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Sverker Lindblad
Senior Researcher
Department of Education and Special EducationAbout Sverker Lindblad
Research interests The issues I primarily address involve the formation of educational systems and processes and how these are linked to various aspects and tendencies in society. Political aspects of educational phenomena are of special interest. An interest in these aspects makes it important to as questions such as; How should we understand the development and the politics of professional expertise? How are teaching processes governed and how is the political in classroom interaction performed, and what does this imply for social and cultural reproduction? How are categorisations of students or schools developed and sustained – and with what consequences for education and society. In order to deal with these questions I work with research on how teaching and education are governed and what this means for the forming of individuals and institutions today.
Stated otherwise I am working to capture changing intersections between education and society and between educational organisations and processes. Given this, I am working in the areas of teaching and research in curriculum theory, education policy analysis, and school organisation and processes. This I combine with international collaboration in research and research organisations.
Teaching interests I prefer to teach and supervise about the history and development of education sciences and about international and comparative education. I stress the importance of relationships between education and society and issues of social and cultural reproduction. Recent courses in research education are; Education as a science, Comparative Education and in Curriculum Theory.
Keywords school reforms, education policy, curriculum theory, social integration and exclusion, cultural reproduction, studies in the professions, comparative education, dynamic nominalism
Research groups and projects Politics of Education Gothenburg Centre for Globalization and Development
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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 -
Nodes and Nets in Educational Research Communication
and Organization – An International Mapping of
Educational Research
Publication
Barbara Gross, Sverker Lindblad, Edwin Keiner, Katarina Samuelsson, Thomas S. Popkewitz
Transforming Educational Research: Realizing Equity and Social Justice Worldwide. Eds: Gonzalo Jover, Mustafa Yunus Eryaman, Ingrid Gogolin & Liesel Ebersöhn - 2025 -
Organising a European Educational Research Area by Research Conversations: Research Fronts and Intellectual Traditions in the European Educational Research
Journal.
Sverker Lindblad
European Educational Research Association, ECER Conference 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus - 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 -
Lärarutbildningsforskning i Sverige och Internationellt: Om konversationer och nätverkande genom vetenskaplig
publicering
Sverker Lindblad, Katarina Samuelsson, Gustaf Nelhans
Pedagogisk Forskning i Sverige - 2024 -
Medborgarnas syn på skolans problem och på skolan som en viktig
samhällsfråga
Fredrika Lagergren, Sverker Lindblad, Monica Reichenberg, Katarina Samuelsson, Helena Wallström
Andersson, U., Rönnerstrand, B. & Carlander, A. (red). SOM-undersökningen 2023, SOM-rapport nr 83 - 2024 -
Teacher education research in Sweden and internationally – on conversations and networking through scientific
publications
Sverker Lindblad, Katarina Samuelsson
Contribution to webinar: Research on Teacher Education in the Nordic Countries, Stavanger 2 February, 2024 - 2024 -
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 -
"Who are we writing for?": On Research Publishing in Comparative Studies Based on International Large-Scale
Assessments.
Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson
Sisyphus - 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 -
Mapping Intellectual Traditions and Research Fronts in International Teacher Education
Research
Sverker Lindblad, Katarina Samuelsson, Gustaf Nelhans
ECER Conference, Glasgow, August 22-25, 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 -
Screening av barn mot gängkriminalitet: ett tomtebloss i
mörker
Sverker Lindblad, Giulia Messina Dahlberg, Monica Reichenberg, Katarina Samuelsson
Skola och samhälle - 2023 -
Educational Restructuring in a Nordic Welfare State in the Eyes of the Public
Opinion
Sverker Lindblad, Katarina Samuelsson, Helena Wallström
2023 AERA Annual Meeting, April 13 - April 16, 2023, Chicago - 2023 -
Medborgarna om styrningen av den svenska skolan: Stat, marknad eller
profession?
Sverker Lindblad, Fredrika Lagergren, Katarina Samuelsson, Helena Wallström
U. Andersson, H. Oscarsson, B. Rönnerstrand & N. Theorin (red.) Du sköra nya värld: SOM-undersökningen 2021, SOM-rapport nr 81 - 2022 -
Vetenskap, profession och politik Om förändring av det pedagogiska kunskapsområdet i
Sverige
Sverker Lindblad
Nordic Studies in Education - 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 -
Kartläggning av lärarutbildningsforskning i svenska och internationella
sammanhang.
Sverker Lindblad, Katarina Samuelsson
Bidrag vid SWERA Karlstad, 2022, 5-6 oktober 2022 - 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 -
Forskning om Lärarutbildning: Kartläggning av ett internationellt
forskningslandskap.
