Ásgeir Tryggvason
Ásgeir Tryggvason Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities and EducationEmail: YXNnZWlyLnRyeWdndmFzb247b3J1LnNl
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About Ásgeir Tryggvason
Ásgeir Tryggvason is Associate Professor (Docent) of Education at Örebro University and coordinator of the research environment ESERGO. His research focuses on environmental and sustainability education, with particular interest in the role of emotions, conflicts, and identities in teaching and learning. His theoretical work is situated within educational theory, didactics, and educational philosophy, including agonistic theory.
Research projects
Tryggvason leads the research project Didactic Possibilities in Environmental and Sustainability Education, funded by ULF-Örebro. The project explores opportunities and challenges in sustainability education in collaboration with upper secondary school teachers.
He is also a researcher in the Swedish Research Council-funded project Environmental and Sustainability Education Meets School Reality, which examines how teachers and students navigate the tension between the existential dimensions of environmental issues and the instrumental logic of schooling.
Previously, he was a researcher in the Swedish Research Council-funded project DecoPrax, which developed practice-oriented educational tools for understanding and teaching global justice.
Research Leadership
Besides being a coordinator for ESERGO, Tryggvason coordinates the Nordic Research Network for Environmental and Sustainability Education, bringing together more than 200 researchers across the Nordic countries.
He serves on the Scientific Board of Sustainability Didactics (SUDI), a European research network funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (2026–2030). Since 2026, he has also been a member of the Review Board of the international journal Democracy & Education. From 2015 to 2020, he served on the editorial board of Utbildning & Demokrati: Journal of Didactics and Educational Policy.
Teaching and supervision - graduate education
Tryggvason currently supervises three doctoral students in Education, including one as principal supervisor. He is also responsible for the doctoral course Ethical and Political Perspectives on Environmental and Sustainability Education.
Teaching undergraduate education
He is Programme Director for the Master's and Magister Programmes in Didactics at Örebro University. Since 2011, he has taught within teacher education and has been course coordinator for several courses, including those within the Teacher Education Programme and the Continuing Professional Development Programme for teachers. His teaching areas include didactics, curriculum theory, quality in teaching, and sustainability education. He has also supervised undergraduate and master's theses in Education and Social Studies Education.
Selected Publications
- Öhman, J., Tryggvason, Á., & Sund, L. (2025). "Didaktiska modeller för miljö- och hållbarhetsutbildning". The book presents research-based didactic models designed to support teachers' work with environmental and sustainability education.
- Tryggvason, Á., Öhman, J., & Van Poeck, K. (2023). Pluralistic Environmental and Sustainability Education: A Scholarly Review.
- Tryggvason, Á. (2023). Agonistic Teaching: Four Principles.
Research projects
Active projects
Publications
Articles in journals
- Urberg, L. , Tryggvason, Á. & Öhman, J. (2026). Teachers’ didactic approaches to students’ resistance in Environmental and Sustainability Education. Environmental Education Research, 1-20. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. , Mårdh, A. , Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2026). The existential and the instrumental in Environmental and Sustainability Education. Environmental Education Research, 1-21. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2025). Agonistic teaching: Four principles. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 22 (2), 279-299. [BibTeX]
- Pashby, K. , Sund, L. & Tryggvason, Á. (2025). Global citizenship as taken-for-grantedness: reflecting on Swedish students’ trip to Tanzania. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 23 (4), 1029-1046. [BibTeX]
- Tysklind, E. N. & Tryggvason, Á. (2025). Politicised or Political: On Agonism and School as ‘Free Time’. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 44, 305-316. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. , Sund, L. & Pashby, K. (2025). Taking on a Critical Approach to Global Justice Issues Teaching: Perspectives from Swedish Teachers. Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk, 11 (1), 209-225. [BibTeX]
