Martin Harling
Avd-/Sektionschef, Inst
Unit for General Didactics and PedagogicAbout Martin Harling
Research interests My main interest concerns political dimensions of pedagogy, education and teaching. This applies, among other things, to how individuals and populations are shaped and controlled in various pedagogical practices. In a school context, this translates to how students are increasingly perceived as customers and how knowledge is transformed into goods. The increasing marketization of the school world in recent decades is thus a central research interest.
In the spring of 2017, I defended my dissertation Choosing Subjects : A Study on Upper Secondary School Choice, School Fairs and the Battle for the Future at Linköping University. Here, the market logics of education were analyzed, in particular in the context of so-called upper secondary school fairs. A main result of the dissertation is that the logic of the market seems to legitimize an increased inequality and differentiation among the school's students.
Between 2019-2021, I will be the research leader for a network funded by FORTE that consists of international researchers, activists and unaccompanied young people. The network is entitled "After the crisis: migration, education and working life in interdisciplinary light".
Together with my colleague Ola Strandler, I lead a research project called "The Invisible: on problematic school absenteeism and efforts in a local context", which will run between 2020 and 2022. The project is conducted in collaboration with staff at a school and aims to analyze different actors’ understanding of the phenomenon of problematic school absenteeism, as well as developing robust tools for working with the problem.
Teaching interests I teach courses in pedagogy and special education, as well as teacher education programs. My lectures are about the marketization of education, about (in) equality, poststructuralist theory, subject-formation and discourse analysis. I also teach about educational sociological traditions, curriculum theory, and questions about normality and deviation. I am more than happy to supervise essays in the above areas.
Network In addition to leading the network "After the crisis", I participate in IDPP's ongoing seminar work and have collaborations with researchers from Linköping University and UW Madison in the USA. I actively participate in the research group KRUF (Critical Educational Research), at IDPP.
Keywords Educational sociology, curriculum theory, poststructuralism, discourse analysis, exclusion and inclusion.
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The Expertification of Educational Care - Negotiating School Development and Attendance
Work
Martin Harling, Ola Strandler
European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) - 2022 -
The Invisible: On Problematic School Absenteeism and Institutional Responses in a Local
Context
Martin Harling, Ola Strandler
ECER Programme 2021 - 2021 -
Invisible norms in schools’ attendance work - On translation, negotiation and
anticipation
Martin Harling, Ola Strandler
NERA Programme 2021 - 2021 -
SYMPOSIUM
The present absence: analyzing school absenteeism in times of hope and
despair
Martin Harling
NERA Programme 2021 - 2021 -
Dislocating contradictions in school choice and competition: the function of fantasy in principal’s talk on school
marketization
Martin Harling, Arne Hellmark
NERA Programme 2021 - 2021 -
Sittstrejken i Göteborg – att ta plats för dem
utan
plats
Martin Harling, Zahra Samadi, Hamid Saadat
Rättsäkerheten och solidariteten - Vad hände?: En antologi om mottagande av människor på flykt. Torun Elsrud, Sabine Gruber, & Anna Lundberg (red.) - 2021 -
En hemlig skola röjer det
orimliga
M Ideland, M Hultén, Petra Angervall, Dennis Beach, M Dahlstedt, Marianne Dovemark, M Erlandsson, Martin Harling, Anna Jobér, J Lundberg, Catarina Player-Koro, Eva Reimers, H Sjögren, Ola Strandler, S Urban
Svenska Dagbladet - 2020 -
Helig statistik en del av
systemfelet
M Ideland, M Hultén, Petra Angervall, T Axelsson, Dennis Beach, M Dahlstedt, Marianne Dovemark, M Erlandsson, Martin Harling, Anna Jobér, J Lundberg, Catarina Player-Koro, Eva Reimers, H Sjögren, Ola Strandler, S Urban
Svenska Dagbladet - 2020 -
Politiker och Migrationsverket: Hur tar ni
ansvar?
Martin Harling, Marcus Herz, Eva Reimers, Tinna Harling, Live Stretmo, Viktor Vesterberg, Philip Lalander, Daniel Hedlund, Jonna Linde, Anna Lundberg, Ulrika Wernesjö, Lars-Ove Johansson, Magnus Dahlstedt, Erika von Wiessenberg, Malin Brännström
Dagens Samhälle - 2020 -
Lärarprofession i en tid av förändringar.
Konferensvolym från den tredje nationella ämneskonferensen i pedagogiskt
arbete.
