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Katarina Jansson Hydén

Lecturer

The Pedagogy Unit: Visual Art and Sloyd
Visiting address
Kristinelundsgatan 6-8
41137 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 131
40530 Göteborg

About Katarina Jansson Hydén

Katarina Jansson Hydén

katarina.jansson.hyden@hdk.gu.se

Telefon

031-786 29 28

0766-18 29 28

Katarina is educated in- and work as a visual arts didactics and art historian in HDK -Valand and she has since 2016 a permanent position as a university junior lecturer in visual didactics at the artistic faculty of HDK-Valand Arts and Crafts and Design University of Gothenburg. Her work has involved experiences of working with the teacher lift in visual art as well as teaching art history, visual art analysis and visual art didactics in subject program courses. Katarina has developed and is course responsible for an independent course in art history image analysis and pedagogy. She has also had courses in art history on arts and crafts at HDK.

Katarina has a great interest in communication and analysis in relation to aesthetic subjects and art history, visual art analysis, gender-theoretic and queer-theoretic perspectives on visual art didactics are of particular interest. Katarina has extensive experience of having worked as an art educator at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, where the pedagogical challenge was inspiring, challenging and very rewarding. Working as an art pedagogue gave Katarina an important understanding of central experiences in image pedagogy and image didactic frameworks.

Katarina also has very long experience of working as a distance teacher in art studies at Uppsala University, a job she found very stimulating, varied and challenging. Working with distance learning involves a fantastically delicate challenge that requires a solid, constantly present and prepared for various eventualities. Knowledge instills security, curiosity and inquisitiveness, qualities that are important for a committed teacher. Katarina has chosen to constantly study alongside her work in order to develop and not stagnate in the teaching role. These interests have also crystallized in the topics she has chosen to write about in the past, but it is also through the topic image in relation to its subject character and didactic context that interests Katarina and her studies have resulted in file. master visual art didactics and a file. master's degree visual art education, one file. master's degree Art science and teacher's degree in the subject of Visual art and history towards upper secondary school. In addition to Katarina's assistant professorship at HDK-Valand, she is also employed as a doctoral student in the CUL research school at the University of Gothenburg. Her research interests include the nature of the visual subject, communication, inclusion and individuals with fluid gender identity and trans people.

Mission

Member of Kvinnsam's steering group. KvinnSam has collections in gender studies and women's history. Since 2018, KvinnSam has also been a university-wide research infrastructure at the University of Gothenburg. KvinnSam is located at the Humanities Library and the steering group leads the infrastructure and is responsible for overall strategic issues and financial follow-up. The steering group has a broad composition of members from the various faculties at the University of Gothenburg and the National Secretariat for Gender Research, in order to take a comprehensive approach to the development of the research infrastructure. Kvinnsam's library is unique in Sweden and can be compared to operations such as Atria in the Netherlands and Women's Library in Great Britain

Education and exams

Master's degree in image didactics

Master's degree in visual pedagogy

Master's degree in art science

Subject teacher's degree in visual arts and history towards upper secondary school

University pedagogy course (HPE, 101, 102, 103)

Granted research grants

Digikomp 2020, SEK 75,000 Course development art history, image analysis and norm criticism

Digikomp 2021, SEK 75,000 Digital platform for pedagogy, the visual subject and Inclusion

Adlerbertska stiftelsen 2024, SEK 30,000 Travel grant to the USA to exchange international experiences, lecture about the research I have conducted and prepare for the production of a popular science book about my research work.