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News 2024
Conference
7th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
University of Helsinki, 10-12 January 2024, Helsinki, Finland
HOW TO PRESERVE SUPERPOSITION IN POST-QUALITATIVE RESEARCH?
Fri 12.1.2024, 11:15–12:45 Room U4078, Main building
Presenter: Bosse Bergstedt, Østfold University College, Norway
Keywords: superposition, entanglement, quantum leaps, haptic sensorium, moment
News 2023
Lecture
Vestjyllands Højskole, New Year's course 2023-24
“Happy New Year. Four educational philosophers who changed us.”
Four educational thinkers who gave us new perspectives on our own lives and the world. An audience-engaging and philosophical history lecture. Hear about Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Dewey, Hannah Arendt and Karen Barad. Four educational philosophers who changed us.
Conference
Liberating, affective and aesthetic perspectives on pedagogy in practice and research.
A conference in collaboration between Østfold University and research group INTRA at the art museum Vandalorum in Värnamo, Saturday 30 September. Participants from the USA, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden met around three themes; expressive art, liberating pedagogy and new materialism. In connection with the conference, "Project Paulo Freire" is launched, more information about the research group INTRA is available at https://forskargruppeintra.se.
Dissertation
Kathrine Liedtke Thorndahl will defend her Ph.D. No More Neat Fugues: Singing the Praises of Problem-Based Learning in a Minor Agential Realist Key Slightly Out of Tune at Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Thursday 26.09.2023, 13.00-16.00.
Ph.D. defense by Kathrine Liedtke Thorndahl - Aalborg University (aau.dk)
Dissertation
Greta Jiménez defended her Ph.D. At ”reika” i den færøske daginstitution: En de-kolonial undersøgelse af trivsel i daginstitutionspolitik og praksis i rigsfællesskabet, Fredagen den 8. september 2023 kl. 13:00, DPU - Danmarks institut for Pædagogik og Uddannelse, Aarhus Universitet, Tuborgvej 164, 2400 København NV, bygning D (7220), lokale: D169.
https://events.au.dk/phd-forsvar-gretajimenez
Greta Jiménez vart ph.d. á DPU - (gransking.fo)
Conference
I am speaking at ECER 2023, Glasgow. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! #ECER2023 - via #Whova event app
Conference
Emancipatory, Affective and Aesthetic Perspectives on Pedagogy in Practice and Research
A one-day conference with the Research group INTRA in collaboration with Østfold University College
Date: 30th of September 2023
Place: Vandalorum in Värnamo, Sweden
Cost: 900 SEK, which includes all seminars and food, as well as an entrance fee to the art exhibitions of Vandalorum
At the conference, we will also launch "Project Paulo Freire" wherein Jan-Erik Perneman's perennial work in Freire's footsteps is presented through videos, a Freire-library and a list of an international network in the wake of Freire's work.
Three seminars are planned for the day:
– Emancipatory Pedagogy for Our Time
– Expressive Arts, the Emancipatory Pedagogy and New Materialist Theory
– Practical Research and Post-Qualitative Methods
More information on https://forskargruppenintra.se/konferens/
Program
9.30-10.00: Coffee
10.00-11.30: Seminar 1.
Emancipatory Pedagogy in Our Time
In this seminar we will talk about Paulo Freire and how we are to understand his pedagogy and challenges in the public education of our time. Hannes Lundkvist from the Research group INTRA has written about Freire's philosophy in relation to his experiences as the principal of the folk high school Mimi folkhögskola in Gothenburg, while Jan-Erik Perneman, public educator and Ph.D., contributes with over 50 years of experience of working in the spirit of Freire, both in Sweden and in South America. The questions we will talk about is: Is Freire still relevant in our age? What challenges are we facing when we try to implement his pedagogy today?
11.30-12.30: Lunch
12.30-14.00: Seminar 2.
Expressive Arts, the Emancipatory Pedagogy and New Materialist Theory
In this seminar we will practice and talk about communication through aesthetic forms of expressions. Per Apelmo, Börje Forsgård and Linda Jonsson from the Research group INTRA leads the seminar. The questions we will talk about is: What significance and function does communication through aesthetic forms of expressions have in working with Paulo Freire's philosophy and in connecting it to a new materialist thinking?
14.00-14.30: Coffee
14.30-16.00: Seminar 3.
