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Helene Dahlström serves as Senior Lecturer at Mid Sweden University's Department of Education in Sundsvall, holding a PhD with active research in literacy development, digital multimodality, and multilingual education. Her work spans preschool through higher education contexts with significant contributions to teacher training frameworks.
Her research focuses on literacy acquisition in digital environments, examining how students utilize multimodal resources in text creation and how digital tools impact writing processes. Key interests include multilingual student agency, diversity awareness in educational settings, and social-emotional learning integration. Recent projects like HAND in HAND develop strategies for inclusive classrooms across European contexts.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals consistent exploration of multimodal literacy across age groups, with growing emphasis on AI integration challenges for multilingual students and diversity-aware pedagogical frameworks. Her work bridges theoretical research with practical classroom applications, particularly in Swedish educational settings.
Dahlström actively contributes to teacher development through projects fostering social-emotional competencies and critical consciousness. Her editorial work includes co-editing the 2021 special issue Didaktiska reflektioner - reflektioner om didaktik and developing the HAND:ET Programme for European teacher training.
Her research methodology emphasizes student perspectives, examining agency in digital tool usage and meaning-making processes in multimodal compositions. Current work investigates AI's role in academic literacy development for second-language learners, reflecting evolving technological challenges in contemporary education.
