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Gun-Britt Wärvik
Professor
Department of Education and Special EducationAbout Gun-Britt Wärvik
Research interest
My research primarily focuses on politics of knowledge and changing demands for professional skills. This involves examining how such ambitions are materialized and consequently, how they affect people’s lives and work by stipulating new competencies. My approach is rooted in a bottom-up perspective, focusing on those who are the targets of these change demands and directives, including the hierarchies, boundaries, and disparities that are created and/or perpetuated as a result.
Key words
lifelong learning, politics of knowledge, formation of educational systems, professions, doctoral education, history of womens' vocational education
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Spänningsfält i svensk skolpolitik: Medborgarna mellan nationell välfärdsskola och globaliserad
konkurrensskola
Sverker Lindblad, Monica Reichenberg, Katarina Samuelsson, Helena Wallström, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Björn Rönnerstrand, Anders Carlander, Patrik Öhberg & Annika Bergström (Red.), I rörelse (s 435-451). SOM-institutet vid Göteborgs universitet. SOM-rapport nr 84 - 2025 -
The making of contemporary Swedish teacher education. A policy analysis on science-society interactions in teacher education
reforms
Anders Lindqvist, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Giulia Messina Dahlberg
At the NERA conference in Helsinki, 5-7 March 2025 - 2025 -
Beyond labels: Working out contradictions in Swedish for immigrants (SFI)
education
Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Karin Lumsden Wass, Monica Reichenberg, Gun-Britt Wärvik
EARLI SIG 10, 21 & 25 Conference 2024, Walking the Talk: Co-constructing the politics of meaning, diversity and learning 11th - 13th September 2024, Bari, Italy - 2024 -
Domestic education and technology. Historical development of women´s (T)VET 1930
-197
Åsa Broberg, Viveca Lindberg, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Stockholm International Conference of Research in Vocational Education and Training 2024 - 2024 -
Teacher education between academy and profession: A review of research on relations between teacher education and doctoral
education
Sverker Lindblad, Gun-Britt Wärvik
ECER 2024 Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, August 27-30 - 2024 -
Women in male-dominated technical and vocational education and training in Ethiopia - PPDP and the making of gender
(in)equality
Eskindir Asrat, Samson Melesse, Aimee Haley, Alebachew Haybano, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Stockholm International Conference of Research in Vocational Education and Training - 2024 -
Individualising processes in the making: policy complexities and tensions of municipal adult education in Swedish for
immigrants
Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Karin Lumsden Wass, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research - 2023 -
Education in a Societal Crisis—A Swedish Exception in Mitigating the COVID-19
pandemic
Gun-Britt Wärvik, Sverker Lindblad, Caroline Runesdotter, Anders Lindqvist
Pädagogik des gesellschaftlichen Ausnahmezustandes. Erziehung Erwachsener in der Corona-Pandemie, Eds. Denise Klinge, Arnd-Michael Nohl & Burkhard Schäffer - 2023 -
Bridging the skills gap in TVET: a study on private-public development partnership in
Ethiopia
Samson Melesse, Aimee Haley, Gun-Britt Wärvik
International Journal of Training Research - 2023 -
The reconstruction of Swedish doctoral education over the past 50
years
Britt Marie Apelgren, Sverker Lindblad, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Society for Reserach in Higher Education 2023 - 2023 -
Domestic education and technology – historical development of women´s
(T)VET
Åsa Broberg , Viveca Lindberg , Gun-Britt Wärvik
Paper presented at the JVET conference, Oxford University, 13 - 15 July 2023 - 2023 -
Doctoral Education as Paradigmatic Formation or Education of a Professional Workforce? An International Research
Review
Sverker Lindblad, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Paper presented at the NERA conference, Oslo, 15 -17 March, 2023 - 2023 -
Vocational Education for Women. An Invisible
History
Åsa Broberg, Viveca Lindberg, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Marianne Teräs, Lázaro Moreno Herrera, Janne Kontio & Emma West (Eds.), VIII Stockholm International Conference & Research Workshop on VET May 11–13, 2022: Book of Abstracts - 2022 -
Kvinnors yrkesutbildning: en osynlig
historia
Åsa Broberg, Viveca Lindberg, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Å. Broberg, V. Lindberg & G-B. Wärvik (red). Kunskapstraditioner och yrkeskunnande: Kvinnors yrkesutbildning i historisk belysning - 2022 -
Introduktion. Om kvinnors yrkesutbildning i samhällshistoriska
sammanhang
Åsa Broberg, Viveca Lindberg, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Å. Broberg, V. Lindberg & G-B. Wärvik (red). Kunskapstraditioner och yrkeskunnande. Kvinnors yrkesutbildning i historisk belysning. - 2022 -
Restructuring Doctoral Education in
Sweden
