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Beniamin Knutsson

Senior Lecturer

Management
Telephone
+46 31-786 24 27
Mail
beniamin.knutsson@ped.gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

Assistant Head of Department

Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies
Telephone
+46 31-786 24 27
Mail
beniamin.knutsson@ped.gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

Senior Lecturer

Unit for Subject Matter Education with specialization in Social Studies Education
Telephone
+46 31-786 24 27
Mail
beniamin.knutsson@ped.gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

Deputy Head of Department

Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies
Telephone
+46 31-786 24 27
Mail
beniamin.knutsson@ped.gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

About Beniamin Knutsson

Beniamin Knutsson is associate professor and senior lecturer. He is active in the interest area Education for Sustainable Development and in the research programme Critical Education Research at the department. Beniamin is also a research associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformations (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg. Broadly concerned with power and inequality, Beniamin’s research mainly focuses on education, sustainable development and international aid. His work is influenced by critical traditions, particularly Foucauldian theory of biopolitics/governmentality and post-foundational political thought.

Beniamin is currently leading a four-year research project funded by the Swedish Research Council:

He is also working in a three-year research project funded by the Swedish Energy Agency:

Beniamin is teaching and supervising at all levels from undergraduate to doctoral level. He is amongst other things engaged in the teacher education programme and the international master’s programme in education for sustainable development.