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Maria Rönnlund

Professor in Educational Work. Leader of the research group RECEUM (Research in Early Childhood Education, Umeå University).  

 

Research qualifications: Docent

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Affiliation
Professor at Department of Applied Educational Science Section: Floor 4
Location
Naturvetarhuset, huskropp NB, Johan Bures väg 14 Umeå universitet, 90187 Umeå

Professor in Educational Work. Leader of the research group RECEUM (Research in Early Childhood Education, Umeå University).  

My research interests lie mainly in areas related to democracy, citizenship, gender and identity in relation to education. My thesis (2011) focused on the teaching and learning of democracy in lower secondary school in Sweden. Since then, I have continued working with issues such as democracy, participation and influence in various ways, as well as delving into spatial and material perspectives on teaching and learning. Within the framework of the projects The Swedish schoolyard's cultural history and The schoolyard as a pedagogical and social space, children's democracy and citizenship learning as well as identity-creating processes in the school's outdoor environment were analyzed, and in the project Sports movement as a democratic educational environment children's influence and democracy learning in sports clubs. In a later project, children's and young people's (indoor) learning environments have been in focus.

Youth in transitions – a qualitative longitudinal study on education and career trajectories among young people in rural Sweden is an ongoing project. It explores how young people from rural environments navigate their way in education and the labour market over time. It draws on a series of biographical interviews with 74 individuals who originate from three Swedish rural environments, covering a period of 10 years. The aim is to address the urgent problem of youths’ extended and uncertain transitions from school to work/higher education in contexts where transitions tend to be particularly uncertain and problematic – in rural places where the local labour market is limited, and where there are few, if any, secondary and/or higher education institutions. The project problematizes young rural people as both being subject to and co-actors in an accelerating uneven economic development between geographical regions in Sweden. They may reinforce, in both the short and longer term, the on-going polarization between rural and urban areas, or, alternatively, they may contribute to reversing or resisting this major trend through their agency.

In the project we collaborate with researchers from Norway, Finland and Denmark who have similar longitudinal projects following young people in rural areas. Together, we have contact with young people raised in ten rural regions, geographically spread across the Nordic region. The regions differ in terms of population, geographic location and the character of the local labor market, but h are categorized as "rural" in each country. The collaboration gives us the opportunity to compare longitudinal data between the countries. We look at the youths' transitions between education and work, at social relations and issues of well-being, and at migration patterns with focus on common patterns and differences. An underlying thesis is that national education/labour market/ and rural policies are important for young people's transitions and migration patterns, including their lived experiences of the transitions, and this is why comparisons between the Nordic countries are important. 

