Christian Lundahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 759465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Lundahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Lundahl |
| SIGNATURE | LUNDAHL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Örebro University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8173-7474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Spousal care in facilitating “international and comparative education” 1950s–1990s
This article rethinks knowledge production in International and Comparative Education by foregrounding spousal labour and care as part of the field’s infrastructure. Centring Ingrid Husén (1917–1991) and her five-decade partnership with the renowned scholar of International and Comparative Education Torsten Husén (1916–2009), it mobilises a relational perspective informed by Science and Technology Studies and Actor–Network Theory, and especially …
Decoding school marketisation – exploring computational analytics in large-scale policy data
Over the past four decades, Sweden's education system has undergone a profound transformation, shifting from a centralised structure to a market-oriented model characterised by independent schools, deregulation, and competition. This paper introduces an innovative methodological approach to studying this transformation by applying computational text analysis with large language models (LLMs) to 45 years of parliamentary debates. By leveraging the…
Ready or Not – Ready for What? – Reconceptualising School Readiness as a Socio-Political Boundary Object in Educational Reform
Figures fighting figures - unpacking state authority's mis/trust in Pisa statistics
How can we understand the uncertainties in high-stake measures such as PISA in relation to the claims that different authorities make from them? In this paper, we use a rather remarkable case from Sweden involving conflicting interpretations of the PISA 2018 results at a national political level and a fight over statistics between two national agencies: National Agency for Education and the National Audit Office. The aim of this paper is to unpac…
Dancing with Covid: Choreographing examinations in pandemic times
In this paper, we explore the improvisations made in examination practices in higher education during the pandemic of 2020. Drawing on STS, we start from the theoretical assumption that examinations constitute an obligatory passage point in universities and colleges: a sacred point which students need to pass if they want to gain recognized qualifications. We base our analysis of higher education examinations on cases from six countries around th…
The peripherals at the core of androcentric knowledge production: An analysis of the managing editor’s knowledge work in The International Encyclopedia of Education (1985)
Building on the approach that knowledge is socially constructed, this study aims to deepen the understanding of knowledge production processes by adapting the concept of a laboratory on an historical example of editorial collaboration. We use the editorial process of The International Encyclopedia of Education (IEE) (1985) as an example. Considering knowledge as situated in contrast to the illusion of objectivity, the paper pursues identifying a …
Travel, translation, and governing in education: The role of Swedish actors in the shaping of the European education space
Within the field of history of education, there is a growing interest in the movement of influential actors and texts that have crossed national borders. One of the main driving forces for influence, knowledge, and innovation is comparison, a tool used within the governing of education in diverse ways and with different intensities, over time, to shape education systems. This article looks beyond dichotomies such as the national versus the Europe…
Politics by other means? STS and research in education
Science and Technology Studies (STS) has been surprisingly slow to become widely known and deployed in the field of education. Yet STS has a rich array of concepts and analytical methods to offer to studies of: knowledge practices and epistemic cultures; the interrelationship between states and knowledge; regulatory practices, governance and institutions; and classrooms, pedagogy, teaching and learning. Most importantly, it provides a fresh persp…
The Swedish schoolhouse: A case study in transnational influences in education at the 1870s world fairs
At the world exhibitions of the 1870s Sweden displayed a schoolhouse, with examples of teaching material and student work. How did Sweden ship an entire schoolhouse to these exhibitions? What impact did the schoolhouse have on visitors to the exhibition? The purpose of this article is to shed light on the transnational influences operating between Sweden and other countries at the world fairs of the 1870s, regarding both policy and practice forma…
Standardisation and ‘quick languages’: The shape‐shifting of standardised measurement of pupil achievement in Sweden and Germany
The article discusses the entry of standardised measurement into the educational systems of Sweden and Germany and the processes of shape‐shifting associated with this process. In the first part of the article, we investigate how standardised measurement challenged existing ways of conceiving education in Sweden and Germany during the first half of the twentieth century, leading to the introduction of a system of national tests in Sweden, but not…
Standardisation and ‘quick languages’: The shape‐shifting of standardised measurement of pupil achievement in Sweden and Germany
The article discusses the entry of standardised measurement into the educational systems of Sweden and Germany and the processes of shape‐shifting associated with this process. In the first part of the article, we investigate how standardised measurement challenged existing ways of conceiving education in Sweden and Germany during the first half of the twentieth century, leading to the introduction of a system of national tests in Sweden, but not…
Politics by other means? STS and research in education
Science and Technology Studies (STS) has been surprisingly slow to become widely known and deployed in the field of education. Yet STS has a rich array of concepts and analytical methods to offer to studies of: knowledge practices and epistemic cultures; the interrelationship between states and knowledge; regulatory practices, governance and institutions; and classrooms, pedagogy, teaching and learning. Most importantly, it provides a fresh persp…