Practical Research and Post-Qualitative Methods
Bosse Bergstedt from the Research group INTRA and Østfold University College has, as a professor of pedagogy, contributed with developing new knowledge of intra-active relationships between body and matter. In this seminar, we will talk about practical research and post-qualitative methods. The questions we will talk about is: How could multi-sensory and performative methods be used in practical research? How could this contribute to a mutual becoming of matter and nature?
16.00: Follow-up discussions
Apply as soon as possible, 1st of September at the latest, to per@apelmointermodal.se. In your application, you need to inform us of any special preferences regarding the food. The conference has a limited capacity – first come. You are registered when you have paid the fee of 900 SEK to the Handelsbanken-bank account 6700-244244391. Write P Freire and your name on the payment. The application is binding and through your application you support the work of the Research group INTRA.
Those who needs to stay overnight are offered reduced price at the hotel Vidöstern as well as Scandic hotel in Värnamo. Write "Vandalorum 2023" when you book. The booking at Scandic hotel is made on tel. +370-656600 or via varnamo@scandichotels.com.
Welcome greetings from the Research group INTRA.
Background material is found at www.forskargruppenintra.se
Lecture
Literary tools in the dissemination of nonfiction.
Professor of pedagogy Bosse Bergstedt tells how he has created short fiction texts about various educational thinkers such as Socrates, Karl Marx, Ellen Key, Michel Foucault, Hanne Arndt etc. in his book Pedagogik för förändring.
Vestjyllands Højskole, 22 June 2023.
Webinar
The research group Practical research and post-qualitative methods invites you to two webinars on Zoom.
Wednesday 26 April: Pedagogy's unexpected moment
Wednesday 24 May: Multisensory methods and analyses
Wednesday 26 April at 14:00 – 16:00
Reports from defenses and conferences
NERA's conference at Oslo Met, March 15-17
New Norwegian network FAM – Norwegian network for philosophy, affect and materiality in meetings with children and childhood
Seminar
The unexpected moment of pedagogy
A conversation about case-assemblage and other methodological concepts used in Åsa Andersson's thesis titled Sustainable Inclusion without sustainability – Working on equal participation and unforeseen movement in physical education, sports, and research.
Åsa Andersson, PhD at the Department of Nutrition and Sports Science, University of Gothenburg, March 23, 2023. https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/74657
Wednesday 24 May at 14.00 – 16.00
Reports from defenses and conferences
Seminar
Multisensory methods and analyses
Conversation about the newly published book, Multisensory methods and analyses- to studies of pedagogical practices, Helene Falkenberg (ed.) and Sofie Sauzet (ed.)
https://samfundslitteratur.dk/bog/multisensoriske-metoder-og-analyser
https://samfundslitteratur.dk/sites/default/files/styles/book-cover-large/public/covers/5683.png?itok=uT4cXDib
What do you get e.g. sensations for and insights into, when one examines the conscience of professionals by following them in ways reminiscent of dance, where the body, gaze and facial expressions are put in the foreground? How can one understand pedagogy as a sensory and aesthetic practice, when one dwells on the shores of the West coast and notices how time, places and bodies are connected? How do background noise and sound provide access to knowledge about everyday life in educational residences? What happens to studies of educational practice, when you slow down, move slowly and use your sense of sight, smell and hearing? And what knowledge does it generate, when you move with them, you examine, feel their moods and take an interest in their style, taste and gut feelings?
Dissertation
Åsa Andersson, Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science, University of Gothenburg will defend her dissertation Sustainable inclusion without sustainability – Working on equal participation and unforeseen movement in physical education, sports, and research.
Date: 23 mar 2023 Time: 13:00 - 16:30
Room: BE 036, Läroverksgatan 15, Hus B, Pedagogen, University of Gothenburg
https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/74657
Conference
NERA 2023: Digitalization and Technologies in Education - Opportunities and Challenges, 15-15 mars, Oslo Met.
Roundtable presentation with Samira Jamouchi and Lap-Xuan Do Nguyen, abstract:
Roundtable as a playroom event and place of artistic becoming
Intro
The roundtable is organised both sequentially and organically. We shall have two distinct but interconnected presentations. We inquire about relationships between art, artistic teaching, and artistic research through the framework of new materialism and post humanism.
The two presentations are also visual and oral examples of a rhizomatic system between art, pedagogy, and research. Bosse, Lap-Xuan and Samira take into action and take into account their works in their on-going process of entangled acts that reveal each other.
