3_02 Johannes Westberg - Bright Nordic Lights, A revitalized interdisciplinary history of education in the massified higher education of the Nordics

History of Education Society UK Podcast

To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors. These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal:
Geographical historiographies of education and
Thematic intersections with the history of education.
Episode 2- Geography
In this episode, Johannes Westberg, Professor of Theory and History of Education at the University of Groningen, presents a lucid overview of the state of the field in the Nordics, to introduce his article, Bright Nordic Lights: A revitalized interdisciplinary history of education in the massified higher education of the Nordics.
Themes include epistemologies, institutional settings, questions of Nordic identity, language, and culture.
Recorded in conversation with Michael Donnay in 2022 and produced by Syeda Ali, May 2023.