Johan Wickström

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Education

Telephone:
+46 18 471 16 19
Mobile phone:
+46 70 167 92 68
E-mail:
johan.wickstrom@edu.uu.se
Visiting address:
Von Kraemers allé 1 A
752 37 Uppsala
Postal address:
Box 2136
750 02 Uppsala

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I am Associate Professor in Curriculum Studies, Distinguished University Teacher and Doctor of Theology in History of Religions.

I teach in PIVA . Previously I was Deputy Director and Educational Developer at UP and Senior Lecturer in Religious Education.

Research in Higher Education Pedagogy, Religious Education and History of Education.

Chair of the Pedagogical Academy of Excellent Teachers.

Co-editor of the on-line journal Skola och Samhälle (S.O.S.) (School and Society).

Keywords

  • curriculum studies
  • history of education
  • academic teaching and learning
  • pedagogy
  • education
  • subject didactics
  • history of religions
  • religious education (RE)
  • learning
  • teacher training
  • textbook studies

Biography

Academic degrees and titles

Docent (Associate professor/Reader) in Curriculum Studies (2024)

Distinguished University Teacher (Excellent Teacher) (2023)

Certified Teacher in RE and History, from year 3 to Upper Secondary School (2013)

Doctor of Theology (ThD) in History of Religions (2008)

Licentiate of Theology (ThL) in History of Religions (2005)

Master of Arts (MA) in Religious Studies, History, Agrarian History and Education (2001)

Bachelor of Education (BEd) for the Compulsory School (History and RE) (2001)

Academic employments

Senior Lecturer in Curriculum Studies, Dep of Education (2022-)

Educational Developer, Dep of Education (2018-2022)

Deputy Director, Unit for Academic Teaching and Learning (2015-2018)

Educational Developer, Unit for Academic Teaching and Learning (2007-2018)

Senior Lecturer, Religious Education (part-time), Dep of Theology (2009-2015)

Doctoral Candidate in History of Religions, Dep of Theology (2002-2007)

Teacher in the Compulsory School, Uppsala kommun (2000-2002)

Research

My research is conducted in relation to several fields/disciplines, namely History of Education, History of Religions, Curriculum Studies, Religious Education and Higher Education. My approaches are mainly historical, ideological-critical and/or conceptual. From 2022 I'm involved in project funded by the Swedish Research Council: The State-Controlled Education and the Construction of Class-Identities in School Texts from 1860 to 1930

In my doctoral thesis Våra förfäder var hedningar (2008) I analyzed the ideological use of Nordic Antiquity and Old Norse Religion in public school texts. I developed an analytical concept of myth based on theoretical perspectives from the Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci and the American Historian of Religions, Bruce Lincoln, and applied it to text book narratives. Since then I've written on uses of texts in education and on inclusive pedagogy in Highed Education (especially the report Mångfaldsmedveten pedagogik för universitetslärare, 2011).

From 2025 I will lead the research project "The seminar as an arena of democracy in higher education" ( Seminariet som demokratisk arena i högre utbildning: I spänningsfältet mellan ideal och verklighet), funded by the research program "Democracy and Higher Education" (Demokrati och högre utbildning. ) The project will be conducted together with PhD Ulrike Schnaas at the Unit for Academic Teaching and Learning.

I'm also interested in ideological and critical perspectives on the concept of "religion" and in dominating, hegemonic models and concepts in Higher Education, such as "Constructive Alignment". Earlier (2015-2019) was involved in international research project (funded by the Norwegian Research Council) on the roles and academic values connected to the profession as Academic Developer: Formation and Competence Building of University Academic Developers.

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Participation in "Filosofiska rummet", a philosophy podcast

Johan Wickström

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