Christina Osbeck
Head of Department
Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and ProfessionalProfessor
Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and ProfessionalAbout Christina Osbeck
- Head of Department at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies (IDPP)
- Senior lecturer in subject matter education, specialising in social studies
- Docent in religious studies, Karlstad University (2011 - )
Research interests My research is primarily focused on two areas: religious education and values education, which may both be said to include issues relating to ethics education. Ethics education in particular has recently become a focus in my research and constitutes a theme that recurs in many different ways in our research environment. We work with ethics education as a separate field within religious education, as a common theme in social studies education, in a broader values-education context and as an aspect of the department’s research in ESD (Education for Sustainable Development).
Since January 2015, I have been leader of a project funded by the Swedish Research Council: “What May be Learnt in Ethics? Varieties of Conceptions of Ethical Competence to be Taught in Compulsory School” (2015-2017), where I am working with Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Johan Tykesson and Karin Sporre. The aim of the study is to identify and elucidate various conceptions of ethical competence and to analyse them critically in relation to each other and in relation to ethical theory as being potential content in the teaching of ethics in compulsory school. More information about the project can be found on the website for the project.
My interest in issues in the point of intersection between religious education and values education was already apparent in my doctoral thesis (2006), which focuses on life understandings in students in year 8 and shows how victimisation is used as a tool to maintain “correct perspectives” about, for example, how life works and what gives it value and meaning. In this way, a dominant life understanding is collectively re/constructed, where value and meaning are tied to individual competitiveness, and adaptation is understood as a way to achieve this goal. The result raises questions about the school’s “hidden” fundamental values, which are discussed in the study from a religious education perspective, where the results of the focus interviews are placed in relation to values perspectives in the subject’s traditional material. In “Life understanding of victimisation”, the perspectives that are developed are understood as re/constructed and lived in the discursive practices in which the individual takes part (see, for example, Michel Foucault, Bronwyn Davies). These theoretical perspectives, where knowledge is related to communication in specific practices, and language takes a central position, have been used in several later projects and have been developed in relation to sociocultural perspectives on learning. One of the larger research projects that I have worked with, and still report findings from, is “Mastering the language of being in the world”. Together with colleagues at the Centre for the Didactics of Social Science Subjects at Karlstad University, I worked with teaching in social studies in middle school, in my case teaching of religious education. Learning in the area of social science subjects is seen here as gradually developing a richer and more nuanced language about the world around us. The subject of religious education contributes especially to the language of Life, of existence, of our “being in the world”. The teaching and learning of three year-six classes were followed and documented during a school year.
In my work on religious education, I have also been involved with several international comparative projects and at present am working on a project where we analyse the conditions for knowledge production in religious education in the Nordic countries and the possible consequences of these. A complete list of the research projects with which I have worked may be found in my CV below.
Teaching Interests In my work with undergraduate education, I focus above all on religious education for student teachers of the school subject religious education but also on values education in the Bachelor’s programme in education. In postgraduate education, I am responsible for courses in subject matter education and for supervising PhD candidates.
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Fiction-based ethics education in Swedish
compulsory school – reflections on a research
project
Karin Sporre, Christina Osbeck, Annika Lilja, David Lifmark, Olof Franck, Anna Lyngfelt
Nordidactica - 2022-01-01 -
Bridging ‘as is’ and ‘as if’ by reading fiction in
ethics education
Anna Lyngfelt, Karin Sporre, David Lifmark, Annika Lilja, Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck
Cambridge Journal of Education - 2022-01-01 -
Taking the moral authorship of children and youth seriously in times of the
Anthropocene
K. Sporre, H. Lotz-Sisitka, Christina Osbeck
Ethics and Education - 2022-01-01 -
How did children respond to questions and tasks concerning existential questions and understandings? Preliminary re-analyses of children’s existential responses in the UMRe project
1968-1973
Christina Osbeck, Annika Lilja
International Seminar on Religious Education and Values - 2021-01-01 -
Skolutveckling genom didaktiskt klassrumsarbete i samverkan lärare
forskare
Annika Lilja, Olof Franck, David Lifmark, Anna Lyngfelt, Christina Osbeck, Karin Sporre
Skolutveckling i teori och praktik. Hirsch, Å. & Olin, A. (red) - 2020-01-01 -
Barns existentiell frågor idag - och för 50 år
sedan
Annika Lilja, Christina Osbeck, Karin Sporre, Katarina Kärnebro, Mette Buchardt
Årsbok 2020. Föreningen lärare i religionskunskap. - 2020-01-01 -
Funded Research in Relation to Curriculum Development - Tendencies in Religious Education in Sweden 2001 -
2019.
Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck
Religions - 2020-01-01 -
Understanding, acting, verbalizing and persevering - Swedish teachers' perspectives on important ethical competences for
students
Annika Lilja, Christina Osbeck
Journal of Moral Education - 2020-01-01 -
Ethics Education in Swedish RE - and Future Content for Ethics Education in Compulsory
School
Karin Sporre, Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Christina Osbeck
Facing the Unknown Future: Religion and Education on the Move. Religious Divesity and Education in Europe, Vol. 14. ter Avest, I., Bakker, C., Ipgrave, J., Leonhard, S. & Schreiner, P. (eds) - 2020-01-01 -
Lågstadielärare talar om sin undervisning i de samhällsorienterande
ämnena
Anna-Lena Lilliestam, Carina Holmqvist Lidh, Christina Osbeck
Nordidactica - 2020-01-01 -
Powerful knowledge? A multidimensional ethical competence through a multitude of
narratives
Christina Osbeck
Hts Teologiese Studies-Theological Studies - 2020-01-01 -
What are children’s responses to questions about the surrounding world, existence and life? Ways to analyse, result patterns from 1970, and some examples of newly written
texts
Katarina Kärnebro, Annika Lilja, Christina Osbeck
NERA Åbo - 2020-01-01 -
To learn ethics through fiction - expanded repertoires about the lived, the good and possible common
life
Annika Lilja, Christina Osbeck
Konferenspublikation NCRE 2019: Nordic Conference of Religious Education 2019 - 2019-01-01 -
Knowledge development of tweens in RE – the importance of school class and
communication
Christina Osbeck
British Journal of Religious Education - 2019-01-01 -
Didactic classroom studies - A potential research
direction.
Christina Osbeck, Åke Ingerman, Silwa Claesson
- 2018-01-01 -
Editorial
2018:4
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
Nordidactica - Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education - 2018-01-01 -
Questions and speech genres in social studies classrooms - Comparisons of communication
patterns
Christina Osbeck
Didactic classroom studies - A potential research direction - 2018-01-01 -
A potential research direction for didactic classroom
studies
Christina Osbeck, Åke Ingerman
Didactic classroom - A potential research direction. - 2018-01-01 -
An introduction to didactic classroom
studies
Christina Osbeck, Åke Ingerman, Silwa Claesson
Didactic classroom studies - A potential research direction - 2018-01-01 -
Opponenten recenserar: Anna Henriksson Perssons
licentiatuppsats
Christina Osbeck
Utbildning och Lärande - 2018-01-01 -
Abilities, knowledge requirements and national tests in RE: the Swedish case as an example in the outcome-focused school and society of
today.
Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Karin Sporre, Johan Tykesson
Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie - 2018-01-01 -
Editorial
2018:3
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
Nordidactica - Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education - 2018-01-01 -
Editorial Nordidactica
2018:2
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
Nordidactica - 2018-01-01 -
Editorial Nordidactica 2018:1: Historiedidaktik, SO-didaktik och ämnesdidaktik – Nordidactica som ett forum för
möten
Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck
Nordidactica - 2018-01-01 -
Vad kan man lära i etik? Skilda konceptioner av etisk kompetens för undervisning i en obligatorisk
skola.
Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck, Annika Lilja
Paper presenterat vid Nationellt forum för religionsdidaktisk/pedagogisk forskning (NFR), Trollhättan, 27-28 september. - 2018-01-01 -
Religions, Beliefs and Worldviews Based on Students’ Questions – An Inclusive Education in a Diverse
Society"
Christina Osbeck, Kerstin von Brömssen
Paper presented to the conference "Religious and Christian Education 2030 - National Perspectives for Future RE/CE", Ebernburg, 31st May-2nd June - 2018-01-01 -
Is there an interest in ethics? teachers' and pupils' perspectives in a Swedish assessment
era
Christina Osbeck, Annika Lilja
International seminar on religious education and values Session XXI 2018 - 2018-01-01 -
Possible competences to be aimed at in Ethics Education – Ethical competences highlighted in educational research
journals
Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Karin Sporre
Journal of Beliefs and Values - 2018-01-01 -
Ethical competence – a comparison between the Swedish and the Icelandic curricula and some teachers’
views
Annika Lilja, Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck, Karin Sporre
Education 3-13 - 2018-01-01 -
Didaktiska klassrumsstudier – Innebörder, styrkor och
svårigheter
Christina Osbeck, Miranda Rocksén
Presentation vid Nationell konferens om den praktiknära skolforskningens teori och praktik, 24 maj 2018, Stockholm - 2018-01-01 -
Challenging the concept of ethical literacy within Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): storytelling as a method within sustainability
didactics
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
Education 3 - 13: International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education - 2018-01-01 -
Researching Selective Traditions in Religious Education in Swedish
Middle School. Delayed Meetings with “the World”, its Religions, and
Existential
Dimensions.
Christina Osbeck
In F. Schweitzer & R. Boschki (Eds.). Researching Religious Education: Classroom Processes and Outcomes. - 2018-01-01 -
Varieties of conception of ethical competence – What constitutes central goals in Ethics Education
(EE)?
Christina Osbeck, Annika Lilja
Paper presented to the 14th Nordic Conference on Religious Education, Joensuu, 12-15 June - 2017-01-01 -
Editorial Nordidactica
2017:4
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
Nordidactica - 2017-01-01 -
Editorial Nordidactica 2017:3: SO-didaktisk forskning som förmår bidra på skilda
nivåer
Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck
Nordidactica - 2017-01-01 -
The EthiCo
project
Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Karin Sporre, Johan Tykesson
What may be learnt in ethics? Present and future conceptions of ethical competence - 2017-01-01 -
Epistemologies of Religious Education Research in the Nordic Welfare
states.
Mette Buchardt, Christina Osbeck
Nordidactica - 2017-01-01 -
Bedömning i etik: utmaningar och möjligheter med hänsyn till undervisning om etik i svensk
grundskola
Olof Franck, Kristoffer Larsson, Annika Lilja, Christina Osbeck, Johan Tykesson
Forskning pågår. Utbildningsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Göteborgs universitet 20171031 - 2017-01-01 -
Symposium: The RE subject in the Nordic countries 2017 – opportunities and challenges
Leader of symposium (with: Kerstin von Brömssen, Mette Buchardt, Arto Kalloniemi, Gunnar Gunnarsson & Geir
Skeie)
Christina Osbeck
NOFA 6 - Nordisk Fagdidaktisk konference 29-31 maj 2017 - 2017-01-01 -
What ethical competence do pupils need according to
teachers?
