Anita Norlund is an associate professor at Högskolan i Borås, Sweden. Her research interests are embodied in two tracks, both within a tradition of sociology of education. One track concerns the Swedish subject didactics and language activities that are considered particularly significant in social participation and education. The other track is related educational discourses as they have been presented by the theorist Basil Bernstein.
Norlund, Anita. (2009). Kritisk sakprosaläsning i gymnasieskolan. Didaktiska perspektiv på läroböcker, lärare och nationella prov. Göteborg Studies in Educational Sciences 273. Göteborg. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.
Referee-reviewed articles
Dimenäs, Jörgen & Norlund, Anita (in press). Maintenance or change. NordYrk.
Norlund, Anita. (2014). When Teachers are Confronted with Ideological Aspects of Their Profession. Policy Futures in Education. 12(4), 527-542.
Norlund, Anita (2014). Meningsbrytningar i olika former./Differences of Opinions and Their Various forms./Scandinavica Rhetorica, no. 65, 2013, 40-53
Norlund, Anita, Dimenäs, Jörgen, Kolback. Kerstin & Wede, Christer (2013). ”En trygg och framgångsrik skola” - Pedagogiska övertygelser i fyra landsortsskolor./ "A Safe and Successful School" - Pedagogical beliefs in four rural schools/. Utbildning & Demokrati-tidskrift för didaktik och utbildningspolitik. 22(2), 81-104.
Norlund, Anita. (2013). ”Varför tycker du att man ska ha dödsstraff, då?” – Ett sociologisk-didaktiskt verktyg för analys av klassrumsdebatter./"So what are your reasons for believing in the death penalty?" - A sociological-didactic tool for the analysis of classroom debates./ Educare. 2013:1, 41-67.
Norlund, Anita. (2011). The interplay between subject recontextualizers: Social reproduction through critical reading. Journal of Curriculum Studies. 43(5), 659-678.
Book chapters
Norlund, Anita. (2014). Visualisering som inkluderande undervisningsresurs./Visualisation as an inclusive educational resource/. I Lars Qvortrup (Red). Inklusionens historie og aktualitet. Festskrift til en ildsjael – Ole Hansen. Frederikshavn: Dafolo A/S, 163-173.
Norlund, Anita (2014). Läroboksbilden som utmaning i svenskämnets debattundervisning./ Textbook images as a challenge in the teaching of how to debate in the first languge subject/. I Ann Boglind, Per Holmgren & Anna Nordenstam (Red). Mötesplatser. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 155-177.
Norlund, Anita, Dimenäs, Jörgen, Kolback, Kerstin & Wede, Christer (2012). Lärares ledarskap i perspektivet av undervisning och bedömning./Teachers’ leadership in the perspective of teaching and assessment/. I Berg, Gunnar, Sundh, Frank & Wede, Christer (red.). Lärares ledarskap. Lund: Studentlitteratur.