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Anthemis Raptopoulou to defend her PhD thesis 2021-09-08 Anthemis Raptopoulou will defend her doctoral thesis on September 17th 2021. The PhD defense will be held in English.
Maria Mersini Pananaki to defend her PhD thesis 2021-05-27 Maria Mersini Pananaki will defend her doctoral thesis on June 4th 2021, at 10.00 on Zoom. The PhD defense will be held in English.
Nordic co-operation on higher education is awarded EUR 65,000 from the Nordic Council of Ministers 2021-05-27 The Department of Education and Professor Meeri Hellstén participates in a project awarded 65,000 euros from the Nordic Council of Ministers to create a collaboration on the internationalization of higher education.

Carina Carlhed Ydhag is the new head of the Department of Education

Carina Carlhed Ydhag is an Associate professor in Educational sociology and senior lecturer in Education. She has been leading the work at the department since 1 August 2020.

Carina Carlhed Ydhag is the new head of the Department of Education

Helena Reierstam to defend her doctoral thesis

Helena Reierstam will defend her doctoral thesis on October 2, 2020, at 10.00 via Zoom. Title of thesis Assessment in Multilingual Schools A comparative mixed method study of teachers’ assessment beliefs and practices among language learners - CLIL and migrant students (monograph). The PhD defense will be held in English

October 2, 2020, at 10.00 via Zoom.

Noam Ringer to defend her doctoral thesis

Noam Ringer will defend her doctoral thesis on September 14, 2020 at 10.00 via Zoom. Title of thesis: Patterns of coping: How children with ADHD and their parents perceive and cope with the disorder. The PhD defense will be held in Swedish.

September 14, 2020 at 10.00 via Zoom.

Master student Hidehisa Matsumoto this year’s Global Swede

The Global Swede Award is honouring international students who excel in areas closely related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This year, Hidehisa Matsumoto from Japan is Stockholm University’s student receiving the award. Hidehisa Matsumoto is currently studying the Master’s Programme in International and Comparative Education.

Interview with Hidehisa Matsumoto

Maria Christidis to defend her doctoral thesis

Maria Christidis will defend her doctoral thesis on June 5th 2020, at 13.00 on Zoom. Title of thesis: Integrated teaching for expanded vocational knowing. Studies in the Swedish upper secondary Health and social care program. Everyone is welcome to participate!

June 5th 2020, at 13.00 on Zoom

Reed T. Curtis to defend his doctoral thesis

Reed T. Curtis will defend his doctoral thesis on May 27th 2020, at 10.00 on Zoom. Title of thesis: Without mast, without sails, without compass - Non-traditional trajectories into higher education and the duality of the folk market. Everyone is welcome to participate!

Read more about the thesis and the dissertation

Yuto Kitamura is one of this year's nine honorary doctors

Stockholm University has chosen this year’s honorary doctors, all of whom have contributed in distinctive ways to the University’s activities in research and education.

Yuto Kitamura has been central for the cooperation between the University of Tokyo and Stockholm University, KTH and Karolinska Institutet. He is also a key person in the direct cooperation between the Department of Education at Stockholm University and the Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo.

Larry Suter, Mark Bray, Meeri Hellsten, Heidi Biseth, David Turner

The Future of International and Comparative Education Research

Mark Bray and Larry Suter gave the keynotes at the NOCIES 2019 biannual conference and GlobalCIE Forum, held at Stockholm University, October 11th-12th, 2019. They discussed the Future of International and Comparative Education Research, stressing the importance of collaboration between methodological perspectives and the benefits of mixed-methods research.

For summaries of their presentations, click here

Major increase of admitted students to Stockholm University’s master’s programmes

The programmes at Stockholm University with the highest number of students on a waiting list are the Master's Programme in Economics, Master's Programme in International and Comparative Education, the Master’s Programme in International Commercial Arbitration and the Master’s Programme in Decision analysis and Data Science. We are glad for the happy news!

Major increase of admitted students to Stockholm University’s master’s programmes

Teachers and students from Stockholm University visit University of Tokyo

A group teachers, PhD candidates and master students from the Department of Education, visited the University of Tokyo to participate in joint activities such as study visits, workshops and seminars.

