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Margaretha Häggström holds a PhD in Educational Practice at the University of Gothenburg, and is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education, with an orientation towards multimodal and aesthetic perspectives. The Swedish Research Council has founded her research. She has a background as a high school teacher, teaching visual art and Swedish. She is involved in the Teacher Education Programs at the University since 2011, and currently involved in an ERASMUS-project: Education for resilience and sustainability. Her special field concern aesthetics as didactical tools, participation and communication, and inclusive pedagogical methods, as well as multimodality in higher education. Her research interests concern education and sustainability, relational pedagogy and transformative learning. She has recently edited the book Storyline: A Way to Understand Multimodality in a Learning Context and Teacher Education, together with a colleague at Østfold University,Norway College. She is currently editing a textbook about education and sustainability in Swedish.
Catarina Schmidt holds a PhD in Pedagogy at Jönköping University and the University of Gothenburg, and is a senior lecturer at the School of Education and Communication and the Faculty of Education, with an orientation towards literacy education. She started her carrier as a primary school teacher in 1988, and later completed a Master’s degree in Subject Didactics. Since 2009 she has been committed to research considering conditions and possibilities for children’s and young people’s meaning making and communication in relation to multilingualism, literature, and citizenship. Schmidt has a special interest in knowledge regarding critical literacy and linguistic scaffolds across the curriculum. She has published several papers on these topics in both Swedish and international scientific journals. In collaboration with colleagues from Sweden and the USA she has recently co-authored the chapter, The Situational in Critical Literacy, soon to be published within The Handbook of Critical Literacy on Routledge.