Jonas Ålander
Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: jonas.alander@oru.se
Phone: +46 19 303385
Room: F3244
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.
Publications
Articles in journals
- Ålander, J. (2023). Performing in Sweden: Immigrant musicians’ possibilities and impossibilities of musical participation. Puls: Journal for Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology, 8, 91-111.
- Ålander, J. & Volgsten, U. (2021). Migrants, Swedes and the unchanging practice of music: discursive representations in Swedish newspapers. Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, 103, 21-38.
- Ålander, J. (2020). "It´s about togetherness": The creation of culturally diverse music venues in Sweden. Nätverket: etnologisk tidskrift, 22, 51-62.
Conference papers
- Ålander, J. & Bagger, A. (2023). Policy on Inclusion and Teaching Materials for Diverse Learners. Paper presented at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2023), Glasgow, UK, August 21-25, 2023.
- Bagger, A. , Ålander, J. & Karlsson, J. (2023). Teaching materials and their quality: as aspects of inclusion. Paper presented at NERA Conference 2023: Digitalization and Technologies in Education Opportunities and Challenges (NERA 2023), Oslo, Norway, March 15-17, 2023.
- Ålander, J. (2021). Med musiken som samlingspunkt: en studie om musik, migration och deltagandevillkor. Paper presented at Musiketnologi på gång: seminariedag om musiketnologi, Uppsala, 23 November, 2021.
- Ålander, J. & Volgsten, U. (2021). Music and Migrants in Swedish Newspapers. Paper presented at Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities, Uppsala, Sweden, 25-29 October, 2021.
- Ålander, J. (2019). Musik, migration och det politiska. Paper presented at Musik och migration i Norden, Stockholm, Sweden, April 4-5, 2019.
- Ålander, J. (2018). On the Meaning of Music: Organizers Perspectives of Constructing Culturally Diverse Music Venues. Paper presented at 34th Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, June 12-15, 2018.
- Ålander, J. & Georgii-Hemming, E. (2016). “The public foreigner” : Conceptualising migrant music research. In: BSA Annual Conference 2016. Paper presented at British Sociological Association 2016 Annual conference, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, April 6–8, 2016. (pp. 248- BSA Publications Ltd.
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Ålander, J. (2022). Musik, migration och villkor: en studie om deltagandevillkor i det svenska musiklivet. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University.