First presentation
Bosse and Samira hold the first presentation. They will present a project about teaching students during their practices in Norwegian primary schools. The aim of the project is to initiate a cross-institutional constellation between university college, primary school and the art collective Tenthaus. The aim of the project is to see how artists that work with the public with relevant socially engaged practice can add to, or how it can expand, an understanding of what art can do in school.
The form of their presentation in inspired by their theoretical / philosophical framework: Barad (2007), Deleuze and Guattari (1980), and Haraway (2016). Bosse and Samira will bring yarn/threads and words to the table. The words and threads will be entangled between the contributors and the audience. By doing so the making/playing with objects will facilitate intra-action with the audience to discuss the questions during the finissage (the closing part of the roundtable).
Second presentation
The second presentation will integrate and build on the first one. Lap-Xuan and Samira will present a new phase of their performative talk series called: “When I think about you and…”. Their encounters grow as a rhizomatic network bringing the process of exchanging the-knowns be-coming the-unknowns and vice versa. We embrace the intensity of our conversations in artistic talks and the unforeseen, as powerful moments evolve from a known past connected to a together becoming of the experienced moments. It is in this state of becoming as making-with that symbiosis takes us further.
Finissage
The two presentations will leave traces on the table, such as thread, words, and objects. It is with the public that we wish to see what becoming can arise in the discussion with the conference attendees.
Paper presentation, abstract:
Superpositions and Entanglement. What happens in the event of agential cuts?
This paper explores what happens when a research process makes agential cuts. The research question highlights the concepts of “superposition” and “entanglement”, which are used in quantum physics to describe the becoming of particles (Zellinger 2010, Nørretranders 2022).
Superposition means that a particle is in many places at the same time. The particle can move by choosing all paths between two points at the same time and information can travel over great distances without taking any time at all.
Entanglement means that two particles have properties that they get from being connected by being either opposite or equal. When the particles are separated, they will still be entangled and have superposition.
Superposition and entanglement mean that it is not possible to describe one particle without simultaneously describing that it is part of a context with the other. They form a whole and cannot be understood to be in and of themselves, if one's condition changes, the other does the same (Nørretranders 2022).
This is something that goes on until the particles are measured or observed. Then the particle must profess existence by choosing a state and becoming a position of either 0 or 1. But in the meantime, and before they are observed, the particles are in many states at once, a superposition. The experiments that are done today with a quantum computer are therefore based on not exposing particles to any kind of disturbance by freezing them at very low temperatures (Nørretranders 2022).
What does this mean when agential cuts are made in a research process? In agential cuts (Barad 2007; Juelskjær 2019), the becoming of the phenomena is disturbed by the articles of which they consist, which contributes to the creation of differences in what constitutes a whole. This contributes to the phenomenon of going from superposition to position and creating a duality between subject and object.
Quantum physics shows that if something changes in one phenomenon, something will occur in the other phenomenon. The guiding methodological question, therefore, becomes: What happens at another place than where agential cuts are set? It is to this that place the researcher must direct the attention. What happens at the opposite poles? If the condition of one changes, the other does so with the same Which makes it possible to understand how the phenomenon becomes by depicting the compositions that connect the phenomena. Something that is methodologically important for the development of agential realism and other perspectives that use agential cuts in their research.
New article
Bergstedt, Bosse (2022) Tingens oskuldsfulla hemlighet. Oskuldens museum, Istanbul, Nordisk Museologi, Vol 4 No 2, s 97-108.
https://lnkd.in/emedCYY3
The research group Practical research and post-qualitative methods
The next seminar will be Tuesday, January 10 at 1 p.m., Møterom Halden C2-208, it's also fine to join on Zoom:
https://hiof.zoom.us/j/62867066991?pwd=WVhJTXpmT0lNV04zcndiRlNvMC9hZz09
Bosse Bergstedt presents a newly written book script entitled: BECOMING THE WORLD. Essays on particles, bodies, poetry, pedagogy and other boundary phenomena
We talk about current research and about the book Immersive Cartography and Post-Qualitative Inquiry.
News 2022
Dissertation
Michael Peter Jensen, Aalborg university will defend his dissertation Skriversubjektivitet i det multimodale danskfag. En posthuman undersøgelse af affekt, krop og materialitet i skriveundervisningen.
