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Annika UllmanProfessor

Publications

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  • The politics of immortality

    2019. Joakim Landahl, Annika Ullman. History of Education and Children's Literature 14 (1), 261-278

    Article

    The funeral of former Education Minister and teacher unionist Fridtjuv Berg in 1916 is analysed here from the perspective of collective remembrance. Drawing on obituaries and on media coverage depicting the funeral, this article discusses how the commemoration of Berg was an expression of two uncompleted achievements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the rising social status of elementary school teachers and the emergence of a collective teacher identity. The funeral is analysed both as an expression of these tendencies and as an attempt to strengthen the very same tendencies, thereby counteracting the fact that the elementary school and its teachers were still haunted by a lack of social status as well as by fragmentation. Thus the funeral provided an opportunity to symbolically express cherished but precarious ideals.

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  • Att vara rektor i förändringstider

    2018. Mikael Odin, Annika Ullman.

    Article

    På vad sätt kan utbildningshistoria och samtidserarenheter befrukta varandra?  I den här artikeln prövar vi att konfrontera bestämt då med ett  lika bestämt nu. Annika Ullman (nedan A.U.) tar avstamp i sitt nyligen avslutade forskningsprojekt om C.J.L. Almqvists som reformrektor för Nya Elmentarskolan på 1830-talet. Mikael Odin, (nedan M.O.) parerar med  egna aktuella rektorserfarenheter av att leda Nya elementarskolan idag.

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  • Rektor C.J.L. Almqvist och personlighetsprincipen

    2014. Annika Ullman. Nordic Journal of Educational History 1 (2), 43-61

    Article

    The Swedish author and visionary Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793–1866) was the principal for twelve years (1829–1841) of the government-initiated pilot school ”Nya Elementarskolan” (New Elementary School) in Stockholm. In this position, he argued that both the school and the state should be built on the same basic idea: the right of individual freedom. This argument is often referred to as ”personlighetsprincipen” (the principle of personality), a concept launched by another prominent figure of the liberal culture of the time, Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847). This article explores how the principle of personality is expressed in the texts of Almqvist and is mainly built upon the concept’s allegorical resources. It examines the thesis that Almqvist’s use of the term is best understood if one distinguishes between the political, pedagogical, and existential dimension of the concept. The article ends with some thoughts about the context of the concept and a discussion on whether Almqvist had a greater interest in personalities than in principles.

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