A L Lindgren
Biographic Data
| ID | 6615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A L Lindgren |
| GIVEN NAMES | A L |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindgren |
| SIGNATURE | LINDGREN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0499-1345 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Body and risk: Health promotion in Swedish school sex education 1900–2020s
In this article, we focus on sex education in schools and not sex education in general, which has different audiences, purposes, aims and scope. Swedish sex education has had a reputation as being very liberal and sex-friendly, providing the most advanced information for primary- and secondary-school pupils and students from the mid-20th century onwards. When following the trajectory of sex education into the schooling system, from the start of t…
The HIV/Aids epidemic and the Swedish National Agency for Education: Strategising to safeguard a school perspective during a national crisis
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic reached Sweden in the early 1980s, a “national crisis” erupted. Several policy measures were taken, including the appointment of an AIDS delegation to coordinate efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, including several major nationwide information campaigns. However, previous research has not paid attention to the role of education in the work against HIV/AIDS in Sweden. This article is a case study describing the efforts made by …
Building blocks, free play, and freedom in a 1930s Swedish kindergarten: Versions of kindergarten childhoods in written and visual records
This article examines what we can learn about kindergarten childhoods when using archived records about children's free play with building blocks in the 1930s. Taking its starting point in previous research about how Froebelian building blocks have been part of kindergarten ideology and education, the article explores how visual and textual sources promote different versions of childhoods in and around a kindergarten institution. Moreover, the ar…
Child sexuality and interdependent agency in sexuality education texts for Swedish preschool practitioners 1969−2021: Three discourses on children’s sexual play
This paper provides a discourse analysis of 12 Swedish sexuality education texts intended for preschool practitioners and published between 1969 and 2021.Using Fairclough's framework, we identify three discourses about children's sexual play in relation to children's sexual agency in the texts: child sexuality as encouraged and entangled with adult sexuality; child sexuality as conditioned by what is perceived as normal or abnormal in children; a…
The sex-map as didactic object: Ontonorms in Swedish sex education
This study explores the 'sex-map', a didactic object developed in Sweden. The analysis focuses on teacher guidelines and an animated movie for classroom use and how the sex-map becomes a method for emphasizing students as actors in defining sexuality. Building on Mol's notion of ontonorms, the emphasis is on ways in which the ontology of young sexuality is associated with arguments about what is 'good' in and for sex education. The sex-map incorp…
The Role of Digital Cameras in Child and Researcher Encounters in Preschool: A Potential for a Decolonization of Childhood
The aim of this article is to analyze how a researcher’s use of digital cameras, with children in preschool, affects the children’s becoming as filmmaking subjects. The material consists of 12 months’ digital videography, during which the researcher took part in children’s own filmmaking. The authors used conceptual tools from Deleuze’s (1986) film theory to analyze an encounter between two children and a researcher as filmmakers. The analysis de…
Towards an ethics of sexuality – alternative feminist figurations and a (boy) child: A close reading of a prize-winning sex education manual from the early twentieth century
Sex education has been a major concern that has run in parallel with the creation of the modern concept of childhood (innocence) in Western societies. When priests opposed sex education for children, teachers and physicians advocated the need for education. In Sweden, in the early twentieth century, two female physicians wrote a prize-winning manual about sex education. In this paper, I present a close reading of the manual with a focus on how th…
Materializing fiction: Teachers as Creators of Play and Children as Embodied Entrants in Early Childhood Education
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of verbal and visual presentations of a Swedish version of a pedagogy of play as presented in educational broadcasts during the early 1990s and late 2000s. The analysis shows how fiction materializes discursively and through material props in the play activities and how fiction becomes an agentive force making both human and non-human bodies act in new ways. Thus, when the fictional and real mingle in mate…
The ontological practices of child culture
This article asks questions about the ontology of child culture. It aims to position the concept of child culture at the forefront of theoretical research without creating a 'true' or singular definition of the concept. It is rather a conceptual exploration of partial consistencies of child culture in and through practices. The focus of the analyses is on five institutional cultural practices created for children: two children's museums, a scienc…
Childhood re-edits: Challenging norms and forming lay professional competence on YouTube
This article presents the initial findings of research into how YouTube culture can become an arena for young YouTube videographers to remodel mainstream, sub-cultural, and media content (YouTube clips, music, film content, and viral memes). We juxtapose analyses from both media and child studies to look at the ways in which preferred images and notions of the “good” and idyllic childhood are re-edited into a possible critique of the prescribed S…
Ett litet ord betyder så mycket: Alliansregeringen, Handlingsplanen och betydelseförskjutningarav begreppet mäns våld mot kvinnor
A little word may mean so much: Changed meanings of the concept men’s violence against womenThis article concerns the process of policymaking in the Swedish political system with a focus on the concept of men’s violence against women. The material analyzed is based on interviews with key civil servants and the Minister of Equality responsible for the ”Action Plan for Combating Men’s Violence Against Women” launched by the right wing government in…
