Research group History of Education and Sociology of Education

The school in Sweden is supposed to be equal, but where children and young people live and which school they attend has become of decisive importance for their opportunities to reach the national knowledge requirements. Two schools that break this pattern piqued the researchers' curiosity.

Starting school is a major change where the child becomes a student and part of school life. This brings not only a new daily reality but also new expectations about how the student is and should be. This dissertation examines how Swedish compulsory school shapes ideas about the student and how this affects the individual’s opportunities.

"Tolfterna" was an association founded by, among others, Ellen Key in 1892. Its goal was partly to give working class women the opportunity of popular education, partly to even out the differences between the bourgeois and the socialist women's movement through discussion groups. How did it work out in practice? What class-related tensions occurred?

This study aims to, from a historical perspective, create an in-depth understanding of the relationships between school and museum. It focuses on the educational aspects of collections, both in the school (museum-in-school) and in the museum (school-in-museum) and how this dynamic relationship changed over time 1880-1980.

This project examines how high achieving students decode school practices and embark on a successful educational career. The project aims to capture the mechanisms and factors that contributed the academic success of 52 students from households with high or low educational background, with parents with migrant or of non-migrant background.

The underrepresentation of certain groups in higher education, particularly among STEM academics and students , leads to lack of diversity. This reduces the resilience of the STEM sector and limits the ability of reliant industries to innovate and to respond to global challenges.

This study aims to enhance understanding of the experiences of international academics who moved to Sweden to work at a Swedish Higher Education Institution within the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) between 2008-2024.

How can the reception of newly arrived young people in different municipalities be successfully organized to provide better opportunities to complete their education and the transition to upper secondary school? That is the main question that the researchers in the project want to find answers to.

Residential segregation in combination with school choice polices has lead to increased school segregation, and this is no longer solely an urban phenomenon.

Digitization has had a transformative impact on museum practices in recent years, including the work with exhibitions. The aim of this project is to produce knowledge about the effects of digitization in relation to the exhibition medium and to visitors' meaning-making.

Research shows that an increasing segregation has created a tangible inequality between different municipalities and individual schools. Where children and young people live and which school they attend has become of decisive importance for the possibility of reaching the knowledge requirements and continuing their studies.

The national graduate school “Schooling in perspective: A graduate school in applied history of education” started 2020. It is a unique investment in educational history research that aims to make a fundamental contribution to the international field of history of education by developing research in applied history of education.

Academic pedagogy has often been severely questioned in public debates in Sweden, but also considered as central to school and society. Although this contested role has been observed many times throughout its disciplinary history, pedagogy has been much less historically investigated than most other social science disciplines.

The development of post-war European educational research is still little known yet today researchers and the project will examine the accelerated growth of educational research in post-war Europe and the US.

During the covid pandemic, the Swedish school student movement emerged as a major critic of distance education, but what has it looked like historically? How did the school student movements come about and how have they developed?

The aim of this project is to shed new light on the history of democracy in schools by exploring the emergence and transformations of the school based student movement.

Considering their long existence and position in the secondary education of elites in Swedish society, research on boarding schools is surprisingly limited.

The purpose of the project is to describe the role that parents have played in the formation of the Swedish school and to investigate parents' trust in the school as an institution and how this has changed over time.

The aim of the project is to examine changing and enduring attitudes towards epilepsy and how these changes have affected access to school and education for people with epilepsy.

It is currently estimated that there are up to 300 000 Kenyan citizens working in the Gulf states on temporary contracts. Conditions for women domestic workers are particularly harsh. Reports of physical, psychological and sexual violence are frequent.