Erik Andersson
Title: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: erik.andersson@oru.se
Phone: +46 19 303564
Room: F3204

About Erik Andersson
Andersson has a Ph D in education. He has worked as a teacher in secondary education and has for a long time been working in different types of teacher education programs. Andersson is associate professor in education (docent).
Anderssons research is directed towards pedagogical improvement processes and sustainability including a special interest in school improvement, education and teaching, collegial learning, pedagogical leadership, and youth political participation and socialisation. His research includes different educational settings (e.g. sports, school, social media, youth policy). Theoretically he is influenced by agonism and pragmatism, building on the works of John Dewey, Hannah Arendt and Chantal Mouffe, and complexity theory/thinking.
Andersson is a member of the research environment SMED (Studies in Meaning-making in Educational Discourses) (Örebro University) and participant in the research group ESERGO (Environmental and Sustainability Education Research Group Örebro) and ReShape (Research in sport, health and physical education).
Research teams
Publications
Articles in journals
- Andersson, E. (2022). Public pedagogy and leadership in sports organisations: Futebol dá força for sustainability?. European Educational Research Journal (online), 21 (3), 450-468.
- Andersson, E. (2020). A transactional and action-oriented methodological approach to young people's political socialisation. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 15 (3), 243-257.
- Andersson, E. (2020). Parent-created educational practices and conditions for players’ political socialisation in competitive youth games: a player perspective on parents’ behaviour in grassroots soccer. Sport, Education and Society, 25 (4), 436-448.
- Andersson, E. (2020). Political socialization and the coach-created educational environment of competitive games: the case of grassroots youth soccer in Sweden. Soccer & Society, 21 (7), 725-740.
- Andersson, E. (2019). A referee perspective on the educational practice of competitive youth games: exploring the pedagogical function of parents, coaches and referees in grassroots soccer. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 24 (6), 615-628.
- Andersson, E. (2019). The school as a public space for democratic experiences: Formal student participation and its political characteristics. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 14 (2), 149-164.
- Boström, M. , Andersson, E. , Berg, M. , Gustafsson, K. M. , Gustavsson, E. , Hysing, E. , Lidskog, R. , Löfmarck, E. & et al. (2018). Conditions for Transformative Learning for Sustainable Development: A Theoretical Review and Approach. Sustainability, 10 (12).
- Hammerin, Z. , Andersson, E. & Maivorsdotter, N. (2018). Exploring student participation in teaching: An aspect of student health in school. International Journal of Educational Research, 92, 63-74.
- Andersson, E. (2018). Young People’s Political Participation: A Public Pedagogy Challenge at the Municipal Level. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 26 (2), 179-195.
- Andersson, E. (2017). The pedagogical political participation model (the 3P-M) for exploring, explaining and affecting young people’s political participation. Journal of Youth Studies, 20 (10), 1346-1361.
- Andersson, E. & Öhman, J. (2017). Young people’s conversations about environmental and sustainability issues in social media. Environmental Education Research, 23 (4), 465-485.
- Andersson, E. (2016). Producing and consuming the controversial: A social media perspective on political conversations in the social science classroom. Journal of Social Science Education, 15 (1), 6-16.
- Andersson, E. & Sandgren, S. (2015). Delaktighet som pedagogik och demokratiskt värde för fullföljandet av studier: kunskapsbidrag från ett utvecklingsprojekt. Utbildning och Lärande / Education and Learning, 9 (1), 80-100.
- Andersson, E. (2015). Situational political socialization: a normative approach to young people’s adoption and acquisition of political preferences and skills. Journal of Youth Studies, 18 (8), 967-983.
- Andersson, E. (2015). Temapresentation: Deltagande och inflytande - inkluderingens demokratiska och politiska möjligheter. Utbildning och Lärande / Education and Learning, 9 (1), 8-18.
- Andersson, E. & Olson, M. (2014). Political Participation as Public Pedagogy: The Educational Situation in Young People’s Political Conversations in Social Media. Journal of Social Science Education, 13 (4), 115-126.
- Andersson, E. (2012). Rum och plats i didaktiken: Om VAR-frågan i svensk didaktisk forskning och undervisning – exemplet digitalamedier. Utbildning och Lärande / Education and Learning, 6 (2), 16-27.
- Andersson, E. (2012). The political voice of young citizens: Educational conditions for political conversation - school and social media. Utbildning och Demokrati, 21 (1), 97-119.