Annika Lilja, Christina Osbeck
NERA Copenhagen 2017-03-23 - 2017-03-25 - 2017-01-01 -
Skolans dolda etik – om kränkning och
utanförskap
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen - 2017-01-01 -
The RE classroom as a safe public space: critical perspectives on dialouge, demands for respect, and nuanced religious
education
Christina Osbeck, Karin Sporre, Geir Skeie
In M. Rothgangel, K. von Brömssen, H-G Hemibrock, G. Skeie (Eds.). Location, space and place in religious education - 2017-01-01 -
Ethical Competences in Pupils’ Texts: Existential Understandings and Ethical Insights as Central but Tacit in the
Curriculum
Christina Osbeck
Franck, O. (Ed.). Assessment in Ethics Education - A Case of National Tests in Religious Education - 2017-01-01 -
Discourses of Available and Sustainable Lives: Ethical Literacy Offered to Tweens Through Fiction
Reading
Christina Osbeck
Franck, O., & Osbeck, C. (Eds.). Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development: Young People, Subjectivity and Democratic Participation - 2017-01-01 -
Closing
remarks
Christina Osbeck
Franck, O., & Osbeck, C. (Eds.). Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development: Young People, Subjectivity and Democratic Participation - 2017-01-01 -
Preface
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
Franck, O., & Osbeck, C. (Eds.). Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development: Young People, Subjectivity and Democratic Participation - 2017-01-01 -
Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development
Young People, Subjectivity and Democratic
Participation
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
- 2017-01-01 -
Att lära sig uppskatta den oundvikliga
oförutsägbarheten
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen - 2017-01-01 -
Examples of knowledge contributions in Swedish RE – A discussion of disciplines as frames for knowledge
re/production
Christina Osbeck
Nordidactica - 2017-01-01 -
What may be learnt in ethics? Varieties of conceptions of ethical competence to be taught in compulsory
school
Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Karin Sporre, Johan Tykesson
The 44th NERA Conference, 9-11 Mars, Helsinki. - 2016-01-01 -
Between Knowledge and Formation – Perspectives of Swedish Teachers on the Aims of Ethics
Education
Christina Osbeck
Symposium Complexity in Education: From Horror to Passion, Amersfoort, 11 November - 2016-01-01 -
Skönlitteratur i klassrumsarbetet bidrar till etisk
kompetens
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen. - 2016-01-01 -
Values as part of pupils’ ethical
competence
Christina Osbeck
The 20th Session of the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values, Chicago, 31 July-5 August - 2016-01-01 -
Varieties of Ethical Competences in Pupils’ Responses to National Tests in ethics – Narratives about Victimization and Possible
Solutions
Christina Osbeck
ECER Dublin 2016-08-23 - 2016-08-26, Symposium: Varieties of Conceptions of Ethical Competence Displayed in Pupils’ Responses to National Tests in Ethics - 2016-01-01 -
Varieties of Conceptions of Ethical Competence Displayed in Pupils’ Responses to National Tests in
Ethics
Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Karin Sporre
ECER Dublin 2016-08-23 - 2016-08-26, Symposium: Varieties of Conceptions of Ethical Competence Displayed in Pupils’ Responses to National Tests in Ethics - 2016-01-01 -
Att resonera om vardagliga moraliska frågor – som utanförskap och
kränkning
Christina Osbeck
Religioner, livsåskådningar och etik – för lärare årskurs 4–6 - 2016-01-01 -
Mer toleransfostran än
ämneskunskap
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen - 2016-01-01 -
Ethical competence as displayed in utterances of
pupils
Christina Osbeck, Johan Tykesson
NERA Helsinki 2016-03-09 - 2016-03-11, Symposium: What may be learnt in ethics? Varieties of conceptions of ethical competence to be taught in compulsory school - 2016-01-01 -
Religioner, livsåskådningar och etik. För lärare årskurs 4 - 6
(red)
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck, Kerstin von Brömssen
- 2016-01-01 -
Vikten av en relevant religionsdidaktisk
forskning
Christina Osbeck
Religion och livsfrågor - 2015-01-01 -
Utveckling av SO-undervisning genom visuella
berättelser
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen - 2015-01-01 -
What may be learnt in ethics? Varieties of conceptions of ethical competence to be taught in compulsory
school
Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Annika Lindskog, Christina Osbeck, Karin Sporre, Johan Tykesson
The 5th NoFa-Conference (Nordisk Fagdidaktisk konferens), Helsinki, Finland, 27-29 May - 2015-01-01 -
Den religiösa texten som mål eller medel i