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Fostran till valfrihet: Skolvalet, jämlikheten och
framtiden
Magnus Dahlstedt, Martin Harling, Anders Trumberg, Susanne Urban, Viktor Vesterberg
2019 -
School fairs as the market place of
education
Martin Harling
Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education: Lessons From Sweden - 2019 -
The Fantasmatic Logics of Education Markets: Exploring Rituals of Upper Secondary School
Choice
Martin Harling
ECER 2018, Bolzano, Italy - 2018 -
Valet, varat och varan – en studie av gymnasievalets logiker och
praktiker
Martin Harling
Educare - 2018 -
Gymnasiemässan och fostran till
valfrihet
Magnus Dahlstedt, Martin Harling, Viktor Vesterberg
Skolan, marknaden och framtiden - 2018 -
Systemet med fritt skolval måste bytas
ut
Magnus Dahlstedt, Anderas Fejes, Dennis Beach, Nihad Bunar, Sara Carlbaum, Marie Carlson, Marianne Dovemark, Håkan Forsberg, Martin Harling, Ann-Sofie Holm, Magnus Hultén, Sven-Eric Liedman, Christian Lundahl, Mattias Nylund, Eva Reimers, Anders Trumberg, Victor Vesterberg
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
Sälja, välja och svälja: En analys av skolval, marknadisering och gymnasiemässans
logiker
Martin Harling, Magnus Dahlstedt
Utbildning och Demokrati - 2017 -
The Future in a Goody Bag: Exploring School Fair Logics and Corporatization of Swedish
Education
Magnus Dahlstedt, Martin Harling
Journal of Progressive Human Services - 2017 -
Välja vara: En studie om gymnasieval, mässor och kampen om
framtiden
Martin Harling
2017 -
Vänd dem inte ryggen – inför
amnesti
Martin Harling, Eva Reimers, Ingrid Henning Loeb, Marianne Dovemark, Ann-Sofie Holm, Lisbeth Lundahl, Karin Rönnerman, Johan Söderman
Göteborgs posten debatt - 2017 -
The Fantasmatic Logics of Education Markets: Exploring Upper Secondary School
Choice
Martin Harling
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities PROGRAMME BOOK - 2017 -
Skolrankning som medial
händelse
Caroline Runesdotter, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Eva Andersson, Martin Harling
G-B. Wärvik, C. Runesdotter, E. Forsberg, B. Hasselgren & F. Sahlström (red). Skola, lärare, samhälle. Vänbok till Sverker Lindblad - 2016 -
Media attention and representations of national and international ranking lists in
Sweden
Caroline Runesdotter, Gun-Britt Wärvik, Eva Andersson, Martin Harling
ECER, 8-11 Sept 2015 in Budapest - 2015 -
Pedagogik och
Postpolitik
Martin Harling, Elsi-Brith Jodal, Sverker Lindblad, Caroline Runesdotter, Gun-Britt Wärvik
Lindblad, S. & Lundahl, L. (red): Utbildning - makt och politik - 2015 -
Blaskkaffe och pedagogikens
morgondag
Martin Harling
GU-journalen - 2014 -
A Fair (Af)fair? On Subjectivation and Differentiation in Educational
Capitalism
Martin Harling
2014 -
Examining “The Police” On Inclusion and “Investmentality” in Swedish
Schooling
Martin Harling
European Education : Issues and Studies - 2013 -
On the Values of Educational Comparisons: On Marketized Education and Post-politics in
Sweden
Martin Harling, Elsi-Brith Jodal, Sverker Lindblad, Caroline Runesdotter, Gun-Britt Wärvik
European Conference on Educational Research 2013 Istanbul - 2013 -
Classroom Interaction in Changing Contexts: Positions and Practices Performed in Recordings from 1960s into
2000s
Sverker Lindblad, Olof Reichenberg Carlström, Martin Harling, Michael Hansen
Curriculum and Evaluation: Themes and Territories. Papers from Nordic Curriculum Conference - 2011 -
Classroom Interaction in Changing Contexts: Positions and Practices Performed in Recordings from 1960s into
2000s
Martin Harling, Sverker Lindblad, Olof Reichenberg Carlström
AERA 2011 meeting program: Inciting the Social Imagination. - 2011 -
Classroom Interaction in Changing Contexts: Positions and Practices Performed in Recordings from 1960s into
2000s.
Sverker Lindblad, Olof Reichenberg Carlström, Martin Harling, Michael Hansen
AERA 2011 meeting program: Inciting the Social Imagination - 2011 -
On the mapping of classroom politics – contestations of curriculum
architecture
Martin Harling
NERA Conference programme - 2010 -
School performance and the politics of identity -analyses on difference-making and competence in classroom
interaction
Martin Harling, Olof Reichenberg Carlström
Paper presented at the 37th Annual Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) - 2009 -
Classroom Interaction in Sweden – A Historical
Comparison
Martin Harling, Olof Reichenberg Carlström, Peter Erlandson
European Education Research Association Conference - 2009 -
From teaching to studenting? Politics of learning and classroom interaction: Notes on the making of historical comparative
studies.
Martin Harling, Michael Hansen, Sverker Lindblad
Paper presented at ECER, 10-12 september 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2008 -
Standardized subjects: What’s school testing doing to people? Paper presenterat på NFPF/NERA konferens i Köpenhamn Mars
2008
Martin Harling
Standardized subjects: What’s school testing doing to people? Paper presenterat på NFPF/NERA konferens i Köpenhamn Mars 2008 - 2008