

Presenting "Digital instruments and education governance: The case of TeacherTapp"
I am happy to share that I have just begun a new research project to study digital education and education governance by researching the...

How to deal with the importance of language and connotations in comprehending policy in any form
To analyse policy, its discourse, and its interpretation by practitioners, and the researcher analysing it we arguably need to engage...

On the problems of social mobility as a concept in the current western political paradigm
At present there is much focus on social mobility, and rightly so given the current political paradigm in the western world. We see it...

What is a God? The importance of agnosticism
What is a God? Is he/she/it omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent? Can there be only one "God" or are there multiple but only one is...

Policymaking as a "craft"? if so, what are the implications?
The relation between research and policymaking is an intriguing part of the ongoing debates on how to deal with Covid-19. The Swedish...

Smoke and mirrors: how referencing hides shortcomings and may lead to a mistrust in evidence use
It is interesting to note how policy documents, be they English white papers, Norwegian green papers or messages to Parliament, or French...

Thoughts on the use of concepts and language: Teaching as a craft and its connotations
To understand policy, its discourse, and its interpretation by practitioners, and the researcher analysing it we arguably need to engage...

Thoughts on what social science can and cannot do
One may begin thinking on what science can and cannot do by revisiting and paraphrasing Max Weber’s (2003 [1958]) proposition that the...