Enacting (real) fiction: Materializing childhoods in a theme park
Even though fiction and fantasy are fundamental to how childhoods today are understood, this is a topic that is seldom explored either theoretically or academically. We address the question of how the relationship between material real and fictive real can be understood in new ways in contemporary society. We suggest that fiction can be understood in other ways than the hitherto dichotomized approaches to it, and our aim is to focus on the hybrid…
Blogging Family-like Relations when Visiting Theme and Amusement Parks: The Use of Children in Displays Online
This paper combines sociological perspectives on family display, internet studies on family and private photography and a child studies perspective on the display of children. The paper proposes that blogging practices related to visits to theme and amusement parks in Sweden provide a new arena for people to display family-like relationships. In the different displays, adults mainly use pictures of children in the blogs to demonstrate their abili…
Visual documentation as a normalizing practice: A new discourse of visibility in preschool
The visual documentation of education for pedagogical purposes focuses on preschool children’s activities and is used by educators to improve their understanding of children while strengthening their own professionalism. By analysing three educational TV programmes concerning visual documentation in preschools, this paper challenges the positivistic way visual documentation is portrayed. Moreover, it questions political documents and the TV progr…
Enacting (real) fiction: Materializing childhoods in a theme park
Even though fiction and fantasy are fundamental to how childhoods today are understood, this is a topic that is seldom explored either theoretically or academically. We address the question of how the relationship between material real and fictive real can be understood in new ways in contemporary society. We suggest that fiction can be understood in other ways than the hitherto dichotomized approaches to it, and our aim is to focus on the hybrid…
Visual documentation as a normalizing practice: A new discourse of visibility in preschool
The visual documentation of education for pedagogical purposes focuses on preschool children’s activities and is used by educators to improve their understanding of children while strengthening their own professionalism. By analysing three educational TV programmes concerning visual documentation in preschools, this paper challenges the positivistic way visual documentation is portrayed. Moreover, it questions political documents and the TV progr…
The ontological practices of child culture
This article asks questions about the ontology of child culture. It aims to position the concept of child culture at the forefront of theoretical research without creating a 'true' or singular definition of the concept. It is rather a conceptual exploration of partial consistencies of child culture in and through practices. The focus of the analyses is on five institutional cultural practices created for children: two children's museums, a scienc…
Blogging Family-like Relations when Visiting Theme and Amusement Parks: The Use of Children in Displays Online
This paper combines sociological perspectives on family display, internet studies on family and private photography and a child studies perspective on the display of children. The paper proposes that blogging practices related to visits to theme and amusement parks in Sweden provide a new arena for people to display family-like relationships. In the different displays, adults mainly use pictures of children in the blogs to demonstrate their abili…
The HIV/Aids epidemic and the Swedish National Agency for Education: Strategising to safeguard a school perspective during a national crisis
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic reached Sweden in the early 1980s, a “national crisis” erupted. Several policy measures were taken, including the appointment of an AIDS delegation to coordinate efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, including several major nationwide information campaigns. However, previous research has not paid attention to the role of education in the work against HIV/AIDS in Sweden. This article is a case study describing the efforts made by …
The sex-map as didactic object: Ontonorms in Swedish sex education
This study explores the 'sex-map', a didactic object developed in Sweden. The analysis focuses on teacher guidelines and an animated movie for classroom use and how the sex-map becomes a method for emphasizing students as actors in defining sexuality. Building on Mol's notion of ontonorms, the emphasis is on ways in which the ontology of young sexuality is associated with arguments about what is 'good' in and for sex education. The sex-map incorp…
Visual documentation as a normalizing practice: A new discourse of visibility in preschool
The visual documentation of education for pedagogical purposes focuses on preschool children’s activities and is used by educators to improve their understanding of children while strengthening their own professionalism. By analysing three educational TV programmes concerning visual documentation in preschools, this paper challenges the positivistic way visual documentation is portrayed. Moreover, it questions political documents and the TV progr…
Blogging Family-like Relations when Visiting Theme and Amusement Parks: The Use of Children in Displays Online
This paper combines sociological perspectives on family display, internet studies on family and private photography and a child studies perspective on the display of children. The paper proposes that blogging practices related to visits to theme and amusement parks in Sweden provide a new arena for people to display family-like relationships. In the different displays, adults mainly use pictures of children in the blogs to demonstrate their abili…
Childhood re-edits: Challenging norms and forming lay professional competence on YouTube
This article presents the initial findings of research into how YouTube culture can become an arena for young YouTube videographers to remodel mainstream, sub-cultural, and media content (YouTube clips, music, film content, and viral memes). We juxtapose analyses from both media and child studies to look at the ways in which preferred images and notions of the “good” and idyllic childhood are re-edited into a possible critique of the prescribed S…
