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Mattias Nylund

Senior Lecturer

Department of Education and Special Education
Telephone
+46 31-786 24 40
+46 766-18 24 40
Mail
mattias.nylund@ped.gu.se
Visiting address
Västra Hamngatan 25
41117 Göteborg
Room number
A2 144
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

About Mattias Nylund

Research Interests

I am involved in the research project What Happens to Schools When the Convention on the Rights of the Child Becomes Law?, led by Professor Andreas Bergh at Örebro University. In this project, we investigate the implications of the Convention on the Rights of the Child becoming Swedish law, as well as the broader question of what increased legal governance means for the education system at the national, municipal, and local school levels. I am also involved in the research project Teachers’ Interpretation and Application of the Curriculum and Other Governing Documents in Adult Education, led by Professors Andreas Fejes and Per Andersson at Linköping University. Commissioned by the Swedish National Agency for Education, we explore what factors influence how teachers in municipal adult education implement the curriculum and other governing documents in their planning and teaching. Additionally, I work on behalf of the Swedish National Agency for Education to examine the opportunities and challenges in designing vocational courses within basic municipal adult education. I also serve as a scientific advisor to the project The Production of Learning Inequalities: a Comparative Analysis of the Politics, Enactment, and Embodiment of Learning (LEARNER), led by Professor A. Tarabini and funded by the Spanish National Research Plan (2023–2027).

My primary research environment is KRIT, for which I served as coordinator from 2016 to 2024. I am also active in the research group FYRK. My studies are grounded in educational sociology and curriculum theory, with a specific focus on vocational education. A theoretical tradition that has particularly interested me is the educational sociology tradition rooted in Basil Bernstein's work.

Since the autumn of 2024, I hold the position of Head of Research at the Department of Education and Special Education. Since the spring of 2024, I have also serve as the Chair of the Program Council for the Vocational Teacher Education program. I am the coordinator for the Nordic network CRITPEN.

Teaching Interests

I teach at all levels, from undergraduate to postgraduate education, for example, in the Vocational Teacher Education program, the Subject Teacher Education program, as well as in the department’s master’s programs and doctoral education (where I am responsible for the course FOU1804, Sociology of Education, 7.5 credits).

I am the main supervisor for doctoral students Elisabeth Berg and Ammar Syed, who are part of the FinnFram graduate school.

Keywords: curriculum theory, sociology of education, vocational education.