CV, Maria Olson

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Researcher and lecturer in Education, School of Humanities and Informatics, Department of Childrens', Young people's and Adults' Learning, University of Skövde, Sweden.

Autumn 2010 – Spring 2013: Post doctoral fellow, Centre for Teaching and Learning in the Humanties (CeHum), Stockholm University.

I have a doctor's degree in Pedagogic Practices, with a minor in political science. My major fields are educational policy, educational theory and educational philosophy. And my areas of specialisation include democracy and citizenship within the realm of education. I also have a special interest in existential approaches to education and citizenship in post structural scopes.

Education

Philosophy Doctor in Pedagogic Practices. Linköping University, Sweden. (2008)

Graduate of the Faculty of arts (Master’s degree). Department of Theology,
Uppsala University, Sweden. (2001)

Graduate of Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor’s degree). Department of Psychology,
Stockholm University, Sweden. (1999)

Research projects

Governing Citizens: Becoming a Citizen inside and outside of School. Head of project: Maria Olson. Received strategic means for research of relevance for the teacher education, University of Skövde (50.000 Skr) (2011)

Beyond Policy – On Citizenship within and outside school for adult students in Sweden. Head of project: Maria Olson. Received strategic means for research of relevance for the teacher education, University of Skövde (100.000 Skr) (2010)

Vadå likvärdighet? Om likvärdighetsbegreppets olika innebörder i  olika sammanhang – på skilda utbildningspolitiska nivåer och i konkret
skolverksamhet. [What about Equivalence? On the different meanings of the concept of equivalence in different contexts] Project leader: Tomas Englund, Professor, Örebro University, financed by The Swedish Research Council (UVK) (2003-2007)

Administrative and leading assignments

Peer-review of submitted articles in the international journals Nordic Studies in Education and Journal of Social Science Education. (2010-)

Assistant supervisor for Erik Andersson, PhD student at the Academy for Humanities, Education and Social Science, Örebro University /School of Humanities and Informatics, Unversity of Skövde. (2010-)

Member of reference/expert group for the reasearch project Citizen fostering and the dilemma of the Liberal state, Department of Political Science, Lund University, funded by The Swedish Council for Working life and Social Research (2010-2013)

Institutional Coordinator for the European research association CiCea, Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Education Association, School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde. (2010-)

Editor- in-chief for the publication series Education & Learning, from the Department of children's, youth's and adults' learning, University of Skövde (2010-); www.his.se/english/research/education-and-learning/

Quality reviewer of articles for the European research project European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI). Responsible: Ingrid Gogolin. Responsible for the Swedish contribution: PO Erixon and Lisbeth Lundahl. Financed by the European Union (EU). (2010-2011)

Institutional Coordinator for the European research network CiCe, Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Education, Department of Education in Humanities and Social science, Stockholm University. (2009-2011)

Publications

Referee reviewed articles

Fernandez, C., & Olson, M. (2012) Education for Education's Sake?: Liberal Theory and the Revival of Bildung. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, (in peer-review-process)

Irisdotter Aldenmyr, S., Jepson Wigg, U., & Olson, M. (2012) Worries and Possibilities in Active Citizenship: Three Swedish Educational Contexts. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, (forthcoming)

Olson, M. (2012) To Be or Not To Be A (properly educated) Citizen: Comments on the ICCS study. Introductory text to Theme issue, M. Olson (Ed.). Citizenship Education under Liberal Democracy. Utbildning & Demokrati [Education & Democracy], 21(1), (in press)

Olson, M. (2012) What Counts as Young People's Civic Engagement in Times of Accountability? On the Importance of Maintaining Openness about Young People's Civic Engagement in Education. In M. Olson (Ed) Theme issue: To Be or Not To Be A (properly educated) Citizen. Utbildning & Demokrati [Education & Democracy], 21(1), (in press)

Olson, M. (2012) The European 'We': From Citizenship Policy to the Role of Education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 31(1), 77-89.

Olson, M. (2009) Democratic Citizenship - A conditioned apprenticeship: A call for Destabilisation of Democracy in education. Journal of Social Science Education, 8(4), 75-80; www.jsse.org/2009/2009-4/olson-jsse-4-2009

Book chapters, books

Olson, M. (2012) Att bilda sig eller att bilda sig? Om religionskunskap som medborgarbildande ämne på det nya gymnasiet [To Bild one self or To Bild one self? On Religious education as Citizen Bildung in the new Swedish upper secondary school] In G. Skeie & M. Olson (Eds.), Ämnets didaktik [Didactics of Subject Matter in Education] (prel. title) (work in progress)

Olson, M. (2012) Citizenship Education Without Citizenship? The Migrant in EU Policy on Participatory Citizenship – Toward the Margin Through ‘Strangification'. In R. Hedke & T. Zimenkova (Eds.), Education for Civic and Political Participation: A Critical Approach. London: Routledge, (fortcoming)

Olson, M. (2012) Citizenship 'in Between': the local and the global scope of European citizenship in Swedish educational policy. In S. Goncales & M. A. Carpenter (Eds.), Intercultural Policies and Education. New York: Peter Lang, (in press)

Olson, M. (2010) Swedish education policy on Active Citizenship: fulfilment of self. In P. Cunningham  & N. Fretwell (Eds.), Life Long Learning and Active Citizenship (pp. 297-305). London: CiCe.

