Bengt Lindgren - a brief presentation

Title: PhD
Unit: Subject-matter Didactics
Phone: 46 (0)31-786 2139
E-mail: bengt.lindgren@ped.gu.se

Research interests

My research interest lies in the intersection of image theories, knowledge theories, and image didactics. Against the background of expanding concepts of knowledge and language, it follows that there is a need to problematize earlier traditions and approaches that characterize the study and production of images in education contexts. The perspective I wish to put forward entails that images be seen as research objects in their capacity to constitute, accumulate, and distribute knowledge and learning. Image work and image studies constitute here an investigative and analytic tool; images as communication and language are similarly a high-priority focus in this connection. These issues are in urgent need of in-depth examination, both at the formulation and the implementation levels.

Teaching interests

Teach and supervise in teacher education programmes and specializations related to the image field. Here I stress the issues outlined above.

Keywords

image theory, theory of knowledge, image education, image perception, reciprocity, visual phenomenology

Selected publications

Lindgren, B. (1996). Bilden, rummet och språket. Refl ektioner över bildspråkets metateori och grammatik. I G.Z. Nordström (Red.) Rum, relation, retorik. Stockholm: Carlssons.

Lindgren, B.(2005). Bild, visualitet och vetande. Diskussion om bild som kunskapsfält inom utbildning. (Göteborg Studies in Educational Sciences, 229). Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.