Janne Holmén
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Education
- E-mail:
- janne.holmen@edu.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1 A
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 2136
750 02 Uppsala
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Biography
My main research interests are the history of diagrams, historiography, textbook research, educational history, and island studies. Most of my research has concerned modern history (1800-), and I have predomiantly made comparative studies in the Nordic and Baltic Sea regions.
In the project Figuring politics I am currently researching the long trends in the history of diagrams, as well as diagrams that convey national unity and diversity in civics textbooks.
Together with Johanna Ringarp, in the project Meritocracy, democracy or market, I compared the development of university governance in Sweden and Finland since the 1960s.
I have previously investigated the depiction of the Soviet Union in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish school textbooks during the cold war, as well as regional history writing and regional identity on islands in the Baltic Sea.
I have also compared the development of Swedish and Finnish teacher education together with Björn Furuhagen at the Department of history, Uppsala University. My study of mental maps and perception of history among secondary school students in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Regions was part of the project Spaces of Expectation at Södertörn University, Stockholm and Ca Foscari University, Venice.
In the project Driving Forces of Democracy I compared how the attempts to democratize society with the help of education has been affected by national political culture in Sweden and Finland. Presently, I am comparing reforms of higher education in Sweden and Finland together with Johanna Ringarp. In the project Figuring Politics, I am conducting an international comparison of how diagrams have been used in order to portray the political landscape in upper secondary school civics textbook.
Publications
Selection of publications
- The ideal teacher (2019)
- Changing Mental Maps of the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Regions (2018)
- Demokraatinen koulu (2018)
- Undervisning i Sverige och Finland ur ett historiskt perspektiv (2017)
- Mapping Historical Consciousness (2017)
- Islands of Identity (2015)
- Norden, nationen och historien. Perspektiv på föreningarna Nordens historieläroboksrevision 1919–1972. Henrik Åström Elmersjö. Nordic Academic Press, 2013, 467 s (2014)
- A small separate fatherland of our own (2014)
- Nordic narratives of the Second World War (2013)
- Nation-Building in Kenyan Secondary School textbooks (2011)
- Den demokratiska skolan (1918)
Recent publications
- Public, private, or in between? Institutional isomorphism and the legal entities in Swedish and Finnish higher education (2023)
- Reforms of higher education and research in the Nordic countries (2023)
- Utbildningens fostrande funktioner (2022)
- Från omvänd höger-vänster till GAL-TAN (2022)
- The autonomy of higher education in Finland and Sweden (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Public, private, or in between? Institutional isomorphism and the legal entities in Swedish and Finnish higher education (2023)
- Reforms of higher education and research in the Nordic countries (2023)
- The autonomy of higher education in Finland and Sweden (2022)
- When Maps Become the World (2021)
- Time and Space in Time and Space (2020)
- Perception of the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean regions among secondary school students (2020)
- The ideal teacher (2019)
- Changing Mental Maps of the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Regions (2018)
- From Seminar to University. Dismantling an old and Constructing a New teacher Education in Sweden and Finland 1946 – 1979. (2017)
- Mapping Historical Consciousness (2017)
- Norden, nationen och historien. Perspektiv på föreningarna Nordens historieläroboksrevision 1919–1972. Henrik Åström Elmersjö. Nordic Academic Press, 2013, 467 s (2014)
- A small separate fatherland of our own (2014)
- Nordic narratives of the Second World War (2013)
- Nation-Building in Kenyan Secondary School textbooks (2011)
Books
- Utbildningens fostrande funktioner (2022)
- Nordic Models for a Democratic School (2020)
- Islands of Identity (2015)
Chapters
- Från omvänd höger-vänster till GAL-TAN (2022)
- Teachers as a political force (2021)
- Education 4.0 (2021)
- Åländsk högre utbildning (2021)
- Becoming universities? (2021)
- Always in crisis, always a solution? (2021)
- 1968 och reformer av högre utbildning i Finland och Sverige (2020)
- Demokraatinen koulu (2018)
- Undervisning i Sverige och Finland ur ett historiskt perspektiv (2017)
- Humorn som vapen under kalla kriget (2013)
- Den demokratiska skolan (1918)