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Erik Nylander is a Senior Associate Professor at Linköping University, specializing in educational research focused on the learners' lifespan context. His research particularly addresses institutions catering to diverse segments of the adult population, such as folk high schools and higher vocational education. Currently, he is leading a six-year consolidation project funded by the Swedish Research Council, entitled 'Folk High School Mirrors Society', which employs large-scale text analysis of annual reports and program descriptions of Swedish folk high schools from 1868 to 2019. This project involves digitizing extensive archival data and developing an open-access repository to support research and teaching through computational approaches. Nylander's work aims to advance the historical and sociological understanding of the folk high school as an educational and cultural institution. His recent research has utilized bibliometric methods to map trends in educational research and mixed-methods approaches in higher vocational art education. In 2019, he was awarded a Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, engaging in comparative research between Singapore and Sweden, focusing on transnational academic trajectories and the development of research fields in adult lifelong learning. He currently supervises PhD students on topics related to adult education and non-formal learning.
Linköping University • Linköping, Sweden
Conducting research and teaching in the field of educational research with a focus on lifelong learning, folk high schools, and higher education.
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