Asgeir Tryggvason
Asgeir Tryggvason Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: YXNnZWlyLnRyeWdndmFzb247b3J1LnNl
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Room: F3205
Research subject
Research environments
About Asgeir Tryggvason
Ásgeir Tryggvason is associate professor in Education at Örebro University and is the coordinator for the research environment ESERGO.
His research focuses on environmental and sustainability education (ESE), with special interest in the role of emotions/passions, identities, and conflicts in classrooms. His theoretical focus is on agonism in education and Didaktik theory. Currently, he is working on the research project Environmental and Sustainability Education Meets the Reality of Schooling.
He also conducts research in the DecoPrax project, which aims to empirically investigate the possibilities and challenges of incorporating decolonial praxis in the teaching of global justice issues.
2015-2020 he was a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Utbildning & Demokrati [Education & Democracy].
Since 2011 he has been teaching at the teacher education program, mainly on courses about curriculum theory and didactics (Didaktik). He also teaches an ESE course for gratuate students.
Research projects
Active projects
Publications
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Articles, reviews/surveys |
Books |
Chapters in books |
Conference papers |
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries |
Reports |
Articles in journals
- Tysklind, E. N. & Tryggvason, Á. (2025). Politicised or Political: On Agonism and School as ‘Free Time’. Studies in Philosophy and Education. [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. (2024). Thinking hegemony otherwise – an educational critique of Mouffe’s agonism. Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2023). Agonistic teaching: Four principles. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 1-21. [BibTeX]
- Tryggvason, Á. (2023). Det oväntade subjektet: Konturer av en arendtsk samhällskunskapsdidaktik. Acta Didactica Norden, 17 (2). [BibTeX]
- Pashby, K. , Sund, L. & Tryggvason, Á. (2023). Global citizenship as taken-for-grantedness: reflecting on Swedish students’ trip to Tanzania. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1-18. [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. (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]
Conference papers
- 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]
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]