Olson, M. (2009) Democratic Citizen fostering as ‘Swedishness’ to come? A call for Democracy to ‘leave home’. In P. Cunningham (Ed.), Human Rights and Citizenship Education (pp. 112-118). London: CiCe

Olson, M. (2008) Från samhörighet till särart. Förändringar i den svenska skolans medborgarfostrande roll under 1990-talet i relation till valfrihet och likvärdighet In T. Englund & A. Quennerstedt (Eds.), Vadå likvärdighet? Studier i utbildningspolitisk språkanvändning (pp. 72-94). Göteborg: Daidalos.

Olson, M. (2008) Från nationsbyggare till global marknadsnomad: om medborgarskap i svensk utbildningspolitik under 1990-talet [From nation-building to nomadic life in a global market: On Citizenship in Swedish Education policy in the 1990s] Linköping: LiU Press. urn.kb.se/resolve

Olson, M. (2004) Vilka medborgare skulle skolan fostra då? Och nu? Från medborgarfostran för politisk förändring till medborgarfostran för ekonomisk anpassning? In G. Colnerud (Ed.), Skolans moraliska och demokratiska praktik (pp. 121-141). Linköping: LiU Press.

Referee-reviewed conference contributions

Irisdotter Aldenmyr, S. & Olson, M. (2012) 'Thera-teachers' and 'Not-yets' in the name of Emotional Self-control through Education. Paper som presenteras på EERA/ECER:s, European Educational Research Association, årliga europeiska konferens. University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spanien, sept 18-21. (coming)

Lundahl, L., & Olson, M. (2012) Educating the Democratic Citizen: the case of Sweden. Paper presented at the conference 'CitEd 2012, Citizenship Education and Diversity in Liberal Societies'. Theory and Policy in Comparative Perspective. Malmö University, Sweden, April 26-27.

Olson, M. & Fernandez, C. (2011) Education as a Citizen right of Being and/or Becoming? Shortcomings and Potentials in Liberal Education. Paper presented at the workshop Education as a civic right - parents' right or children's right or...? Department of Education, Örebro University, Sweden, Sept 21.

Olson, M. (2011) Being proper(ly educated) as a Citizen? Paper presented at CiCe:s annual European conference, at the Symposium Being A proper(ly educated) Citizen. Participants: Erik Andersson, University of Skövde; Jan Grannäs and Johan Liljestrand, University of Gävle; Silvia Edling, Uppsala University, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, June 9-11.

Olson, M. (2011) Can Deleuzian concepts be useful in informing governmentality analysis on the formation of 'the citizen'? Paper presented at the Symposium on Governmentality in Educational and Social Sciences. University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 14-18.

Dahstedt, M., Fejes, A., Nicoll, K., Olson, M. (2011) Citizen Formation Inside and Outside of School. Paper presented at AERA:s yearly international conference, New Orleans, USA, April 8-12.

Olson, M. (2011) Citizenship in Between: The Paradox of Place in European Citizenship. Paper presented at CiCe's Iberian conference Globalocal Citizenship, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra/University of Lisbon, Coimbra, Portugal, Jan 18-19.

Olson, M. (2010) Consumer Attitude for Self-Making: The 'Neo' in Swedish Education policy on Active Citizenship and Worries about it. Paper presented at CiCe:s annual European conference Lifelong learning and Active Citizenship, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, May 20-22.

Olson, M. (2010) Beyond Policy: Empowerment as choice or empowerment as voice? Paper presented at NFPF/NERA:s annual Nordic conference, At Symposium Navigating Neo-Liberal Times: Possibilities in Active Citizenship?. Participants: Sara Irisdotter Aldenmyr and Ulrika Jepson Wigg, Malmö University, Sweden, March 11-13.

Biesta, G., Dahstedt, M., Fejes, A., Nicoll, K., Olson, M. (2011) Citizen formation: beyond educational practice and policy. Paper presented at NERA/NFPF:s annual Nordic conference, Malmö University, Sweden, March 11–13.

Olson, M. (2009) Learning from or Learning for Democracy: Social Movements activities vs formal Education Policy Ideas on Democratic Citizenship. Paper presented at ESREA:s, European Society for Research on the Education of Adults, annual international conference Civil society as an arena of Learning, Ersta Sköndal/Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, June 11-13.