Half-Day Symposium: International and Comparative Education Research

Join the International and Comparative Education Research Group (ICER) seminar on November 5th from 13.00-19.00 in Lilla Hörsalen at the Museum of Natural History.

This half-day seminar focuses on interdisciplinary comparative topics ranging from transnational to global dimensions of educational development, planning, reform, delivery and assessment across the educational spectrum from early childhood to higher education.

Registrations open until October 29 (click HERE to fill in your details)

For catering purposes, registrations are binding. The event is free of charge.

Queries to: meeri.hellsten@edu.su.se

For more information, click here

Colloquium: Prof S.Y. Shah, Director, International Institute of Adult & Lifelong Education, India

Join the International Studies Research Group at the Department of Education for a colloquium given by Professor S.Y. Shah, Director, International Institute of Adult & Lifelong Education (IAEA), New Delhi, India.

Date: 04 October 2018, 3.30 PM - 04 October 2018, 5.00 PM
Venue: Room 1503, Frescativägen 54, Department of Education

Title of presentation: Role of International Organizations & Networks in Adult Education & Life-long Learning

For more information, click here

Lecture with François Dubet: Decline of institution and or/ Neoliberalism

Welcome to a lecture with the French sociologist François Dubet, Thursday 18th October, 1-3 PM, Room 2403. Dubet is one of the leading contemporary sociologists in France and has many publications in the field. His lecture departs from his work Le déclin de l’institution (Seuil 2002), in which he analyses the development of school and its’ importance in the late modernity.

Welcome to a lecture with the French sociologist François Dubet

Colloquium with Professor Joakim Landahl: The Legacy of Torsten Husén

Contact: Meeri Hellstén meeri.hellsten@edu.su.se
All welcome!

Wed, Sept 12, at 15-17

Global Swede Award to excellent student Elise Lammers

This year’s Global Swede is awarded to excellent master’s student in International and Comparative Education at Stockholm University, Elise Lammers, who was among the 20 students from 17 countries to received the prestigious award at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Global Swede Award to excellent student Elise Lammers

Joint International Seminar: Education for Diversity

The 4th Joint International Seminar between the Faculty of Education at the University of Tokyo and the Department of Education at Stockholm University, as well as the 2nd year with guests from the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä, took place February 19th-21st, 2018 at Stockholm University.

Joint International Seminar: Education for Diversity

Reed Curtis: First Reading Seminar in International and Comparative Education

Preliminary title "Charting the Course: Exploring the transitions of higher education students" (compilation thesis).

Thursday: January 18, 9-11, room 1607

Special Issue of the Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training (NJVET)

NJVET published recently (late December) a special issue on cultural historical theory with Lázaro Moreno Herrera, professor, as Guest editor. NJVET is an open access research journal currently the best ranked journal in research in vocational education and training in the Nordic countries. The contributors in the special issue are researchers from Finland, Switzerland, Germany and Australia, Lázaro and Marianne Teräs from IPD contributed each with an article.

Here is the link to the special issue

Open Seminar with Professor Emeritus Peter Alheit

Professor Peters Alheit's research field includes:

international comparative educational research
biographical and mentality research
civilization processes in transformation societies (example: Brazil)
music and dementia.

Everyone is most welcome to attend!

Thursday, November 30, 10-12, room 1703

International and Comparative Education Research Seminar

This half-day seminar offers an opportunity for collegial research encounters upon recollecting on the local and regional history within the research field, to the contemporary climate of knowledge exchange and inter-disciplinary re-generation. We invite our near and extended research communities to join us in contributing to the evolving dialogue on furthering the field of International and Comparative Education research from today into the future. The seminar is free of charge. Please register your attendance by November 24th (click link)

Tuesday, November 28th, 13-17.30

Visit från Tampere University of Technology and University of Tampere

On October 17, we had guests from two collaborating universities in Finland. Professor Petri Nokelainen and Phd candidate Heta Rintala from Tampere University of Technology and Phd candidate Laura Pylväs from University of Tampere.

Guest Lecture with Natalie Nielsen: Learning from 'disjuncture' in study abroad

Natalie Nielsen is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Education at Stockholm University. Prior to her PhD studies, Natalie held the position of Director of International Affairs at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University.

