Johan Lövgren - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge

Johan Lövgren has for the last 15 years combined different positions as a researcher with being an active teacher at a folk high school. In 2018 Johan received his Phd for the thesis "The Reflective Community: Learning processes in Norwegian folk high schools". From 2021 he holds a full time position as associate professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Johan has published empirical studies based on sociocultural learning theory with a focus on the pedagogical identity of the Nordic folk high schools. The last years Johan has played a central role in the establishment of international research networks for folk high school pedagogy. He heads the Norwegian folk high school teachers' education at USN.

Publications

Johan publications can be found on Reseachgate.

2023 Book "The Nordic folk high school teacher: Identity, Work and Education." LIT verlag.

2022 Artikkel "From nation building to global citizenship: Human rights education at the Nordic folk high schools" in Human Rights Education Review.

2020 Book «Learning together» published by Folkehøjskolernes Foreningen Danmark.

2019 Book «Forskning om Nordisk folkhögskola: En översikt 1998-2018 med sammanfattningar» published by Linköping University Electronic

2018 Artikkel «Community, Self and the Other: Learning processes in Norwegian folk high schools» in Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research (also published in the thesis).

2018 Book «Ungdom, kultur, tro: Aksjonsforskning i norsk folkehøgskole» published by the Norwegian folk high school association.

2017 Thesis (disputation in 2018) «The Reflective Community: Learning processes in Norwegian folk high schools.»

2017 Editor for «Special issue: Nordic folk high schools» Nordic Studies in Education 2-2017.

2017 Article «A short introduction to research on the Nordic folk high schools.» in Nordic Studies in Education 2-2017.

2016 Article «Secular youth and religious practice: candle lightening in Norwegian folk high schools» i British Journal of Religious Education (also published in the thesis).

2015 Article «Norwegian folk high schools redefine their role as value-based institutions» in Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy.
https://www.idunn.no/nkt/2015/02 (also published in the thesis)

2014 Article «Norsk kristen folkehøgskole som verdiformidler: tre prosjekt på folkehøgskolenes verdigrunnlag.» in Prismet.

2014 Book «Tro i praksis. Respekt, fellesskap, læring» published by IKO forlag.