religionskunskapsböcker
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen - 2015-01-01 -
Epistemologies of Religious Education – Examples from Denmark, Finland, Norway and
Sweden
Mette Buchardt, Oddrun Bråten, Christina Osbeck, Geir Skeie, Martin Ubani
The 13th Nordic Conference on Religious Education, Tartu, Estonia, 15-18 June - 2015-01-01 -
Challenges of Assessment in Ethics – Teachers’ reflections when assessing National
Tests
Christina Osbeck, Olof Franck, Annika Lilja, Annika Lindskog
EDUCARE – Vetenskapliga skrifter - 2015-01-01 -
Challenging the concept of ethical literacy for sustainable development (ESD): Storytelling as a method within sustainability
didactics
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
8th WEEC World Environmental Education Congress, Planet and People - how can they develop together?, Gothenburg 29th 0f June - 2nd of July http://weec2015.org/programme-2/abstract-database/ - 2015-01-01 -
Changes in pupil-responses in RE in three different school classes, in three different spaces and
places
Christina Osbeck
The European Network for Religious Education in Europe through Contextual Approaches (ENRECA), Vienna 9-11 April - 2015-01-01 -
Challenging the concept of ethical literacy in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): storytelling as a method within sustainability
didactics
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
Abstract book, NERA Gothenburg 2015-03-04 - 2015-03-06 - 2015-01-01 -
Appropriating Language of ”Being in the World” – Teaching and Learning in RE for 12-year-old Children in
Sweden
Christina Osbeck
Workshop on Social Studies in Practice, Karlstad 15-16 December - 2014-01-01 -
Social Studies and Cross Disciplinary Themes Occurring in
Teaching
Christina Osbeck
Workshop on Social Studies in Practice, Karlstad, 15-16 December - 2014-01-01 -
Conditions for Teaching and Learning in Religious Education (RE) - Perspectives of Teachers and Pupils at the Beginning of the 6th Grade in
Sweden
Christina Osbeck
Nordidactica: Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education - 2014-01-01 -
Fasta undervisningsmål kan försvåra genuin
klassrumsdialog
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen - 2014-01-01 -
Religious Education in
Sweden
Christina Osbeck
Basics of Religious Education, Vienna, 22-23 May - 2014-01-01 -
Etikdidaktisk forskning närmast
obefintlig
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen - 2014-01-01 -
Är program lösningen på det svåra antimobbningsarbetet? Skolpersonals och elevers erfarenheter av att arbeta med program mot
mobbning
Christina Osbeck, Åsa Söderström
Värdepedagogik Etik och demokrati i förskola och skola - 2014-01-01 -
Religious Education at Schools in
Sweden
Christina Osbeck, Geir Skeie
Religious Education at Schools in Europe: Part 3: Northern Europe - 2014-01-01 -
More purpose than meaning in RE: a response to James Conroy, David Lundie, and Vivienne
Baumfield
Christina Osbeck
Religion, education and society - 2014-01-01 -
Teaching and learning in Ethics at Intermediate Stage in
Sweden
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
Konferensbidrag. ECER 1 - 5 september 2014 i Porto. "The Past, Present and Future of Educational Research in Europe". - 2014-01-01 -
Teaching and learning Ethics at intermediate stage in
Sweden
Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck
Nationell Ämnesdidaktisk konferens (NÄD) i Göteborg den 9 -11 april - 2014-01-01 -
Teaching and learning in RE and Social Studies for 12-year-old children in Sweden: The large differences of the little
details?
Christina Osbeck
The 12th Nordic Conference on Religious Education, 10-13 June, Reykjavik; http://vefsetur.hi.is/ncre2013/sites/vefsetur.hi.is.enirdelm2011/files/Abstraktar%20NCRE%202013_m%C3%A1lstofur.pdf - 2013-01-01 -
Kristen norm ger stolthet över egna
perspektiv
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen - 2013-01-01 -
Sammanhanget viktigt för upplevelsen av religiös
mångfald
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen - 2013-01-01 -
Dramaundervisning ger positiva attityder till religiös
mångfald
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen - 2013-01-01 -
Dörren mellan förenkling och komplexitet måste hållas på
glänt
Christina Osbeck
Skolverket: Ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom samhällsorienterande ämnen - 2013-01-01 -
Social Studies – One Context in which Central RE Knowledge in Sweden is
Constructed
Christina Osbeck
Exploring Context in Religious Education Research - 2013-01-01 -
Bringing Environmentalism Home: Children’s influence on family consumption in the Nordic countries and
beyond
Bengt Larsson, Magnus Andersson, Christina Osbeck
Childhood - 2010-01-01