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Ásgeir Tryggvason is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Örebro University's School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. He coordinates the Environmental and Sustainability Education Research Group (ESERGO) and is affiliated with the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Social Science (CESSS). His academic focus spans environmental education, didactics, and democratic theory, with active participation in Swedish Research Council-funded projects examining education's role in sustainability and global justice.
His research explores the intersection of emotions, identities, and conflicts in sustainability education through theoretical frameworks of agonism and didaktik. Major projects include:
- Environmental and Sustainability Education Meets the Reality of Schooling (Swedish Research Council)
- DecoPrax: A decolonial approach to teaching global justice issues (Swedish Research Council)
Publication analysis reveals consistent focus on democratic education, agonistic theory, and sustainability pedagogy across 15+ peer-reviewed articles. Key thematic clusters include: political philosophy in curriculum design, critical global citizenship, teacher professionalism in multicultural settings, and pragmatist approaches to environmental education.
Teaching responsibilities include curriculum theory/didactics courses in teacher education programs since 2011, graduate-level sustainability education, and supervision of student research. As ESERGO coordinator, he facilitates collaborative research on pluralistic educational models. Editorial contributions include service on the board of Utbildning & Demokrati (2015-2020).
