Björn Flising - a brief presentation
Title: Psychologist, Senior lecturer/Assistant professor
Unit: Individual, Culture, and Society
Phone: +46 (0)31-786 2498
E-mail: Bjorn.Flising@ped.gu.se
Research interests:
Children’s learning, development, socialization, and construction of identity in preschool, before and after school care, and school. Children’s own perceptions of and perspectives on life in preschool, before and after school care, school. Children’s rights. Integration and cooperation between sectors of the educational system, their societal functions and relations to the rest of society and children’s experiential world. Conceptions of gender and gender equality, ethnicity, diversity, and equal treatment.
Teaching interests:
Participate in teacher education and single-subject courses. Teach about themes like: children’s development, childhood, educational theories, ideas, and models, education & society, gender theory and gender equality, educational functions in preschool, before and after school care, and school, children’s perspectives and children’s rights.
Keywords:
preschool, before and after school care, children’s development, socialization, gender equality, educational discourses, gender perspectives, identity development, professional development
Selected publications:
Flising, B. (1984). Barns utveckling - en social process. Stockholm: Liber.
Gummesson, M., Flising, B., Qvarsell, B., & Wener, I-L. (1992). Samverkan för utveckling i skola och barnomsorg. Stockholm: CE Fritze, Allmänna förlaget.
Flising, B. (1995). Samverkan skola -skolbarnsomsorg. (SoS-rapport 1995:12). Stockholm: Socialstyrelsen.
Flising, B. (1997). Rekrytering av män till offentlig barnomsorg. (TemaNord 1997:567). Köpenhamn: Nordiska Ministerrådet.
Flising, B. (1997). Fritidspedagogik - Skolbarnsomsorgens verksamhet och kvalitet för barnen. I Röster om den svenska barnomsorgen (SoS-rapport 1997:23) (s 101–112). Stockholm:
Socialstyrelsen.
Flising, B. (2000). Utvärdering av projektet Framtidsbarn. (IPD-rapport 2000:17). Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik.
Wener, I-L., Flising, B., & Carlsson, P-A. (2002). I Barnkonventionens Anda. Stockholm: Gothia.
Flising, B (in press). Gender Equity and Early Childhood Education, Sweden. I Cochran, M. (Ed). International Early Childhood Encyclopedia. (in press).