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Artikeln utforskar förkroppsligade dimensioner av interkulturellt lärande, genom gruppintervjuer med sju svenska gymnasieelever som deltagit i ett dansutbyte med en kenyansk kulturskola. Med begreppet ”förkroppsligat lärande” betonas att interkulturellt lärande i dansutbytet sker i mötet mellan kroppsliga erfarenheter och diskursiva inramningar. I studien analyseras hur eleverna tillsammans navigerar, förhandlar och skapar mening kring olika samexisterande lager av skillnader och likheter i berättelserna om dansmötet. I berättelserna framträder betydelsen av det gemensamma intresset för dans för att konstruera en gemensam tillhörighet som ”dansare”. Samtidigt lyfter eleverna fram skillnader i dansstilar och i inställningen till koreografi som påtagliga. Genom att dansa tillsammans har de även fått en konkret, kroppslig upplevelse av dansens olika rumsliga och materiella förutsättningar. Slutligen visar analysen hur erfarenheten att dansa tillsammans skapar förutsättningar för upplevelser av samhörighet och visar hur unga människors förkroppsligade dansmöten rör sig längs med, över och bortom ”vi” och ”dom”-gränser.

Learning from “The Other”? Transformative learning in Swedish high school students’ narratives from an educational trip to Kenya. The study explores transformative learning in a group of Swedish high school students’ shared narratives about an educational trip to Kenya. The understanding of transformative learning is inspired by a discourse analytical approach, which emphasizes the use of discursive frameworks and repertoires for making sense of experiences. The analysis shows that the participants express a desire to learn from ‘the Other’, which is associated with a critical examination of their own ways of thinking. Moreover, the image of ‘the other’ is complex. On the one hand, it is constructed as a generalized image of the exotic other and reproduces notions of ‘the noble savage’. On the other hand, the image of ‘the other’ is also framed by a liberal discourse of individualism and tolerance. Finally, the narratives also entail constructions of similarity, which indicates a more radical renegotiation of previous discursive frames and blurs the borders between us and them.

En välkänd svårighet för inlärare av L2-svenska är komplexiteten kring definithet, bestämdhet och artikelbruk (DBA). Flera studier har indikerat att inlärare som saknar morfologisk bestämdhetsmarkering i sitt L1 har svårare för strukturer inom DBA, men att även inlärare med motsvarande strukturer i sitt L1 har rapporterats ha svårigheter. I denna artikel redogör vi för hur den komplexitet som DBA utgör i svenskan presenteras i svenska Sfi-läromedel för inlärare med varierande L1 (sju bokserier) och finländska läromedel avsedda för finskspråkiga tonåringar som lär sig svenska i grundskolan och gymnasiet (sex bokserier). De olika läromedlens CEFR-nivåer varierar mellan A1 och B1. Resultaten visar att den komplexa helheten i DBA inte adresseras i något av läro­medlen. De finska läromedlen behandlar fler detaljer kring denna problematik än de svenska – till exempel substantivets form efter adjektiviska pronomen – troligen på grund av att DBA utgör en notorisk svårighetskälla för finskspråkiga svenskinlärare. Även det faktum att svensk grammatik kontrasteras med den finska stöder detta antag­ande. Gemensamt för läromedlen i båda länderna är att direkt anafor får mer utrymme än de olika typerna av definit betydelse, vilket inte stämmer överens med hur vanlig den är i svenskan samt att förhållandet mellan form och betydelse inte tas upp. En kon­sekvens av denna förenkling av DBA-problematiken är att det i stället kan försvåra inlärningen, oavsett om inlärarna har motsvarigheter i sitt L1 eller inte.

The Swedish/Finnish folk- and world music group Hedningarna combined traditional music with an energetic, drone-based “mystical” sound. Throughout the band’s career, they would consistently use traditional acoustic “folk” instruments, with the acoustic sound typically amplified and modified. In this article we discuss the inception and development of one of their custom instruments, the mora-oud, which combined the body of a medieval style keyed fiddle (a mora-harp) with a fretless lute neck. The material (mainly interviews, auto-ethnographic descriptions and social media discussions) suggests that some of the mora-harps meaning potential, such as a sense of ancientness and “Nordic-ness”, followed into the mora-oud. This was combined with certain sonic and tonal resemblances with the Arabic oud, as well as its visual qualities and ease of amplification, to afford an instrument that fitted congenially with the global world music scene in which Hedningarna was a major player, especially during the 1990s. The instrument became an important part of the band’s sound as well as of their strategies to handle and sometimes link together their musical, cultural and political contexts, both on stage and in the studio. In the conclusion we discuss how serendipity and fantasy were important aspects in how the instrument was conceived and developed.

