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Kristina Danielsson is a Professor of Swedish in Education at Stockholm University and Professor of Swedish at Linnaeus University, Sweden. At Linnaeus University, she also serves on the boards of the Center for Educational Linguistics and the Linnaeus University Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS). Her academic work focuses on literacy practices across various school disciplines with particular emphasis on multimodality and meaning-making processes in educational contexts.
Dr. Danielsson holds a PhD in Scandinavian languages and has established herself as a leading researcher in disciplinary literacy and multimodal education. She has written numerous articles for teachers' in-service training and school development concerning reading, writing, and text talk in educational contexts on behalf of the Swedish Board of Education. Together with Dr. Kok-Sing Tang from Curtin University, she was the founding coordinator of the Special Interest Group 'Languages and Literacies in Science Education' and co-edited the publication 'Global Developments on Literacy in Science' published by Springer.
Her research interests center around literacy practices, meaning-making, and classroom interaction across different subjects. Particularly, she investigates how students develop disciplinary literacy through multimodal resources including language, images, gestures, and physical objects. Her work examines how linguistic diversity affects science learning, how digital technologies support early literacy development, and how teachers can orchestrate multimodal classroom activities to support conceptual understanding. She approaches these questions through social-semiotic and systemic functional linguistic frameworks that analyze how meaning is constructed across different semiotic modes.
Professor Danielsson's extensive publication record reveals consistent focus on multimodal approaches to science and literacy education. Her work demonstrates how students' meaning-making processes evolve through carefully designed classroom activities that integrate multiple semiotic resources. A notable trend across her research is the examination of how linguistic diversity intersects with science learning, showing how teachers can scaffold students' development of both content knowledge and disciplinary language proficiency. Her research also emphasizes practical applications, with many studies developed in close collaboration with teachers to ensure relevance to classroom practice.
While specific scientific awards aren't mentioned in the available information, Professor Danielsson's leadership in major research projects funded by the Swedish Research Council and Swedish Institute for Educational Research demonstrates significant recognition of her scholarly contributions. Her work has substantial impact on educational practice through her publications for teacher development and her involvement with national education authorities.
Professor Danielsson actively supervises PhD students and teaches in doctoral courses while also contributing to teacher education programs. She leads multiple significant research projects including 'Disciplinary literacy in primary teacher education' (2023-2026), 'Multimodal meaning making and assessment in linguistically diverse science classrooms' (2024-2027), 'Theory of evolution in comics' (2024-2026), and 'Exploring six-year-olds' meaning making' (2024-2027). These projects, primarily funded by the Swedish Research Council, reflect her ongoing commitment to advancing understanding of multimodal literacy development across educational contexts.
She is actively involved with two research groups: 'Literacy and Multimodality – LiM' which centers around research on literacy practices, meaning making, and classroom interaction in different subjects; and 'Early literacy in a digitized society' which explores young children's early literacy development, focusing on teaching design and the use of diverse resources. These groups provide collaborative frameworks for interdisciplinary research that connects theory with practical educational applications.