Sverker Lindblad, Katarina Samuelsson
Utkast som underlag till Rådslag om Lärarutbildning vid SWERA 2021, 7 oktober 2021 - 2021 -
Om tidskriften Pedagogisk Forskning i Sverige och intellektuell organisering av det pedagogiska
kunskapsområdet.
Sverker Lindblad, Mats Ekholm
Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige - 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 -
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 -
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 -
Globalisering av lärarutbildning i Sverige? Om OECD:s kunskapsintressen och problemrepresentation och dess betydelser i svenska
sammanhang.
Sverker Lindblad, Katarina Samuelsson
Läroplansteori i och om lärarutbildning; Rapport från den sjunde Nordiska Läroplansteoretiska konferensen - 2020 -
Läroplansteori i och om lärarutbildning. Rapport från den sjunde nordiska läroplansteoretiska
konferensen,
Elsi-Brith Jodal, Sverker Lindblad, Caroline Runesdotter
2020 -
Inledning: Läroplansteori och lärarutbildning – introduktion till ett dynamiskt
kunskapsområde
Elsi-Brith Jodal, Sverker Lindblad, Caroline Runesdotter
Läroplansteori i och om lärarutbildning. Rapport från den sjunde nordiska läroplansteoretiska konferensen - 2020 -
Om den oumbärliga reflektionen – om införande av läroplansteori i lärarutbildningen. Samtal med Ulf P.
Lundgren
Elsi-Brith Jodal, Sverker Lindblad, Caroline Runesdotter
Läroplansteori i och om lärarutbildning. Rapport från den sjunde nordiska läroplansteoretiska konferensen, - 2020 -
Statistics reasoning and its “acting” in educational
policy
T. S. Popkewitz, Sverker Lindblad
Handbook of Education Policy Studies. Fan G., Popkewitz T. (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 -
Os poderes comparativos dos números e o conhecimento antecipado do número na
educação
Sverker Lindblad, D. Pettersson, T. S. Popkewitz
Curriculo sem Fronteiras - 2020 -
Which Problems to Solve by Teacher Education Reforms? On International Organizations and National Policy
Discourses
Sverker Lindblad, Katarina Samuelsson
2020 AERA Annual Meeting, April 17 - April 21, 2020, San Francisco, CA - 2020 -
The Public Opinion in Sweden on Educational Restructuring and Governing by International Large-Scale
Assessments
Sverker Lindblad, Lennart Nilsson, Mårten Lindblad
Proceedings from the Comparative and International Education Society 2019 meeting in San Francisco, USA - 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 -
Ta time-out från striderna om
skolan
Sverker Lindblad
Göteborgsposten - 2019 -
Polarisering i skolfrågor: Förändringar i svensk opinion mellan 2014 och
2018
Sverker Lindblad
Storm och stiltje. Ulrika Andersson, Björn Rönnerstrand, Patrik Öhberg & Annika Bergström (red.) - 2019 -
Intellectual and social organisation of international large-scale assessment
research
Sverker Lindblad
New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education Conducting Empirically Based Research - 2019 -
Society speaks back: On the intimacy and complexity of comparative education research on a welfare state
Agora
Rita Foss Lindblad, Sverker Lindblad
New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education Conducting Empirically Based Research - 2019 -
Science Speaks to Society? Arguments for Research Relevance and Validity in International Large-Scale Assessment
Publications
Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson
Proceedings of the AERA 2019 conger - 2019 -
Revisiting the Education Policy Agora: On Politics of Knowledge and Evidence 1998 - 2018 in
Sweden
Sverker Lindblad, Lisbeth Lundahl
Program Book Nordic Educational Research Association Meeting in Uppsala, 6-8 March - 2019 -
Revisiting the education policy agora: Politics of knowledge and evidence 1998 – 2018 in Europe and
Sweden.
Sverker Lindblad, Lundahl Lisbeth, Thomas Popkewitz
Proceeding from the CIES 2019 meeting in San Francisco, USA - 2019 -
Developing the education agora: On the dynamic interplay between science and society in theory and in
practice.
Sverker Lindblad
Proceedings from the Comparative and International Education Society meeting 2019 in San Francisco, USA - 2019 -
Education Governance by
Numbers.
Daniel Pettersson, Sverker Lindblad, Thomas Popkewitz
In: Langer R., Brüsemeister T. (eds) Handbuch Educational Governance Theorien. Educational Governance, vol 43. Springer VS, Wiesbaden - 2019 -
EDUCATION BY THE NUMBERS AND THE MAKING OF
SOCIETY
Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson, Thomas Popkewitz
2018 -
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 -
Svensk opinion och skolans omstrukturering: om styrning, förtroende och bedömning av
kvalitet
Sverker Lindblad, Lennart Nilsson, Mårten Lindblad
Sprickor i fasaden - 2018 -
Komparativ
pedagogik
Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson
I Mattias Sjöberg (red): Pedagogik som Vetenskap. - 2018
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