14 oktober kl 13.00 -16.00 på Aalborg university København
Room: 2.1.043, Aalborg university, A. C Maeyes vænge 14, 2450 København
Bedømmelsekmitte: Professor Mie Buhl, Aalborg Universitet, Professor Nikolaj Elf, Syddansk Universitet, Professor Bosse Bergsted, Østfold University College
Info: https://www.aau.dk/ph-d-forsvar-ved-michael-peter-jensen-e40634
Conference
ECER 2022
Yerevan, 23 - 26 August 2022
Conference team: Education in a Changing World: The impact of global realities on the prospects and experiences of educational research
Accepted paper:
Haptic sensorium: a method for researching phenomena becoming with the world
This paper describes a project that has developed a new method that is called haptic sensorium. This is a methodology that makes it possible to study the emergence of phenomena when bodies and matter connect. Theoretically, the project is in close connection with research in posthumanism and new materialism, and our ambitions have been to create new knowledge in the fields of ethnology and post-qualitative methods (S:t Pierre 2013, Juleskjær 2020). To be able to develop new methods, we have attached particular importance to starting from an ontological perspective.
The research question for this paper is therefore to develop a methodology perspective that is based on an ontology of becoming that is inspired by internal realism (Davidsson 2020, Bergstedt 2021a, 2021b). How can thinking with the world generate knowledge about the becoming of phenomena?
This paper is structured into three parts. The first part describes an ontology of becoming. The advantage is that it assumes that there is a difference between the world itself and how it is described (Grosz 2018). Therefore, it is important to see what the world can do, its functions, and its effects. Deleuze and Guattari assume that the world does not need anything other than what it has in itself; it is neutral and is its cause. The fact that the world can be and is created in itself contributes to an internal principle, an inner self-differentiation Deleuze and Guattari, 2015). A is non-A and A at the same time. This means that what we experience through our bodies and physical senses is the world itself in a concrete and physical sense.
The second part of the paper will describe a method that we called a haptic sensorium. The concept of the sensorium, which comes from the Latin term “sensus”, describes the place in the brain that perceives changing sensory impressions, which include sensation, perception, and interpretation of experiences, both in the body and of other phenomena (Paterson 2009, Juleskjær 2020).
To this sensorium, we bring the concept of “haptic”. Haptic means that the body is directed towards being touched and to touch (Barad 2007, Juelskjær 2019). The haptic ability is important as it provides a physical opportunity to touch the phenomena being explored. By allowing a diversity of the body’s changing sensory impressions to be combined with touch, we arrive at the concept of haptic sensorium. The haptic sensorium helps us in mixing a variety of senses, enabling a wider openness towards the world in which we participate. This allows greater attention to the appearances of unconscious bodily effects during the research processes (Paterson 2009, Bergstedt 2021b).
The third part of this paper shows how phenomena can be explored with a haptic sensorium. Among these, special focus is placed on the phenomenon of sound. Listening to the sound of becoming phenomena opens up new possibilities for understanding how phenomena connect and come into being with the world. We develop a special form av listening to that called multisensory listening, which will assist in creating our understanding of how our bodies are transcorporeal and always more than just human (Alaimo 2012, William 2021).
This is a form of listening that for example can practice by listening to shores, where land and sea meet and mingle. (Rowlings, 2020.) By multisensory listening with sand, rocks, shells, water, wind, and plants, new insights can be created, insights into how matter and bodies connect. Research that can give us new knowledge of how bodies and matter connect and have an ethical implication for awareness of the responsibility and care in human-nature relations.
Conference
NERA 2022
Reykjavik, Iceland, 1-3 June, 2022
Conference team: Education and involvement in precarious times
Accepted paper:
Pedagogy of the moment – where the world evokes knowledge
This paper explores how the moment can say something about the becoming of phenomena and what it can mean for pedagogy. The purpose is to broaden the understanding of the conditions and possibilities of the moment and to contribute to a re-thinking of pedagogy.
The context for exploring the pedagogy of the moment is that more and more theoretical perspectives have come to direct interest in what happens in situations of various kinds, such as Bohr's quantum leap (2013), Haraway's situated learning (1988), Badiou's events, Derrida's differences (1978), Barthe's details (1986), Spinoza's affects (2001), Lacan's leaks (1989), Barad's cuts (2007) and Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome (2015).
Why are situations and events so important? To be able to understand this, an ontological perspective is needed (Bergstedt 2021a) Therefore, this paper describes an internal realism where the world is created in itself (Danielsson 2020). This means that there is a world but the way to create it can take many different forms. The starting point is a world created through an internal principle, an inner self-differentiation itself. A as non-A and A simultaneously (Deleuze, Guattari 2015, Grosz 2018).
