Senast uppdaterad 2010-03-30
Curriculum Vitae
Maria Jarl
Department of Political Science, GöteborgUniversity
Box 711, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
Tel: + 46 31786 4445. Fax: + 46 31786 4599
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Date of Birth: June 8, 1973 in Växjö, Sweden.
Present Position
Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, GöteborgUniversity.
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science, GöteborgUniversity, 2004.
BA in Political Science, GöteborgUniversity, 1997.
Academic Affiliations and Employments
Visiting Scholar at Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (Scancor) at Stanford University, USA, August 2007 – February 2008.
Assistant Professor (in Swedish: forskarassistenttjänst) in Educational Science at the Department of Political Science, GöteborgUniversity, January 2007–December 2010.
Research Fellow in the program Value conflicts in primary education: governance, democracy and ethnicity, Department of Political Science, GöteborgUniversity, June 2004 –December 2006.
Parental leave: February 2006 – August 2006 (full time), April 2007 – June 2007 (part time).
Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, GöteborgUniversity, September 1997–June 2004.
Program Scholar at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, June–August 2001.
Visiting Graduate Student at the Center for Research on Public Administration and Management (COS), Copenhagen Business School, January–June 2000.
Graduate Student in the program Social Policy and Political Institutions, Department of Political Science, GöteborgUniversity, January–June 1999.
Dissertation
Jarl, Maria (2004) En skola i demokrati? Föräldrarna, kommunen och dialogen. (A School in Democracy? The parents, the municipality and the dialogue.) Department of Political Science, GöteborgUniversity.
Journal Articles
Jarl, Maria (2005) “Making User-Boards a School in Democracy? Studying Swedish Local Governments”, pp 277-294 in Scandinavian Political StudiesVol. 28, No. 3.
Books and book chapters
Jarl, Maria & Linda Rönnberg (2010) Skolpolitik. Från riksdagshuset till klassrummet. Malmö: Liber.
Jarl, Maria (2007) ”Det professionella är politiskt – om rektorsrollen i den decentraliserade skolan” pp 101-120 in Skolan som politisk organisation. Edited by Jon Pierre.Malmö: Gleerups.
Jarl, Maria, Kjellgren, Hanna och Ann Quennerstedt (2007) ”Förändringar i skolans organisation och styrning”, pp 23-45 in Skolan som politisk organisation.Edited by Jon Pierre. Malmö: Gleerups.
Jarl, Maria & Hanna Kjellgren (2007) ”Appendix. Empiriska undersökningar i VIS-programmet” pp 203-208 in Skolan som politisk organisation. Edited by Jon Pierre. Malmö: Gleerups.
Jarl, Maria (2003) “Deltagardemokraterna och den representativa demokratin.” In Demokratins mekanismer. Edited by Mikael Gilljam and Jörgen Hermansson. Malmö: Liber Förlag.
Jarl, Maria (2003) ””Och då skruvar man sig i andra änden och vet inte riktigt var man ska ta vägen …” Om brukarinflytande och representativ demokrati.” In Välfärdsstat i otakt. Edited by Jon Pierre and Bo Rothstein. Malmö: Liber Förlag.
Jarl, Maria (1999) ”Brukardeltagande på gott och ont”. In Det unga folkstyret. SOU 1999:93. Stockholm: Fakta Info Direkt.
Reports
Jarl, Maria (2001) ”Erfarenheter av ett utbrett brukarinflytande. En utredning om brukarinflytandet i Sverige 2001”, pp 45-195 in Ds 2001:34 Ökade möjligheter till brukarinflytande. Stockholm: Ministry of Justice.
Conference Presentations
“The reconstruction of public education and the professionalization of principals. Experience from new public management reforms in Sweden.” Presented at the 5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, September 10-12, 2009 and at the European Conference on Educational Research, Vienna, September 28-30, 2009. Together with Anders Fredriksson.
”From professional to managerial? Professional identities of SwedishSchool principals”. Presentated at ECER 2008, The European Conference onEducational Research, in Gothenburg, September 10-12 2008 and at The XV NOPSA Conference, in Tromsö August 6-9 2008.
