student in higher education: A comparative study of men, masculinities, and self-worth-protecting strategies in competitive contexts
Anne-Sofie Nyström, Minna Salminen Karlsson and Carolyn Jackson
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council - Norms and values in a chemistry discourse: Discursive analyses of the Swedish national test in chemistry and student answers
PhD project, Marie Ståhl - The formation of successful physics students: Discourse and identity perspectives on university physics
PhD project, Anders Johansson - Cultural heritage as a pedagogical tool in higher education at Uppsala University
Pedagogical project, Cecilia Rodéhn, Hedvig Mårdh - Challenging science teacher education – gender awareness in constructing knowledge of science and science teaching
Anita Hussénius, Annica Gullberg, Kristina Andersson, Anna Danielsson, Kate Scantlebury
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council
Members
Kristina Andersson, Anna Danielsson, Maja Elmgren, Susanne Engström, Annica Gullberg, Katerina Pia Günter, Cathrine Hasse, Anita Hussénius, Carolyn Jackson, Anders Johansson, Petra Korall, Johanna Larsson, Juvêncio Manuel Nota, Anne-Sofie Nyström, Anne-Kathrin Peters, Cecilia Rohdén, Doris Rusch, Minna Salminen-Karlsson, Kate Scantlebury, Catarina Wahlgren.
Contact
- If you have questions about the research group, please contact the group coordinator:
- Anita Hussénius