This means that pedagogy can be understood from new points of departure. This can be done by broadening the subject and relying on the senses of the body. These are in direct contact with the repetition of the world, which creates great diversity and thus also affects various kinds. In the paper, this is methodically developed in the form of a haptic sensorium (Juelskjær 2020, Bergstedt 2021b).
It helps to develop an ability to point out the moments that enable the discovery of how phenomena become (Barad 2007). Which can lead to a more ethical and less aggressive way of relating to the world than that which has characterized a modern age. The important thing is not to teach knowledge but to point out what it is that makes knowledge become.
News 2021
New article
Bergstedt, Bosse (2021) "Thinking with the world – to explore the becoming of phenomena", Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, Vol12, No 2.
https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.4685
Abstract. This article discusses how it is possible to think with the world in educational research. How can this thinking with the world generate knowledge about the becoming of phenomena? To answer this question this paper undertakes a diffractive reading of selected texts from Niels Bohr, Karen Barad, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Donna Haraway, and Michel Serres. This diffractive reading reveals that the world becomes with itself contributing to an internal principle or an inner self-differentiation. This means that all phenomena can be understood as related to the world in one way or another. This paper contends that the researcher body is important to investigations of the becoming of phenomena with the world, therefore a haptic sensorium is developed as a means to visualize bodily affects and to recognize limit values to the world, for example, background noise. The article concludes with a discussion about creating knowledge of this process as a rhizome. The article attempts to illustrate that thinking with the world can generate new knowledge to understand the becoming of phenomena, which can contribute to the development of educational research.
New book
Lorentz, Hans & Bergstedt, Bosse red. (2021) Interkulturella dimensioner. Pedagogik för mångkulturellt lärande. Lund: Studentlitteratur
New article
Bergstedt, Bosse (2021) "The Ontology of Becoming: To Research and Become with the World", Education sciences, Special Issue Philosophy of Education: The Promise of Education and Grief, 2021 Vol.11(9), p.491.
https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11090491
Abstract. This article aims is to explore a perspective of the ontology of becoming, that makes It possible to study the emergence of phenomena and thereby broaden the understanding of how knowledge is created. It is written in close connection with research in posthumanism and new materialism. What hat has been lacking in these perspectives has been a clearer connection to ontological points of departure. It is therefore the purpose of this article to describe, based on ontological positions, both philosophical points of departure and methodology and research practice. The article is structured in three parts, where the introductory part describes basic ontological starting points. The second part describes how a research apparatus can be constructed and used to carry out analyses based on the ontology of becoming. A research apparatus where the body’s senses and mobility are given a prominent role through a haptic sensorium. The third part describes examples of phenomena that can be explored with an onto-analysis of becoming. Among these, special focus is placed on the border phenomenon of sound. The result of the article is a perspective that can contribute to renewed insights into how phenomena are created with the world.
Keywords: ontology; the world; becoming; intra-action; affects; haptic sensorium; sound
Webinar Bag-lady Storytelling
The research group on posthumanism and new materialism is holding a new webinar on Zoom
Torsdag 28 oktober 2021 kl 15.00 we talk about tChessa Adsit-Morris book Restorying Environmental Education Figurations, Fictions, and Feral Subjectivities, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 med focus på Chapter 3: Bag-lady Storytelling: The Carrier-bag Theory of Fiction as Research Praxis.
“Bag-lady Storytelling” is a performative methodology, a creative (re)twist of Ursula Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” into a new materialist methodology. Using the figuration of Trudy, the chatty Times Square bag-lady character in the one-woman Broadway play, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the author conducts a feminist critique of traditional research methodologies and draws together theories of research that inform, instead, the practice of research as Baglady storytelling, a performative research praxis of gathering stories/ ideas/theories and creating habitual nomadic research patterns. Such a praxis requires a different logic, an attunement and attentiveness to what gets gathered up, used, shared; an attentiveness to which seeds should be saved for future reseeding, for future reworlding.
Webinar Thinking with Water
The research group on posthumanism and new materialism is holding a new webinar on Zoom.
Thursday 16 September at 15.00 we talk about the book Thinking with Water by Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod, Astrida Neimanis based on the introduction Introduction: Towards a hydrological turn?
Phenomena such as water, sound and light are being given increasing attention. How can that be, what is so specific about these "volatile" phenomena? How can we broaden our understanding of how phenomena come to be?