Britt Marie Apelgren, Sverker Lindblad, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Doctoral Education as If People Matter: Critical Issues for the Future - 2022 -
Curriculum Theorizing the Reforming of Doctoral Education: Reflections on Paradigmatic Changes in Educational Research
in
Sweden
Sverker Lindblad, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Paper presented at Nordic Curriculum Theory Conference: Education between Hope and Happening. Linneus University. Oct 20-21, 2022 - 2022 -
Kunskapstraditioner och yrkeskunnande. Kvinnors yrkesutbildning i historisk
belysning
Åsa Broberg, Viveca Lindberg, Gun-Britt Wärvik
2022 -
Interventions for Inclusion in TVET through Private-Public Development Partnership in Ethiopia and
Zambia
Samson Melesse, Aimee Haley, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE) - 2022 -
School lockdown? Comparative analyses of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in European
countries
Sverker Lindblad, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Inger Berndtsson, Elsi-Brith Jodal, Anders Lindqvist, Giulia Messina Dahlberg, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Caroline Runesdotter, Katarina Samuelsson, Jonas Udd, Martina Wyszynska Johansson
European Educational Research Journal - 2021 -
North-South collaboration: On the making of a Center for Comparative Education and Policy Studies at Addis Ababa
University
Alebachew Kemisso Haybano, Aimee Haley, Sverker Lindblad, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education - 2021 -
On the Making of International Competition as Governing Principle: Studies of the Interplay Between Science and Society in
Education.
Gun-Britt Wärvik, Daniel Pettersson , Sverker Lindblad
ECER conference, Geneva, online September 6-10, 2021 - 2021 -
In education we trust: on handling the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Swedish welfare
state
Sverker Lindblad, Anders Lindqvist, Caroline Runesdotter, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft - 2021 -
Women’s vocational education 1890–1990 in Finland and Sweden: the example of vocational home economics
education
Åsa Broberg , Viveca Lindberg, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Journal of Vocational Education and Training - 2021 -
On Knowledge Organization and Recognition of Research in and on Teacher Education: Views from
above.
Sverker Lindblad, Gustaf Nelhans, Daniel Pettersson, Thomas Popkewitz, Katarina Samuelsson, Gun-Britt Wärvik
ECER conference, Geneva, online September 6-10, 2021 - 2021 -
The Comparativistic Turn: Making Use of the Agora Concept within Comparative
Education
Daniel Pettersson, Gun-Britt Wärvik
At the panel On Educational Research in Sweden, WERA Virtual Focal Meeting, July 7-9 2021 - 2021 -
Doctoral education making researchers or teaching professionals? Findings from a systematic research
review
Sverker Lindblad, Anna-Carin Jonsson, Gun-Britt Wärvik
At the panel On Educational Research in Sweden, WERA Virtual Focal Meeting, July 7-9 2021 - 2021 -
Teaching as pedagogical
praxis
Stephen Kemmis, Christine Edward-Groves, Rachel Jakhelln, Sarojni Choy, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Lisbeth Gyllander Torkildsen, Charlotte Arkenback-Sundström
Pedagogy, Education, and Praxis in Critical Times. Mahon, K., Edwards-Groves, C., Francisco, S., Kaukko, M., Kemmis, S., Petrie, K. (Eds.) - 2020 -
School differentiation and re-forming human kinds in Swedish welfare state education after the second world
war
Gun-Britt Wärvik, Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson, Caroline Runesdotter
The international emergence of educational sciences in the post-world war two years: Quantification, visualization, and making kinds of people. Popkewitz, T.S., Pettersson, D. & Hsiao, K. (Eds.) - 2020 -
Dokumentation och utvärdering som
styrmedel
Ann-Charlotte Lindgren, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Förskollärares egen forskning. I. N. Pramling & I. Pramling Samuelsson (red.) - 2020 -
Integration of learning for refugee and migrant students: VET teachers’ practices through practice theory
lens
Sarojni Choy, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Journal of Vocational Education and Training - 2019 -
Vocationalising Specialized Concepts: Appropriating Meanings Through
Feedback
Martina Wyszynska Johansson, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Sarojni Choy
Vocations and Learning - 2019 -
Co-production of knowledge on the educational Agora. Media acivities and
logics
Gun-Britt Wärvik, Caroline Runesdotter, Daniel Pettersson
New practices of comparison, quantification and expertise in education. Conducting Empirically Based Research. C. Elde Mølstad & D. Pettersson (red.) - 2019 -
On Doctoral Education Research - Paradigms and Politics of Knowledge: A Research
Review
Sverker Lindblad, Gun-Britt Wärvik
ECER conference, 3-6 September 2019 in Hamburg - 2019 -
Individualisation in the making: policy complexities and tensions of the Municipal Adult Education in Swedish for
Immigrants
Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Karin Lumsden Wass, Gun-Britt Wärvik
ESREA 9th Triennial European Research Conference, 19-22 September 2019, Belgrade, Serbia - 2019 -
Joint supervision: Perspectives from Swedish and Ethiopian PhD
Supervisors.
