Jan Bengtsson - a brief presentation
Title: Professor
Unit: Learning and Teaching
Phone: +46 (0)31-786 2166
E-mail: jan.bengtsson@ped.gu.se
Research interests:
The research issues that have especially interested me involve teaching, profession, and learning. This field comprises questions about education, professional practice, and continuing education in all professions, but I have been particularly interested in the teaching profession, where the mission involves a responsibility to organize other people’s learning through teaching. However, the teaching profession is shaped by many other factors. Of central importance is how teachers’ professional practice is interwoven with a regional world of specific objects, people, spaces, and activities that constitute an embodied professional practice. It is therefore interesting to study what worlds teachers incorporate and what opportunities and limitations this creates in regard to practising the profession.
I am also interested in the preconditions and conditions for the formation of educational knowledge and have devoted time to studies of scientific theory and methodology. A special interest I have pursued is the systematic development of theoretical resources in the life-world concept for empirical research.
A third area of work I have been engaged in is the interdisciplinary subdiscipline philosophy of education, which uses philosophical methods to address educational issues.
Teaching interests:
I teach and supervise in my research areas.
Keywords:
teaching, profession, and learning, research methodology, theory of science, life-world approach, and philosophy of education
Selected publications:
Bengtsson, J. (2003): ¿Phenomenological ethics¿, i Tymieniecka, A-T (red.): Phenomenology world-wide. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Bengtsson, J. (2003): ¿Possibilities and limits of self-reflection in the teaching profession¿, Studies in Philosophy and Education 22/3–4.
Bengtsson, J. (red.) (2004): Utmaningar i filosofisk pedagogik. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Bengtsson, J., Heggen, K. och Engelsrud, G. (gästred.) (2004): Livsverdensfenomenologi og helseforskning. Temanummer, Norsk Tidsskrift for Sykepleieforskning 6/3.
Bengtsson, J. (red.) (2005): Med livsvärlden som grund. 2:a omarb. uppl. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Bengtsson, J. (gästred.) (2006): Philosophy of education in the Nordic countries at the turn of the millennium. Temanummer, Educational Philosophy and Theory. 38/2.