Thinking with Water invites readers to consider how water - with its strong symbolic power, its familiarity and its unique physical and chemical properties - is a lively partner in the way we feel and act. What emerges is both a rich opportunity to encourage more well-thought-out environmental commitment and a challenge for common contradictions between nature and culture.
The seminars are open to anyone interested, no prior registration is required. Contact bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no for more information.
New website for the research group INTRA
www.forskargruppenintra.se
INTRA is a research environment that explores the importance of aesthetic activity in educational contexts. In these situations, new starting points emerge for how experience, knowledge and new insights are created.
Webinar
The research group on posthumanism and new materialism will hold a new seminar at Zoom on Friday 26 March at 13.00-15.00. This time we talk about Aesthetic explorations with recycled material Concepts.
This time we follow up two previous seminars on Placmaking and Transcorporeal pedagogy by talking about Nina Odegard's doctoral dissertation, Aesthetic Explorations with recycled materials Concepts, ideas and phenomena that play a role. The dissertation “kappa” is attached as a file and we start a conversation about the text by discussing the method chapter Chapter 2: Material that means / s / ed and “other ideas”, pp. 18–31.
Webinar
The research group on posthumanism and new materialism will hold a new seminar at Zoom on Wednesday 24 February at 13.00-15.00, this time we will talk about Transcorporeal pedagogy.
There are two texts for the seminar: Transcorporeality: An Interview with Stacy Alaimo, by Julia Kuznetski, Tallinn University, Estonia
Mattering pedagogy in precarious times of (un) learning, by Malou Juelskjær Arhus University
Webinar
The research group on posthumanism and new materialism is holding a new seminar at Zoom on Friday 29 January 13.00 - 15.00 when we talk about Tara Page's new book Placemaking: A New Materialist Theory of Pedagogy, Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
Tara Page is an artist, researcher, teacher and senior lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Contact bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no for more information.
Dissertation
Nina Odegard will defend her dissertation on Friday 8 January 2021 for the PhD degree in educational science for teacher education with the dissertation «Aesthetic investigations with recycled materials. Concepts, ideas and phenomena that play a role »at the Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Met.
The test lecture starts at 10:00 in Zoom. Title: How can an aesthetic exploration of the tangled relationship between (recycled) matter and children provide a new knowledge contribution to posthuman pedagogy?
News 2020
Webinar
The research group on posthumanism and new materialism will hold a seminar on Wednesday 16 December at 13.00 - 15.00 at Zoom. We continue to talk about Angela Rawling's dissertation Performing geochronology in the anthropocene: multiple temporalities of North Atlantic foreshores (2020). This time we read Chapter 2: Methodologies, pp. 47-84.
Link to Rawling's dissertation: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/81372/1/2020rawlingsphd.pdf
Webinar
The research group on posthumanism and new materialism will hold a seminar on Monday 30 November 13.00 - 15.00 at Zoom. This time we talk about Angela Rawling's dissertation Performing geochronology in the anthropocene: multiple temporalities of North Atlantic foreshores (2020), and read in particular Introduction pp. 16-23 and Chapter 1: Literature and Practice Review pp. 24-44. Contact bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no for more information.
Webinar
The research group on posthumanism and new materialism will hold a seminar on Wednesday 14 October 13.00 - 15.00 at Zoom. We continue the conversation about Elisabeth Grosz's book The Incorporeal on Zoom. This time about Chapter 2 Spinoza, substance, and attributes (pp. 54 - 91) and Conclusion (pp. 249 - 262). Contact bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no for more information.
Webinar
The research group on posthumanism will hold a seminar on Friday 18 September at 13.00 - 15.00 at Zoom. We talk about Elisabeth Grosz's book The Incorporeal (2017) For the seminar we read Introduction, pp. 1-14 and Anders Dunker's interview with Elisabeth Grosz. Contact bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no for more information.
Webinar
The research group on posthumanism will hold a seminar on Friday 14 August at 13.00 - 15.00 at Zoom. This time we will talk about one of Jane Bennet's latest articles Mimesis: Paradox or Encounter. Contact bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no for more information.
Webinar
The research group on posthumanism is holding another seminar before the summer break. We will meet at Zoom on Friday 26 June at 13.00-15.00. Talks about Mel Y Chen's book Animaciens. Biopolitics. Radical Mattering, and queer Affect, This Time on Part 3, Metals, pp. 159-239. Contact bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no for more information.
