Franziska Primus
Franziska Primus Position: Doctoral Student School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: ZnJhbnppc2thLnByaW11cztvcnUuc2U=
Phone: +46 19 301021
Room: F3119
About Franziska Primus
Franziska Primus has been a PhD student in Education at Örebro University since 2019. She has studied Educational Science at Freie Universität Berlin (BA, 2013) and Education Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (MA, 2016).
Franziska wrote her PhD thesis titled Present Futures in Global Education Governance: A Critical Discourse Analysis of UNESCO's Futures of Education Initiative. She examined the role of present futures in global education policy discourse by analysing how they shape and are used to legitimise programmatic ideas for education. UNESCO and its initiative, Futures of Education: Learning to Become, serve as the main empirical entry points into the arena.
Franziska is a faculty-funded PhD student affiliated to the graduate school Schooling in Perspective: A Graduate School in Applied History of Education and a member of the Swedish Educational Research Association (SWERA) as well as of the German Educational Research Association (GERA). Furthermore, she is part of the research group Utbildning och demokrati [Education and democracy] at Örebro University, of STudieS: An STS Network in Education, and of the Local Organising Committee of ISCHE 42 in Örebro.
At Örebro University, Franziska teaches in the international program for exchange students and builds her experience on teaching responsibilities in the teacher education program at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Westberg, J. & Primus, F. (2023). Rethinking the history of education: considerations for a new social history of education. Paedagogica historica, 59 (1), 1-18. [BibTeX]
- Primus, F. & Lundahl, C. (2021). The Peripherals at the Core of Androcentric Knowledge Production – An Analysis of the Managing Editor’s Knowledge Work in “The International Encyclopedia of Education” (1985). Paedagogica historica, 57 (6), 621-637. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Lundahl, C. & Primus, F. (2019). The hidden work in international knowledge production - acknowledging the efforts of a managing editor in the 1980s. Paper presented at 63rd Annual Conference, Education for Sustainability (CIES 2019), San Francisco, USA, April 14-18, 2019. [BibTeX]
- Lundahl, C. & Primus, F. (2018). The Nature of Knowledge Production – Editing The International Encyclopedia of Education 1984 and 1995. Paper presented at International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE 40), Berlin, Germany, August 29 - September 1, 2018. [BibTeX]
- Lundahl, C. & Primus, F. (2018). The peripherals in the core of international knowledge production - acknowledging the work of a managing editor in the 1980s. Paper presented at XXVIII CESE Conference (CESE 2018), Nicosia, Cyprus, Greece, May 29 - June 1, 2018. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Primus, F. (2025). Present Futures in Global Education Governance: A Critical Discourse Analysis of UNESCO's Futures of Education Initiative. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]