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Per-Arne Karlsson serves as Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at Stockholm University's Department of Subject Didactics, where he specializes in history and civics education. His career bridges academic research and practical classroom application, with extensive experience in both primary/secondary school teaching and teacher education programs.
His research centers on students' understanding of history, interest development, historical memory, and the application of historical knowledge to contemporary issues. Karlsson integrates narrative theory, role-playing, and interactive methods to enhance historical consciousness and citizenship education, drawing inspiration from both Anglo-American research on 'teaching and learning history' and German-Nordic traditions of 'historical consciousness.'
His publication record reveals a progressive development from his 1990 doctoral thesis on 18th-century economic understanding toward increasingly sophisticated approaches to historical thinking and narrative competence. Recent work emphasizes structured learning trajectories that connect content knowledge with procedural understanding, addressing the challenge of curriculum overload with clear progression frameworks for historical thinking skills.
Karlsson has organized numerous conferences including 'Teaching and Learning in History – towards a Theory of Narratology?' (2012) and 'Rethinking History Education and Citizen Education' (2019), fostering international collaboration among history educators.
He has established significant platforms for academic-practitioner collaboration, notably through subject didactic seminars (2005-2022) and his current national project 'Teaching and learning through stories and role-playing in history and civics,' which connects university researchers with teachers across Sweden. Karlsson leads the 'Work-life connection in education' research group, creating a common platform for historical subject didactics research at his department.