Dissertation
Johanne Ilje-Lien will be defending her dissertation on Thursday 4 June at Innlandet University College, Faculty of Teacher Education and Pedagogy. Title of the dissertation: Vulnerability in the face of the silent Andre - A Kristeva-inspired exploration of kindergarten teachers' interaction with children who are newcomers to the Norwegian language and kindergarten context.
Webinar
The research group on posthumanism has a seminar on animation and new materialism at Zoom on Friday 29 May 2020 at 13.00 - 15.00. We read and talk about the text, Introduction: Animating Animacy from the book Animaciens. Biopolitics. Radical Mattering, and queer Affect by Mel Y. Chen.
Webinar
The research group on posthumanism has a seminar on Glowing data at Zoom on Wednesday 22 April 2020 at 13.00 - 15.00. Interested parties send an email to bosse.bergstedt@hiof.no. A conversation about Maggie MacLure's article The Wonder of Data. What kind of data is glowing? What does the research apparatus that glows glowing data look like? How to analyze and shape glowing data in a rhizome?
Dissertation
Kassahun Weldemariam dissertation at the University of Gothenburg on Friday, April 24th. The title of the dissertation is: Reconfiguring Environmental Sustainability in Early Childhood Education: a Post-anthropocentric Approach.
Conference
NERA 2020, Rethinking the futures of education in the Nordic countries, 4-6 March 2020, Turku, Finland. Paper presentation What is onto-analysis? Session II - NW22 16:15 - 17:45 Wednesday, 4th March 2020, Pub 368
Seminar
To do research with rhizomes, Friday 31 January at 13.00, LY13, Campus Kalvskinnet, Arts, Physical, Education and Sports, Department of Teacher Education, NTNU, and Dronning Mauds Minne Høgskole, Trondheim.
Final seminar
Ingrid Bjørkøy's dissertation script Singing as active in a performative early childhood pedagogical interaction practice, Friday 31 January at 10.00, LY 13, Campus Kalvskinnet, Arts, Physical, Education and Sports, Department of Teacher Education, NTNU, Trondheim
Research
Disputed in 1998 in pedagogy on a doctoral thesis on NFS Grundvtig's pedagogy with the title Den livsupplysande texten. A reading of N F G Grundtvig's educational writings. Has since conducted research in several areas.
Educational philosophy and history of ideas with a focus on philosophers and researchers who contributed to perspectives on learning, knowledge and language.
Public education and adult pedagogy with studies on, among other things, new social movements, democracy, education and ethical accounting.
Intercultural pedagogy with research on intercultural learning in school and society.
Aesthetic knowledge processes with a focus on poetry and literature and creative forms of expression for teaching and evaluation.
Methodology and methods for research with a focus on the body and its senses as research instruments.
Theoretically, research has been developed with inspiration from poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, posthumanism, quantum physics, new materialism and various post-qualitative perspectives.
The last few years have been devoted to an ontological exploration of differential realism. A perspective that is based on a world that is constantly present by repeating at the same time that this is a world that cannot be grasped. A world in which all phenomena come into existence and form by connecting with each other. Knowledge and learning are created in these ongoing processes.
An exploration where ontology and epistemology are thought together and where inspiration is drawn from, among others, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Niels Bohr, Karen Barad and Donna Haraway. Perspectives that want to reduce science's anthropocentrism and prioritization of the human subject. By seeing animals, nature, matter and bodies as actors, established boundaries and divisions are exceeded, which enables a new understanding of the production of becoming and knowledge that is constantly progressing. (https://ontolab.cc)
Academic interests
Theory of science and methodology
Pedagogical philosophy and history of ideas
Posthumanism, new materialism, and poststructuralism
Ontological analyzes of knowledge and becoming
Post-qualitative methodology and method
Affective pedagogy, expressive arts, and learning lab
Teaching
Pedagogy in undergraduate and graduate programs
Supervision of master's and doctoral dissertations
Supervisor for nine doctoral students
Background
1977, Leisure leader, Bosön Sports Folk High School
1985, Folk high school teacher, Linköping University
1998, Ph.D. in Education, Linköping University
2003, Associate Professor of Education, Lund University
2010, Professor of Education, Lund University
2019, Professor of Education, Østfold University Collage
Current positions
Coordinator of the research group Practical Research and Post-Qualitative Methods
Coordinator of the research group Posthumanistic Pedagogy.
Member of the research network Post-approaches to Education.
