- University of Gothenburg
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- Ingrid Henning Loeb
Ingrid Henning Loeb
Title: PhD
Unit: Learning in Adult Life
Phone: +46 (0)31-786 2494
E-mail: Ingrid.Henning-Loeb@ped.gu.se
Research interests:
My dissertation work (2006) was part of a larger research project funded by the Swedish Research Council: “Altered Incentives in Swedish Adult Education” whose overall goal was to study restructuring processes in various practices in Swedish adult education (including higher education). With incentives as an umbrella concept, the various subprojects studied different aspects of the goal- and outcome-governance that has characterized education policy in recent decades. My contribution was life history studies of teachers in municipal adult education and to provide a contextual analysis of the types of activities and the organization that these careers and their paths have been interwoven with. Against this background, developments and changes in municipal adult education were discussed.
Since 2008 my research is on organizing and pedagogy in alternative high school education, the so-called Individual program, and of basic education for adults. The Swedish educational system is up for a major restructuring the coming years and we follow a handful of educational settings that are regarded as successful, to see how their organizing and their successful concept keeps stable and/or changes. We received funding from the Swedish Research Council in 2009 and the project ends in 2012. For a presentation in English, here is our ECER presentation of 2009.
Teaching interests:
I teach in several courses at the department: In the master program of educational leadership, in courses on adult education/adult learning and in action research based courses. I also teach in teacher education, in the general course “Learners and the teaching profession” (Lau 680). I am also involved in teacher training of VET teachers.
Keywords:
restructuring, education policy, organizing, profession, adult education, VET, alternative high school education
Selected publications:
Henning Loeb, I. (2005). En verksamhets födsel, uppgång, nedgång och fall. In Foss Fridlizius, R. (ed.): Vuxenutbildning i omvandling. Gothenburg University, Department of Education.
Henning Loeb, I. (2006): Utveckling och förändring i kommunal vuxenutbildning. En yrkeslivshistorisk ingång med berättelser om lärarbanor. Gothenburg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. Doctoral thesis
Henning Loeb, I. (2006): Komvux som slagfält och typexempel. In Ord & bild (Tema Skolan), (3-4 ).
Henning Loeb, I. (2007): Development and Change in Swedish Municipal Adult Education: occupational life history studies and four genealogies of context. In Policy Futures in Education, 5, (4 ).
Henning Loeb, I. (2007): Utveckling och förändring i kommunal vuxenutbildning. Yrkeslivshistoriska studier och sammanhangsanalys om tre epoker. In Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy, (2/2007).
Links to research programmes and projects :
Research programme Politics of Education