Presentation

Linda Palla is Professor of Education, specialising in Special Education, and Director of Research at the Department of School Development and Leadership, Malmö University. She has also been awarded the title of Excellent Teacher.

Her research focuses primarily on special education in preschool, drawing on critical perspectives from philosophy of education, pedagogy, and special educational didaktik. Central to her work are questions of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, often explored in relation to discursively and socially constructed categories.

Her research also examines special educational processes, teaching, documentation and assessment, as well as issues of power, identity formation, and norms. Further areas of interest include the roles and practices of special educational professionals, educational leadership, multilingualism, and sexualities.

linda.palla@mau.se

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1549-9900

Publications

Research Projects

My research environments

Research in Education and Special Education

The focus of the research is formation, education and innovative learning processes in order to give present and future citizen...
Research Group

Didaktik Studies (DS)

At the Department of Childhood, Education, and Society (BUS), Didaktik Studies (DS) represents a research group and field of...