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Katarina Kärnebro is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education, Umeå University, Sweden. Her academic work focuses on the intersection of religious education, citizenship education, and educational history within the Swedish welfare state context.
Her research interests primarily center around existential questions in education, particularly how children process life questions within religious education frameworks. She investigates how these questions have evolved from the 1960s to present day, examining the historical development of educational responses to students' existential concerns. Her work also explores citizenship education in vocational programs, analyzing how school leaders and teachers approach democratic values and social inclusion across different subject areas including history, religious education, science studies, and social studies.
Analysis of Kärnebro's recent publications reveals a consistent focus on the relationship between education and democratic values within the Swedish welfare state context. Her work spans educational history, religious education, and citizenship education, with particular attention to how existential questions shape educational practices. A significant portion of her research examines vocational education settings, investigating how democratic values and civic engagement are fostered among vocational students. Her methodological approaches include historical analysis, discourse analysis of teacher perspectives, and examination of student responses to existential questions.
Dr. Kärnebro leads and participates in several significant research projects including 'Critical thinking, social belonging and democratic participation: Vocational students civic Bildung and the enacted curricula' (2023-2026), 'The Child and Curriculum. Existential Questions and Educational Responses' (2015-2019), and 'Evaluation of The Literacy Lift' (2019-2024).
She is actively involved in multiple research groups:
- Didactics, history of education and assessment
- Utbildningshistoria vid Pedagogiska institutionen
- FemHum
- Litum – Literacy research with an educational sciences orientation at Umeå University
- Preschool Umeå Research Centre for Social Studies Didactics (UmSOD)
