Erik Nylander
Biographic Data
| ID | 284743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Nylander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Nylander |
| SIGNATURE | NYLANDER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3241-0189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Swedish adult education policy and the world of work: Two generations of human capital influence
Public policies in adult education have been shaped by two generations of human capital influence, each reflecting different assumptions about the relationship between education and the economy. While the first generation, emerging in the post-war decades, has received little scholarly critique, the second has faced extensive criticism for its neoliberal orientation. Tracing these lines of thought internationally, we emphasise the need for a broa…
Conventions of skilling: The plural and prospective worlds of higher vocational education
When comparing lifelong learning systems in Europe, Swedish vocational education has been characterised as a statist, school-based ideal type, with strong emphasis on egalitarianism and social citizenship. However, the popularisation and expansion of higher vocational education (HVE), a post-secondary training form that has a mandate to train people to meet local labour market needs, complicates these composite descriptions. Building on conventio…
Enforced freedoms: Testing art students’ artistic engagements in a folk high school
Drawing on convention theory and sociology of critique, this article examines how teachers at a Swedish folk high school coordinate students’ activities through tests. Through ethnographic descriptions of exercises, assignments, presentations, and exhibitions that test students’ engagement, it is shown how the teachers seek to depart from the standardized assessment procedure associated with formalized schooling. More specifically, the teachers’ …
The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools
Exploring the themes of the territory: A topic modelling approach to 40 years of publications in International Journal of Lifelong Education (1982–2021)
The question of what the research of lifelong education is all about needs to be revisited from time to time. Not only is this line of research approached from a multitude of academic disciplines – such as sociology, psychology or philosophy – the very concepts that are used to denote the field also undergo important changes over time, e.g. from lifelong education to lifelong learning. In this contribution, we will explore this rather elusive res…
Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools
Auctioning out education: On exogenous privatisation through public procurement
Privatisation of public education is becoming more and more common across the world. As much current research presupposes causal links between the degree of privatisation and issues of competition and student’s free choice, we see a need for research on other ways of organising the presence of private providers in public education. In this article, we study how two Swedish municipalities use public procurement to contract private providers and or…
Deservedness, humbleness and chance: Conceptualisations of luck and academic success among Singaporean elite students
In this article, we examine conceptualisations of luck evoked by a select group of elite students studying in Oxbridge, when accounting for their academic success. The emphasis on luck in their narratives is categorised into three themes. The students linked their luckiness to deservedness, used luck as a way to express humbleness, and attributed their success to factors of chance. These themes are analysed against the backdrop of strong institut…
The worth of art education: Students' justifications of a contestable educational choice
How is art education valued in society? In Swedish public discourse the value of educational trajectories is often equated with their usefulness for employability. With competitive winner-takes-all labour markets for artists, art education is largely perceived as a worthless credential and form of education. But what kinds of worth does art education have among students themselves? This article draws on the approach of pragmatic sociology and ind…
The transnational track: State sponsorship and Singapore’s Oxbridge elite
This paper explores the process of transnational institutional matching between elite institutions in Singapore and Great Britain, and the role of state-sponsored scholarships in enabling this process as political and administrative elites are selected and groomed. Using data gathered from in-depth interviews conducted with Singaporean undergraduates study- ing at Oxbridge and a dataset of the institutional origins of 580 Singap- orean government…
Playing with capital: Inherited and acquired assets in a jazz audition
The rites of jazz institutions: Uncertainty and valuation in music auditions
Mastering the jazz standard: Sayings and doings of artistic valuation
Managing by measuring: Academic knowledge production under the ranks
No abstract available
The transnational track: State sponsorship and Singapore’s Oxbridge elite
This paper explores the process of transnational institutional matching between elite institutions in Singapore and Great Britain, and the role of state-sponsored scholarships in enabling this process as political and administrative elites are selected and groomed. Using data gathered from in-depth interviews conducted with Singaporean undergraduates study- ing at Oxbridge and a dataset of the institutional origins of 580 Singap- orean government…
Mastering the jazz standard: Sayings and doings of artistic valuation
Exploring the themes of the territory: A topic modelling approach to 40 years of publications in International Journal of Lifelong Education (1982–2021)
The question of what the research of lifelong education is all about needs to be revisited from time to time. Not only is this line of research approached from a multitude of academic disciplines – such as sociology, psychology or philosophy – the very concepts that are used to denote the field also undergo important changes over time, e.g. from lifelong education to lifelong learning. In this contribution, we will explore this rather elusive res…
