Maria Magnusson
Associate professor
Department of Education
Faculty of Social Sciences
Current
- Article in the Swedish magazine Förskolan on 19 Oct 2023: Ny studie: Planerad högläsning ovanlig i förskolan.
My research groups
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Nordic Early Literacy Education The Nordic network covers the area of emergent literacy in preschool and transition to school. The group consists of researchers from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland…
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Research on pedagogical professions and practices (PEPP) The environment conducts research on teachers’ work and children’s/pupils’ everyday life and learning at preschool, preschool class, extended…
My completed research projects
Publications
Selected publications
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Magnusson, M. (2024). ”Tänk om …” : Lekresponsiv undervisning om skriftspråkskunskap i förskoleklassen. Forskning om undervisning och lärande. 12 (1). 27-46.
Status: Published
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Alatalo, T., Magnusson, M., Norling, M. (2025). Nordic Preschool Teachers’ Views of the Physical and Psychological Literacy Environments Regarding Read-Alouds. Nordisk Barnehageforskning. 22 (1). 7-27.
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Tjäru, S., Høyland, R., Hofslundsengen, H., Magnusson, M. (2024). Invented Writing Activities in Nordic Early Childhood Education and Care – Traces of Didactics in Practice. Nordic Journal of Literacy Research. 10 (4). 47-66.
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Alatalo, T., Norling, M., Magnusson, M., Tjäru, S., Hjetland, H.N., et al. (2024). Read-aloud and writing practices in Nordic preschools. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. 68 (3). 588-603.
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Magnusson, M. (2024). ”Tänk om …” : Lekresponsiv undervisning om skriftspråkskunskap i förskoleklassen. Forskning om undervisning och lärande. 12 (1). 27-46.
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Hofslundsengen, H., Magnusson, M., Norling, M., Tjäru, S., Hjetland, H.N., et al. (2023). ECEC Teachers’ Reported Practices and Attitudes Toward Read-Alouds in Nordic Multilingual Classrooms. Nordic Journal of Literacy Research. 9 (2).
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Magnusson, M., Hofslundsengen, H., Jusslin, S., Mellgren, E., Svensson, A., et al. (2022). Nordic preschool student teachers’ views on early writing in preschool. International Journal of Early Years Education. 30 (4). 714-729.
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Hofslundsengen, H., Magnusson, M., Svensson, A., Jusslin, S., Mellgren, E., et al. (2020). The literacy environment of preschool classrooms in three Nordic countries : challenges in a multilingual and digital society. Early Child Development and Care. 190 (3). 414-427.
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Reneland-Forsman, L., Magnusson, M. (2019). Supporting scholarly thinking in a Nordic teacher education webinar practice. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice. 16 (2). 1-14.
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Magnusson, M., Pramling Samuelsson, I. (2019). Att tillägna sig skriftspråkliga verktyg genom att leka affär. Forskning om undervisning och lärande. 7 (1). 23-43.
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Björklund, C., Magnusson, M., Palmér, H. (2018). Teachers’ involvement in children’s mathematizing : beyond dichotomization between play and teaching. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. 26 (4). 469-480.
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Magnusson, M., Pramling, N. (2018). In ‘Numberland’ : play-based pedagogy in response to imaginative numeracy. International Journal of Early Years Education. 26 (1). 24-41.
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Magnusson, M., Pramling, N. (2016). Sign making, coordination of perspectives, and conceptual development. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. 24 (6). 841-856.
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Magnusson, M., Pramling, N. (2011). Signs of knowledge: the appropriation of a symbolic skill in a five-year-old. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. 19 (3). 357-372.
Status: Published
Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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Hofslundsengen, H.C., Magnusson, M. (2021). Förberedelsen utjämnar skillnader. Förskoletidningen. 46 (3). 28-30.
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Magnusson, M., Hofslundsengen, H.C. (2021). Meningsfull skrivning. Barnehagefolk. (3). 98-101.
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Book (Refereed)
- Pramling, N., Wallerstedt, C., Lagerlöf, P., Björklund, C., Kultti, A., et al. (2019). Play-responsive teaching in early childhood education. Springer.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Magnusson, M. (2013). Skylta med kunskap : en studie av hur barn urskiljer grafiska symboler i hem och förskola.. Doctoral Thesis. Göteborg, Kompendiet AB. 187.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Svensson, A., Magnusson, M. (2019). Varför skriver de som de gör? : Om små barns skrivande. Genom texter och världar : svenska och litteratur med didaktisk inriktning – festskrift till Ria Heilä-Ylikallio. Åbo, Åbo Akademis Förlag. 75-85.