Ett litet ord betyder så mycket: Alliansregeringen, Handlingsplanen och betydelseförskjutningarav begreppet mäns våld mot kvinnor
A little word may mean so much: Changed meanings of the concept men’s violence against womenThis article concerns the process of policymaking in the Swedish political system with a focus on the concept of men’s violence against women. The material analyzed is based on interviews with key civil servants and the Minister of Equality responsible for the ”Action Plan for Combating Men’s Violence Against Women” launched by the right wing government in…
Enacting (real) fiction: Materializing childhoods in a theme park
Even though fiction and fantasy are fundamental to how childhoods today are understood, this is a topic that is seldom explored either theoretically or academically. We address the question of how the relationship between material real and fictive real can be understood in new ways in contemporary society. We suggest that fiction can be understood in other ways than the hitherto dichotomized approaches to it, and our aim is to focus on the hybrid…
The ontological practices of child culture
This article asks questions about the ontology of child culture. It aims to position the concept of child culture at the forefront of theoretical research without creating a 'true' or singular definition of the concept. It is rather a conceptual exploration of partial consistencies of child culture in and through practices. The focus of the analyses is on five institutional cultural practices created for children: two children's museums, a scienc…
Materializing fiction: Teachers as Creators of Play and Children as Embodied Entrants in Early Childhood Education
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of verbal and visual presentations of a Swedish version of a pedagogy of play as presented in educational broadcasts during the early 1990s and late 2000s. The analysis shows how fiction materializes discursively and through material props in the play activities and how fiction becomes an agentive force making both human and non-human bodies act in new ways. Thus, when the fictional and real mingle in mate…
Towards an ethics of sexuality – alternative feminist figurations and a (boy) child: A close reading of a prize-winning sex education manual from the early twentieth century
Sex education has been a major concern that has run in parallel with the creation of the modern concept of childhood (innocence) in Western societies. When priests opposed sex education for children, teachers and physicians advocated the need for education. In Sweden, in the early twentieth century, two female physicians wrote a prize-winning manual about sex education. In this paper, I present a close reading of the manual with a focus on how th…
The Role of Digital Cameras in Child and Researcher Encounters in Preschool: A Potential for a Decolonization of Childhood
The aim of this article is to analyze how a researcher’s use of digital cameras, with children in preschool, affects the children’s becoming as filmmaking subjects. The material consists of 12 months’ digital videography, during which the researcher took part in children’s own filmmaking. The authors used conceptual tools from Deleuze’s (1986) film theory to analyze an encounter between two children and a researcher as filmmakers. The analysis de…
Child sexuality and interdependent agency in sexuality education texts for Swedish preschool practitioners 1969−2021: Three discourses on children’s sexual play
This paper provides a discourse analysis of 12 Swedish sexuality education texts intended for preschool practitioners and published between 1969 and 2021.Using Fairclough's framework, we identify three discourses about children's sexual play in relation to children's sexual agency in the texts: child sexuality as encouraged and entangled with adult sexuality; child sexuality as conditioned by what is perceived as normal or abnormal in children; a…
The sex-map as didactic object: Ontonorms in Swedish sex education
This study explores the 'sex-map', a didactic object developed in Sweden. The analysis focuses on teacher guidelines and an animated movie for classroom use and how the sex-map becomes a method for emphasizing students as actors in defining sexuality. Building on Mol's notion of ontonorms, the emphasis is on ways in which the ontology of young sexuality is associated with arguments about what is 'good' in and for sex education. The sex-map incorp…
Body and risk: Health promotion in Swedish school sex education 1900–2020s
In this article, we focus on sex education in schools and not sex education in general, which has different audiences, purposes, aims and scope. Swedish sex education has had a reputation as being very liberal and sex-friendly, providing the most advanced information for primary- and secondary-school pupils and students from the mid-20th century onwards. When following the trajectory of sex education into the schooling system, from the start of t…
The HIV/Aids epidemic and the Swedish National Agency for Education: Strategising to safeguard a school perspective during a national crisis
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic reached Sweden in the early 1980s, a “national crisis” erupted. Several policy measures were taken, including the appointment of an AIDS delegation to coordinate efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, including several major nationwide information campaigns. However, previous research has not paid attention to the role of education in the work against HIV/AIDS in Sweden. This article is a case study describing the efforts made by …
Building blocks, free play, and freedom in a 1930s Swedish kindergarten: Versions of kindergarten childhoods in written and visual records
This article examines what we can learn about kindergarten childhoods when using archived records about children's free play with building blocks in the 1930s. Taking its starting point in previous research about how Froebelian building blocks have been part of kindergarten ideology and education, the article explores how visual and textual sources promote different versions of childhoods in and around a kindergarten institution. Moreover, the ar…
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (8 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works)