Malin Ideland

• Professor
• Professor (Full) at Malmö University

This study focuses on what people working in edu-business want to achieve. The aim is to explore (1) how the edu-business sector is discursively constructed as a work-place and part of the education system, and (2) how this discourse is organized within an affective economy – that is how the valuation of emotions distinguish what are considered as...

Sewage management is crucial to the functioning of cities, yet, in the global North, seldom acknowledged in public. Wastewater infrastructures are mainly hidden underground and human excrement is considered a private matter. However, to make sanitation stay invisible, its dysfunctionality (e.g., leaking pipes, aging wastewater plants) is sometimes...

Growing demands on evidence-based teaching, combined with increasing business involve-ment, constitute a transformation of education in which research and research collaborations have become commodities and selling points for companies. This article, building on interviews with 30 Swedish edupreneurs, explores how the discursive trope of the Triple...

This article analyzes how a figuration of the teacher is made up within an ed-tech discourse and how it organizes how we think of teaching. It departs from an interview study with 25 ‘edupreneurs’ selling hardware, software, and/or professional development regarding digital tools to Swedish schools. The analysis illuminates how the ‘desired teacher...

This article explores how a growing apparatus of edupreneurial actors offers solutions for the current ‘school crisis’ and how these commercial actors become taken for granted in the public school system. The Swedish case is interesting, as it involves a once-strong welfare state that is now associated with both the neoliberal discourse of competit...

Avloppshantering är en infrastrukturell fråga med avgörande betydelse för såväl vardagsliv som miljön. Men infrastrukturerna är sköra, och människors beteenden kan orsaka att de brakar samman. Medborgarna måste uppfostras, men samtidigt är avföring ett känsligt ämne och toalettbeteenden privata. Hur kan VA-branschen informera om sådant vi inte vill...

With schools and universities closing across Europe, the Covid-19 lockdown left actors in the field of education battling with the unprecedented challenge of finding a meaningful way to keep the wheels of education turning online. The sudden need for digital solutions across the field of education resulted in the emergence of a variety of digital n...

This article unpacks the neat straightforwardness of the ‘waste regime’ of the circular economy of food waste and its main idea: ‘waste as resource’. It explores the making of circularity by paying detailed attention to what is conceptualized as ‘make-up’ work, i.e. how interruptions and leaks along waste flows are handled in practice. Make-up work...

Debattartikel i SvD: Vi måste sluta låtsas som att skolan är en vanlig marknad där så kallade undermåliga leverantörer automatiskt rensas ut. Det skriver forskare som slutreplik i SvD om hemlig statistik och friskolor.

En av skolans stora utmaningar är att leva och verka i den politiska korselden. I detta kapitel kommer vi därför att beskriva en ideologisk klyfta i svensk skolpolitik som inte tillräckligt uppmärksammats. Det är inte en klassisk konflikt mellan höger och vänster, utan en mellan konservatism och nyliberalism. Konflikten speglar ett nytt politiskt l...

Nature of science (NOS) has increasingly been emphasized as an important element in science education. This paper engages in the question of how teachers negotiate different approaches to and contexts for NOS teaching. This exploratory study is part of a three‐year longitudinal project where six in‐service teachers developed and negotiated their NO...

The chapter unpacks how the figuration of the eco-certified child is (re)produced inside a cultural politics of emotions and how the “right” knowledge and actions are thought of as optimizing students’ emotions. Through education and activation, students are supposed to engage in the world with a good mood—which makes Environmental and Sustainabili...

The chapter problematizes how a neoliberal ideology organizes Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) and the figuration of the eco-certified child. The chapter illuminates how the individual choice is elevated in the sustainability discourse, and how individuals become accountable for solving global problems. The focus of individual choic...

The chapter problematizes how sustainability engagement is embedded in a racial, colonial and nationalistic discourses, positioning different kinds of humans, problems and possibilities in different parts of the world; an enlightened, organized We in the global north and a miserable, corrupt, under-developed Them in the global south. In the Swedish...

The chapter discusses consequences of individualistic and nationalistic approaches to sustainability and how discourses organize what is seen as reason as well as the reasonable, desirable children who engage in environment and sustainability in a proper way, and consequently also who becomes the eco-certified child’s Other. Furthermore, this chapt...

The chapter analyzes what it means that the eco-certified child is repeatedly described as a nature-loving person—one who likes being outdoors, discovering and caring for the nature. But to pass as environmentally friendly nature-lover, not any way of being in the nature counts. On the contrary, nature is here understood as a metaphorical place org...

This chapter is an introduction to the book, describing the aim, empirical data and theoretical framework. Since the book seeks to problematize the incontestability of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) and how to be an environmentally friendly student (the eco-certified child), it departs from Foucault’s thoughts on how discourses or...

