Jenny Berglund Professor
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Name and title: Jenny BerglundProfessor
Workplace: Department of Teaching and Learning Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room P336Svante Arrhenius väg 20 A
Postal address Institutionen för ämnesdidaktik106 91 Stockholm
Research group
About me
I am professor in religious education at Stockholm university. My particular area of interest concerns the matter of Islam and religious education. This is reflected in my 2009 (Uppsala university) dissertation Teaching Islam, Islamic Religious Education at Muslim Schools in Sweden (Waxmann).
I have collaborated on the editing of several Swedish books, in which my own contributions have generally dealt with Islam in Sweden. I have also worked in several research projects, such as "Religion as a Resource", which concerns the lives, values, relations, leisure time activities and religious interests of Swedens youth populations. I have also been part of TRATEBBB (Teaching Religion and Thinking Education at the Baltic-Barent Brim), a research project designed to study religious education at four sets of "twin-schools" located on either side of four state boundaries in the Baltic-Barent region. In November 2014 I was awarded an International Career Grant from Swedish research council (co-funded by Marie Skludowska Curie Actions FP7). The grant has included funding for a project that concerned young Muslims experiences of moving between supplementary mosque education and public school (Experiences of Islamic and "Western" education in Sweden and Britain). As part of the International Career Grant I have been a guest researcher at Warwick Religions and Education Research Center (WRERU). The project resulted in a number of publications that can be found below.
2020-2026 I was the General Seretary for the EASR (European Association for the Study of Religions). 2021-2025 I was a guest professor at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences . I am part of the steering group for the Swedish Graduate school in Islamic Studies.
I teach courses on religious education and Islamic education. I give two online cuorses in English:
Together with a group of researchers from various European countries, I am involved in a project on International Knowledge Transfer in Religious Education. The purpose of the project is to increase awareness of the importance of international cooperation and knowledge exchange regarding both the school subject religion (RE)(which looks very different in different countries) and the academic discipline religious education. We have recently published an anthology with the same name as the project. In my contribution to the anthology, I discuss what some of my international comparative studies have contributed to in terms of international knowledge transfer. During 2022 we will take the project further to discuss international knowledge transfer within the framework of teacher training.
Previously I have lead a study called Experiences of Islamic and secular education in Sweden and Britain. It was funded by The Swedish Research Council and and Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions,(Project INCA 600398). The project examined the experiences of young Muslim school students in Britain and Sweden who moved between compulsory schools and supplementary Islamic classes. The project resultet in a number of publications that can be found below.