Chapter in book (Other academic)
- Magnusson, M., Pramling, N. (2024). På äventyr i siffrornas land med lekresponsiv undervisning. Att undervisa barn i skolstartsålder. Malmö, Gleerups Utbildning AB. 49-60.
- Pramling Samuelsson, I., Magnusson, M. (2023). Introduktion. Den lekande undervisande förskolläraren : lekresponsiv undervisning i praktiken. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 19-24.
- Magnusson, M. (2020). Att skapa förutsättningar för barns lärande av symbolers kommunikativa funktioner. Innehållets didaktik i förskolan. Liber. 36-43.
- Norling, M., Magnusson, M. (2019). Inledning. Att möta barns sociala språkmiljö i förskolan : flerdimensionella perspektiv. Stockholm, Liber. 9-20.
- Mellgren, E., Heilä-Ylikallio, R., Jusslin, S., Magnusson, M., Svensson, A. (2019). Den samtida textmiljön i förskolan. Att möta barns sociala språkmiljö i förskolan : flerdimensionella perspektiv. Stockholm, Liber. 129-142.
- Magnusson, M., Pramling Samuelsson, I. (2019). Förskollärares undervisningsstrategier : skriftspråkets funktion. Att möta barns sociala språkmiljö i förskolan : flerdimensionella perspektiv. Stockholm, Liber. 168-178.
- Hofslundsengen, H., Magnusson, M., Mellgren, E., Heilä-Ylikallio, R., Hagtvet, B.E. (2019). Upptäckande skrivning : metaspråkliga samtal och arbete med upptäckande skrivande i förskolan. Att möta barns sociala språkmiljö i förskolan : flerdimensionella perspektiv. Stockholm, Liber. 156-167.
- Magnusson, M. (2008). En lärstudie i skriftspråk : Att ge tecken en innebörd. Didaktiska studier från förskola och skola. Malmö, Gleerups Utbildning AB. 53-66.
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Hofslundsengen, H., Magnusson, M., Norling, M., Hjetland, H.N. (2023). Read-aloud as justice and social practice? ECEC teachers´ reported views on read-aloud in Nordic multilingual classrooms. 31st EECERA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Children’s Curiosity, Agency and Participation: Challenges for Professional Action and Development, Cascais near Lisbon, Portugal, 30th August – 2nd September 2023 : CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Book of Abstracts. 128-128.
- Bredmar, A., Magnusson, M. (2022). Det tredje rummet – en samverkansmodell mellan akademi och fält. Den 16. Nordiske Læreruddannelseskonference: Innovation i Undervisning og Læring, Fakultetet for Pædagogik og Uddannelse på Færøernes Universitet indbyder til den 16. Nordiske Læreruddannelseskonference i Tórshavn fra den 3.- 5. maj 2022. : Abstrakt. 111-112.
- Magnusson, M., Pramling Samuelsson, I. (2022). “What about playing shop?” : Appropriating written tools by playing shop. 30th EECERA Annual Conference Conference Proceedings: Book of Abstracts : ‘Cultures of play: Actors, Affordances and Arenas’, Glasgow, Scotland, 23rd – 26th August 2022. 98-99.
- Alatalo, T., Norling, M., Magnusson, M., Tjäru, S., Hjetland, H., et al. (2020). Høgtlesing og tidlig skriving i svenske og norske barnehager. Norsk Barnehageforskningskonferanse : Å skape bærekraftige barnehager – perspektiver, muligheter og utfordringer. 14-14.
- Magnusson, M., Svensson, A., Jusslin, S. (2018). Preschool teacher students´view of how to support children´s writing. .
- Magnusson, M., Reneland-Forsman, L. (2018). Mångfald-en nyckel till vetenskapligt tänkande i lärarutbildning. .
