David Thorsén Senior lecturer/Director of Studies

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Name and title: David ThorsénSenior lecturer/Director of Studies

Workplace: Department of Education Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Room 1512Frescativägen 54

Postal address Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik106 91 Stockholm

Research groups

History of Education and Sociology of Education

The research group has an interest in the meaning and evolution of educational systems. The changing conditions of education are highlighted both historically and in present-day terms, on a conceptual and policy level.

Pedagogy and Health

A number of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches are represented in the research group. It comprises studies of social and cultural notions about health and illness, as well as studies of how such notions are constructed in everyday life and exerts influence on people’s lives.

About me

My research focuses on the history of medicine, curriculum studies, and visual/material culture in science and health education. I am currently working together with Eva Insulander (SU) on the research project "Collections and education: A historical study of the relation between schools and museums 1880-1980”, funded by the Swedish research council. My latest publications include articles on the use of objects and artifacts in education, female "teacher-scientists" in late 19th and early 20th century, and animal dissections in science education and vocational training of Swedish teachers c. 1900-1920.

 

Eva Insulander & David Thorsén (2024). From museum to school and back again: tracing the biographies of natural history objects, 1866–2024. Paedagogica Historica, 61 (4):1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024.2421368

David Thorsén & Eva Insulander (2024). Skola På Museum: Ernst Klein Och Nordiska Museets Undervisningsavdelning 1929–1938”. Nordic Journal of Educational History 11 (1):103-31. https://doi.org/10.36368/njedh.v11i1.474

Eva Insulander & David Thorsén (2023). Teaching through objects and collections: The case of Strängnäs Secondary Grammar School and school museum 1830-1960. Multimodality & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795231185957

"The First Report - June 5, 1981", on faceofaids.ki.se (2021)

"Karolina Widerström och skolans dissektionsundervisning 1900-1920". Nordic Journal of Educational History. Vol 8, nr 1 (2021), 3-30.

Albertina Carlsson (1884-1930), Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (2021)

Augusta Christie-Linde (1870-1953), Svensk kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (2021)

"Dissektioner i svensk skolundervisning under tidigt 1900-tal". In Eklöf, M. (Ed.). Humanimalt. (Malmköping: Exempla förlag 2020), 49-55.

Daniel Normark & David Thorsén. "Gränsdragningar. Den svenska Preconativskandalen". In Eklöf, M. (Ed.). Medicinska skandaler och moraler. Vetenskapens (etiska) gränser. (Stockholm: Carlssons Bokförlag 2019), 210-33.

"Hiv-blivandets känslolandskap", lambda nordica. Nr 3-4 (2018), 200-3.

“Disease, representation, and activism. Crossover: The Global Impact of AIDS (1988) and its reverberations”. In Björklund, E. (Ed.), Larsson, M. (Ed.). A Visual History of HIV/AIDS. (London: Routledge 2018), 90-104.

"AIDS – Metaphor and Reality", on faceofaids.ki.se (2017)

”Studentengagemang och aktiverande gruppuppgifter – ett exempel”Högre utbildning. Vol. 6, Nr 2 (2016), 157-163. 

Epidemins aktörer. Patentkollektiv som maktfaktor: exemplet hiv/aids”. Socialmedicinsk tidskriftEtik och politik i epidemibekämpning. Vol. 92, Nr 6 (2015), 717-25.

”Rädd för AIDS Lasse?”. In Anderberg, K., Laskar, P., Sundevall F., (ed.). Sexualpolitiska nyckeltexter. (Stockholm: Leopold förlag 2015), 462-75.

Den svenska aidsepidemin. Ankomst, bemötande, innebörd (Uppsala: Uppsala universitet 2013).

”AIDS i Sverige”. In Gustavsson Chorel, T. & Bondestam, M. (ed.). In på bara huden. Medicinhistoriska studier tillägnade Karin Johannisson. (Nora: Nya Doxa 2010), 211-238. 

”Epidemic times. A brief history of HIV/AIDS in Sweden”. In Follér M-L. & Thörn H. (ed.). No name fever. Aids in the time of Globalization. (Studentlitteratur: Lund 2005), 307-30.

 




Contact

Name and title: David ThorsénSenior lecturer/Director of Studies

Workplace: Department of Education Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Room 1512Frescativägen 54

Postal address Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik106 91 Stockholm

Research groups

History of Education and Sociology of Education

The research group has an interest in the meaning and evolution of educational systems. The changing conditions of education are highlighted both historically and in present-day terms, on a conceptual and policy level.

Pedagogy and Health

A number of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches are represented in the research group. It comprises studies of social and cultural notions about health and illness, as well as studies of how such notions are constructed in everyday life and exerts influence on people’s lives.