Personlig presentation av Mats Tegmark
Mats Tegmark is associate professor of English didactics at Dalarna University, where he has taught English-speaking literature and culture, writing, and literary theory. Between 2009 and 2020 he was head of development for Dalarna University’s teacher education. He has a PhD degree in American Literature from Uppsala University and his doctoral thesis is a reader-oriented study of the American writer Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam fiction, In the Shoes of a Soldier: Communication in Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam Narratives (1998). Since then he has done research on constructions of subjectivity in in award-winning American fiction of the 1990s as well as on the teaching and learning of English as a second language. At present he is involved in a joint research project entitled To Read or Not the Read: A Study of Reading Practices in Swedish Compulsory School where he focuses specifically on reading instruction in the subject of L2 English. As former head of development of teacher education Tegmark is also interested in teaching and learning in higher education in general, and student teachers’ development of scientific and professional competence in particular. From 2020 he has a position as senior lecturer in Educational Work and teaches primarily on the doctoral program. During the years 2020-2022 he is also coordinator for the NorTED (Nordic Research School for Teacher Education Relevant Research).
- Arbetsintegrerad lärarutbildning : Verksamhetsförlagd utbildning och validering inför verksamhetsförlagd utbildning vid elva svenska lärosäten åren 2020–2021, Kultur och lärande, 2022. Report. .
- What Motivates Students to Read at School? : Student Views on Reading Practices in Middle and Lower-Secondary School, Journal of research in reading (Print), 2022, Vol. 45, No. 1, 100-118. Article : refereed. .
- Allt fler elever läser allt mindre, Skola och samhälle, 2021, No. 2021-04-21. Article : popular science. .
- The Decrease of School Related Reading in Swedish Compulsory School : Trends Between 2007 and 2017, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020. Article : refereed. .
- Läsning och motivation i årskurs 6 och 9 : elevers syn på läspraktiker i och utanför skolan, 2019. Conference paper : refereed. .
- The decrease of school related reading in compulsory school 2007–2017, 2018. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Amount of text read at school and the motivation for reading : a large scale study in grade 6 and 9, 2018. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Hur kan språklärare utforma undervisning som motiverar elever att läsa på ett andra- eller främmande språk? En forskningsbakgrund, 2017. Conference paper. .
- The Price of the Prize : The Construction of "Irish" and "American" Subject Positions in Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Part of: The Leaving of Ireland, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2015. Chapter of book. .
- Vad kan den svenska lärarutbildningen lära från internationell lärarutbildningsforskning?, 2015. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Besinna er och låt lärarutbildningen vara, Dagens samhälle, 2014. Article : popular science. .
- Constructions of transcultural subjectivity : Going beyond nationalism and ethnicity in A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Part of: Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature, Rodopi, 2013. Chapter of book. .
- Den svenska lärarutbildningen – en arena för politik eller en utbildning för en skola på vetenskaplig grund?, Specialpedagogisk tidskrift - att undervisa, 2013, No. 4, 11-12. Article : popular science. .
- Studying Fictional Representations of History in the L2 Classroom, L2 Journal, 2012, Vol. 4, No. 1, 21-36. Article : refereed. .
- Svensk lärarutbildning är bra, Svenska Dagbladet, 2012, No. 2 maj. Article : popular science. .
- Literary Studies in the Border Zone : International Students Studying American Fiction in Dalarna, Part of: Litteratur i gränszonen, Högskolan Dalarna, 2011. Chapter of book. .
- Litteraturstudier i gränszonen : Internationella studenter läser ”Samtida amerikanska berättare” vid Högskolan Dalarna, Litteratur i gränszonen: transnationella litteraturer ur ett nordiskt perspektiv : 2009. Conference paper. .
- Prizing the Post-Nuclear Family : The American Family in the Award-Winning Fiction of the 1990s, Nordic Association for American Studies Conference : 2005. Conference paper : refereed. .
- The Construction of American and Irish Identities in Angela’s Ashes, Nordic Irish Studies Conference : 2004. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Stories of Unconditional Love : The Prize-Winning Short Fiction of Munro, Berriault, Barrett, and Lahiri, Culture and the Literary Prize : 2003. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Back to Basics : Four American Award Winners at the End of the Twentieth Century, Part of: Latitude 63 North: proceedings of the 8th International Region and Nation Literature Conference, Mid-Sweden University, 2002. Chapter of book. .
- In the Shoes of a Soldier : Communication in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam Narratives, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1998. Doctoral thesis. .