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Emma Arneback
Senior Lecturer
Department of Education and Special EducationAbout Emma Arneback
Emma Arneback is a senior lecturer and associate professor in education at University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on change processes aimed at creating more equitable conditions for children's, pupils', and students' development and learning. What actions are used to challenge racism, school segregation, and unequal conditions in educational contexts – how can these actions be understood, and what opportunities and challenges arise with different actions?
Her main research interests are the following:
- Racism and anti-racism in schools
- Widening recruitment and participation in higher education
- Local initiatives to challenge school segregation
- Juridification of and in education: with a focus on equality and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Education and democracy
Ongoing research projects:
Challenging Segregation through Education: This project investigates and compares three different types of local initiatives aimed at challenge the negative consequences of school segregation: 1) redistribution of students, 2) merging of schools, and 3) strengthening of schools. The project runs from 2021 to 2025 and is funded by the Swedish Research Council. The participating researchers, from education, political science, and human geography, come fromf Gothenburg and Örebro University: Jan Jämte (project leader), Emma Arneback, Andreas Bergh, Håkan Forsberg, and Anders Trumberg.
What Happens to Schools when the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child becomes Law? (JURED): This project addresses the relationship between education and law. The project runs from 2022 to 2025 and is funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. The participating researchers, from education and law, come from Uppsala, Gothenburg, and Örebro universities: Andreas Bergh (project leader), Emma Arneback, Lotta Lerwall, Mattias Nylund, and Tomas Englund.
Completed research projects:
A School of Integration? Lessons from Örebro municipality’s work on a school desegregation initiative, Örebro municipality (2019–2020).
How to Counteract Racism in Education: A qualitative study of teachers' anti-racist actions, Swedish Research Council (2015–2019).
The Struggle over the Text: On student teachers' encounters, meaning-making, and negotiations with different writing traditions, Swedish Research Council (2012–2016).
Teaching:
She primarily teaches courses within the vocational teacher education program at Gothenburg University and supervises doctoral students within her areas of interest.
Assignments:
Member of Instutionsrådet at IPS.
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”Så var det inte på min förra skola”: Om skolkulturers betydelse vid styrd
skolintegration
Emma Arneback, Andreas Bergh
Synliggjord skolkultur: att forma en inkluderande och hållbar skolvardag för ungdomar i socialt utsatta områden, Red. Lovisa Bergdahl & Elisabet Langmann - 2024 -
Struggling to counter school segregation- a typology of local initiatives in
Sweden
Anders Trumberg , Emma Arneback, Anderas Bergh, Jan Jämte
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research - 2024 -
Different forms of juridification in
education.
Emma Arneback, Lotta Lerwall
NERA abstract - 2024 -
A school for all? On moral recognitions and violations in a school desegregation
project
Emma Arneback, Jan Jämte
NERA abstract - 2024 -
Social integration and adult immigrants in Swedish education: a critical policy analysis of education
for sustainable development in
SFI
Martina Lazarevska, Sofia Persson, Emma Arneback
Sociologidagarna 2024- “Övergång eller undergång” - 2024 -
En social samvaro för alla? Om betydelsen av omsorg, respekt och solidaritet i skolor präglad av
mångfald
Emma Arneback, Jan Jämte
Pedagogisk Forskning i Sverige - 2023 -
From 64 sections to 900 in the Education Act - on juridification of Swedish
education
Lotta Lerwall, Andreas Bergh, Emma Arneback
ECER program 2023 - 2023 -
Enacting the Convention on the Rights of the Child - in times of
juridification
Emma Arneback, Tomas Englund, Andreas Bergh, Lotta Lerwall
ECER program 2023 - 2023 -
Snabbspåret – till vad då? En utvärdering av Snabbspåret för nyanlända lärare vid Örebro
universitet
Emma Arneback, Jan Jämte
2023 -
How to counteract racism in education–A typology of teachers’ anti-racist
actions
Emma Arneback, Jan Jämte
Race Ethnicity and Education - 2022 -
Becoming an anti-racist teacher: countering racism in
education
Emma Arneback
Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice - 2022 -
En skola i integration? Lärdomar från Örebro kommuns arbete med styrd
skolintegration
Emma Arneback, Andreas Bergh, Jan Jämte, Anders Trumberg
2021 -
Living the Paradox of Risk: An Approach for Teachers in Democratically Challenging Situations in
Education
Maria Rosén, Emma Arneback
Philosophical Inquiry in Education - 2021 -
On Teachers’ Professionalism When Colleagues Express Racism–Challenges and
Choices
Emma Arneback, Andreas Bergh, Ásgeir Tryggvason
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research - 2021 -
A conceptual framework for understanding juridification of and in
education
Maria Rosén, Emma Arneback, Andreas Bergh
Journal of Education Policy - 2021 -
Bredda arbetet mot
rasism
Emma Arneback, Jan Jämte
Perspektiv på skolans problem: - vad säger forskningen? - 2020 -
Teachers’ deliberation on communicative potentials in classrooms when students express
racism
Emma Arneback, Tomas Englund
Reflective Practice - 2020 -
Yrkeslärare som värdebalanserare - Värdekonflikter mellan skolans och arbetsplatsens läroplan i
lärlingsutbildning
Emma Arneback, Mattias Nylund
Utbildning och lärande - 2017 -
Att motverka rasism i förskolan och
skolan
Emma Arneback, Jan Jämte
2017 -
Doing interdisciplinarity in teacher education. Resources for learning through writing in two educational
programmes
Emma Arneback, Mona Blåsjö
Education Inquiry - 2017 -
Student teachers’ experiences of academic writing in teacher education– on moving between different
disciplines
Emma Arneback, Tomas Englund, Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke
Education Inquiry - 2017 -
Achieving a professional identity through
writing
Emma Arneback, Tomas Englund, Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke
Education Inquiry - 2017 -
Hur villkorar juridifieringen lärarprofessionens arbete med skolans kunskaper och
värden?
Andreas Bergh, Emma Arneback
Utbildning och Demokrati - 2016 -
Locations of racism in education: a speech act analysis of a policy
chain
Emma Arneback, Ann Quennerstedt
Journal of Education Policy - 2016 -
Writing in and out of control: A longitudinal study of three student teachers' experiences of academic writing in preschool teacher
education
Emma Arneback, Tomas Englund, Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke
Nordic Studies in Education - 2016 -
Which values emerge in apprentice
education?
Emma Arneback, Mattias Nylund
Paper presented at the NORDYRK-conference in Helsinki 10-12 June - 2015 -
Moral imagination in education: A deweyan proposal for teachers responding to hate
speech
Emma Arneback
Journal of Moral Education - 2014 -
Den paketerade valfriheten. Om Framtidsvägen för den svenska
gymnasieskolan
Emma Arneback, Andreas Bergh
Nordic Studies in Education - 2010