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history of education, educational policy, primary schooling, Early childhood care and education
Netherlands, Sweden

Biography

Johannes Westberg received his PhD (2008) and habilitation (2014) at Uppsala University, Sweden, and is full professor of theory and history of education at the university of Groningen, the Netherlands. He served as full professor of education at Örebro University, Sweden, 2016–2020, and was 2008-2016 one of the coordinators of the history of education research group (SHED) at Uppsala University.

The information on positions, external funding and publications added to the ORCID largely incomplete. For my CV and full publication list, see http://www.skeptron.uu.se/pers/johannes/

Activities

Employment (4)

University of Groningen: Groningen, NL

2020-02-01 to present | Professor of Theory and History of Education (Education)
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Johannes Westberg

University of Groningen: Groningen, NL

2020-01-01 to present | Scientific Staff (Education in Culture)
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University of Groningen

Örebro University: Örebro, SE

2016-12-01 to 2020-02-01 | Full professor of education (School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences)
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Johannes Westberg

Uppsala University: Uppsala, Uppland, SE

2012-01-01 to 2017-02-01 | Senior lecturer (Department of Education)
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Funding (9)

L'éducation de la petite enfance entre variations et convergences : vers un modèle européen? (deuxième moitié du XXe siècle)

2022-02-01 to 2026-01-31 | Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
GRANT_NUMBER: 205031
Source: Self-asserted source
Johannes Westberg via DimensionsWizard

Reforms in Education: A European Research Network

2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31 | Grant
Swedish Research Council (Stockholm, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2019-04425_VR
Source: Self-asserted source
Johannes Westberg via DimensionsWizard

Schooling in perspective: A graduate school in applied history of education

2020 to 2025 | Grant
Vetenskapsrådet (Stockholm, SE)
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Johannes Westberg

A School in Crisis: Changing crisis discourses and unchanging figures of thought, 1950-2020

2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31 | Grant
Swedish Research Council (Stockholm, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2017-03506_VR
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Johannes Westberg via DimensionsWizard

The First Choice: The Expansion of Preschool, its Marketization and Increased Importance for Families’ Educational Strategies

2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31 | Grant
Swedish Research Council (Stockholm, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2017-03542_VR
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Johannes Westberg via DimensionsWizard

How did education policy shape the race towards mass education? A comparative perspective based on France, Italy, Spain and Sweden, c. 1840–1940

2017-01 to 2021-12 | Grant
Swedish Research Council (Stockholm, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

2016-05230

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Johannes Westberg

Visiting researcher at Zürich university,Switzerland

2010-01-01 to 2010-12-31 | Grant
Swedish Research Council (Stockholm, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2010-07014_VR
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Johannes Westberg via DimensionsWizard

The economics of education: The financing of the Swedish elementary school, 1842–1936

2010-01 to 2015-12 | Grant
Swedish Research Council (Stockholm, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

721 -2009-4724

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Johannes Westberg

Forth Nordic Conference in the History of Education

2008-01-01 to 2008-12-31 | Grant
Swedish Research Council (Stockholm, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2008-07108_VR
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Johannes Westberg via DimensionsWizard

Peer review (15 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for Childhood. (1)
Review activity for History of education review. (1)
Review activity for History of education. (6)
Review activity for Paedagogica historica. (7)