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
Part of History of Education, p. 784-805, 2019
Demokraatinen koulu: Yhdenvertaisuudesta ja osallisuudesta 1960–2020
Part of Kansanvallan polkuja, p. 287-330, Suomen kirjallisuuden seura, 2018
Changing Mental Maps of the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Regions
Part of Journal of Cultural Geography, p. 230-250, 2018
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Part of Journal of Autonomy and Security Studies, p. 46-74, 2017
Undervisning i Sverige och Finland ur ett historiskt perspektiv
Part of Bortom Pisa, p. 175-195, Natur och kultur, 2017
Islands of Identity: History-writing and identity formation in five island regions in the Baltic Sea
Södertörn University, 2015
Part of Island Studies Journal, p. 135-154, 2014
Part of Scandia, p. 152-153, 2014
Nordic narratives of the Second World War: national historiographies revisited
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 116-119, 2013
Nation-Building in Kenyan Secondary School textbooks
Part of Education Inquiry, p. 79-91, 2011
Den demokratiska skolan: Om likvärdighet och delaktighet 1960–2020
Part of Demokratins drivkrafter , Svenska litteratursällskapet, 1918
Recent publications
Föreningen för svensk undervisningshistoria
Part of Utbildningshistorisk forskning under 2000-talet, p. 267-276, Uppsala universitet, 2025
Part of Secular Schooling in the Long Twentieth Century?, p. 131-150, Walter de Gruyter, 2024
- DOI for Social Democracy, Confessional Pluralism, and Value Indoctrination: Swedish Textbooks on Christianity and Religion, 1945–1974
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Diagrams in Civic Education: Visuospatial Models of Society in Textbooks and Teaching
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Part of Journal of Cognitive Historiography, p. 141-167, 2024
Revenues, ultimate sovereigns and resource allocation at Finnish, Swedish, UK and US universities
Part of Higher Education Governance & Policy, p. 52-71, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Journal of Cognitive Historiography, p. 141-167, 2024
Revenues, ultimate sovereigns and resource allocation at Finnish, Swedish, UK and US universities
Part of Higher Education Governance & Policy, p. 52-71, 2024
Part of Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, p. 1-3, 2023
- DOI for Reforms of higher education and research in the Nordic countries: global trends and Nordic models in Academia
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Part of Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, p. 57-71, 2023
Part of Comparative Education, p. 147-163, 2022
Perception of the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean regions among secondary school students
Part of Journal of Baltic Studies, p. 513-531, 2020
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Part of Contributions to the History of Concepts, p. 105-129, 2020
Part of History of Education, p. 784-805, 2019
Changing Mental Maps of the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Regions
Part of Journal of Cultural Geography, p. 230-250, 2018
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Part of Nordic Journal of Educational History, no 1 2017., 2017
Part of Journal of Autonomy and Security Studies, p. 46-74, 2017
Part of Island Studies Journal, p. 135-154, 2014
Nation-Building in Kenyan Secondary School textbooks
Part of Education Inquiry, p. 79-91, 2011
Books
Diagrams in Civic Education: Visuospatial Models of Society in Textbooks and Teaching
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Janne Holmén, 2020
Islands of Identity: History-writing and identity formation in five island regions in the Baltic Sea
Södertörn University, 2015
Chapters in book
Föreningen för svensk undervisningshistoria
Part of Utbildningshistorisk forskning under 2000-talet, p. 267-276, Uppsala universitet, 2025
Part of Secular Schooling in the Long Twentieth Century?, p. 131-150, Walter de Gruyter, 2024
- DOI for Social Democracy, Confessional Pluralism, and Value Indoctrination: Swedish Textbooks on Christianity and Religion, 1945–1974
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Part of Utbildningens fostrande funktioner, p. 253-278, Uppsala universitet, 2022
Part of The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model, p. 242-256, Routledge, 2021
- DOI for Education 4.0: Nordic long-term planning and educational policies in the fourth industrial revolution
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Always in crisis, always a solution?: The Nordic model as a political and scholarly concept
Part of The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model, p. 1-19, Routledge, 2021
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Part of Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model, p. 113-126, Routledge, 2021
- DOI for Becoming universities?: Academisation and the integration of Finnish and Swedish teacher education institutions in the system of higher education
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Part of Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model, p. 157-170, Routledge, 2021
- DOI for Teachers as a political force: Teacher unions, teacher cultures, and teacher education in Sweden and Finland, 1970–2020
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Åländsk högre utbildning: Styrning och autonomi
Part of Styr ålänningarna sitt öde?, Åland fredsinstitut/Cavannus, 2021
1968 och reformer av högre utbildning i Finland och Sverige
Part of 1968 och pedagogiken, p. 49-69, Södertörns högskola, 2020
Demokraatinen koulu: Yhdenvertaisuudesta ja osallisuudesta 1960–2020
Part of Kansanvallan polkuja, p. 287-330, Suomen kirjallisuuden seura, 2018
Undervisning i Sverige och Finland ur ett historiskt perspektiv
Part of Bortom Pisa, p. 175-195, Natur och kultur, 2017
Humorn som vapen under kalla kriget
Part of Samband historia tema, p. 100-112, Sanoma Utbildning, 2013
Den demokratiska skolan: Om likvärdighet och delaktighet 1960–2020
Part of Demokratins drivkrafter , Svenska litteratursällskapet, 1918
Collections (editor)
Uppsala Studies of History and Education (SHED), 2022
Other
Part of Cartographic Journal, p. 373-374, 2021
Part of Scandia, p. 152-153, 2014
Nordic narratives of the Second World War: national historiographies revisited
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 116-119, 2013