”Politiska och professionella normer i styrningen av skolan”. Presented at the NOPSA Conference in Reykjavik, Island, August 11-13, 2005.
“User participation and altered relations between local government and civic society”. Presented at the ECPR meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 14-19, 2000.
“Brukardeltagandets demokratiska tvetydighet”. Presented at the NOPSA Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, August 19-21, 1999.
“User-participation and public steering – a possible combination?”. Presented at the meeting Elites and Democracy, CopenhagenUniversity, December 6-8, 1999.
Teaching Experience
Assistant Adviserfor graduate student Anders Fredriksson, Fall term 2005–.
Adviser, a number of senior theses at the teacher training program, Department of Political Science, Göteborg University, 2001–.
Adviser, a number of senior theses in political science, Department of Political Science, Göteborg University, 1999–.
Instructor, numerous lectures and seminars in political management of schools, the teacher training program, Department of Education, GöteborgUniversity, Fall term 2005–.
Instructor, numerous lectures and seminars in methodology, Department of Political Science, Fall term 2001–Spring term 2005.
Instructor, numerous lectures and seminars in democratic theory, public policy and administration, democratic justice, Department of Political Science, GöteborgUniversity.
Invited Talks
The Swedish Association of School Principals and Directors of Education, The Municipality of Alingsås, March 4, 2010.
The International Programme Office for Education and Training, December 2, 2009
The Swedish Teachers’ union, Almedalen, June 29, 2009
Österlengymnasiet, Simrishamn, August 15, 2008
Ministry of Justice, Stockholm, October 17, 2005.
The Municipality of Södertälje, Södertälje, November 30, 2004.
Department of Political Science, StockholmUniversity, November 9, 2004.
School of Social Sciences, VäxjöUniversity, September 21, 2004.
Ministry of Education, Research and Culture, Stockholm, August 14, 2003.
The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, Malmö, June 4, 2003.
The Gothenburg Region Association of Local Authorities (GR), Göteborg, March 26, 2003.
The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, Stockholm, December 12, 2002.
The City Office of the City of Göteborg, February 27, 2002.
The City of Stockholm, Stockholm, February 18, 2002.
EastSwedenMunicipalityResearchCenter, LinköpingUniversity, Linköping, October 31, 2001.
Ministry of Justice, Stockholm, October18, 2001.
Ministry of Justice, Stockholm, June 5, 2001.
The Municipality of Västerås, Västerås, February 21, 2001.
The Gothenburg Region Association of Local Authorities (GR), Göteborg, December 9, 1999.
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Stockholm, September 21, 1999.
Grants and Scholarships
The Swedish Research Council (post doc-grant), 2007.
The Markussen Foundation study fund, 2001.
The Swedish Institute, 2000.
The Jubilar Fund, Göteborg University, 1999, 2007.
The Lars Hierta Foundation, 1998, 1999.
The Royal Hvitfeldt study fond,GöteborgUniversity, 1998,1999.
Other Professional Activites
Member of “Lärarutbildningsråd 4” (LUR4) 2008-07-01 – 2010-01-14, Chairman of “Lärarutbildningsråd 4 (LUR4) 2010-01-15 –
Participated in the program “Godmorgon, världen!” at Sveriges radio 2008-05-21
Representative for the Faculty of Social Sciences in the committee writing the university’s comment on the official report Tydlig och öppen. Förslag till en ny skolinspektion (SOU 2007:101). February 2008.
Representative for the Faculty of Social Sciences in the committee writing the university’s comment on the official report Tydligare ledarskap i skolan och förskolan - förslag till en ny rektorsutbildning (Ds 2007:34). December 2007.
Assistant Director of Studies for the teacher training program at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, July 2007– .
Member of the Board of Supervisors at the research institute in Educational Science at University of Gothenburg, September 2005–.
Representative for the Faculty of Social Sciences in the committee writing a new syllabi for the teacher education program at University of Gothenburg, January 2005–.
In charge of writing Göteborg University’s comment on the official report Var-dags-inflytandeof the Ministry of Education, Research and Culture, February 2004.
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