Lisa Österling Senior lecturer

I hold a position as assistent professor in Mathematics Education in Stockholm University. I am part of the IM2PACT-project on inclusion and identity in higher education mathematics and physics.

My dissertation project was finalized in 2021, where focused mathematics teacher education, and how the legitimisation of knowledge, together with the construct of images of desired teachers, relates to issues of epistemic access. I have found how educational concepts are not very visible, and therefore not accessible, in the practicum part of teacher education. I also discuss how different images of the desired teachers from policy, school, research and teacher education privileges different kinds of teachers. Also, some of these images presupposes a certain cultural and social disposition, a contrast from the diversity among real student teachers.

At present, I am part of the TRACE-project, where I research how the teaching of new mathematics teachers develop during their first years after graduation. I am also collaborating on research on teacher education with Lee Rusznyak and the LCT-network in the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In addition, I am part of the Net-DiMas-project together with researchers in Chile, to increase inclusion in mathematics teacher education. In Stockholm, I participate in the K-ULF project on compensatory education, a collaboration between teacher education, research and practicing teachers, lead by Cecilia Kozma at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH. 

I teach in all different levels of teacher education. I teach and supervice doctoral students within the ReMath-research school, I supervise master students, I participate in practicum mentor education, and I teach student teachers in their mathematics education courses and practicum. In my teaching, I emphasise the communicative parts, both in terms of dialogic instruction and digital media, but also by providing access to academic discourse.