- Olson, M. , Edling, S. , Liljestrand, J. & Andersson, E. (2012). Är du mätbar nog, lilla vän? Mätbarhetskultur, ICCS 2009 och ungdomars medborgarkompetens. Skola och samhälle (Juni).
- Andersson, E. (2010). Stake in the political: Young people's condition for political socialization in social media. Politics, Culture and Socialization, 1 (4), 379-396.
- Andersson, E. (2010). Text som kontext - rum, plats och text som social situation. Utbildning och lärande, 4 (1), 76-96.
Articles, book reviews
- Andersson, E. (2021). Idrottens engagerade föräldrar: Om ansvaret att främja glädje, självständighet och utveckling. Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum (March 16).
Books
- Andersson, E. , Sundhäll, M. , Teledahl, A. & Rudsberg, K. (2022). Kollegialt lärande för skol- och undervisningsförbättring: ett helhetsperspektiv (1ed.). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
- Andersson, E. (2020). Tävla tillsammans: Vuxenpåverkan inom ungas lagidrottande (1ed.). Malmö: Bokförlaget idrottsforum.org (Malmö Studies in Sport Sciences 37).
Chapters in books
- Andersson, E. (2022). Three major challenges in young people´s political participation and a pragmatic way forward. In: Zulmir Bečević; Björn Andersson, Youth Participation and Learning: Critical Perspectives on Citizenship Practices in Europe (pp. 17-35). . Springer.
- Andersson, E. (2020). Pedagogik för hållbar samhällsutveckling: bildning och hållbar utveckling som pedagogiska principer. In: Magnus Boström, Christian Lundahl, Johan Öhman, Humanistiska och samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv på bildning och hållbar utveckling (pp. 20-33). Örebro: Örebro universitet.
- Andersson, E. (2018). Ungas politiska delaktighet som pedagogiskt förhållningssätt. In: Thomas Johansson och Emma Sorbring, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskap: Grundläggande perspektiv (pp. 163-177). Stockholm: Liber.
- Andersson, E. (2015). Sociala medier och politiskt kontroversiella samtal i samhällsundervisningen. In: Ljunggren, Carsten; Unemar Öst, Ingrid och Englund, Tomas, Kontroversiella frågor : om kunskap och politik i samhällsundervisningen (pp. 77-94). Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB.
Conference papers
- Andersson, E. (2019). A Referee Perspective on the Educational Practice of Youth Competitive Games: Referees, Parents and Coaches in Grassroots Soccer. Paper presented at European Conference for Education Research (ECER 2019), Hamburg, Germany, September 2-6, 2019.
- Andersson, E. (2018). Political Socialisation In Competitive Games Of Grassroots Youth Soccer: Exploring Political Norms in Coaching Behavior. In: Inclusion and Exclusion, Resources for Educational Research? Political Landscapes in Physical Education and Sports Coaching. Paper presented at The European Conference on Educational Research, (ECER 2018), Bolzano, Italy, September 3-7, 2018.
- Andersson, E. (2010). Irony in the Political: Young people's use of irony in a political text conversation in a net community. In: Peter Cunningham and Nathan Fretwell, Lifelong Learning and Active Citizenship Proceedings of the twelfth Conference of the Children's Identity and Citizenship in Europe Academic Network. Paper presented at Twelfth Conference of the Children's Identity and Citizenship in Europe Academic Network, Barcelona, Spain, 2010. (pp. 641-650). London: CiCe.
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Andersson, E. (2013). Det politiska rummet: villkor för situationspolitisk socialisation i en nätgemenskap av och för ungdomar. (Doctoral dissertation). Örebro: Örebro universitet.
Reports
- Andersson, E. , Halvarsson Lundkvist, A. , Harvey, F. , Nilsson, P. , Rex, M. , Rudsberg, K. , Sundhäll, M. , Teledahl, A. & et al. (2019). Kollegialt Lärande i Örebros Skolor – KLÖS-projektet: Hur kan lärares kollegiala lärprocesser stödjas i syfte att skapa hållbara strukturer för utvecklingsarbete?. Örebro: Örebro universitet.
- Andersson, E. (2015). Nya portar?: Ungas delaktighet i politiska beslutsprocesser på kommunal nivå. Stockholm, Sweden: Kulturdepartementet.
- Andersson, E. (2014). Demokrati- och mångfaldsprojekt i Södra Ryd: Utegården Skogsmyran. Skövde: Högskolan i Skövde.