In Swedish home and consumer studies (HCS), cooking forms a part of the core content, and students often experience the results in a sensuous way – by eating the food. Sensuous, or aesthetic, experiences may affect students’ meaning-making and thus what is learned within the subject. There is a lack of research concerning the aesthetic aspects of cooking in a learning context; therefore, this study aims to explore HCS students’ meaning-making by focusing on aesthetic judgments during formalized cooking practices. The research question is, in what ways do students use aesthetic judgments in meaning-making processes during cooking? The data comes from video-documented classroom observations where the students cook together. Using a pragmatic approach and practical epistemology analysis (PEA), three ways in which the students use aesthetic judgments are illustrated: as arguments in negotiations, as reference points when reactualizing experiences, and as nonverbal actions evaluating sensory qualities. Empirical examples exemplify how aesthetic judgments play a role in establishing power relations, entail social/normative values, and influence the “tacit knowing” of cooking. The study found that aesthetic experiences are integral and important in students’ meaning-making during cooking practices. Moreover, by adding a new classroom context to the methodology used, its applicability for investigating aesthetic experiences and meaning-making is confirmed and widened.

AIMS - Increased alcohol consumption among old people, reported in many countries, will likely present a major challenge to public health and policy in the future. In Sweden, current knowledge about old people’s alcohol consumption is incomplete because of limited historical data and a dearth of nationally representative studies. We describe the frequency of alcohol consumption among the oldest old in Sweden over a 20-year period by sex, age, education, living situation, mobility and Activities of Daily Living. METHODS - We used repeated cross-sectional survey data from the Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old (SWEOLD), conducted in 1992, 2002 and 2011. The samples were nationally representative of the Swedish population aged 77+, with response rates of 95.4%, 84.4% and 86.2% (total n=2007). Self-reported consumption frequency was measured with the question “How often do you drink alcoholic beverages, such as wine, beer or spirits?” RESULTS - Frequency of alcohol consumption increased among the oldest old from 1992 to 2011. The proportion reporting no or less-than-monthly alcohol consumption decreased, whereas the proportion reporting weekly consumption increased. This was true for men, women and most age and educational groups. The period change in consumption frequency was not explained by changes in demographic factors, living situation or functional capacity during the study period. CONCLUSIONS - Alcohol use increased among the oldest old in Sweden during the 20-year study period. More liberal attitudes toward alcohol could contribute to the increased use. The increase in weekly alcohol consumers suggests an increase in the number of older risk consumers.

Tim Berndtsson om KRISTINA NORDSTRÖM DET SANNA SNILLET. GENUS OCH GENI HOS THOMAS THORILD Stockholm: Makadam, 2014, 216 s. (diss. Stockholm) Helena Bodin om MATS JANSSON POETENS BLICK. EKFRAS I SVENSK LYRIK Stockholm/Höör: Brutus Östlings bokförlag Symposion, 2014, 352 s. Gunnel Furuland om LENA KÅRELAND ÄLSKA – DET ÄR ALLT! GEORGE SAND I LIV OCH DIKT Stockholm: Atlantis, 2014, 477 s. Boel Hackman om AGNETA RAHIKAINEN POETEN OCH HENNES APOSTLAR. EN BIOMYTOGRAFISK ANALYS AV EDITH SÖDERGRAN Helsingfors: Helsingfors universitet, 2014, 268 s. (diss. Helsingfors) Markus Huss om SARA DANIUS HUSMODERNS DÖD OCH ANDRA TEXTER Stockholm: Bonnier, 2014, 419 s. Christian Lenemark om JESSICA PRESSMAN DIGITAL MODERNISM. MAKING IT NEW IN NEW MEDIA New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, 224 s. Annie Mattsson om ALFRED SJÖDIN LANDETS SÅNGGUDINNA. JOHAN GABRIEL OXENSTIERNA OCH NATURDIKTERNAS GENRER Göteborg & Stockholm: Makadam, 2014, 336 s. (diss. Lund) Magnus Persson om MARIA ULFGARD LÄRA LÄRARE LÄSA. OM UTBILDNING AV SVENSKLÄRARE OCH LITTERATURUNDERVISNING I SKOLAN Skrifter utgivna av Avdelningen för litteratursociologi vid Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen i Uppsala, 67, Göteborg & Stockholm: Makadam, 2015, 191 s. Alfred Sjödin om ANN ÖHRBERG SAMTALETS RETORIK. BELEVADE KULTURER OCH OFFENTLIG KOMMUNIKATION I SVENSKT 1700-TAL Höör: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 2014), 242 s.

