Stefan Bengtsson

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Education

Telephone:: +46 18 471 62 62
E-mail:: stefan.bengtsson@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

Stefan Bengtsson (associate professor) is a senior lecturer of didactics at the department of education (Uppsala University) and his research is focusing on issues of sustainability in education, didactics (curriculum theory), comparative education, and analysis of teaching and instruction. During the period 2015-2018 he has been national coordinator for ESD in Sweden and link convenor (chair) for the Environmental and Sustainability Education network of the European Education Research Association during the period 2018 to 2023. In parallel to his academic work, he has been providing technical assistance to international efforts to address sustainability and gender issues in education, in particular in the East and South-East Asian context.

Research

My work is focused on understanding the conditions of possibility of change in and through education and learning. In efforts to give meaning to these conditions, I have been drawing on critical curriculum studies (Englund, Popkewitz), political theory (Laclau), and especially continental philosophy (Derrida, Foucault). In my latest work, I focus on reconceiving the conditions of learning and education in the context of the Anthropocene, aiming to translate the realist ontology of Object-oriented Ontology (Harman, Morton) into an educational context. My analytical work is focused on a qualitative analysis of educational processes as well as education policy. In particular, I have worked with post-foundational comparative education research policy analysis.

Current and past research projects:

International-

The Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education Project 2019- (MECCE): https://mecce.ca/
SUSTEMO (2024-2027) - Generating or restricting change for sustainability transitions: A didactic study of the effects of emotions in sustainability-related learning processes: https://cdo.ugent.be/project/generating-or-restricting-change-sustainability-transitions-didactic-study-effects-emotions
Science Education for Action and Engagement toward Sustainability 2019-2022 (SEAS): https://www.seas.uio.no/
Towards Climate Friendly Vacation Practices 2021-2023 (CliFVac): https://projects.au.dk/clifvac/
The t-learning transformative knowledge network 2016-2019 (Social Science Council): https://transgressivelearning.org/
Mapping Education for Sustainability in the Nordic Countries 2018-2019 (MESIN): https://pub.norden.org/temanord2021-511/#

National -

Sedvänjor i undervisning om kontroversiella hållbarhetsfrågor 2018-2022 (VR): https://www.facebook.com/edukontrovers
Open schooling for sustainable cities and communities 2018-2021 (FORMAS)

Media

Dark Pedagogy Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/39lfOPicYvGzvHWUaFr1rI

Publications

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Articles in journal

Articles, review/survey

Report on the symposium “speculative realism in environmental education and the philosophy of education”

Bengtsson, Stefan L.; Andreasen Lysgaard, Jonas; Kardyb, Daniel; Varpanen, Jan et al.

Part of Environmental Education Research, p. 1177-1187, 2024
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Chapters in book

Action Incontinence: Action and Competence in Dark Pedagogy

Lysgaard Andreasen, Jonas; Bengtsson, Stefan L.

Part of Pedagogy in the Anthropocene, p. 107-128, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
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Death

Bengtsson, Stefan L.

Part of Dark Pedagogy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
A pedagogy of vulnerability

Bengtsson, Stefan L.

Part of Dark Pedagogy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
Outlining an Education Without Nature and Object-Oriented Learning

Bengtsson, Stefan L.

Part of Research Handbook on Childhoodnature, p. 1-22, Springer, 2018
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