European Educational Research Journal
Rönnlund, Maria; Öhrn, Elisabet; Beach, Dennis; et al.
Creating dynamic places for learning: an evidence based design approach, Springer Nature 2023 : 99-115
Bergström, Peter; Rönnlund, Maria; Tieva, Åse
NORNet2023 4th Nordic Conference on Research on Transitions, Career and Guidance, Turku, Finland, October 4-5, 2023
Rosvall, Per-Åke; Öhrn, Elisabet; Beach, Dennis; et al.
Journal of Vocational Education and Training
Rönnlund, Maria; Tollefsen, Aina
Journal of Youth Studies
Rönnlund, Maria; Tollefsen, Aina
Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, The Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA) 2023, Vol. 33, (2) : 1-15
Öhrn, Elisabet; Beach, Dennis; Johansson, Monica; et al.
Cambridge Journal of Education, Routledge 2021, Vol. 51, (2) : 247-261
Berggren, Linda; Olsson, Cecilia; Rönnlund, Maria; et al.
Education Inquiry, Routledge 2021, Vol. 12, (3) : 217-224
Frelin, Anneli; Grannäs, Jan; Rönnlund, Maria
Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, Routledge 2021, Vol. 21, (2) : 139-150
Larsson, Anna; Rönnlund, Maria
Gender and Education, Routledge 2021, Vol. 33, (5) : 514-530
Ledman, Kristina; Nylund, Mattias; Rönnlund, Maria; et al.
Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, Taylor & Francis 2021, Vol. 27, (7) : 587-601
Rönnlund, Maria; Bergström, Peter; Tieva, Åse
Journal of Education and Work, Taylor & Francis Group 2021, Vol. 34, (4) : 558-571
Rönnlund, Maria; Rosvall, Per-Åke
Education Inquiry, Routledge 2021, Vol. 12, (1) : 54-72
Yoon, Junghyon; Rönnlund, Maria
Children's Geographies, Routledge 2020, Vol. 18, (3) : 339-350
Berggren, Linda; Olsson, Cecilia; Talvia, S.; et al.
IADIS International Conference Educational Technologies 2020, São Paulo: 2020 : 57-64
Bergström, Peter; Rönnlund, Maria; Tieva, Åse
IADIS International Conference Educational Technologies 2020, IADIS Press 2020 : 57-64
Bergström, Peter; Rönnlund, Maria; Tieva, Åse
British Journal of Sociology of Education, Routledge 2020, Vol. 41, (1) : 1-17
Nylund, Mattias; Ledman, Kristina; Rosvall, Per-Åke; et al.
Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2020
Rosvall, Per-Åke; Ledman, Kristina; Nylund, Mattias; et al.
Youth on the move: Tendencies and tensions in youth policies and practices, Helsingfors: Helsinki University Press 2020 : 19-35
Rönnlund, Maria
Yrkesämnena och skolans demokratiuppdrag, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2020 : 53-64
Rönnlund, Maria
Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research, Sage Publications 2020, Vol. 28, (2) : 123-137
Rönnlund, Maria
Yrkesämnena och skolans demokratiuppdrag, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2020 : 125-140
Rönnlund, Maria; Nylund, Mattias; Ledman, Kristina
Yrkesämnena och skolans demokratiuppdrag, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2020 : 111-124
Rönnlund, Maria; Nylund, Mattias; Ledman, Kristina
European Educational Research Journal, Sage Publications 2019, Vol. 18, (1) : 19-33
Beach, Dennis; Johansson, Monica; Öhrn, Elisabet; et al.
Fjärde nationella konferensen i pedagogiskt arbete i Umeå 19-20 augusti 2019: Abstractbok
Bergström, Peter; Rönnlund, Maria; Tieva, Åse
NERA 2019: The Nordic Educational Research Association, 6-8 March, Uppsala Sweden
Ledman, Kristina; Nylund, Mattias; Rönnlund, Maria; et al.
Young people's life and schooling in rural areas, London: Tufnell Press 2019 : 22-44
Rosvall, Per-Åke; Rönnlund, Maria
Young people’s life and schooling in rural areas, London: Tufnell Press 2019 : 65-82
Rönnlund, Maria
Nordic Youth Research Symposium (NYRIS), Aarhus, Denmark, August 14-16, 2019.
Rönnlund, Maria
Rasten: Möjligheternas mellanrum, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2019 : 157-172
Rönnlund, Maria
NERA 2019: Education in a globalized world: Abstract book : 953-954
Rönnlund, Maria; Bergström, Peter; Tieva, Åse
ECER 2019 - European Conference on Educational Research, Hamburg, Germany 3-6 September, 2019: Education in an Era of Risk: the Role of Educational Research for the Future
Rönnlund, Maria; Bergström, Peter; Tieva, Åse
Transitions 19 Presentations
Rönnlund, Maria; Bergström, Peter; Tieva, Åse
Resultatdialog 2019, Göteborg, 3-4 december, 2019
Rönnlund, Maria; Bergström, Peter; Tieva, Åse
Educational research (Windsor. Print), Routledge 2019, Vol. 61, (3) : 302-318
Rönnlund, Maria; Ledman, Kristina; Nylund, Mattias; et al.
Young people’s life and schooling in rural areas, London: Tufnell Press 2019 : 104-120
Rönnlund, Maria; Rosvall, Per-Åke
NERA 2019: Education in a globalized world: Abstract book : 158-159
Rönnlund, Maria; Rosvall, Per-Åke
Resultatdialog 2019, Göteborg, 3-4 december, 2019
Rönnlund, Maria; Rosvall, Per-Åke; Johansson, Monica
NERA 2019, 6-8 March, 2019, Uppsala, Sweden: Education in a globalized world
Yoon, Junghyon; Rönnlund, Maria
ECER 2018, Bolzano, 3–7 September, 2018, Free University Bolzano: Inclusion and Exclusion, Resources for Educational Research?
Ledman, Kristina; Nylund, Mattias; Rosvall, Per-Åke; et al.
Journal of Education and Work, Routledge 2018, Vol. 31, (7-8) : 645-659
Rosvall, Per-Åke; Ledman, Kristina; Nylund, Mattias; et al.
Journal of Rural Studies, Elsevier 2018, Vol. 60 : 43-51
Rosvall, Per-Åke; Rönnlund, Maria; Johansson, Monica
Swedish Journal of Sport Research, Svensk Förening för Beteende- och Samhällsvetenskaplig Idrottsforskning 2018, Vol. 7, (1)
Rönnlund, Maria
NERA 2018 - 46th Congress: Educational Research: Boundaries, Breaches and Bridges: Abstracts : 250-250
Rönnlund, Maria
NERA 2018 - 46th Congress: Educational Research: Boundaries, Breaches and Bridges: Abstracts : 175-175
Rönnlund, Maria; Ledman, Kristina; Nylund, Mattias; et al.
Journal of Youth Studies, Routledge 2018, Vol. 21, (3) : 360-375
Rönnlund, Maria; Rosvall, Per-Åke; Johansson, Monica
Published: 28 Oct, 2021