While few could dispute the need for Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) for children and young people, this book analyses the problems inherent in this educational practice. Despite good intentions, the author highlights how ESE can in fact contribute to a (re)production of harmful norms and possible subjectivities by categorizing var...

This article aims to analyze how science is discursively attached to certain parts of the world and certain “kinds of people,” i.e., how scientific knowledge is culturally connected to the West and to whiteness. In focus is how the power technology of coloniality organizes scientific content in textbooks as well as how science students are met in t...

Many Western societies have a tendency to talk about how schools are failing in the science subjects. School science is often discussed as outdated, not interesting enough for young people and non-effective for the students’ learning. This discourse opens up for external actors such as industrial actors and NGOs to engage in the teaching of science...

Vad innebär det egentligen att vara en miljömedveten människa? Är det att sopsortera, släcka lampor och välja KRAV-märkta varor i affären? Är det att vara medveten om vad ens handlingar innebär och känna sig delaktig i arbetet för världens gemensamma framtid? Den KRAV-märkta människan handlar om vad det är att vara en miljövänlig människa i vår t...

Public engagement in biotechnology has declined as cloning, genetic engineering and regenerative medicine have become socially and culturally normalized. Zooming in on existing bio-technological debates, this article turns to contemporary genetic art as sites for ethical reflections. Art can be viewed as an 'imagination laboratory', a space through...

This article problematizes the educational practice of action competence. This practice is said to be a way to empower students, making them willing and able to genuinely engage in environmental issues. The aim is to show how the notion of action competence culturally shapes certain kinds of desirable and undesirable subjects, i.e., defining who fi...

This article addresses the fabrication of the eco-certified citizen, an ideal – rather than real – citizen constructed through requirements of both needed knowledge and a kind of personhood, with specific qualities. The societal demands of knowledge-response to environmental problems are studied, as well as the student’s (future citizen’s) responsi...

Nature of science (NOS) has for a long time been regarded as a key component in science teaching. Much research has focused on students’ and teachers’ views of NOS, while less attention has been paid to teachers’ perspectives on NOS teaching. This article focuses on in-service science teachers’ ways of talking about NOS and NOS teaching, e.g. what...

Concerns have been raised about the marketization of science through the prevailing funding regime. However, the present article will discuss how it comes that the potentially marketable stem cell science is not more commercialized than what is currently the case. We approach this question by analysing discursive pluralism in defining the value of...

Det KRAV-märkta barnet syftar till att normkritiskt problematisera lärande för hållbar utveckling. Hur bidrar denna praktik till att skapa normer för vem som är ”den goda” respektive ”den icke-önskvärda” människan? Studien, som analyserat läromedel och policydokument, visar hur skillnader mellan Vi och De Andra (re)produceras. Utifrån en idé om sv...

This article seeks to unpack the taken-for-granted notion of low performance, arguing that performance and competency are not a given categories; rather they are “objects-for-thought” that receive their discursive and material contours through a chain of translations. As suggested previously by Gorur, PISA is analyzed through the lens of Latourian...

This chapter explores to what extent the global agenda of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an imagined global agenda or, in fact, an extrapolated cultural agenda imposing culturally-imprinted views of the world as a whole, including the framing of its bearers (the sustainable eco-citizen). Two questions are of interest here: How did e...

Human Embryonic Stem Cell (hESC) research has been described by many scholars as a controversial issue. However, in Swedish media reporting, hESC research is no longer described as contested. The aim of this paper is to explore how this research field has been normalized through discursive shifts which have had effects in terms of the lack of debat...

The aim of this article is to analyse how good intentions in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) discursively construct and maintain differences between ‘Us’ and ‘Them’. The empirical material consists of textbooks about sustainable development used in Swedish schools. An analysis of how ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ are constructed and maintained is don...

There are only a few studies about how primary school students engage in socio-scientific discussions. This study aims to add to this field of research by focusing on how 9–10-year-olds in Sweden and England handle climate change as a complex environmental socio-scientific issue (SSI), within the context of their own lives and in relation to societ...

despite the lack of research focusing on socioscientific discussions in elementary schools some studies indicate that elementary students can, and are willing to, engage in purposeful science-based discussion (e.g. Naylor, Keogh & Downing, 2007), and that providing the opportunity for discussion among students can improve their reasoning and discus...

This article analyses how ‘eco-certified children’ are constructed as desirable subjects in teaching materials addressing education for sustainable development. We are interested in how discourses structure this cherished practice and how this practice has become ‘natural’ and obvious for us. A discourse analysis is carried out by looking at the ma...

In this study 9?10 year olds in Sweden and England discuss issues about carbon dioxide reduction. It analyses how different discursive repertoires are used to legitimise or question their ‘normal’ everyday lifestyles. It also raises the question on what role science plays in their discussions. The students discussed four possible options that a gov...