- Sant, E. & Tryggvason, Á. (2025). Thinking hegemony otherwise – an educational critique of Mouffe’s agonism. Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 26 (2), 229-244. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2023). Det oväntade subjektet: Konturer av en arendtsk samhällskunskapsdidaktik. Acta Didactica Norden, 17 (2). [BibTeX]
- Arneback, E. , Bergh, A. & Tryggvason, Á. (2023). On Teachers’ Professionalism When Colleagues Express Racism: Challenges and Choices. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 67 (1), 169-180. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. , Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2022). Schooling and ESE: revisiting Stevenson’s gap from a pragmatist perspective. Environmental Education Research, 28 (8), 1237-1250. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2021). Why agonists should stop discussing with deliberative theorists. Confero: Essays on education, philosophy and politics, 8 (1), 33-50. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2019). How to End a Discussion: Consensus or Hegemony?. Democracy & Education, 27 (2), 1-5. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2018). Democratic Education and Agonism: Exploring the Critique from Deliberative Theory. Democracy & Education, 26 (1), 1-9. [BibTeX]
- Mårdh, A. & Tryggvason, Á. (2017). Democratic Education in the Mode of Populism. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 36 (6), 601-613. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2017). The Political as Presence: On Agonism in Citizenship Education. Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 24 (3), 252-265. [BibTeX]
Articles, book reviews
- Mårdh, A. & Tryggvason, Á. (2024). Review of: Political Education in Times of Populism: Towards a Radical Democratic Education, Edda Sant (2021). Citizenship Teaching and Learning, 19 (1), 120-122. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2022). Kontroversiella frågor och didaktiska svar. Utbildning och Demokrati, 31 (1), 83-88. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2021). The public pedagogy of Donald Trump. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 29 (3), 513-516. [BibTeX]
Articles, reviews/surveys
- Tryggvason, Á. , Öhman, J. & Van Poeck, K. (2023). Pluralistic environmental and sustainability education – a scholarly review. Environmental Education Research, 29 (10), 1460-1485. [BibTeX]
Books
- Öhman, J. , Tryggvason, Á. & Sund, L. (2025). Didaktiska modeller för miljö- och hållbarhetsutbildning. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Tryggvason, Á. & Öhman, J. (2026). Critical Pluralistic Teaching: An Educational Approach to Transformative Change. In: Sally Windsor; Olof Franck; Dawn Sanders, Paradise Lost? Love and Care: Narratives for and in Sustainability Education (pp. 91-107). . Springer. [BibTeX]
- Mårdh, A. , Tryggvason, Á. & Urberg, L. (2026). Inledning: Forskning i ett genomlevandeperspektiv. In: Andreas Mårdh; Ásgeir Tryggvason; Linnea Urberg, Erfarenheter av didaktik: En vänbok till Johan Öhman (pp. 7-11). Örebro: Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2026). Om pedagogisk tilltro. In: Andreas Mårdh; Ásgeir Tryggvason; Linnea Urberg, Erfarenheter av didaktik: En vänbok till Johan Öhman (pp. 85-94). Örebro: Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. & Öhman, J. (2020). Kunskap + värde = sant. In: Andreas Fejes och Magnus Dahlstedt, Perspektiv på skolans problem: Vad säger forskningen? (pp. 393-406). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. & Öhman, J. (2019). Deliberation and agonism: Two different approaches to the political dimension of environmental and sustainability education. In: Katrien Van Poeck, Leif Östman and Johan Öhman, Sustainable Development Teaching: Ethical and Political Challenges (pp. 115-124). Milton Park and New York: Routledge. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. & Mårdh, A. (2019). Political emotions in environmental and sustainability education. In: Katrien Van Poeck, Leif Östman and Johan Öhman, Sustainable Development Teaching: Ethical and Political Challenges (pp. 234-242). Milton Park and New York, NY, USA: Routledge. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2015). Politiska frågor i klassrummet. In: Carsten Ljunggren, Ingrid Unemar Öst & Tomas Englund, Kontroversiella frågor: Om kunskap och politik i samhällsundervisningen (pp. 61-76). Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB. [BibTeX]
Collections (editor)
