Malin Tväråna

Associate professor (Docent) in Curriculum Studies, specializing in Social Sciences Education. I teach social science/social studies and civics education, as well as didactic theory and methods.

My research focuses civics and citizenship education, the role of subjectification and agency in critical thinking and democracy, and education development research. Particular methodological interests: Phenomenography, Variation theory, Activity theory, Design research.

Ongoing projects

• Sustainable models - a comparative study of visual ESD models in social science and natural science
• Students' abilites, attitudes and democratic ideal in a world of fake news
• Framing political issues in Civics - a didactical model

Earlier research

• Project leader: "Is a picture worth a thousand words? Visual literacy in social studies".
• Leader of the network for social studies subjects at Stockholm Teaching and Learning Studies
• Participant in the project General and subject-specific approaches to digital source criticism in social studies, history, biology, psychology and photographic images.

Other

• Coordinator of SIG 9 Phenomenography and Variation Theory at EARLI (European Association of Learning and Instruction)
• Steering group of The Phenomenography and Variation Theory Research Front Initiative
• Network leader of the regional network for education development research in collaboration with schools at Uppsala university (RUF).
• Chair and Editorial board member of the journal Skola och Samhälle [School and society].

Leader of the network for social science/social studies subjects at Stockholm Teaching and Learning Study where we run a research project on Visual representations in social science education, funded by the national ULF project for the development of research collaboration between academia and schools.

I am also involved in an interdisciplinary project on source criticism and source fidelity, funded by the School Research Institute.