Human/animal relations are potentially controversial and biotechnologically produced animals and animal-like creatures – bio-objects such as transgenics, clones, cybrids and other hybrids – have often created lively political debate since they challenge established social and moral norms. Ethical issues regarding the human/animal relations in biote...

In this article, we analyze how contemporary discursive silences around new biotechnologies such as cybrids and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), have been enabled by earlier policy processes in the area, e.g. boundary work around what is human and non-human, living and non-living, subject and object. The analysis of policy processes around xe...

Published by http://www.keisui.co.jp Original titel "Gene Technology and the Public. An Interdisciplinary Perspective (eds Susanne Lundin and Malin Ideland), Nordic Academic Press, 2000.

In this article, we analyze how contemporary discursive silences around new biotechnologies such as cybrids and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), have been enabled by earlier policy processes in the area, e.g. boundary work around what is human and non-human, living and non-living, subject and object. The analysis of policy processes around xe...

Högre utbildning drar tillbaka artikeln ”Är marknadsanpassad forskningsanknytning möjlig? Professionsutbildningar möter akademins nya krav”Redaktionen för Högre utbildning har beslutat att dra tillbaka artikeln ”Är marknadsanpassad forskningsanknytning möjlig? Professionsutbildningar möter akademins nya krav” författad av Malin Ideland, Claes Malmb...

Vision II school science is often stated to be a democratic and inclusive form of science education. But what characterizes the subject who fits into the Vision II school science? Who is the desirable student and who is constructed as ill-fitting? This article explores discourses that structure the Vision II science classroom, and how different stu...

Researchers and other (human) actors within the apparatus of animal experimentation find themselves in a tight corner. They rely on public acceptance to promote their legitimacy and to receive funding. At the same time, those working with animal experimentation take risks by going public, fearing that the public will misunderstand their work and an...

This article reports on a study of how teenagers made their decision on whether or not to vaccinate themselves against the new influenza. Its purpose was to identify connections between how teenagers talk about themselves and the decision they made. How do the teenagers construct their identities while talking about a specific socio-scientific issu...

V ad innebär egentligen att lärarutbildning vilar på vetenskaplig grund? Handlar det om att läraren ska förmedla forskningsresultat eller att studenter ska utveckla forskarkompetenser genom systematiska undersök-ningar och examensarbete? Eller rör det sig om att studenter läser forsk-ningsartiklar och teoretisk litteratur? Än mer komplext blir det...

Socio‐scientific issues (SSI) are not only said to increase students’ interest in science, but they also strengthen the generic skills of teamwork, problem‐solving, and media literacy. At the same time, these skills are prerequisites for successful work with SSI. The aim of the study is to analyze what happens when SSI are implemented in science cl...

According to many documents, there is a strong need to renew science education. One way could be to work with SSI (socio-scientific issues). This paper reports on both students’ and teachers’ experiences and learning when working with socio-scientific issues in science education in secondary school (aged from 13 to 16). The approach is multidimensi...

Contemporary changes in higher education in Sweden are characterised by two educational discourses: marketisation and academisation. Demands to meet market requirements, as well as to make education more scientific, have created tensions between and within institutional cultures. Using interviews with 16 heads of departments, the authors investigat...

This article addresses how people who handle transgenic animals in practicetalk about and handle dilemmas with transgenic animals. It is shown how dilemmas associated with transgenic animals become back-grounded through rhetorical comparisons with . Through these comparisons, transgenic animals are framed as normal, ordinary and thereby unproblemat...

Research that includes non-human animal experimentation is fundamentally a dilemmatic enterprise. Humans use other animals in research to improve life for their own species. Ethical principles are established to deal with this dilemma. But despite this ethical apparatus, people who in one way or another work with animal experimentation have to inte...

The aim of this paper is to describe a conceptual framework to be used as a tool for analyzing work with socio-scientific issues (SSI) and for constructing SSI cases in secondary school. The framework con- sists of six components describing the more detailed characteristics of SSI. The components were cho- sen to reflect what we know from research...

Transgenic animals are organisms that have been genetically altered on purpose: genes are knocked out, knocked in or reinforced, and the effects can thus be studied in a living (or dead) whole animal. Above all, it is mice that are being usedd, and since the early 90s, the practice has spread like wildfire. A lot of hope is invested in the techniqu...

Genetics is becoming more and more topical in our everyday lives. Every other day new results from research are presented, often through the mass media. But the laws of genetics are complicated. The mass media, however, help make them culturally manageable. One way this is done, is through metaphorical descriptions. The metaphors are taken from our...

Researchers claim that school has failed to empower children as citizens of the future. To develop a new approach for planning educational practices we need to bring in the students' diverse backgrounds in classroom discussions. But in what ways is this possible to do? The aim of this paper is to analyse how children from different socio-cultural c...