- Mårdh, A. (ed.) , Tryggvason, Á. (ed.) & Urberg, L. (ed.) (2026). Erfarenheter av didaktik: En vänbok till Johan Öhman. Örebro: Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Tryggvason, Á. & Öhman, J. (2026). Environmental Crises from the Perspective of Agonistic Educational Theory. Paper presented at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2026), Knowing and Acting: The changing conditions and potentials of education research, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, August 18-21, 2026. [BibTeX]
- Urberg, L. , Tryggvason, Á. & Öhman, J. (2026). Teachers' Didactic Approaches to Students’ Resistance in Environmental and Sustainability education. Paper presented at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2026), Knowing and Acting: The changing conditions and potentials of education research, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, August 18-21, 2026. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. & Öhman, J. (2026). Teachers Navigating the Existential and the Instrumental in ESE. Paper presented at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2026), Knowing and Acting: The changing conditions and potentials of education research, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, August 18-21, 2026. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. , Mårdh, A. , Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2025). Existentiella miljö- och hållbarhetsfrågor i en instrumentaliserad skola. Paper presented at Nordiska forskningskonferensen om miljö- och hållbarhetsutbildning, Göteborg, 12-13 november 2025. [BibTeX]
- Urberg, L. , Tryggvason, Á. & Öhman, J. (2025). Lärares didaktiska strategier vid motstånd mot miljö- och hållbarhetsundervisning. Paper presented at Nordisk forskningskonferens om miljö- och hållbarhetsutbildning (NFMHU), Göteborg, 12-13 november 2025. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. & Öhman, J. (2024). Pluralism and democracy in environmental and sustainability education. Paper presented at Nordic Educational Research Association Congress (NERA 2024), Malmö, Sweden, March 6-8, 2024. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. , Mårdh, A. , Öhman, J. & Sund, L. (2024). The Existential and the Instrumental Logic in ESE. Paper presented at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2024), Cyprus, Nicosia, August 27-30, 2024. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. , Öhman, J. & Van Poeck, K. (2023). Revisiting pluralistic ESE in a changing societal context – a scholarly review. Paper presented at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2023), Glasgow, UK, August 21-25, 2023. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. , Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2021). Schooling and ESE: Revisiting Stevenson’s argument from a pragmatist perspective. Paper presented at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2021), (Online Conference), September 6–10, 2021. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. , Sund, L. & Öhman, J. (2021). The habit of schooling and the habit of inquiry in ESE. Paper presented at Nordisk forskningskonferanse om bærekraft i utdanning, Oslo, Norway, October 21–22, 2021. [BibTeX]
- Bergh, A. , Arneback, E. & Tryggvason, Á. (2020). On teachers professional ambivalence´when colleagues express racism. Paper presented at AERA, American Educational Research Association, San Fransisco, USA, April 17-21, 2020 (Conference cancelled). [BibTeX]
- Bergh, A. , Arneback, E. & Tryggvason, Á. (2018). Do Teachers have a Responsibility to act when Colleagues Express Racism?. Paper presented at AERA Annual Meeting (AERA 2018), New York, USA, April 13-17, 2018. [BibTeX]
- Arneback, E. , Jämte, J. , Bergh, A. , Wiklund, M. , Englund, T. & Tryggvason, Á. (2017). Session: Att motverka rasism inom utbildningsväsendet . Paper presented at Rasism och Välfärd, CEMFOR, Uppsala, Sweden, October 11-13, 2017. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Tryggvason, Á. (2018). Om det politiska i samhällskunskap: Agonism, populism och didaktik. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]
Manuscripts
- Urberg, L. , Tryggvason, Á. & Öhman, J. Teachers' didactic strategies when students express resistance towards environmental and sustainability education. [BibTeX]
Reports
- Öhman, J. & Tryggvason, Á. (2023). Manifest för en kritisk pluralistisk utbildning. Örebro: ESERGO, Örebro universitet (ESERGO Essays 1). [BibTeX]
- Öhman, J. & Tryggvason, Á. (2023). Manifesto for a critical pluralistic education. Örebro: ESERGO, Örebro universitet (ESERGO Essays 2). [BibTeX]