Research group Philosophical and Critical Studies in Education

The research group Philosophical and Critical Studies in Education generates knowledge about transformative process that effect institutions and people through engaging with critical studies of theoretical and philosophical perspectives on education and learning.

The group's ongoing studies include:

  1. critical inquiries regarding norms, knowledge, aesthetics and ethics
  2. theories of democracy, citizenship and cosmopolitan education, including social justice, power, migration and human rights
  3. educational science and methodological issues ranging from analytical philosophy to feminist perspectives.

Members

Corrado Matta, senior lecturer

Senior lecturer

Department of Pedagogy and Learning, Linnaeus University

Corrado Matta, universitetslektor

Hanna Ahrenby

Ph.D. in Educational Work

Department of Creative Studies, Umeå University

Jenni Nilsson

PhD student

Department of Education, Uppsala University

Maggie O'Neill

Doktorand

Göteborgs universitet, Avdelningen allmän didaktik och pedagogiskt arbete

Viktor Johansson, associate professor

associate professor

Södertörn University

Viktor Johansson, docent

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Department of Education

New dissertation challenges the common idea of education

In a new dissertation at Stockholm University Rama Alshoufani challenges the common idea that education is mainly a tool for achieving specific, predetermined goals. It highlights how this instrumental view can limit the meaning of education, reducing it to a set of outcomes rather than exploring its deeper significance in human life. In the dissertation she explores the reasons and consequences of such instrumental view from a philosophical perspective and suggests a different approach to thinking about and considering education.

Department of Education

PhD defence Ingrid Andersson

Ingrid Andersson, PhD student at the Department of Education, will defend her dissertation "Avoiding Reductionism in Posthumanism: The Significance of Subjectivity, Thinking, and Origin Stories". The defence will be held in Swedish.