Aimee Haley, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Alebachew Kemisso
Paper presenterat vid Högskolepedagogisk konferens, okt 2019 Göteborgs universitet - 2019 -
Co-production of knowledge on the educational Agora. Media acivities and
logics
Gun-Britt Wärvik, Caroline Runesdotter, Daniel Pettersson
New practices of comparison, quantification and expertise in education. Conducting Empirically Based Research. C. Elde Mølstad & D. Pettersson (red.) - 2019 -
Att integrera skola och arbete - Utmaningar i vårdlärares möte med
nyanlända
Karin Lumsden Wass, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Sarojni Choy
Att utveckla utbildningspraktiker. Analys, förståelse och förändring genom teorin om praktikarkitekturer. I. Henning Loeb, L. Langelotz & K. Rönnerman. (red) - 2019 -
Teaching as Professional Practice. At the symposium: Pedagogy, Education and Praxis: An eleven-year progress report from an international research network. At the ECER conference, September 2019 in
Hamburg.
Kemmis Stephen, Rachel Jekhelln, Charlotte Arkenback-Sundström, Gun-Britt Wärvik
At the symposium: Pedagogy, Education and Praxis: An eleven-year progress report from an international research network. At the ECER conference, September 2019 in Hamburg. - 2019 -
Policy Making and Positioning at the Education
Agora
Gun-Britt Wärvik
At the panel "International large-scale assessments meeting educational policy-making in a restructuring Nordic welfare state", CIES annual meeting in San Fransisco, April 14-18 - 2019 -
Actors and Policy-Making on the Education Agora in the Context of Sweden
1990-
2017
Gun-Britt Wärvik
Paper presented at the NERA conference in Uppsala, March 6-8 - 2019 -
International Large-Scale Assessments in Political and Professional Decision Making in a Nordic Welfare
State.
Daniel Pettersson, Gun-Britt Wärvik
At the panel "Educational Facts in the Making? International Large-Scale Assessments in Research, Mass Media, and Policy Discourses", AERA Annual Meeting in Toronto, April 5-9. - 2019 -
Co-production of comparative education research and welfare state education
policy.
Rita Foss Lindblad, Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson, Gun-Britt Wärvik
The program for the Comparative and International Education Society Conference 2018 in Mexico City. - 2018 -
How the Media in the Post World War Years was Giving Intelligibility to the Co‐Production of the Educational ‘Failure’/‘Success'.
At the symposium How Nature is Given Names: The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in The Post World War Two Years.
(Chair: Thomas S. Popkewitz (University of Wisconsin‐Madison)
Discussants: Lynn Fendler (Michigan State University), Noah W. Sobe (Loyola
University)
Chicago)
Gun-Britt Wärvik, Caroline Runesdotter, Daniel Pettersson
ISCHE, August 2018 in Berlin - 2018 -
Considerations for the Integration of Students’
Experiences
Sarojni Choy, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Viveca Lindberg
S.Choy, G-B. Wärvik, V. Lindberg (Eds.). Integration of Vocational Education and Training Experiences. Purposes, Practices and Principles - 2018 -
Integration between school and work: developments, conceptions and
applications
Sarojni Choy, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Viveca Lindberg
S. Choy, G-B. Wärvik and V. Lindberg (eds.). Integration of vocational education and training experiences. Purposes, practises and principles - 2018 -
Concepts, purposes and practices of integration across national
curriculum
Stephen Billett, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Sarojni Choy
S. Choy, G-B. Wärvik and V. Lindberg (eds.). Integration of vocational education and training experiences. Purposes, practises and principles - 2018 -
Integration Between School and Work: Changes and Challenges in the Swedish VET
1970–2011
Gun-Britt Wärvik, Viveca Lindberg
Integration of Vocational Education and Training Experiences Purposes, Practices and Principles - 2018 -
Integration of Vocational Education and Training Experiences
Purposes, Practices and
Principles
Sarojni Choy, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Viveca Lindberg
2018 -
Welfare state education in change: A historical analysis focusing on a research-policy agora and globalization in the politics of knowledge. At the Panel Session Comparative Education Research at the Education Policy Agora: On Globalizing Tandem Processes in Nordic Welfare State Education Policy and
Research
Gun-Britt Wärvik
CIES, March 2018 in Mexico City. - 2018
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