Eva Hjörne - a brief presentation
Title: PhD
Unit: Learning and Teaching
Phone: +46 (0)31-786 2474
E-mail: Eva.Hjorne@ped.gu.se
Research interests:
My research interest involves what is usually identified as “school difficulties” and “learning problems” in today’s schools. More specifically, I am interested in how schools deal with the dilemma of organizing teaching and learning practices for all students. In my research I study in particular how multi-professional teams collaborate regarding children in need of special support. What categories and explanations for children’s difficulties in school are introduced and used by the institution and its representatives as a resource in reaching decisions and solving problems? What educational consequences does this entail and what does it mean for children’s identities and life trajectories?
Teaching interests:
I teach and supervise students in the teacher education programme and special education programme. Course director for a single-subject course in educational psychology, various external assignments, such as student health in schools as commissioned education, for example, “Learning, Communication, and Supervision.”
Keywords:
communication, interaction, learning, development, student health, categorization, ADHD, identity, sociocultural studies
Selected publications:
Hjörne, E. (2004). Excluding for inclusion? Negotiating school careers and identities in pupil welfare settings in the Swedish school. Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.
Hjörne, E. (2006). Pedagogy in the AD/HD -classroom: an exploratory study of the Little Group, in G. Lloyd, D. Cohen & J. Stead (Eds.),Critical new perspectives on AD/HD. Oxon: Routledge.
Hjörne, E., & Säljö, R. (2004). The pupil welfare team as a discourse community. Accounting for school problems. Linguistics and Education, 15, 321–338.
Hjörne, E., & Säljö, R. (2004). "There is something about Julia"- Symptoms, categories, and the process of invoking ADHD in the Swedish school: A case study. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 3(1), 1–24. 2004. Också i A. H. Halsey, H. Lauder, P. Brown and J-A. Dillabough (Eds.), Education, Globalization, and Social Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006.
Hjörne, E. & Säljö, R. (2006). Categorising learners beyond the classroom. I N. Hornberger (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Vol 3: Discourse and Education. NY: Springer.