Project information
Doctoral student
Sara Johansson Lopez
Supervisor
Andreas Nordin
Assistant supervisor
Bettina Vogt
Participants
Linnaeus University
Project start
Autumn 2023 - Spring 2028
Subject
Education Studies (Department of Pedagogy, Faculty of Social Sciences)
Research group
Studies in Curriculum, Teaching and Evaluation (SITE)
More about the project
Today, structural racism is seen as reproduced by capitalism in the era of neoliberalism and with an antiracist approach that fails to problematise different forms of racism, not least in the Swedish context. In this regard, previous research has problematised the increased pressure on competition and how the selection of knowledge and restrictive curricula get negative consequences for equality and antiracism. Therefore, it is important not only to highlight how structural processes of racism continue but also to highlight how resistance, and attempts to change, are done.
This doctoral project aims to critically examine the interplay and tensions between ideas about (anti)racism. The project focuses on ideas manifested in structural processes in compulsory school and on how students talk about (anti)racism.
In the project, this interplay and these tensions between ideas are studied as a pedagogical process on different institutional levels, to contribute to the research field about limitations and opportunities to work with antiracism that arise in structural processes in a Swedish context. The project’s data consists of documents and policies from relevant authorities, as well as observations and interviews from a compulsory school.
The doctoral project is part of the research in the research group Studies in Curriculum, Teaching and Evaluation (SITE)
