Jan Löfström
Professor
jan.lofstrom@utu.fi +358 29 450 4755 +358 50 478 4021 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0995-3265 |
Social science education; social studies education; history education; economic education; intercultural education; moral education; teacher education; use of history; historical consciousness; historical reparations
Professor of History and Social Studies Education, University of Turku, 2022–
Visiting Professor of History Education, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2020–2022
Associate Professor of History and Social Studies Education, University of Turku, 2019–2022
University Lecturer of History and Social Studies Education, University of Helsinki, 1999–2019
Docent (Social Studies and History Education), University of Turku, 2014
Docent (Historical Anthropology), University of Jyväskylä, 2000
PhD (Sociology), University of Essex, 1994
For further information and publications 1999–2019, see: ORCID 0000-0003-0995-3265
My research interests include intersections of historical consciousness and moral consciousness that was explored in the research project History in Moral Encounters, directed by Professor Niklas Ammert at the Linnaeus University, Sweden. In the project collaborated Niklas Ammert, Silvia Edling, Jan Löfström, and Heather Sharp, and it was funded by the Swedish Research Council (2018–2021). The foundations of the project were outlined in the Special Issue, "Historical and Moral Consciousness," in Historical Encounters, 4(1), eds. Ammert, Edling, Löfström & Sharp (2017). The results have been published in a number of peer reviewed articles (see my list of publications) and in the books, Ammert, Edling, Löfström & Sharp (2022) Historical and moral consciousness in education: Learning ethics for democratic citizenship education. London: Routledge; and, Ammert, Edling, Löfström & Sharp (2023) Att lära från, om och med historia. Historiemedvetande, moral och didaktik. Malmö: Gleerups.
The aforementioned topic connects closely with my earlier work on the politics of historical apologies and on conceptions of historical responsibility as a perspective on historical consciousness. These topics have been discussed in my papers in the Journal of Curriculum Studies, 46(2014):4, Citizenship Studies, 15(2011):1, and in the edited volume, Jan Löfström (2012) Voiko historiaa hyvittää? (Can history be repaired?), Helsinki: Gaudeamus University Press.
The research project on intersections of historical and moral consciousness has resulted in an international network, "Democracy in the past, the present, and looking to the future: A network on historical, moral, and democratic consciousness in history education, research and policy"; funded by Swedish Research Council (2023–2025), and steered by Niklas Ammert (PI), Fredrik Alvén, Silvia Edling, Jan Löfström, and Heather Sharp.
I have been involved also in the exploratory workshop serie, "Educating active and democratic citizens in challenging times: exploring the past, present and future of social studies in the Nordic countries", funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2022–2023) and steered by Jakob Maliks (PI), Tom Gullberg, Brit Marie Hoveland, Jan Löfström, and David Rosenlund. The workshop serie took place in Trondheim, Malmö and Turku (Åbo), and is envsioned to result in a research project.
Currently I'm engaged in editing a volume on economic education and democracy education, with Dr. Marko van den Berg (University of Helsinki).
I also serve as the PI of the Finnish team in the European research project, Youth and History II (directed by professor Carlo Spagnolo, University of Bari), that replicates the European survey of 1995, titled Youth and History. The Finnish team includes Jukka Rantala, Tanja Taivalantti, Johanna Norppa, and Najat Ouakrim-Soivio. The survey questionnaire will be piloted in spring 2024.
I'm active as co-editor in the Journal of Social Science Education (www.jsse.org), and in the editorial board of the journal Nordidactica: Nordic Journal in Humanities and Social Studies Education.
- Assessment and National Exams in Social Studies and Social Sciences (2023)
- Journal of Social Science Education
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Att lära från, om och med historia : Historiemedvetande, moral och didaktik (2023) Ammert Niklas, Edling Silvia, Löfström Jan, Sharp Heather
(Text book, professional manual or guide or a dictionary (D5)) - Could powerful knowledge and first-, second- and third-order concepts be coupled with Hedtke’s map of the conceptual landscape? (2023)
- itdb inter- und transdisziplinäre Bildung (inter- and transdisciplinary education)
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - In search of the meaning-making student : Notes on the lack of third-order concepts in the Finnish history curriculum
Att söka efter den meningsskapande studenten : Iakttagelser om bristen av third-order begrepp i de finländska läroplanerna för historia (2023)- Acta didactica Norden
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol. 22 No. 2 (2023): Assessment and National Exams in Social Studies and Social Sciences (2023)
- Journal of Social Science Education
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Kirja-arvio : Kontroversen kring det österbottniska ”tomrummet”: forntid, historiebruk och identitetspolitik (2023)
- Historisk Tidskrift För Finland
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Nuorten talousajattelua tulee syventää ja monipuolistaa (2023)
- Helsingin Sanomat
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Samhällsvetenskapliga studier i gymnasium i Finland från slutet av 1800-talet till början av 2000-talet : Kommentar till Samuelsson ” Skolan och samhällsvetenskapen – Framväxt och etablering av en svensk gymnasial samhällsvetarutbildning 1922-1970” (2023)
- Nordidactica : Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - The Promise of Socio-Economic Education: Reflections From a Finnish Perspective (2023) Sozioökonomie und Wirtschaftssoziologie im Spiegel sozialwissenschaftlicher Bildung Löfström Jan, van den Berg Marko
(Book chapter (B2)) - War narratives, trust, lifeworld, participation and post-conflict society: The JSSE open issue 2023 (2023)
- Journal of Social Science Education
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - What Students See as Generally Important and Personally Interesting in the History Classroom, and How it Matches the History Curriculum : Notes from a Finnish Pilot Study (2023) Why History Education? Löfström Jan
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Aims, concepts, and assessment of the citizenship education curriculum in northern Europe (2022) Handbook of Civic Engagement and Education Ouakrim-Soivio Najat, Löfström Jan
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - AVANÇOS NA EDUCAÇÃO ÉTICA NA AULA DE HISTÓRIA: o prosseguimento das interseções da consciência moral e histórica (2022)
- Curriculo sem Fronteiras
(Other (O2)) - Economic education: its past, present and future (2022)
- Journal of Social Science Education
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Editorial 2022:2 : Teaching and learning ethics in the Humanities and Social Science school subjects (2022)
- Nordidactica : Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Editorial: Perspectives on history and moral encounters (2022)
- Historical Encounters
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Historical and Moral Consciousness in Education : Learning Ethics for Democratic Citizenship Education (2022) Ammert Niklas, Edling Silvia, Löfström Jan, Sharp Heather
(Refereed scientific book or report (C1)) - Historical Encounters vol 9, issue 2 : Special issue: Perspectives on History and Moral Encounters (2022)
- Historical Encounters
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol. 21 No. 2 (2022) : Economic Education: Its past, present and future (2022)
- Journal of Social Science Education
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Language differences, output-orientation, popular TV series, direct school-democracy and research investment in Social Studies – Introduction to an open topics issue (2022)
- Journal of Social Science Education
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1))