Karin Aronsson
Title: Head of Department, Professor, International coordinator
Telephone: +46 (0)8 16 20 07
E-mail: prefekt@buv.su.se, karin.aronsson@buv.su.se
Room: 205
Address: Frescati Hagväg 24
CV: Curriculum vitae Karin Aronsson
Professor Karin Aronsson directs the Department of Child- and Youth Studies at Stockholm University. She has previously worked at Linköping University, where she has tutored 27 doctoral dissertations. Aronsson serves on the advisory board of several international peer review journals, and publishes in international journals. Work on bilingualism has been a long term interest: e.g. from her dissertation on bilingual concept formation (Dep. of Psychology, Lund University) to more recent work on the role of repetition and language play in immersion school settings (Cekaite & Aronsson, 2004; 2005), code-switching in peer play in school contexts (Cromdal & Aronsson, 2000), and work on the role of school and sibling play in language shift phenomena (Rindstedt & Aronsson, 2002).
Many of Aronsson’s studies concern social choreography (Aronsson, 1998), and detailed analyses of everyday conversations and the dynamics of multiparty interaction (Aronsson, 1998; 2006; Tholander & Aronsson, 2002; 2003), e.g. in conflict talk (Aronsson & Cederborg, 1998; Aronsson & Thorell, 19990; 2002). Her research interests concern informal learning and language socialization practices in peer groups, family life encounters, and institutional arenas such as preschools, classrooms and school yard settings, as well as clinical interviews (e.g. family therapy talk and paediatric interviews).
Some of her most recent work draws on video ethnographies of families’ everyday life routines and negotiations (an international collaboration with Elinor Ochs at UCLA and Clotilde Pontecorvo, Rome, and their research associates: Marjorie Goodwin, Tami Kremer-Sadlik, Alessandra Fasulo, Marilena Fatigante and others).
Another recent research interest concerns children’s and young people’s informal learning and aesthetic practices (e.g. Sparrman & Aronsson, 2003), including computer gaming and other ICT practices (Aronsson, 2009a; Aarsand & Aronsson, 2009a; 2009b). Multimodal practices and visual culture form important aspects of these analyses.
Ongoing projects
- Everyday lives of working families: Italy, Sweden, and the United States (collaborators: Emma Abrahamsson, Pål Aarsand, Asta Cekaite, Lucas Forsberg, Malin Masimov and Linda Schultz; financed by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2003 - 2009;)
- Computer gaming, aesthetic practices and informal learning (collaborators: Pål Aarsand, Polly Björk-Willén & Björn Sjöblom; financed by the Swedish Research Council, Committee of
Educational Science UVK, 2008-2010)
Publications
Aronsson, K. (2009a / forthcoming). Socialization through play. In A. Duranti, E. Ochs & B. Schieffelin (Eds.), Handbook of language socialization.
Aronsson, K. (2009 / forthcoming). Learning through play. In B. McGaw, P. Peterson & E. Baker (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford: Elsevier
Aronsson, K. (2009 / forthcoming). Family therapy and accountability. In J. Cromdal & M. Tholander (Eds).
Aarsand, P. & Aronsson, K. (2009/forthcoming). Response cries and other gaming moves. Toward an intersubjectivity of gaming. Journal of Pragmatics. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03782166
Aarsand, P. & Aronsson, K. (2009/forthcoming). Computer gaming and territorial negotiations in family life. Childhood,
Eriksson Barajas, K. & Aronsson, K. (2009/forthcoming) Avid versus struggling readers: co-construed pupil identities in school booktalk. Language and Literature
Cromdal, J. Tholander, M. & Aronsson, K. (2007). Doing reluctance. Managing delivery of assessments in peer evaluation. I: A. Hepburn & S. Wiggins (Ed.). Discursive research in practice. New Approaches to Psychology and Interaction. (pp. 203-22). Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Aronsson, K. (2006). Doing family. An interactive accomplishment. Text & Talk, 26, (4-5), pp. 619–626
Cekaite, A. & Aronsson, K. (2005). Language play, a collaborative resource in children’s L2 learning. Asidlied Linguistics, 26 (2), pp. 169-191.
Eriksson, K. & Aronsson, K. (2005). ‘We’re really lucky’. Co-creating ‘us’ and ‘the Other’ in school booktalk. Discourse & Society, 16 (5), pp. 719-738.
Överlien, C., Aronsson, K. & Hydén, M. (2005). The focus group interview as an in-depth method. Young women talking about sexuality. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8 (4), pp. 331-344.
Aronsson, K. (2004). Tattoos, visions and other autobiographical resources: on the narrative fabrics of self-making. (Review aticle) Narrative Inquiry, 14, pp. 421-429
Cekaite, A. & Aronsson, K. (2004). Repetition and joking in children’s second language conversations. Playful recyclings in an immersion classroom. Discourse Studies, 6, pp. 373-392.
Sparrman, A. & Aronsson, K. (2003). Pog game practices, learning and ideology. Local markets and identity work. In G. Walford, (Ed.) Investigating educational policy through ethnography. (pp. 169-192). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Tholander, M. & Aronsson, K. (2003). Doing subteaching in school groupwork. Positioning, resistance, and participation frameworks. Language and Education, 17 (3), pp. 208-234.
Aronsson, K. & Thorell, M. (2002). Voice and collusion in play dialogues. Towards an architecture of intersubjectivity. I S. Blum-Kulka & C. Snow (Ed.), Talking to adults (pp. 277-293). Lawrence Erlbaum
Rindstedt, C. & Aronsson, K. (2002). Growing up monolingual in a bilingual community. The Quichua revitalization paradox. Language in Society, 31, pp. 721-742
Tholander, M. & Aronsson, K. (2002). Teasing as serious business. Collaborative staging and response work, Text, 22, pp. 559-595.
Aronsson, K. (2001c). Narrative, sociology of. In N.J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & amp;Behavioral Sciences. (pp. 10285-10289). Oxford: Pergamon.
Cromdal, J. & Aronsson, K. (2000). Footing in bilingual play. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 4, pp. 435-457.
Aronsson, K. & Thorell, M. (1999). Family politics in children's play directives. Journal of Pragmatics, 31, pp. 25-47.
Aronsson, K. (1999). Relocating children in sociology and society. Essay review of The sociology of childhood by William A. Corsaro. Human Development, 42, pp. 55-58.
Aronsson, K. (1999). Review of Family dinner talk by Shoshana Blum-Kulka. Journal of Pragmatics, 31, pp. 287-292.
Aronsson, K. (1998). Identity-in-interaction and social choreography. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 31, pp. 75-89.
Aronsson, K. (1997). Age in social interaction. On constructivist epistemologies and the social psychology of language. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7, pp. 49-56.
Aronsson, K. & Cederborg, A-C. (1997). A love story retold. Moral order and intergenerational negotiations. Semiotica, 114, pp. 83-110.
Aronsson, K. & Andersson, S. (1996). Social scalings in children’s drawings of class-room life. A cultural comparative analysis of children´s drawings in Africa and Sweden. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14, pp. 301-314.
Aronsson, K. & Cederborg, A-C. (1996) Coming of age in family therapy talk. Perspective setting in multiparty problem formulations. Discourse Processes, 21, pp. 191-212.
For more publications, see Curriculum vitae Karin Aronsson.
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Updated: 07/12/09