Jonas Ålander

About Jonas Ålander

Jonas Ålander is senior lecturer in pedagogy. He mainly teaches in the teacher education program, but also in international courses in pedagogy. Within the teacher education program, Jonas teaches within the educational science core, but also in scientific method and theory and works with thesis supervision. Examples of teaching content are educational leadership, education-related issues of ethics and norms, didactics, learning theories and curriculum theory, sustainable development, educational history, and diversity issues as well as field studies. Jonas also teaches in international courses in pedagogy with a focus on diversity and education. There he also has course responsibility for an international course on diversity in the classroom. Jonas obtained his PhD in musicology at the School of Music, Theatre and Art at Örebro University and taught there in both music pedagogy, musicology, and musical expression as well as supervised student papers at basic and advanced level.

Jonas is currently also working on two projects within the framework of Erasmus+. The projects are about competence development (EXCIITE) and digital learning materials (DigiLLL). In addition to this, Jonas has also taught and lectured at an international course at the University of Bielefeld that dealt with European education systems and learning materials with a focus on diversity and inclusive education.

Jonas has also worked with internationalization regarding higher education in general and teacher education in particular. He was previously the project manager for the sub-project "International and intercultural perspectives", within the framework of the strategic initiative "Teacher education of tomorrow".

Jonas's research has mainly focused on inclusion and exclusion processes in Sweden's music domain with a focus on migration and participative conditions. In his dissertation (2022), he shows how the migrant identification matters in the shaping of the music domain’s practices and how this affects the domain’s participative conditions. The analysis is based on the perspectives of performers, organizers and media and encompasses both interviews and media in the form of newspaper articles. The dissertation's theoretical starting point is predominantly discourse theoretical.

Jonas's main research interest can be placed at the intersection of idea, policy, and its manifestations. Within this area, the focus is aimed at excluding and including phenomena and processes that can be related to diversity and education. Examples of this are issues of equality and discrimination, phenomena that are strongly linked to democracy issues. One project that Jonas is working on deals with how the textbook discourse is made visible within the framework of policy development. The focus is on how ideas about textbooks, their quality and purposes are transformed into practice.