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Thom
Axelsson
Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
thom.axelsson@mau.se
+46 40 665 86 45
orcid.org/0000-0001-5562-5540
Presentation
Thom Axelsson is an associate professor of educational science and works at the Department of Childhood, Education, Society, Malmö University. His research interest primarily revolves around childhood and school from a historical perspective and he has been particularly interested in how the school has diagnosed, categorized and sorted its pupils.
Publications
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2024 | Article in journal
Telling a scientific story and governing the population: The Kallikak story and the historical mutations of the eugenic discourse
Thom Axelsson, Jonas Qvarsebo
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2024 | Article in journal
From Discipline Power to Pastoral Care: "Tattare," "Gypsies," and Education in Sweden, 1923–1960
Thom Axelsson
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2024 | Article in journal
AI som specialpedagogens bästa vän?: Skolans digitalisering, AI och lärarrollen
Thom Axelsson
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2023 | Conference paper
The psycho-culture of school mental health services in 1950s Sweden
Thom Axelsson
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2022 | Article in journal
Uppfostringsanstalt – mellan skola och fängelse: Ungdomskriminalitet, disciplinering och begåvning under det tidiga 1900-talet
Thom Axelsson