Magnus Kilger

I am primarilly teaching on all the teacher education programmmes ín the course Social relations in school. My main field here is the teacher´s role as a leader in the classroom. I am also responsible for the master's program and teach on several courses in the programme and superwise essays on master´s level. 

My research

I primarilly work within the fields of discourse and narrative analysis. The research area involves child and youth sports and especially talent management and the selection of young sporting talents. My current projects are focusing on fatherhood in youth sports coaching and also on young people, normative body ideals, dieting and eating in social media contexts. 

Publications

Kilger, M.(2022). Psychologizing childhood in the reality show Biggest loser: Temporal ordering and narration of a fat identity. Narrative Inquiry. Online First.

Karlsson, J., Kilger, M., Bäckström, Å., & Redelius, K. (2022). Selling youth sport: The production and promotion of immaterial values in commercialised child and youth sport. Sport, Education & Society. Online First. Doi:org/10.1080/13573322.2022.2057462

Kilger, M.(2020). Dad as a coach: Voluntary work in youth sports. Education Sciences. 10(5), 132. Doi: org/10.3390/educsci10050132

Kilger, M.& Blomberg, H. (2020).Governing sports through the brain: constructing cognitive executive function as a way of predicting sporting success. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: Journal of the British Philosophy of Sport Association, 14(2), 206-225.  Doi: org/10.1080/17511321.2019.1631880

Kilger, M.(2019). From hard work to grit: On the discursive formation of talent. Scandinavian Sports Studies Forum, 10(2), 29-50.

Kilger, M. &Aronsson, K. (2019).Being a good sport: Players’ uptake to coaches’ joking in interviews for the youth national team. Sports Coaching Review. Online. Doi: 10.1080/21640629.2019.1605727.

Kilger, M.(2019).Talangurval och att prognostisera framtida potential. Tidskriften Ikaros, 15(1), 11-14.

Kilger, M.(2019). Blir du valbar lille vän? I Centrum för barnkulturforskning, skriftserie 2018. . Barnnorm och kroppsform – om ideal och sexualitet i barnkulturen. (ss. 62-74). Stockholm: Centrum för barnkulturforskning.

Kilger, M. & Jonsson, R. (2017) "Talent Production in Interaction: Performance Appraisal Interviews in Talent Selection Camps". Communication & Sport, 5(1), 110-129. Doi: 10.1177/2167479515591789

Kilger, M.& Börjesson, M. (2015) Searching for Talent: The Construction of Legitimate Selection in Sports. Scandinavian Sports Studies Forum, 6(3), 85-105.