Ingemar Haag om ANNA JUNGSTRAND DET LITTERÄRA MED REPORTAGET. OM LITTERARITET SOM JOURNALISTISK STRATEGI OCH ETIK Lund: ellerströms, 2013, 347 s. (diss. Stockholm) Per-Olof Mattsson om STEFAN JONSSON CROWDS AND DEMOCRACY. THE IDEA AND IMAGE OF THE MASSES FROM REVOLUTION TO FASCISM New York: Columbia University Press, 2013, 312 s. Anna Bohlin om ÅSA ARPING ”HVAD GÖR VÄL NAMNET?” ANONYMITET OCH VARUMÄRKESBYGGANDE I SVENSK LITTERATURKRITIK 1820–1850 Göteborg/Stockholm: Makadam, 2013, 350 s. Greger Andersson om LOUISE BRIX JACOBSEN, STEFAN KJERKEGAARD, RIKKE ANDERSEN KRAGLUND, HENRIK SKOV NIELSEN, CAMILLA MØHRING REESTORFF & CARSTEN STAGE FIKTIONALITET Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur, 2013, 168 s. PER KROGH HANSEN, HENRIK SKOV NIELSEN & STEFAN KJERKEGAARD (RED.) ”FIKTION OG FORTÆLING” K&K (Kultur og Klasse), nr. 115, 2013, 183 s. Carin Franzén om KARI LØVAAS OCH DE SÅG ATT DE VAR NAKNA. OM SKAM OCH BESKYDD övers. Lars Andersson, Stockholm: Ariel Litterär kritik, 2013, 298 s. Axel Englund om ANDREW GOLDSTONE FICTIONS OF AUTONOMY. MODERNISM FROM WILDE TO DE MAN Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 224 s.

