Education politics, governance and debates:

Books

Magnússon, G. & Rytzler, J. (2022). Towards a Pedagogy of Higher Education. The Bologna Process, Pedagogy and Teaching. Routledge.

Magnússon, G., Phelan, A., Heimans, S. & Unsworth, R. (2024). Teacher Education and its Discontents. Politics, Knowledge, and Ethics. Routledge. (Ships after September 16th 2024)

Articles

Magnússon, G. & Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2024). Sitting on all sides of the table? The OECD’s role in Icelandic Education Policy 2030. Nordic Journal of Studies in Educationa Policy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20020317.2024.2360797

Þorkelsson, M. & Magnússon, G. (2024). Að eiga frjálst val um framhaldsskóla? Markaðsvæðing innritunar nýnema í íslenskum framhaldsskólum. (E: Marketisation of enrolment of students in Icelandic upper-secondary schools. The consequences of making a single market of school choice). Netla – Veftímarit um uppeldi og menntun. https://doi.org/10.24270/serritnetla.2024.2

Magnússon, G. (2023). From Salamanca to Sweden: inclusive education as policy in transit. In Tierney, Rizvi & Ercikan (eds). International Encyclopedia of Education (4th Ed.), pp. 386-396, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.12022-6

Magnússon, G. & Pettersson, D. (2021). Imaginaries of Inclusion in Swedish Education. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1682   

Magnússon, G. & Sims, C. (2021). Inkludering och särskild begåvning. Förutsättningar och dilemman i svensk utbildningspolicy. (E: Inclusion and Giftedness. Prerequisites and Dilemmas in Advisory Education Policy) Utbildning & Demokrati. 30(1) 97-118. (link to article here)  

Magnússon, G. (2020). Inclusive education and school choice. Lessons from Sweden, European Journal of Special Needs Education, 35(1), 25-39 DOI: 10.1080/08856257.2019.1603601  

Magnússon, G. (2019). An amalgam of ideals – images of inclusion in the Salamanca Statement, International  Journal of Inclusive Education, 23:7-8, 677-690, DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2019.1622805  

Magnússon, G., Göransson, K., & Lindqvist, G. (2019). Contextualizing inclusive education in educational policy: the case of Sweden. Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy. 5(2) 67-77 https://doi.org/10.1080/20020317.2019.1586512   

Book chapters

Magnússon, G. (accepted). Till postmodernismens och konstruktivismens försvar. I Nilsson, J. M. (red). Den spanande ugglan: Bildning som motstånd. Natur och kultur.

Magnússon, G. (2023). När inkluderingen offrades till marknaden. I Larsson, M. & Plesner, Å. (red). Skolan efter marknaden. S. 70-85. Natur och Kultur.

Magnússon, G. (2022). Har inkluderingen gått för långt? En blick på inkludering som policy. I Öhman, A. (red). Etiska perspektiv på specialpedagogers yrkesroll och värdepedagogiska praktik. S. 94-123. Studentlitteratur. 

Magnússon, G. (2021). ”De är många, de är överallt, och de har makt…” Historisk kartläggning av pedagogiska etablissemanget. I Landahl, J., Sjögren, D. & Westberg, J. (red). Skolans kriser: Historiska perspektiv på utbildningsreformer och skoldebatter. s. 233-260 Nordic Academic Press 

Hallsén, S. & Magnússon, G. (2021). Att initiera förändring eller iscensätta handlingskraft? Riktade statsbidrag som utbildningspolitiska instrument. I Landahl, J., Sjögren, D. & Westberg, J. (red). Skolans kriser: Historiska perspektiv på utbildningsreformer och skoldebatter. s. 183-204. Nordic Academic Press 

Magnússon, G. (2020) Det pedagogiska etablissemangets retoriska funktion. I Fejes & Dahlberg (red). Perspektiv på skolans problem – Vad säger forskningen? Lund: Studentlitteratur  

Essays

Magnússon, G. (15/10 2019)   Essay – On conspiracy theories in school debates  (Arena Essä) 

Debate articles

Magnússon, G. (10/3 2022) – On the responsibility of the intellectuals (Skola och samhälle) 

Magnússon, G. (13/9 2021) – On politicians’ responsibility for education? (Skola och samhälle) 

Magnússon, G. (18/8 2021) – Political failure of responsibility for schooling (Eskilstuna Kuriren) 

Magnússon, G. (20/5 2021) – The stylistic flaws of the education debates (Skola och samhälle) 

Magnússon, G. Rudbäck, N. & Jensinger, E. (15/9 2020) – Response to a debate-article linking relativism to gang-criminality  (Göteborgsposten)) 

Magnússon, G. (16/4 2020). On the need of organized work for improved working conditions for teachers (Skola och samhälle) 

Magnússon, G. (27/8 2019) – Final response: Disrespectful discourse on teachers (Dagens Arena) 

Magnússon, G. (26/8 2019) – Article on disrespectful discourse about teachers (Dagens Arena) 

Magnússon, G. (23/11 2018) –  Lack of nuance in critiques of pedagogy (Pedagogiska magasinet) 

Magnússon, G. (27/9 2018) – As regards inclusive education and the notion of ”pillow girls”  (Skola och samhälle)

Magnússon, G. (14/6 2018) – Response to a debate article about the usefulness of teacher education (Skola och samhälle)

Conference presentations

Magnússon, G. & Pettersson, D. (2022). Imaginaries of Inclusion in Swedish Education Paper presentation within the symposium Approaches to historical research on education reforms, policy, and politics in the Nordic context and beyond. NFPF/NERA Reykjavík 2022. I was also the organizer and chair of the symposium, 

Magnússon, G. (2021). Historical commonalities and differences in primary education reforms and teacher education reforms in Sweden. NFPF/NERA, Odense 2021 within the symposium Translating education policy knowledge: A comparison within and across the Nordic region.  

Magnússon, G. (2021). “They’re Many, They’re Everywhere, And They Have Power…”: A Historical Mapping  Of ‘The Pedagogical Establishment’ In Swedish Education Debates. NFPF/NERA, Odense 2021  

Magnússon, G. (2021). “They’re Many, They’re Everywhere, And They Have Power…” A Historical Mapping Of ‘The Pedagogical Establishment’ In Swedish Education Debates. ECER/EERA, 2021  

Magnússon, G. (2019). Education as a problem of and for the market. Political conceptions of education in  Swedish government statements. ECER/EERA, Hamburg, 2019 within the symposium What is the ‘Public’ in  Public Education? Mapping Past, Present and Future European Educational Imaginaries  

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