About the Research Group
SLUM comprises three focus groups:
- Language didactics
- Literature didactics
- Diversity in educational contexts
The SLUM research group brings together researchers whose work involves the study of issues concerning education in relation to language and literature and where questions about diversity are generated in close collaboration with teaching practices. These practices concern adults and children in both formal and informal contexts. Our research covers the levels of preschool; primary to upper secondary school; adult education; and higher education. The research group holds seminars to discuss research and projects, including joint projects, which we invite researchers from other universities to attend.
Language Didactics
The language didactics group involves researchers and doctoral students who are studying didactics relating to the languages taught at the university in the School of Language, Literatures and Learning. The group conducts research on early literacy, pupils' writing, digital teaching forms, language development and academic literacy.
Literature Didactics
The literature didactics group brings together researchers, teachers and doctoral students who are interested in the value and function of fiction in different educational contexts. Group members conduct practice-based research and theoretically based research, both of which aim to shed light on the role of literature in school, higher education and society as well as in the lives of children and adolescents. Currently, our researchers are working on projects concerning, for example, poetry didactics, picture book didactics, the role of literature in teaching materials, and the connection that the teaching of literature has to sustainability, education and democracy.
Diversity in Educational Contexts
Within this framework, we work closely with ongoing research projects and with doctoral students on, primarily, theoretical and methodological issues of relevance to our various ongoing and planned projects.
Research Projects
- (2024–2026) Värdegrundslitteratur. En kritisk genreanalys av en barnboksnisch i vardande. (Contributor: Gustav Borsgård)
- (2024–2025) Den bildbaserade litteraturens didaktiska möjligheter i en explorativ undervisning. (Contributor: Eva Söderberg)
- (2023–2025) Barnboken och klimatångesten. Ekokritiska och litteraturdidaktiska perspektiv på undergångsskildringar i Om dagen tar slut, Slutet och Kometjakten. (Contributor: Gustav Borsgård)
- (2023–2025) Gymnasieelever i samtal om Kristina Lugns poesi, i ett antologiprojekt om Lugns författarskap. (Contributors: Karolina Pettersson, Gustav Borsgård, Eva Söderberg)
- (2023–2024) Modersmålsundervisningens inverkan på elevers andraspråksutveckling i svenska. (Contributors: Baran Johansson, Annika Norlund Shaswar)
- (2023–2024) Gymnasiesärskolan och språklig mångfald: Modersmålsundervisning och tvåspråkig skriftspråksutveckling. (Contributor: Lovisa Berg)
- (2023–2024) ALiSS, Academic Literacy in Social Sciences. (Contributors: Marie Nordmark och Miguel Garcia-Yeste)
- (2022–2024) Modersmål, minoriteter och språklig heterogenitet: Undervisningsformer och praktiker i förskola och skola med fokus på litteracitet. Finansiering Skolforskningsinstitutet 2021/0001. (Contributors: Carla Jonsson, Boglárka Straszer, Annika Norlund Shaswar, Hanna Outakoski)
- (2022–2024) Sång i uttalsundervisning. (Medverkande: Annika Norlund Shaswar, Lena Uhlin, Sara Häggbom, Elisabeth Zetterholm)
- (2022–2024) Språklig mångfald i grundlärarutbildningarna. (Contributors: Annika Norlund Shaswar, Carla Jonsson, Karyn Sandström)
- (2020–2025) Grundläggande litteracitetsutveckling inom sfi. Finansiering Skolforskningsinstitutet: 2019–00027. (Contributors: Birgitta Ljung Egeland, Jenny Rosén, Annika Norlund Shaswar)
- (2020–2025) Lärarutbildning och språklig mångfald. En professionsutbildning i en föränderlig tid. (Egenfinansierat) (Contributors: Jenny Rosén, Annika Norlund Shaswar, Carina Hermansson)
- (2020–2024) Digitala resurser i undervisningen. Skolforskningsfonden. (Contributors: Marie Nordmark)
- (2020–2024) Höra efter. Utbildningsfilosofiska perspektiv på litteratur och läsning. (Contributor: Gustav Borsgård)
Collaboration
Researchers within this group work together with:
- LITUM (research network), Umeå University
- Litteraturdidaktiska klubben, Umeå University
- LäST (Läsa-skriva-tala/Reading-Writing-Speaking), Stockholm University
- CHILLL (Centre for Childhood Research in Literature, Language and Learning), Linnaeus University
- LDN (National Literature Education Network)
- NERA (Literacy Research Network)
- ASLA (Association suédoise de linguistique appliquée)
- SMDI (Swedish with a didactic focus)
Funding
- The Swedish Institute for School Research (Project: Modersmålsundervisningens inverkan på elevers andraspråksutveckling i svenska)