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Katarina Rejman serves as a Lecturer in Swedish Language Teaching at Stockholm University's Department of Subject Didactics. She has been in this position since autumn 2014, focusing primarily on Swedish subject didactics with special emphasis on literature didactics. Her academic work spans both teacher education programs for younger and older age groups.
Dr. Rejman defended her thesis in 2014 at Åbo Akademi University, which focused on literature teaching in secondary schools. Prior to her appointment at Stockholm University, she accumulated extensive practical experience in Finland where she worked as a Swedish teacher (L1) at a junior high school, served as a school principal, worked as a teaching advisor at the National Board of Education, and trained teachers at Åbo Akademi.
Her research interests center on literature reading in school environments, various forms of the Swedish subject curriculum, reading and writing instruction methodologies, and broader issues related to teaching and learning within Swedish language education. She has developed particular expertise in how literary texts can be used as springboards for students' writing development and literacy enhancement.
Analysis of her publications reveals a consistent focus on practical classroom applications, with particular attention to how teachers make pedagogical decisions when working with narrative texts. Her work demonstrates how multimodal activities and literary instruction can be designed to enhance literacy development, especially in diverse classroom settings.
Dr. Rejman actively supervises and examines students' independent works and serves as course responsible for Swedish II in grades F-3 and the standalone course Children's Literature in School.
- Ongoing Research Projects:
- LäST (Read Write Speak) - investigating reading (primarily fiction) in school
- Writing Support - examining effective writing instruction design
- DISKO - studying digitalization's impact on teaching
- DiGiLi - researching subject didactics, literacy development, digitalization and equality
- QUINT - Nordic Centre of Excellence for Quality in Nordic Teaching (associated researcher since spring 2021)
Her collaborative research approach involves working with colleagues from Stockholm University, Åbo Akademi, Helsinki University, and other Nordic institutions, reflecting the strong regional cooperation in educational research across Scandinavia.
