Andreas Bergh
Professor at Department of Education
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 713 45 80
- E-mail:
- andreas.bergh@edu.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1 A
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 2136
750 02 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Andreas Bergh is Professor of Education. Prior to time in the academy, Bergh has worked as teacher and school leader in compulsory school, and as Director of Education at the National Agency for Education. In higher education, he teaches in PhD-courses, teacher education and the national school leadership training programme.
Keywords
- juridifiering
- styrning
- segregation
- läroplansteori
- kvalitet
- utbildningspolitik
- iscensättning
- lärare
- skolledare
- professionalism
Biography
Berghs' area of research is in the field of Curriculum Theory with a specific interest in education policy, issues of quality and the professional roles of teachers and school leaders. He is currently engaged in studies of school segregation, teachers’ rebellion groups on Facebook and juridification. In previous research projects, he has studied academic development work in higher education, teachers’ anti-racist actions and the use of promotion and prevention programmes in school.
Bergh is on the editorial committee for the research journal Utbildning & Demokrati (Education & Democracy) and a member of the research groups STEP (Studies in Educational Policy and Philosophy) at Uppsala University and Utbildning och Demokrati (Education and Democracy) at Örebro University.

Publications
Selection of publications
2020
2020
Higher education as and for public good: Past, present and possible futures
Part of Leading higher education as and for public good, p. 37-52, Routledge, 2020
The Juridification of Teachers’ Professional Work on Knowledge and Values in School
Part of Nera 2019: Education in a Globalized World, p. 821-822, 2019
Local quality work in an age of accountability - between autonomy and control
Part of Journal of education policy, p. 590-607, 2015
Part of Journal of Curriculum Studies, p. 778-797, 2014
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Recent publications
Part of Journal of education policy, 2025
Differentiation of education through juridification
Part of Journal of Curriculum Studies, p. 146-159, 2024
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Struggling to counter school segregation: a typology of local initiatives in Sweden
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, p. 246-259, 2024
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From 64 sections to 900 in the Education Act –: on juridification of Swedish education
2023
Enacting the Convention on the Rights of the Child -: in times of juridification
2023
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Journal of education policy, 2025
Differentiation of education through juridification
Part of Journal of Curriculum Studies, p. 146-159, 2024
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Struggling to counter school segregation: a typology of local initiatives in Sweden
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, p. 246-259, 2024
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On Teachers' Professionalism When Colleagues Express Racism: Challenges and Choices
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, p. 169-180, 2023
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On collegial deliberation as a tool to counteract racism in education
Part of Education Inquiry, p. 1-17, 2022
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Part of Education Inquiry, p. 352-366, 2022
- DOI for Swedish teachers’ and school leaders’ rebellion groups on Facebook: collective formations and administrators as gatekeepers
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A conceptual framework for understanding juridification of and in education
Part of Journal of education policy, p. 822-842, 2021
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Deliberative academic development: The potential and challenge of agency
Part of International journal for academic development, p. 107-120, 2020
University leaders’ talk about institutional missions and academic developers’ contributions
Part of European Educational Research Journal, p. 743-759, 2019
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Local enactment of the Swedish ‘advanced teacher reform’
Part of Journal of Curriculum Studies, p. 326-341, 2018
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Part of Barn, p. 147-162, 2018
Part of Curriculum Journal, p. 134-149, 2018
- DOI for Conflicting goals of educational action: a study of teacher agency from a transactional realism perspective
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Hur villkorar juridifieringen lärarprofessionens arbete med skolans kunskaper och värden?
Part of Utbildning och Demokrati, p. 11-31, 2016
Redaktionellt U&D 25:1. Tema: Juridifieringen av skolan
Part of Utbildning och Demokrati, p. 3-9, 2016
Part of Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2015
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Local quality work in an age of accountability - between autonomy and control
Part of Journal of education policy, p. 590-607, 2015
Part of Journal of Curriculum Studies, p. 778-797, 2014
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Kvalitetsbegreppet: en central drivkraft i en förändrad syn på utbildning
Part of Vägval i skolans historia. Tidskrift från Föreningen för svensk undervisningshistoria, p. 3-8, 2012
Part of Education Inquiry, p. 709-723, 2011
Den paketerade valfriheten: om framtidsvägen för den svenska gymnasieskolan
Part of Nordic Studies in Education, p. 116-129, 2010
Chapters in book
Praktiknära forskning: ett rättviseprojekt?
Part of Praktikutvecklande forskning mellan skola och akademi, Nordic Academic Press, 2022
Lärares antirasistiska arbete: möjligheter och utmaningar i skola och samhälle
Part of Interkulturella dimensioner, p. 43-70, Studentlitteratur AB, 2021
Deliberative communication: Stimulating collective learning?
Part of Leading higher education as and for public good, p. 92-106, Routledge, 2020
Nurturing pedagogical praxis through deliberative communication
Part of Leading higher education as and for public good, p. 142-156, Routledge, 2020
Higher education as and for public good: Past, present and possible futures
Part of Leading higher education as and for public good, p. 37-52, Routledge, 2020
De villkorade utbildningskvaliteterna
Part of Yrkesmänniskan i den kapitaliserade välfärden, p. 157-178, Södertörns högskola, 2019
Part of Nordic Education in a Democratically Troublesome time, p. 61-64, Örebro University, 2019
Juridification of Swedish education – changing conditions for teachers’ professional work
Part of Policing Schools, p. 53-70, Springer, 2019
I ”larmrapportens” skugga: om undervisning och kvalitet i förskolan
Part of Berättelser, p. 57-72, Karlstad University, 2018
En skola som främjar eller förebygger, eller både och?
