Mälardalen University

The scientisation of literacy education and the fantasy of governable literacy

Abstract Across contemporary education policy, science and evidence are increasingly invoked as authoritative grounds for educational reform. This article examines how scientific authority is constructed and mobilised within literacy policy through a comparative analysis of three...

Integration of physical activity throughout the school day – A mixed method study

Despite schools providing an important environment for promoting active behaviors, achieving recommended physical activity (PA) levels among children remains challenging. In Sweden, the national Movement Initiative in Schools (MIS) (2021–2031) aims to increase PA throughout the s...

Action research for enhancing preschool educators’ competence in attending to individual children’s learning

This study explores how preschool educators can develop competence in attending to individual children’s learning through participation in an action research (AR) project. Attending to children’s learning processes is central in preschool education, grounded in the need to plan t...

Metacognitive Training for Negative Symptoms (MCT-Minus) in schizophrenia: study protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial

Abstract Background Negative symptoms are experienced by up to 60% of the individuals with schizophrenia and represent a stronger indicator of current and future functioning than positive symptoms. These symptoms respond poorly to pharmacological and existing psychosocial interve...

Let’s read the log: root cause analysis of railway test execution logs with large language models

Abstract Software quality assurance is pivotal in safety-critical domains such as railway systems, where failures could have catastrophic consequences. In this context, the train control and management system, which enables communication and control across multiple subsystems (su...

How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers: The Relational Contingency of Everyday Behaviors in 90 Societies

Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data fro...

Evolving Intelligence. The Generative Path from Information and Computation to Cognition and Intelligence. A Book Presentation

This paper provides a presentation and structural overview of the book Evolving Intelligence. The Generative Path from Information and Computation to Cognition and Intelligence. The monograph is forthcoming with World Scientific in 2026. Evolving Intelligence develops a naturalis...

“A person is a person through other persons”: Ubuntu philosophy as educating Sara Lidman’s literary philosophy of conscience

This article investigates the conceptual conversation that takes place between African Ubuntu philosophy and the concept of conscience in the novel Jag och min son [Me and My Son] (1961/1963) by the renowned Swedish author and activist Sara Lidman (1923–2004).The novel explores t...