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From: Jonas Qvarsebo <qvarsebo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:32:58 +0200
Hi!
My name is Jonas Qvarsebo and I am a PhD student at the Department of
Child Studies, Linkoping University, Sweden. In september will defend my
dissertation, “/Skolbarnets fostran. //Enhetsskolan och politiken om
barnet 1946-1962/ ”(English Title:”/ The Training of the School Child.
The //Comprehensive// //School// Reform and the Politics of the Child
1946-1962/”).
I am a historian and my research interests primarily revolve around
education and childhood. I am particularly interested in the school as
an arena where children have been observed, classified and formed in
different ways. Inspired by thinkers such as Michel Foucault I focus on
the different techniques and technologies that have emerged historically
in conjunction to the education system and the consequences this have
had for the social construction of childhood as well as for individual
children’s lives. Other strong research interests are the family and
family politics, social policy concerning children and the changing
character of the welfare state. Theoretically and methodologically I am
interested in various kinds of discourse analysis. Important
theoretically influences are, except for Foucault, the political
theoreticians Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and their discourse theory.
Best REgards,
Jonas Qvarsebo
