Sergej Ivanov

Senior lecturer

Department of Swedish Faculty of Arts and Humanities

sergej.ivanov@lnu.se

+46 470-76 78 73

Teaching

Sergej Ivanov is involved in courses in language acquisition and literacy, supervises and assesses student theses in Teacher Education. Sergej also teaches a course in technical communication at the Faculty of Technology.

Research

Sergej's research interests are primarily focussed on writing and critical perspectives in teaching and learning languages and other subjects from primary school through tertiary education. He has done research in reading in foreign languages at tertiary level as well as in comparative education across different national educational contexts with a special focus on criticality practices in the History classroom.

Since 2020, Sergej with his colleagues Christian Waldmann and Annelie Johansson has been working on research projects on keylogging in authentic academic writing. One of the projects was funded by the Linnaeus Knowledge Environment Education in Change to investigare digital source-based writing in university students.

In 2025–2026, Sergej is leading a project on Academic Literacy (AcLit) that focuses on students' management of teacher feedback in Teacher Education. The project is funded by the Board of Teacher Education. The project team includes Annelie Johansson , Christian Waldmann and Camilla Nilviu s.

In 2022–2025, Sergej led a project on criticality in six-year-olds in the school context and, together with Andreas Ebbelind, he co-led a project on semantic waves in language use in preschool class. Both projects were funded by Litteracitet och undervisning.

Commissions

Section Editor (L1) for Acta Didactica Norden

Chair of the Nordic Research Network for Educational Linguistics

Member of the Board for the research center Educational Linguistics

Strand Coordinator for Educational Linguistics (American Association for Applied Linguistics, AAAL)

Member of the Board (teacher representative for Faculty of Arts and Humanities) for the Council for Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Pre-School Education (2023–2025)

Commisions for Utbildning, lärande, forksning (ULF; autumn 24, autumn 24–spring 25 with Sanna Kraft and Christian Waldmann)

External Auditor of the Swedish Association for Applied Linguistics (Association Suédoise de Linguistique Appliquée, ASLA)

Commissions for the Board of Teacher Education for Preschool Education Programme (spring 2021 with Anette Emilson, autumn 2023 with Dragana Grbavac and Andreas Ebbelind; spring 2024 with Maria Magnusson)

Commision funded by the Swedish National Agency for Education (spring 2019 with Birgitta Waters )

My research groups

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Ivanov, S. (2024). Criticality instruction for 6-year-olds in the Nordic educational context: A nexus of practice. ASLAs skriftserie. 31. 2-25.
Status: Published
Ivanov, S., Johansson, A., Waldmann, C. (2022). Writing Fluency and Digital Source Use in Authentic Academic Writing. HumaNetten. (48). 262-289.
Status: Published
Ivanov, S. (2010). Обучение дискурсному чтению на иностранном языке студентов социально-политических специальностей. Вестник Тверского государственного университета. 3 (23). 150-156.
Status: Published

Conference paper (Refereed)

Kraft, S., Ivanov, S., Waldmann, C. (2025). Raising awareness of inclusive communication : Supporting environments, opportunities and interactions. 33rd EECERA annual conference. Early Education for All: Celebrating Diversity and Seeking Inclusion : Bratislava, Slovakia, 25–28 August 2025. Programme of Symposia.
Ebbelind, A., Ivanov, S. (2025). Semantic profiles in screening 6-year-olds' spatial sense and reasoning in Sweden : The impossible of not being a teacher. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME14).
Ivanov, S., Ebbelind, A. (2025). Who is to do the screening of spatial reasoning? : Semantic profiles in teacher interaction with 6-year-olds in a screening activity. 33rd EECERA ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Early Education for All: Celebrating Diversity and Seeking Inclusion : Bratislava, Slovakia 25–28 August 2025. Programme of symposia. 238-239.
Johansson, A., Ivanov, S., Waldmann, C. (2024). Skriftlig feedback i autentiskt akademiskt skrivande – : kognitiv ansträngning och revisionsprocess. ASLA-symposiet 18-19 april 2024, Falun: Abstrakthäfte: Språk och kommunikation i en digitaliserad värld ASLA 2024. 34-35.
Ivanov, S., Johansson, A., Waldmann, C. (2024). Revise or not revise, that is the question: written feedback and cognitive effort. Sig Writing Conference 2024 26-28 June 2024 University Paris Nanterre: Book of abstracts. 104-105.
Johansson, A., Ivanov, S., Helgason, J. (2023). Forskningsanknytning, skolsamverkan och resurser i harmoni? : Presentation av en modell för självständiga arbeten i svenska i grundlärarprogrammet . Litteracitet och lärande i högre utbildning 26–27 september 2023: Book of abstracts.. 26-26.
Ivanov, S., Johansson, A., Waldmann, C. (2023). Att undersöka studenters digitala källhantering genom tangentloggning – metodologiska möjligheter. Litteracitet och lärande i högre utbildning 26–27 september 2023: Book of abstracts. 25-25.
Ivanov, S., Johansson, A., Waldmann, C. (2023). Digital källhantering i framställning av ett examensarbete. Språk i praktiken – i en föränderlig värld. Rapport från ASLA-symposiet. Stockholms universitet, 7–8, april 2022. [Language in practice – in a changing world. Papers from the ASLA symposium. Stockholm University, 7–8 April, 2022]. 269-289.
Ivanov, S., Johansson, A., Waldmann, C. (2023). Use of digital sources in writing a graduate thesis. Presented at AILA 20th World Congress. Diversity and social cohesion in a globalized world: Moving towards more engaged language studies.
Ivanov, S., Johansson, A., Waldmann, C. (2022). Digital källhantering i framställningen av ett examensarbete. ASLA-Symposiet 7–8 april 2022: Abstractsamling : The ASLA symposium 7–8 April 2022: Book of abstracts. 45-45.
Ivanov, S. (2017). Criticality in policy, attitudes and practices : Evidence from upper secondary History classrooms in Sweden, Russia and Australia. Criticality in Education (Research): Definitions, Discourses and Controversies : Booklet of abstracts.
Ivanov, S. (2015). Critiquing Criticality : Policy Intentions, Teachers and Students' Perceptions and the Actual Practice in the Upper-Secondary History Classroom in Sweden, Russia and Australia. 13th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education.

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Ivanov, S. (2013). Russia : 2 Theoretical underpinnings and ideals. Observing language teaching practices in Saint Petersburg and Malmö : A two-year intercultural project involving students and faculty members from the State University of Saint Petersburg and Malmö University. Malmö, Malmö University. 19-20.

Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)

Ivanov, S. (2016). A Transnational Study of Criticality in the History Learning Environment. Doctoral Thesis. Umeå, Umeå University. 230.

Conference proceedings (editor) (Other academic)

Enever, J., Lindgren, E., Lundberg, G., Baker, J., Gheitasi, P., et al. (2014). Early Language Learning : Theory and Practice in 2014 : Umeå University, Sweden, 12th–14th June, 2014 : Abstracts. Umeå, Department of Language Studies, Umeå University. 143.

Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Ivanov, S. (2017). Kritiskt tänkande av yttersta vikt i ett samhälle utan sanning. Dagens samhälle. (10). 10-10.
Status: Published