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Matilda WiklundSenior lecturer/deputy head of department

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Contact

Name and title: Matilda Wiklund Senior lecturer/deputy head of department

matilda.wiklund@edu.su.se

08-120 762 33

Workplace: Department of Education

Visiting address

Room 1614

Frescativägen 54

Postal address

Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

106 91 Stockholm

Research groups

Didactics as Communication

We study learning as a social practice within formally as well as informally organized institutions. We do theoretical and empirical studies of teaching and learning as communicative practices where knowledge and knowing take shape.

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.

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About me

Matilda Wiklund is Associate professor and senior lecturer at the Department of Education at Stockholm University and Director of Research Studies.

Research interests

My research deals with education - media relations, both understood in a broad sense. This line of research has two main focus areas. One is directed towards politics / policy and deals with how educational issues are constructed discursively in the media. Here, for example, I have examined how school and (good) teachers are constructed in Dagens Nyheter over time and how popular education is constructed in different media. The other main focus is more didactic and deals with digitalization in education. Here, for example, I have studied what happens when schools invest in one-computer-per-pupil or digital learning materials. Both of these research directions are driven by a curriculum theoretical interest in the contextual conditions of education. Both media discourses and digital resources are thus understood as simultaneously enabling and restricting education, both in and outside the school.

In addition to these two orientations, my research has also focused on education and value issues, such as teachers' anti-racist actions. Again, I am driven by an interest in contextual conditions.

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