Johanna Mufic

Contact

Name and title: Johanna Mufic

Phone: +468163124

ORCID0000-0003-1835-8505 Länk till annan webbplats.

Workplace: Department of Education Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Room 2402Frescativägen 54

Postal address Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik106 91 Stockholm

Research group

Adult Learning

The research group has a broad interest in adults learning from adolescence to older ages. We study formal learning in adult education, higher education and popular education, but also learning in informal setting such as working and leisure life. We have a specific interest in studying transitions between different life events, education, and work.

About me

With a background as an upper-secondary school teacher in Swedish and History, and a PhD in Education with a focus on adult learning, my work is situated at the intersection of practice and policy. I study how complex concepts such as “quality” are construed and how they shape organising, leadership, and professional practice, often with a particular focus on adult education.

I teach across several degree programmes at the Department of Education, with a particular focus on issues related to inclusion, the development of teaching and learning, and adult education. I contribute to teaching on the Rektorsprogrammet (the National Principal Training Programme), teach within the Teacher Education Programmes, and on the course Adult Education and Lifelong Learning. I am also the course coordinator for Organisation and Organising within the Master’s Programme in Educational Leadership.

I am interested in what happens when multifaceted concepts, such as “quality”, are formulated in policy and then put into practice. In my research, I examine how these ideas become meaningful, governing, and action-shaping in concrete settings, and what consequences this has for organising, leadership, and professional practice.

A recurring focus in my studies is how policy is negotiated, interpreted, and sometimes contested in encounters between different actors. Drawing on critical perspectives, I analyse, among other things, how quality is shaped and how room for manoeuvre is created or constrained at the intersection of national requirements and local conditions.

What drives me is a desire to make visible how governance and ideas of quality actually operate in practice: which values are reinforced, what dilemmas emerge, and how welfare organisations seek to create direction in complex and changing contexts. For me, this involves contributing to a more nuanced understanding of how quality is “done”, and bringing forward experiences and perspectives that risk being overlooked or silenced.


Contact

Name and title: Johanna Mufic

Phone: +468163124

ORCID0000-0003-1835-8505 Länk till annan webbplats.

Workplace: Department of Education Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Room 2402Frescativägen 54

Postal address Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik106 91 Stockholm

Research group

Adult Learning

The research group has a broad interest in adults learning from adolescence to older ages. We study formal learning in adult education, higher education and popular education, but also learning in informal setting such as working and leisure life. We have a specific interest in studying transitions between different life events, education, and work.