Per Stam om CAROLINE HAUX FRAMKALLNING. SKRIFT, KONSUMTION OCH SEXUALITET I KARIN BOYES ASTARTE OCH HENRY PARLANDS SÖNDER Göteborg/Stockholm: Makadam, 2013, 359 s. (diss. Stockholm) Sofia Pulls om EVA SÖDERBERG, MIA ÖSTERLUND & BODIL FORMARK (RED.) FLICKTION. PERSPEKTIV PÅ FLICKAN I FIKTIONEN Malmö: Universus Academic Press, 2013, 328 s. Johan Alfredsson om MARTIN GLAZ SERUP RELATIONEL POESI Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2013, 115 s. Lisbeth Stenberg om MARIA M. BERGLUND VÄRV OCH VERK. FÖRNYELSE OCH TRADITION I NORDISK KVINNOLITTERATURHISTORIA FRÅN TILLKOMST TILL TRYCKT BOK Karlstad University Studies, 2013:21. Karlstad: Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, Karlstads universitet, 320 s. (diss. Karlstad) Åsa Arping om EIVIND TJØNNELAND (RED.) KRITIKK FØR 1814. 1700-TALLETS POLITISKE OG LITTERÆRE OFFENTLIGHET Oslo: Dreyers forlag, 2014, 639 s. Jesper Olsson om MARKUS HUSS MOTSTÅNDETS AKUSTIK. SPRÅK OCH (O)LJUD HOS PETER WEISS 1946–1960 Lund: ellerströms, 2014, 297 s. (diss. Södertörn/Stockholm) Frida Beckman om MAGNUS ULLÉN (RED.) VÅLDSAMMA FANTASIER. STUDIER I FIKTIONSVÅLDETS FUNKTION OCH ATTRAKTION Kulturvetenskapliga skriftserien, 2:2014 Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2014, 230 s. Per-Olof Mattsson om CHRISTIAN BERRENBERG ”ES IST DEINE PFLICHT ZU BENUTZEN, WAS DU WEIßT!” LITERATUR UND LITERARISCHE PRAKTIKEN IN DER NORWEGISCHEN ARBEITERBEWEGUNG 1900–1931 Literarische Praktiken in Skandinavien; 3. Würzburg: Ergon, 2014, 476 s. (diss. Köln) Tilda Maria Forselius om EVA HÆTTNER AURELIUS, HEDDA GUNNENG & JON HELGASON (RED.) WOMEN’S LANGUAGE. AN ANALYSIS OF STYLE AND EXPRESSION IN LETTERS BEFORE 1800 Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2012, 260 s. Jennie Nell om PETER LIND ”STRUNT ALT HVAD DU ORERAR”. CARL MICHAEL BELLMAN, ORDENSRETORIKEN OCH BACCHI ORDEN Studia Rhetorica Upsaliensa 4, red. Otto Fischer, Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2014, 322 s. (diss. Uppsala) Marianne Sandels om CARIN FRANZÉN JAG GAV HONOM INTE MIN KÄRLEK. OM HÖVISK KÄRLEK SOM KVINNLIG STRATEGI Stockholm: Ersatz, 2012, 174 s. Johannes Björk om MAGNUS NILSSON LITERATURE AND CLASS. AESTHETICAL-POLITICAL STRATEGIES IN MODERN SWEDISH WORKING-CLASS LITERATURE Berlin: Berliner Beiträge zur Skandinavistik Band 21, 2014, 172 s. Hilda Jakobsson om KRISTINA FJELKESTAM, HELENA HILL & DAVID TJEDER (RED.) KVINNORNA GÖR MANNEN. MASKULINITETSKONSTRUKTIONER I KVINNORS TEXT OCH BILD 1500–2000, Göteborg/Stockholm: Makadam, 2013, 351 s. Thomas Götselius om KNUT OVE ELIASSEN, ANNE FASTRUP & TUE ANDERSEN NEXØ (RED.) EUROPEISK LITTERATUR 1500–1800. BIND 1. VERDEN: FRA COLUMBUS TILL NAPOLEON Aarhus: Aarhus universitetsforlag, 2013, 260 s.

A National-Proletarian Epic of Short Stories. Ivar Lo-Johansson’s Statarna This essay explores Ivar Lo-Johansson’s epic collection of short stories Statarna (1936–37). The collection is chronologically ordered and centres on the lives of rural proletarians (statare) in Sweden from the concluding decades of the 19th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Ivar Lo-Johansson is generally regarded as an icon of Swedish working-class literature, and Statarna is one of the real cornerstones of Lo-Johansson’s self-created public myth. This article aims to show that the basic ideological position of the author and his epic is based on national stereotypes (a point that may be further supported with reference to his 1920’s travel books). Statarna contains several stories that touch upon the so-called ”Galizier question”, referring to the transport of rural workers from the south-eastern parts of Poland to Sweden. These workers became known as Galizians, even if they came from other parts of Eastern Europe. These stories articulate a xenophobic attitude to these workers in line with the dominant reaction of the trade unions and the labour movement in general at the time. The ”Galizians” were regarded as intruders, with a lower morale than Swedish workers, and representative of the lowest species of labour power. This was especially true in those cases where the Galizians were used as scabs (strike breakers) during strikes. The narrator doesn’t sympathise with the domestic rural workers when they become used to the presence of the ”intruders”. In one story, ”Galizierna”, in which a young woman is raped, the woman is avenged when the rapist (who is, of course, one of the ”Galizierna”) is killed by a horse. Such stories are also based on national stereotypes. After writing his famous epic, in the early 1940’s, the author wrote a program for what he called the ”social short story”. This program is also based on nationalist arguments. Swedish authors are advised to orient towards the process of social development in Sweden at the time. The process behind the building of the welfare state – the Swedish welfare state, which, according to the author’s preferences for national stereotypes, is described as unique – is the appropriate subject for creating a Swedish short story that can be identified as Swedish, and only as Swedish. The idea was never to create an epic with close ties to working-class literature internationally.

