Dr. Niklas Norén

Biography

Niklas Norén is an Associate Professor in Didactics at Uppsala University, focusing on Swedish mother-tongue education and social interaction in communicative activities. His research primarily investigates young children's learning through communication aids in daily interactions and their intra- and interdisciplinary conversational practices in school settings. He teaches at basic and advanced levels, supervises undergraduate and master's students, and is responsible for the specialization in Special Needs within the Master's Programme in Educational Sciences. Additionally, he works on developing the Special Teachers Programme and the application for the Programme in Special Educational Needs. He belongs to research groups CLIP, STOLP, and PS, and is a member of the research network NISCI. His main research interests revolve around how meaning and social actions are created and organized in conversational practices, with a particular interest in school-specific conversation practices. He utilizes video data from natural conversations in everyday and institutional contexts and employs Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis. His research encompasses the communication practices of children and adolescents with neurological conditions (e.g., cerebral palsy, autism, aphasia) as well as the grammatical structures in daily interactions. His recent projects aim to enhance understanding and develop a meta-language for the significance of conversational skills in children's learning across educational levels.

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