Research group 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.


Among the research themes that are dealt with in ongoing are research projects are issues of internationalization, social hierarchies and knowledge.

After optimism: migration, ambition and life trajectoriesAgainst all Odds - successful schools in superdiverse educational contextsBecoming a Student : A Genealogy of the Normalizing Conditions at School EntryBourgeois feminism or class solidarity?Collections and education: A historical study of the relation between schools and museums 1880-1980Following footprints of resilient youth: successful educational trajectories and transition into higInclusion for Innovation: Adressing inequalities in STEMInternational Academics’ Experiences in SwedenLocal prerequisites for successful schooling of newcomer pupilsMunicipality Strategies for Integrated SchoolsMuseums - digitization and its effects for meaning-makingPlaces and Boundaries: Migrant Children’s Educational Transitions in SwedenSchooling in perspective: A graduate school in applied history of educationSwedish pedagogy: A contested discipline in historical perspectiveThe Disembedded Laboratory - Internationalisation of Educational Research for PolicyThe emergence and development of national pupil-associations as collective actors 1938-2008The school student movement and school democracyThe Swedish boarding school as a new research objectTrust and resistance: Swedish parents' relationship to school 1861-2012 Understanding epilepsyWork at any cost? Domestic worker Migration Industry from Kenya to the Gulf states. 
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