- Björklund, C., Magnusson, M., Palmér, H. (2017). Playing to learn or learning as a prerequisite to play? : an example of mathematical learning content. NERA 2017 Abstracts: Learning and education – material conditions and consequences : 23-25 March 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Magnusson, M., Pramling Samuelsson, I., Kultti, A., Pramling, N. (2017). Challenges in developing play-based didactics in a development and research project : the teachers’ process. NERA 2017 Abstracts: Learning and education – material conditions and consequences : 23-25 March 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Hofslundsengen, H., Svensson, A., Mellgren, E., Magnusson, M., Eriksen Hagtvet, B. (2016). Preschool literacy environment in the Nordic countries. Abstract book. 26th EECERA Annual Conference, Happiness, Relationships, Emotion & Deep Level Learning, Dublin, 31st-3rd September, 2016.
- Magnusson, M., Lunqvist, M., Mellgren, E., Hofslundsengen, H. (2016). Early literacy in a Nordic perspective : Discernment and patterns in degree project for preschool teachers. Abstract book. 26th EECERA Annual Conference, Happiness, Relationships, Emotion & Deep Level Learning, Dublin, 31st-3rd September, 2016.
- Magnusson, M. (2015). Interactions with sign´s : Differnet insight into symbolic meaning.. Abstract book. Innovation, Experimentation and Adventure in Early Childhood, 25th EECERA Annual Conference, Barcelona, September 7-10, 2015.
- Magnusson, M. (2014). How do children understand graphical symbols? . Presented at N 3. Early Childhood Research, NERA 2014, 42nd Congress on "Education for Sustainable Development", Lillehammer, Norway, 5-7 March 2014.
- Magnusson, M. (2014). Graphical symbols as a content in Early Childhood Education, Symposium : Sign with knowledge. A studie of how children discern graphical symbols at home and in preschool. . 24th EECERA ANNUAL CONFERENCE: ‘US, THEM & ME: Universal, Targeted or Individuated Early Childhood Programmes', Crete, Greece 7th—10th September, 2014 : Abstract Book. 156-156.
- Magnusson, M. (2013). “No children are allowed to come in!” Developing an understanding of external representations for communication. Presented at The 41st Annual Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association. Disruptions and eruptions as opportunities for transforming education, Reykjavik, Iceland, March 7-9, 2013.
- Magnusson, M. (2013). Developing children´s understanding of graphical symbols : Patterns of variation and meta-communiaction. WALS - The world association of lesson studies : Lessons and Learning study as teacher research. 134-134.
- Magnusson, M. (2005). Situations of written language in the classroom. Presented at The Oxford Ethnography Conference, Oxford, 2005.
Conference paper (Other academic)
- Magnusson, M. (2024). Play-responsive teaching about literacy in the preschool class. Abstract book: Sustainability from the Start : April 24-26, 2024, OMEP European Conference and Assembly, Hosted by Kristianstad University and OMEP Sweden. 16-16.
- Magnusson, M. (2006). Learning to write with pleasure. Presented at NFPFs/NERA´s 34th Congress, Örebro, 2006.
Report (Other academic)
- Magnusson, M. (2004). Skriftspråkliga situationer i klassrummet. Humanvetenskapliga institutionen. 106.
Collection (editor) (Other academic)
- Magnusson, M., Pramling Samuelsson, I. (2023). Den lekande undervisande förskolläraren : lekresponsiv undervisning i praktiken. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 160.
- Norling, M., Magnusson, M. (2019). Att möta barns sociala språkmiljö i förskolan : flerdimensionella perspektiv. Stockholm, Liber. 180.
Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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Hofslundsengen, H., Magnusson, M. (2024). Lekresponsiv undervisning i barnehagen – kan det passe i norsk barnehagekontekst?. PBL (Private barnehagers landsforbund).
Artikel på barnehage.no 2024-07-05
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Magnusson, M., Pramling Samuelsson, I. (2023). Lekresponsiv undervisning – symbolers kommunikativa funktioner. Studentlitteratur AB.
Artikel på Förskoleforum.se
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Ruin, P., Magnusson, M., Alatalo, T., Norling, M. (2023). Ny studie: Planerad högläsning ovanlig i förskolan. Sveriges Lärare.
Intervju på vilarare.se/forskolan 2023-10-19
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Pramling Samuelsson, I., Magnusson, M. (2023). Hur blir man en lekande undervisande förskollärare?. Studentlitteratur AB.
Artikel på Förskoleforum.se
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