Part of Att bli lärare, p. 200-204, Liber, 2018
Promotions- och preventionsprogram i skolan
Part of Skolans arbete med elevers psykiska hälsa, p. 49-72, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2017
Rektorer i ett föränderligt utbildningslandskap
Part of Skolans arbete med elevers psykiska hälsa, p. 73-90, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2017
Systematiskt kvalitetsarbete – vad förväntas lärare göra?
Part of Utvärdering och bedömning i skolan, p. 93-107, Natur och kultur, 2017
Professionella förstelärare?: Om den svenska förstelärarreformen
Part of Att ta utbildningens komplexitet på allvar, p. 364-377, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2016
Rektorsutbildningens Janusansikte. Vad ska en rektor kunna?
Part of Vad ska en svensk kunna?, p. 41-72, Daidalos, 2016
Om utbildningspolitiska honnörsbegrepp och deras olika tolkningsutrymmen
Part of Skola för kunskap, valfrihet och trygghet?, p. 85-100, Iustus förlag, 2016
Differentieringsfrågan under 70 år av skol(forms)reformer
Part of Utbildning, makt och politik, p. 98-117, Studentlitteratur AB, 2015
Kunskapsmätning och uppföljningssystem
Part of Utbildning, makt och politik, p. 164-180, Studentlitteratur AB, 2015
Från gemenskap till självkontroll: om den skiftande synen på jämnårigsocialisation i skolan
Part of Sociala relationer, värdegrund och lärarprofessionalitet, p. 17-33, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2015
Från likvärdighet till kvalitet
Part of Vadå likvärdighet?, p. 165-182, Daidalos, 2008
When national policy meets local meaning: education quality as a reform issue
Part of Dilemmas of implementing education reforms, p. 133-144, Uppsala universitet, 2007
Conference papers
From 64 sections to 900 in the Education Act –: on juridification of Swedish education
2023
Enacting the Convention on the Rights of the Child -: in times of juridification
2023
What happened to the glowing activism in the Swedish school rebellion group on Facebook?
2023
2023
Part of Läroplansteoretiska konferensen, 2022
2020
2020
2020
Net based Rebellion and Resistance in education: a comparative study
2020
On collegial deliberation as a tool to counteract racism
2020
On teachers professional ambivalence´when colleagues express racism
2020
2019
Teachers' experiences of conditions for anti-racist action
2019
The Juridification of Teachers’ Professional Work on Knowledge and Values in School
Part of Nera 2019: Education in a Globalized World, p. 821-822, 2019
Enactment of juridification in education: a theoretical exploration
2018
Leading Universities: Senior leaders’ perspectives on the contributions of academic developers?
2018
2018
Enactment of Juridification in Education: a Theoretical Exploration
2018
2018
How to Theoretically Understand the Relation between Curriculum Theory and Enactment Studies?
2018
Higher Education Between Public and Private Good
2018
Do Teachers have a Responsibility to act when Colleagues Express Racism?
2018
Help, my colleague expresses racism!: On professional ambivalence and moral responsibility
2017
Exploring a theoretical framework for understanding juridification in education
2017
Part of Learning and education– material conditions and consequences, 2017
2017
Development toward what?: Aims and values guiding academic developers' practices
2017
Har lärare ett ansvar att agera när kollegor ger uttryck för rasism?
2017
Exploring a theoretical framework for understanding juridification in education
2017
Local enactment of the Swedish national 'advanced teacher reform'
2017
Local enactment of the Swedish national "advanced teacher reform"
2017
A comparative approach to how universities interpret and enact democracy and the public good
2017
Session: Att motverka rasism inom utbildningsväsendet
2017
A framework for studying formation of academic developers in higher education
Part of ECER 2016, 2016
2016
Part of ECER 2016, 2016
2016
A study of local enactment of the 'Advanced teacher reform' in Sweden
Part of ECER 2016, 2016
A study of local enactment of the 'Advanced teacher reform' in Sweden
Part of NERA2016, 2016
From influence to rights? On the need to bring in life, uncertainty and risk in education
Part of NERA2016, 9-11 March 2016, Helsinki, Finland, 2016
From influence to rights?: On the need to bring in life, uncertainty and risk in education
Part of NERA2016, 2016
2015
Part of ECER 2015, 2015
Student Influence: a Paradox in a Goal and Result Oriented Curriculum?
2015
2015
2015
What might the 'first-teacher-reform' lead to in terms of professionalism and professionalization?
2014
Part of ECER 2014, The Past, the Present and Future of Educational Research in Europe, 2014
Teacher agency from a perspective of transactional realism
Part of Teachers matter - But how?, 2014
International knowledge assessments and the strengthened national system for follow-ups
2013
2013
2013
Local Quality Work - in the Age of Accountability
2013
Trying to handle the question of differentiation: 70 years of Swedish school reforms
2013
2013
2012
Systematic quality work: the way to good education?
2012
Systematiskt kvalitetsarbete: en garant för en likvärdig undervisning med hög kvalitet?
2011
2011
Does quality work give a better quality?
2008
Utbildning med kvalitet?: Visst! Men vilken?
2007
Från skola för bildning till skola med kunskapskrav
2007
2007