Member of the research program INTRA - Expressive Arts. Education and Research.
Research groups
Practical Research and Post-Qualitative Methods, Østfold University Collage
Posthumanistic Pedagogy, Copenhagen.
Post-approaches to Education, NERA, https://neranetwork22.wordpress.com.
INTRA - Expressive Arts. Education and Research, http://5ba3bbc315708.yolasitebuilder.loopia.com
Books
Lorentz, Hans & Bergstedt, Bosse red. (2021) Interkulturella dimensioner. Pedagogik för mångkulturellt lärande. Lund: Studentlitteratur
Bergstedt, Bosse, red (2017) Posthumanistisk pedagogik. Teori, undervisning och forskningspraktik. Malmö: Gleerups.
Bergstedt, Bosse och Herbert, Anna (2017) Pedagogik för förändring. Röster som utmanat kunskap och samhälle. 2:a upplagan. Lund: Studentlitteratur
Lorentz, Hans och Bergstedt, Bosse, red (2016) Interkulturella perspektiv.Pedagogik i mångkulturella lärandemiljöer. 2:a upplagan. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Bergstedt, Bosse och Herbert, Anna (2011) Pedagogik för förändring. Röster som utmanat kunskap och samhälle. 1:a upplagan. Lund: Studentlitteratur
Bergstedt, Bosse och Herbert, Anna (2008) Kunskapen och språket, Om pedagogiken, texten och hjärnan. Stockholm: Liber.
Lorentz, Hans och Bergstedt, Bosse, red (2006) Interkulturella perspektiv. Pedagogik i mångkulturella lärandemiljöer. 1:a upplagan. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Lieberkind, Jonas och Bergstedt, Bosse, red (2005) Dennelse mellem subjektet och det almene - en antologi, Köpenhamn: Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitets Forlag.
Bergstedt, Bosse, Tøsse, Sigvart, Falencrone, Pia, Puurula, Arja, red, (2000) Reforms and Policy. Adult education research in Nordic countries, Trondheim: forlag.
Hansen, Niels Buur, Korsgaard, Ove, Bergstedt, Bosse, red (2000) På kant med Europa? Köpenhamn: foreningen for folkehøjskolernes forlag.
Bergstedt, Bosse, Tøsse, Sigvart, Falencrone, Pia, Puurula, Arja, red (1998) Corporate and nonformal learning. Adult education research in Nordic countries, Trondheim: Tapir forlag.
Bergstedt, Bosse (1998) Den livsupplysande texten. En läsning av N F S Grundtvigs pedagogiska skrifter. Stockholm: Carlssons förlag. (doktorsavhandling)
Larsson, Staffan, Bergstedt, Bosse (red) (1995) Om folkbildningens innebörder, Linköping: Mimer/Skapande Vetande.
Bergstedt, Bosse, (1990) Utanför ramarna. Aspekter på folkbildning, kunskap och demokrati, Skolöverstyrelsen, R 90:15, Stockholm: Allmänna Förlaget.
Bergstedt, Bosse, Svensson, Peder och Värnlund,Holger, (1988) Människor i rörelse. En möjlig historia, Stockholm: Röda rummet.
Latest publications
Bergstedt, Bosse (2022) "Tingens oskuldsfulla hemlighet. Oskuldens museum, Istanbul". Nordisk Museologi, Vol 4 No 2, s 97-108.
https://lnkd.in/emedCYY3
Bergstedt, Bosse (2021) "Thinking with the world – to explore the becoming of phenomena", Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, Vol12, No 2.
Lorentz, Hans & Bergstedt, Bosse red. (2021) Interkulturella dimensioner. Pedagogik för mångkulturellt lärande. Lund: Studentlitteratur
Bergstedt, Bosse (2021) "The Ontology of Becoming: To Research and Become with the World", Education sciences, Special Issue Philosophy of Education: The Promise of Education and Grief, 2021 Vol.11(9), p.491.
Bergstedt, Bosse (2019) Världen kallar fram kunskap i S.O.S, Skola och Samhälle.
Lorentz, Hans, och Bergstedt, Bosse, (2018) "När interkulturella perspektiv möter religionsdidaktikens utmaningar" i Interkulturell religionsdidaktik. Utmaningar och möjligheter, Frank, Olof och Thalén, Peder, red. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Bergstedt, Bosse (2018 ) "Därför behövs pedagogik" i S.O.S, Skola och Samhälle.
For more information
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