Anna-Lova Olsson
Anna-Lova Olsson Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: YW5uYS1sb3ZhLm9sc3NvbjtvcnUuc2U=
Phone: +46 19 303638
Room: F3224
About Anna-Lova Olsson
Anna-Lova Olsson is Senior Lecturer in Education at Örebro University and works mainly with in the Teacher Education Programs.
Research
In her research, Anna-Lova Olsson, is mainly interested in questions of Bildung. Her doctoral thesis is a theoretical study within Philosophy of Education in which on moral dimensions of individual formation is explored with the help of moral philosopher Iris Murdoch (Title in English: Striving towards unselfing. An educational study of Iris Murdoch’s idea of formation).
In 2024, Anna-Lova has started a research project focusing on assessment in teaching placement in teacher education.
Teaching and pedagogical development
Anna-Lova Rosell’s work within the subject of Education and the Teacher Education Programs is mainly centered on courses containing Teaching Placement and training of mentoring teachers.
Publications
Articles in journals
- Frödén, S. & Rosell, A. (2019). Opening an imaginative space? A study of toys and toy play in a Swedish Waldorf preschool. Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk, 5, 186-201. [BibTeX]
- Olsson, A. (2018). A Moment of Letting Go: Iris Murdoch and the Morally Transformative Process of Unselfing. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 52 (1), 163-177. [BibTeX]
- Öberg Tuleus, M. , Olsson, A. & Bonnevier, J. (2012). Sharing: a Comperative Perspective on the Relation Between Teaching and Learning. Journal of the Comenius Association (21), 7-12. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Olsson, A. (2012). The Cultivation of attention in the light of the works of Iris Murdoch. In: Heny Fiskå Hägg, Aslaug Kristiansen, Attending to silence: educators and philosophers on the art of listening (pp. 41-53). Kristiansand: Portal forlag. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Frödén, S. & Rosell, A. (2018). An imaginative Space?: An Ethnographic Study of Toys in a Waldorf Preschool. Paper presented at International Toy Research Associaltion 8th World Conference. Toys and material culture. Hybridisation, Design and Consumption. Sorbonne Paris Cité University, Paris, France, July 11-13, 2018. [BibTeX]
- Olsson, A. (2010). Iris Murdoch and the Reading Experience: On Beauty and the Sublime. Paper presented at The Iris Murdoch Conference, 2010. [BibTeX]
- Olsson, A. & von Wright, M. (2009). Imagination and Reading for Enjoyment: On students’ space for creative action in classroom conversations. Paper presented at The 37th Annual Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA),5-7 March 2009, Trondheim. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Olsson, A. (2015). Strävan mot unselfing: en pedagogisk studie av bildningstanken hos Iris Murdoch. (Doctoral dissertation). Örebro: Örebro university. [BibTeX]