Henrik Nordvall

Presentation

Henrik Nordvall (Ph. D) is an Associate Professor in Adult Education and the Director of Mimer - The Swedish Network for Research on Popular Education at Linköping University. His doctoral thesis was about the organization of the global justice movement's local Social Forums in Sweden. Current research projects include topics such as the pedagogy of education in political parties and the interaction between knowledge traditions in non-formal adult education in Eastern Africa.

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CV

• 2017 - Associate Professor in Adult Education, Linköping University
• 2013 - Mimer - The Swedish Network for Research on Popular Education at Linköping University
• 2012 Associate Professor in Education, Örebro University
• 2008 PhD in Educational research with special focus on adult learning, Linköping University
• 2002 MA in History, Umeå University
• 2002 BA in Political Science, Umeå University

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Publications

Popular education, power and democracy: Swedish experiences and contributions

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Publ 2013
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The folk high school - a contemporary educational pathway for Swedish parlamentarians?

Authors: Henrik Nordvall, Fridolfsson Fridolfsson

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A short introduction to research on the Nordic folk high schools

Authors: Johan Lövgren, Henrik Nordvall

Publ 2017
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Research projects

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The pedagogy of education in political parties

The project studies internal education in the Swedish parliamentary parties. "Education" here includes all forms of organized practices that are staged in order to contribute to the learning processes of the participants.
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Interaction between knowledge traditions in non-formal adult education

The project investigates how interaction between different knowledge systems and learning traditions are of importance for the design of non-formal adult education activities in Eastern Africa.