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Karolina Muhrman

Associate Professor, Docent

I am a senior lecturer in education at Linköping University and teach mainly in the Vocational Teacher program and the Folk High School Teacher Program. I am also organisation leader for the innovation environment Agtech Sweden.

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I am a senior lecturer in education at Linköping University and teach mainly in the Vocational Teacher Program and the Folk High School Teacher Program. I also teach in the Subject Teacher Program 7-9 and upper secondary school and supervise degree projects in mathematics didactics f-3, 4-6, in special education and in the international master's program Adult learning and global change.

My research areas

Mathematics in vocational education

My main research interest is in mathematics education in vocational programs.

In my dissertation, I studied the relationship between mathematics teaching in vocational programs and mathematics use in working life, focusing on didactic issues related to the organization of mathematics teaching, content and how teaching can be related to the students' future profession. In my further research, I have deepened the results of the thesis by studying how a subject-integrated approach where mathematics teachers and vocational teachers collaborate, affects students' learning in mathematics and vocational subjects. The current research project is done together with Peter Frejd (Department of Mathematics, LiU).

School development

I am also interested in research related to school development. During 2017-18 I have an assignment as an evaluator of 30 school development projects in eastern central Sweden within the project #jagmed funded by the European Social Fund.

The marketization of Swedish adult education - the procurement era

The research project will study marketization, focusing on the procurement system initiated during the Kunskapslyftet initiative (1997-2002) and which has since been developed in Swedish municipal adult education.

We will identify the consequences of a procurement system for how adult education is organized, but also for the work of teachers and the study paths of adult students. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council and will be carried out 2018-2021. Collaborators in the project are Per Andersson, Andreas Fejes, Diana Holmqvist and Karolina Muhrman.

Publications

2024

Diana Holmqvist, Per Andersson, Karolina Muhrman (2024) Fast delivery, on demand: how flexibility and individualization policy are enacted in Swedish municipal adult education Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, Vol. 10, p. 60-72 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Per Andersson, Karolina Muhrman (2024) Discourses on quality in Swedish adult education European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Vol. 15, p. 141-158 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Karolina Muhrman, Per Andersson (2024) Study and career counsellors: the hub of Swedish adult education Research in Post-Compulsory Education, Vol. 29, p. 1-21 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Per Andersson, Karolina Muhrman (2024) Study and career counselling in Swedish adult education British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, Vol. 52, p. 348-360 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Daniel Bladh, Diana Holmqvist, Karolina Muhrman (2023) Lärande för hållbarhet i högre utbildning - en didaktisk modell i tre steg

The innovation environment Agtech Sweden

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Agtech Sweden

Agtech Sweden aims to build up an innovation environment and activate a mobilisation aiming for tomorrow's agriculture.

Research projects I'm involved in

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Mathematics in vocational education

Why should vocational students learn mathematics, what do they learn and how can maths education be organized on vocational programs? The study aims to investigate mathematics education in vocational education, and its relation to the working life.
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Marketisation of adult education and its consequences

The focus in this project is on the marketisation of municipal adult education (MAE), and specifically the consequences of marketisation, through a tendering based procurement system, on teachers' work and profession.

Related news at Linköping University

Karolina Muhrman, Chief Initiative Officer Organisation for Agtech Sweden

Agtech Sweden's major investment during Elmia

Over 21 600 visitors and 330 exhibitors came to Elmia Lantbruk 2024 in Jönköping. New this year was the innovation arena organised by Agtech Sweden in collaboration with Elmia.
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New knowledge hub for the digitalisation of agriculture at LiU

The Swedish Board of Agriculture has appointed Linköping University to host a new national knowledge hub for digitalisation in agriculture. The project spans over 3 years and has a budget of SEK 20 million.

Organisations

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Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL)

Human behaviour and learning is the focus for education and research at the department. We educate students and scientists that are well equipped to meet future challenges in society and working life.
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Division of Education and Adult Learning (PVL)

The division is one of the world’s most prominent university settings in the area of adult learning and hosts Sweden’s only Folk High School Teacher Training. Our research focuses on adult education as well as on vocational education.

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