Maggie Oneill
About Maggie Oneill
I am a fourth PhD student in educational work. I am generally interested in critical approaches to educational research and am interested in problematizing taken for granted notions in education, educational work and educational research.
I have a MS in International and Comparative Education from Stockholm University (2019). My thesis problematized the peace discourse that was created in educational material from World’s Largest Lesson. Through a transnational feminist critical discourse analysis of discussions of violence, I argued that the educational material creates a version of peace that is decontextualized, dehistoricized, depoliticized, privileges individuals, and maintains the status quo.
Research
Drawing on educational philosophy and prison abolitionist theory, my current research project exposes the educational implications of when matters of the schools are treated as matters of the police. Further, I explore how the work of responding to violence in the school can be educationally understood. I engage in theoretical inquiry that is grounded in the context of juridification of schools and in recent government investigations in Sweden. More specifically, I look at examples to take up the questions: What kind of school emerges when the school is defined through its relation to crime and criminalization? What is education in the policed school? What are the educational possibilities in the identities of carceral logics? How can the work of responding to violence in schools be educationally understood?
During the fall of 2023, I will be doing a doctoral stay at Maynooth University, Ireland.
I am the current secretary of KRUF (Kritisk utbildningsforskning/Critical Education Research) environment (Gothenburg University). I am also active in the research group Philosophical and Critical Studies in Education (Stockholm University).
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