Tuesday, October 24th, 3-5pm

Guest Lecture with Tessa Bold: A comparative project on teachers’ knowledge in the African continent

Tessa Bold is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. She was previously a Professor of Development Economics at the University of Frankfurt and holds a DPhil in Economics from Oxford University. All are welcome to attend!

Thursday, November 30th, 1-3pm

Guest lecture with Yuto Kitamura: Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia

Associate Professor Yuto Kitamura is specialized in comparative education and educational development studies, at Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo. He has conducted his research extensively on education policy in developing countries, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. Everyone is welcome!

Thursday 21 September at 1-3 pm

Guest lecture with Karen Pashby: "Reforming Global Education"?

Dr Karen Pashby researches globalisation of education at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Everyone is welcome!

Tuesday 12 September at 3-5 pm

Doctoral students from the University of Texas Arlington visit the Department

On March 17, Associate Professor of Education Barbara Tobolowsky, University of Texas Arlington, paid a visit to the Department with a delegation of doctoral students. Read more about the visit here.

Click here to read about the visit

ICT-based Distance Education in Early Post-Apartheid South Africa

Jared O. Odero defended his thesis in International and Comparative Education on June 12. The title of his dissertation is: ICT-based Distance Education - A Study of University Students’ Views and Experiences in Early Post-Apartheid South Africa.

Read about Jared O. Odero's thesis here

The Role of Adult Literacy in Transforming the Lives of Women in Rural India

Khaleda Gani Dutt defends her thesis on April 4. The title of her dissertation is: The Role of Adult Literacy in Transforming the Lives of Women in Rural India: Overcoming Gender Inequalities. Comparative case studies in Bhilwara District Rajasthan & Howrah District West Bengal India.

Read about Khaleda Gani Dutt's thesis here

Caught in Culture – Cultural Transformation through HIV/AIDS Prevention Education in Zambia

Ellen Carm defends her thesis on March 31. The title of her dissertation is: Caught in Culture – Cultural Transformation through HIV/AIDS Prevention Education in Zambia.

Read about Ellen Carm's thesis here

Learning ecosystem complexity – A study on small-scale fishers’ ecological knowledge generation

Diana Garavito-Bermúdez defends her thesis on October 27th. The title of her dissertation is: Learning ecosystem complexity – A study on small-scale fishers’ ecological knowledge generation.

Read about her study here

A Visit by the Cambodian Ministry of Education

On May 26th we had a delegation from Cambodia visiting the Department to learn about the Swedish Education system and teacher education, more specifically. As part of the delegation, we also had officials from the Swedish School Inspectorate (Skolinspektionen) and from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

A Visit by the Cambodian Ministry of Education

Julia Gillard's Presentation on the Global Partnership for Education

Julia Gillard, Chairwoman of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and the former Prime Minister of Australia, visited the Department of Education on May 19th, 2016 and gave a presentation on GPE's work in supporting developing countries to ensure that every child receives a quality basic education, prioritizing the poorest, most vulnerable and those living in fragile and conflict-affected countries.

Julia Gillard's Presentation on the Global Partnership for Education

Group Photo Department of Education and Graduate School of Education

Joint International Seminar with the University of Tokyo

The 2nd Joint International Seminar between the Department of Education at Stockholm University and the Graduate School of Education at Tokyo University was held at Stockholm University from February 23rd-25th, 2016.

Joint International Seminar with the University of Tokyo

Dagmar Knotova is this year's Global Swede

Dagmar Knotova, Master’s student in International and Comparative Education at the Department of Education is this year’s Stockholm University Global Swede. Swedish Minister for Trade, Dr Ewa Björling, presented Dagmar with the Global Swede diploma during a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dagmar Knotova is this year's Global Swede

Karen Ann was one of the year’s ”Global Swedes”

Our master's student Karen Ann Blom (Soon) from Canada was one of the 24 international students who on May 7th received the Global Swede Award presented by Trade Minister Ewa Björling.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Mailing address
Department of Education
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm
SWEDEN

Visiting address
Frescativägen 54, Stockholm University
Frescativägen 50, Stockholm University (with Taxi)

Phone: +46 8 16 20 00 (switchboard Stockholm University)
E-mail: info@edu.su.se
Fax: +46 8 15 83 54 (Department of Education)

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Postbox 50741
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SWEDEN

(Note on the bill "Internal Reference 306" and then the name of the employee at Department of Education who has placed the order)

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