Olson, M. (2009) Citizen fostering for a Global context: Who are the insiders and who are the outsiders? On Cultural inclusion and exclusion in Swedish Education Policy of the 1990s. Paper presented at CiCe:s, Children’s Identity & Citizenship in Europe, European conference Human Rights and Citizenship Education, Malmö University, Sweden, May 21-23.

Olson, M. (2009) Existential Democracy: A way to nurture hope for Global Democratic Education? Paper presented at AERA:s, American Educational Research Association, yearly international conference, San Diego, USA, April 13-17.

Olson, M. (2005) The ’freedom of choice challenge’ on Equivalence and the Swedish Schools´ assignment to bring up Democratic citizens. Paper presented at NERA/NFPF’s Nordic conference, Oslo University, Norway, March 10-12.

Olson, M. (2004) Equivalence and ‘freedom of choice’: Consequences of a changed policy practice in Sweden. Paper presented at EERA/ECER:s, European Educational Research Association, yearly European conference, at network symposium Enacting Equity in Europe: Towards a comparison of equitable practices in different local Contexts, University of Crete, Greece, September 22-25.

Olson, M. (2001) Textanalys: ett sätt att bygga ett innehållsligt fält för ‘Homo Democraticus’? [Text analysis – a way to form a substantial field for ‘Homo Democraticus’?] Paper presented at the Swedish National conference Samhällets diskurser [Discourses of Society], Stockholm, Sweden, October 18-21.

Popular articles and presentations

"Konflikthantering som medborgardaning?" [Dealing with Conflict as Citizen formation?] Open Popular Seminar at Medborgarhuset, within the context of a workshop arranged by Sensus, Medborgarplatsen, Stockholm, Oct 29-30.

“Det är fostran av våra barn det handlar om. Maria Olson om vikten av att debattera utbildningspolitik” [On the fostering of our children. Maria Olson on the importance of debating education politics] Article/Interview in the Swedish weekly newspaper Arbetaren/Zenit [The Worker/Zenit],  written by Åsa Carlman, April 22 (2009)

”Mångkultur och utbildning – en fråga om inneslutning och uteslutning”. [Multiculture and Education – a question of inclusion and exclusion]. Open
Popular Seminar at Café Mångkultur [Café Multi culture], Folkuniversitetet/University West, Trollhättan, Sweden, September 18 (2006)

Other

Olson, M. (2012) Editorial text to the theme issue 'Utmaningar och perspektiv på verksamhetsintegrerat lärande' [Challenges and Perspectives on Work Integrated Learning Competence]. Education & Learning, 6(1), (coming)

Olson, M. (2011) Editorial text to the theme issue 'Att bilda lärare i digital kompetens' [Cultivating Teacher's Digital Competence]. Education & Learning, 5(1), 7.

Olson, M. (2010) Editorial text to the theme issue 'Nya textvärldar i vår tid' [New Text Worlds in our Times]. Education & Learning, 4(1), 7.

Olson, M. (2001) Avspeglas den religiösa människans arbetsvillkor i hennes gudsbild? En studie av arbetets inverkan på den religiösa individens gudsföreställning utifrån aspekten autonomi [Are the religious individual’s working life conditions reflected in her image of God? On the influence of work on the religious individual’s imagination of God related to Autonomy]. Thesis for Master’s degree, Science of Religions, Department of Theology, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Olson, M. (1991) Nationell moralsyn? Om betydelsen av nationell tillhörighet för ungdomars moral. [National moral viewpoints? On the impact of National belonging in relation to Young peoples’ moral standpoints]. Thesis for Bachelor’s degree, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden.urn.kb.se/resolve

Recent teaching (selected)

Head of course, planning, supervision, examination and teaching at the Master Programme Ethics and Values, 60 ECTS, CeHum, Stockholm University. (2012-)

Planning, examination, supervision, and teaching at the course Research and School Development – Methodology in Theory and Practice, 5 ECTS, BUVL, University of Skövde. (2010)

Head of course, planning, examination and teaching at the course Education for Sustainable Development B, 5 ECTS, BUVL, University of Skövde. (2010)

Head of course, planning, supervision, examination and teaching at the course Research in Pedagogical Practice, Degree Project, 15 ECTS, BUVL, University of Skövde. (2010)

Responsibility for and planning of a Seminar series on Discrimination, funded by the Swedish National Agency for Education. (2010)

Head of course, planning, examination and teaching at the course Communication and Conflict resolution, 15 ECTS, Advanced level, Stockholm University. (2009-)

Examination and teaching at the course Professional Ethics and professional dialogue, 7,5 ECTS, Advanced level, CeHum, Stockholm University. (2009)

Supervision and examination of the course Independent work (final thesis, Teacher Education), 15 ECTS, Advanced level, Stockholm University. (2009)