Cristine Sarrimo om RED. KATRI KIVILAAKSO, ANN-SOFIE LÖNNGREN OCH RITA PAQVALÉN QUEERA LÄSNINGAR. LITTERATURVETENSKAP MÖTER QUEERTEORI Årsta: Rosenlarv förlag 2012, 332 s. Åsa Arping om MARIA WAHLSTRÖM JAG ÄR ICKE HELLER EN. DEN SVENSKA DAGBOKSROMANEN Lund: ellerströms förlag 2012, 272 s. Per-Olof Mattsson om MATS TORMOD TILL EN BERÄTTELSE OM TRÖST. EYVIND JOHNSON OMLÄST Stockholm: Atlantis 2012, 392 s. Lydia Wistisen om MARIA MARGARETA ÖSTERHOLM ETT FLICKLABORATORIUM I VALDA BITAR. SKEVA FLICKOR I SVENSKSPRÅKIG PROSA FRÅN 1980 TILL 2005 Årsta: Rosenlarv förlag 2012, 339 s. Erik van Ooijen om IAN BOGOST HOW TO DO THINGS WITH VIDEOGAMES Electronic Mediations 38, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011, 180 s.

In Sweden there is presently a discussion about the benefit of pedagogical content knowledge for teachers in compulsory school. The results of the study indicate that the pupils get an increased interest in technology, which is positively correlated to the didactic competence of the teachers in technology. This competence is strongly connected to the teachers’ formal studies in technology education.Their teaching increased the interest of the pupils in technology and in choosing technology for upper secondary school. The educated teachers also presented teaching much more in accordance with the Swedish curriculum Lpo94 than the non-educated teachers.

Review/recension Published: 15 May 2012

The article discusses the importance of personal sporting skills in PE Teacher Education. The article is based on interviews with a group of teachers in PE Education. They were interviewed about how they perceive the needs of skills in PE Students. The article also discusses the diminished importance in PE Education of the need of physical literacy. A particular focus is on the discussion of personal skills in dancing and in ball games. The results show that there is a difference between how the PE educators talk about personal skills in dance and in ball games. There is consensus concerning the importance of the need for good personal ability in dancing, which also permeates the exams that the students are doing. In ball games, on the other hand, the discussion underlines the importance of general skills in coaching and leadership rather than personal skills in various ball games, in order to create good learning situations for different groups of pupils.

Yvonne Leffler om Henrik Johnsson, Strindberg och skräcken: Skräckmotiv och identitetstematik i August Strindbergs författarskap Umeå: Bokförlaget h:ström, 2009, 206 s. (diss. Stockholm) Per-Olof Mattsson om Jimmy Vulovic, Ensamhet och gemenskap i förvandling: Vägar genom Eyvind Johnsons och Rudolf Värnlunds mellankrigsromaner Stockholm: Carlssons, 2009, 323 s. (diss. Lund) Lena Eskilsson om Nina Björk, Fria själar: Ideologi och verklighet hos Locke, Mill och Benedictsson Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 2008, 324 s. (diss. Göteborg) Maria Löfgren om Eva Borgström, Kärlekshistoria: Begär mellan kvinnor i 1800-talets litteratur Göteborg: Kabusa Böcker, 2008, 307 s. Rikard Loman om Ny svensk teaterhistoria. Band 1: Teater före 1800, Tomas Forser (huvudred.) & Sven Åke Heed (bandred.) Hedemora: Gidlunds, 2007, 323 s. Christina Svens om Ny svensk teaterhistoria. Band 2: 1800-talets teater, Tomas Forser (huvudred.), Ulla-Britta Lagerroth (bandred.) Hedemora: Gidlunds, 2007, 404 s. Christo Burman om Ny svensk teaterhistoria. Band 3: 1900-talets teater, Tomas Forser (huvudred.), Sven Åke Heed & Ingeborg Nordin Hennel (bandred.) Hedemora: Gidlunds, 2007, 572 s.

Ola Sigurdson om Anders Cullhed, Kreousas skugga Per-Olof Mattsson om Lars Furuland & Johan Svedjedal, Svensk arbetarlitteratur samt Magnus Nilsson, Arbetarlitteratur Ann-Sofie Lönngren om Lars Granild, »Äta eller ätas! Det är frågan!« Peter Forsgren om Birgitta Wistrand, Elin Wägner i 1920-talet Anders Tyrberg om Johanna Lundström, Terrängbeskrivning Anders Johansson om Daniel Andersson, The Nothing That Is