Transnationellt orienterad läroplansteori

Abstract

Transnationally oriented curriculum theory. In this essay, written to mark my installation as professor of education at Linnaeus University in September 2023, I present three central and interrelated themes of my research. The first theme I call an expanded educational policy practice. In it, I discuss the need to widen the analytical gaze of curriculum theory beyond national borders and incorporate transnational policy arenas and actors. In this transnational approach to curriculum theory, I apply discursive institutionalism as a curriculum theoretical perspective, which constitutes the second theme of the essay. The third and final theme is critical reflection, in which I discuss the importance of developing critical educational research in times of increased dogmatism and/or populism. I conclude with a call for the university to take renewed responsibility for its seminar culture in fostering such a critical reflective approach among academics in a broad sense.