Playing with capital: Inherited and acquired assets in a jazz audition
Deservedness, humbleness and chance: Conceptualisations of luck and academic success among Singaporean elite students
In this article, we examine conceptualisations of luck evoked by a select group of elite students studying in Oxbridge, when accounting for their academic success. The emphasis on luck in their narratives is categorised into three themes. The students linked their luckiness to deservedness, used luck as a way to express humbleness, and attributed their success to factors of chance. These themes are analysed against the backdrop of strong institut…
The worth of art education: Students' justifications of a contestable educational choice
How is art education valued in society? In Swedish public discourse the value of educational trajectories is often equated with their usefulness for employability. With competitive winner-takes-all labour markets for artists, art education is largely perceived as a worthless credential and form of education. But what kinds of worth does art education have among students themselves? This article draws on the approach of pragmatic sociology and ind…
The rites of jazz institutions: Uncertainty and valuation in music auditions
Managing by measuring: Academic knowledge production under the ranks
No abstract available
Mastering the jazz standard: Sayings and doings of artistic valuation
Managing by measuring: Academic knowledge production under the ranks
No abstract available
The rites of jazz institutions: Uncertainty and valuation in music auditions
The transnational track: State sponsorship and Singapore’s Oxbridge elite
This paper explores the process of transnational institutional matching between elite institutions in Singapore and Great Britain, and the role of state-sponsored scholarships in enabling this process as political and administrative elites are selected and groomed. Using data gathered from in-depth interviews conducted with Singaporean undergraduates study- ing at Oxbridge and a dataset of the institutional origins of 580 Singap- orean government…
Playing with capital: Inherited and acquired assets in a jazz audition
Deservedness, humbleness and chance: Conceptualisations of luck and academic success among Singaporean elite students
In this article, we examine conceptualisations of luck evoked by a select group of elite students studying in Oxbridge, when accounting for their academic success. The emphasis on luck in their narratives is categorised into three themes. The students linked their luckiness to deservedness, used luck as a way to express humbleness, and attributed their success to factors of chance. These themes are analysed against the backdrop of strong institut…
The worth of art education: Students' justifications of a contestable educational choice
How is art education valued in society? In Swedish public discourse the value of educational trajectories is often equated with their usefulness for employability. With competitive winner-takes-all labour markets for artists, art education is largely perceived as a worthless credential and form of education. But what kinds of worth does art education have among students themselves? This article draws on the approach of pragmatic sociology and ind…
Auctioning out education: On exogenous privatisation through public procurement
Privatisation of public education is becoming more and more common across the world. As much current research presupposes causal links between the degree of privatisation and issues of competition and student’s free choice, we see a need for research on other ways of organising the presence of private providers in public education. In this article, we study how two Swedish municipalities use public procurement to contract private providers and or…
Exploring the themes of the territory: A topic modelling approach to 40 years of publications in International Journal of Lifelong Education (1982–2021)
The question of what the research of lifelong education is all about needs to be revisited from time to time. Not only is this line of research approached from a multitude of academic disciplines – such as sociology, psychology or philosophy – the very concepts that are used to denote the field also undergo important changes over time, e.g. from lifelong education to lifelong learning. In this contribution, we will explore this rather elusive res…
Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools
The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools
Conventions of skilling: The plural and prospective worlds of higher vocational education
When comparing lifelong learning systems in Europe, Swedish vocational education has been characterised as a statist, school-based ideal type, with strong emphasis on egalitarianism and social citizenship. However, the popularisation and expansion of higher vocational education (HVE), a post-secondary training form that has a mandate to train people to meet local labour market needs, complicates these composite descriptions. Building on conventio…
Enforced freedoms: Testing art students’ artistic engagements in a folk high school
Drawing on convention theory and sociology of critique, this article examines how teachers at a Swedish folk high school coordinate students’ activities through tests. Through ethnographic descriptions of exercises, assignments, presentations, and exhibitions that test students’ engagement, it is shown how the teachers seek to depart from the standardized assessment procedure associated with formalized schooling. More specifically, the teachers’ …
Swedish adult education policy and the world of work: Two generations of human capital influence
Public policies in adult education have been shaped by two generations of human capital influence, each reflecting different assumptions about the relationship between education and the economy. While the first generation, emerging in the post-war decades, has received little scholarly critique, the second has faced extensive criticism for its neoliberal orientation. Tracing these lines of thought internationally, we emphasise the need for a broa…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works)