The Swedish schoolhouse: A case study in transnational influences in education at the 1870s world fairs
At the world exhibitions of the 1870s Sweden displayed a schoolhouse, with examples of teaching material and student work. How did Sweden ship an entire schoolhouse to these exhibitions? What impact did the schoolhouse have on visitors to the exhibition? The purpose of this article is to shed light on the transnational influences operating between Sweden and other countries at the world fairs of the 1870s, regarding both policy and practice forma…
Figures fighting figures - unpacking state authority's mis/trust in Pisa statistics
How can we understand the uncertainties in high-stake measures such as PISA in relation to the claims that different authorities make from them? In this paper, we use a rather remarkable case from Sweden involving conflicting interpretations of the PISA 2018 results at a national political level and a fight over statistics between two national agencies: National Agency for Education and the National Audit Office. The aim of this paper is to unpac…
Standardisation and ‘quick languages’: The shape‐shifting of standardised measurement of pupil achievement in Sweden and Germany
The article discusses the entry of standardised measurement into the educational systems of Sweden and Germany and the processes of shape‐shifting associated with this process. In the first part of the article, we investigate how standardised measurement challenged existing ways of conceiving education in Sweden and Germany during the first half of the twentieth century, leading to the introduction of a system of national tests in Sweden, but not…
The Swedish schoolhouse: A case study in transnational influences in education at the 1870s world fairs
At the world exhibitions of the 1870s Sweden displayed a schoolhouse, with examples of teaching material and student work. How did Sweden ship an entire schoolhouse to these exhibitions? What impact did the schoolhouse have on visitors to the exhibition? The purpose of this article is to shed light on the transnational influences operating between Sweden and other countries at the world fairs of the 1870s, regarding both policy and practice forma…
Politics by other means? STS and research in education
Science and Technology Studies (STS) has been surprisingly slow to become widely known and deployed in the field of education. Yet STS has a rich array of concepts and analytical methods to offer to studies of: knowledge practices and epistemic cultures; the interrelationship between states and knowledge; regulatory practices, governance and institutions; and classrooms, pedagogy, teaching and learning. Most importantly, it provides a fresh persp…
The peripherals at the core of androcentric knowledge production: An analysis of the managing editor’s knowledge work in The International Encyclopedia of Education (1985)
Building on the approach that knowledge is socially constructed, this study aims to deepen the understanding of knowledge production processes by adapting the concept of a laboratory on an historical example of editorial collaboration. We use the editorial process of The International Encyclopedia of Education (IEE) (1985) as an example. Considering knowledge as situated in contrast to the illusion of objectivity, the paper pursues identifying a …
Travel, translation, and governing in education: The role of Swedish actors in the shaping of the European education space
Within the field of history of education, there is a growing interest in the movement of influential actors and texts that have crossed national borders. One of the main driving forces for influence, knowledge, and innovation is comparison, a tool used within the governing of education in diverse ways and with different intensities, over time, to shape education systems. This article looks beyond dichotomies such as the national versus the Europe…
Dancing with Covid: Choreographing examinations in pandemic times
In this paper, we explore the improvisations made in examination practices in higher education during the pandemic of 2020. Drawing on STS, we start from the theoretical assumption that examinations constitute an obligatory passage point in universities and colleges: a sacred point which students need to pass if they want to gain recognized qualifications. We base our analysis of higher education examinations on cases from six countries around th…
Figures fighting figures - unpacking state authority's mis/trust in Pisa statistics
How can we understand the uncertainties in high-stake measures such as PISA in relation to the claims that different authorities make from them? In this paper, we use a rather remarkable case from Sweden involving conflicting interpretations of the PISA 2018 results at a national political level and a fight over statistics between two national agencies: National Agency for Education and the National Audit Office. The aim of this paper is to unpac…
Spousal care in facilitating “international and comparative education” 1950s–1990s
This article rethinks knowledge production in International and Comparative Education by foregrounding spousal labour and care as part of the field’s infrastructure. Centring Ingrid Husén (1917–1991) and her five-decade partnership with the renowned scholar of International and Comparative Education Torsten Husén (1916–2009), it mobilises a relational perspective informed by Science and Technology Studies and Actor–Network Theory, and especially …
Decoding school marketisation – exploring computational analytics in large-scale policy data
Over the past four decades, Sweden's education system has undergone a profound transformation, shifting from a centralised structure to a market-oriented model characterised by independent schools, deregulation, and competition. This paper introduces an innovative methodological approach to studying this transformation by applying computational text analysis with large language models (LLMs) to 45 years of parliamentary debates. By leveraging the…
Ready or Not – Ready for What? – Reconceptualising School Readiness as a Socio-Political Boundary Object in Educational Reform
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Historical Education Studies Worldwide (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Art (2 works)