Introduction to the Special Issue Working with Literature in Nordic Secondary Education

Abstract

In 2013, four of our five guest editors for this special issue were early career PhD researchers meeting in Paris at the 9 th conference of the International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education (IAIMTE). Affiliated at four different universities in four different Nordic countries, we shared the experience that the L1 literature education research community consisted of a rather small number of researchers at each of our institutions. Meeting in the international (although rather European) setting of the conference for IAIMTE (now the International Association for Research in L1 Education, ARLE) highlighted the sense of regional belonging to the Nordic countries. From these experiences, the idea of founding a research network within the Scandinavian speaking region was born a couple of months later. In November 2014, we organized the first seminar in Stavanger, Norway and, as a result, established the Nordic Research Network on Literature Education.Neither the experience of limited, local research communities, nor the initiative to look across neighbouring borders to cooperate, compare and seek inspiration, represented something new in the international L1 community. Rather, this seems to be a recurring pattern in the L1 research field. Internationally, similar experiences and initiatives established networks and associations like the International Mother Tongue Education Network (IMEN) and IAIMTE/ARLE, and even motivated the foundation of this journal (Araujo et al., 2021). Within the Nordic region, parallel initiatives motivated the foundation of networks like Nordfag.

Kvalitativ (digital) kompetens: En studie av multimodalitet i svenskundervisningen på högstadiet och gymnasiet

“…Detta gör att lärare alltmer anpassat sig till en bredare definition av litteratur och introducerar olika sorters texter i sin undervisning. Det skapar möjligheter för eleverna att utforska innebörden i en mångfald av texttyper (Gourvennec, et al 2021).…”