Name and position today and a short background
Professor emeritus Kjell Härenstam
Pedagogy of Religious Education
Karlstad University
Sweden
Contact; Address; Telephone; e-mail; Website
Phone: +46 54 54 10 55
E-mail: Kjell.Harenstam@kau.se
Biography
Kjell Härenstam is professor emeritus in Pedagogy of Religious Education at Karlstad University, and has been working
many years with Teacher Training. He came to Karlstad 1974 and has together with his colleagues developed Science
of Religion at that university from a start with only few courses in the Teacher Training Programme to the Doctoral
Programme of today. His main research interest has been to develop understanding for non-Christian religions, as Islam
and Buddhism, in the Teaching of Religion in ordinary Swedish schools. The object of research is mainly textbooks in
Religion.
He has worked in international projects in this domain and been a member of international networks engaged in this sort
of research, as f. ex. EAWRE (European Association for World Religions in Education). He has also been engaged in
Karlstad University Exchange Programme with Banare´s Hindu University and schools in Varanasi and Dharamsala,
India.
He has been teaching mainly within Teacher Training but also in the Doctoral Programme.
Bibliography
1 Books
Härenstam, Kjell, Religious Diversity at Home in Various Countries. The Response: Dialogue. (Ed. Schultze H.) Wolfenbuttel 2002.
(Kompendium)
Härenstam, Kjell, Kan du höra vindhästen? Religionsdidaktik - om konsten att välja kunskap, Studentlitteratur, Lund 2000.
Härenstam, Kjell, Islam in Swedish Schoolbooks, in: Euro-islam. Stockholm 15-17.6 1995. A conference on relations between
European and Islamic Cultures and the position of Muslims in Europe. Documentation, Stockholm 1995
Härenstam, Kjell, Skolboks-islam. Analys av bilden av islam i läroböcker i religionskunskap. Göteborg 1993. (Doktorsavhandling,
dissertation, i pedagogik)
Härenstam, Kjell, Ökad förståelse för islam? Ämnesdidaktisk granskning av läromedel i religionskunskap för högstadiet och
gymnasiet, Karlstad 1984
Härenstam, Kjell, Perspektiv på islam. Karlstad 1983.
Religion i Syd- och Östasien. Del 1 Syd- och Östasien. Fb Religionskunskap.
Religion i Syd- och Östasien. Del 2 Fjärran Östern. Fb Religionskunskap. (Tillsammans med: Prof. C.M. Edsman och
skolkkonsulent M. Wesslegård.) Stockholm 1974
2. Book chapters and articles
Härenstam, Kjell, Images of Muslims in Swedish school textbooks. Ur: Nordic identities in transition - as reflected in pedagogic
texts and cultural contexts. Eds. S.Selander & B. Aamotsbakken. Oslo 2009
Härenstam, Kjell, How to choose Knowledge for Swedish Schools and Text-books in RE. Example: Tibetan Buddhism. in:
Panorama. International Journal of Comparative Religious Education and Values. Vol 12 / No. 1/ Summer 2000. Ed. Kwiran,
M., Schreiner, P.
Härenstam, Kjell, Thematische Studien zu den Weltreligionen in der Ausbildung von Lehrern und Lehrerinnen. Ur: Dialog der
Religionen im Unterricht. Theoretische und praktische Beiträge zu einem Bildungsziel. Herausg. v. Manfred Kwiran, Peter
Schreiner und Herbert Schulze, Münster 1996
Härenstam, Kjell, Historieböckers islam, Ur: Spov 21. Studier i den pedagogiska väven (red. Staffan Selander), Stockholm 1993
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Härenstam, Kjell, Approaching Truth in European Religious Education: Different modes. (with Prof. Dr. Herbert Schulze ), in:
World Religions in Education 1992/1993. Religion and Truth. Shap Working Party on World Religions in Education, London
1992
Härenstam, Kjell, Teologer debatterar. Semantiska synpunkter på debattinlägg om "Entmythologisierung" i: Kerygma und Mythos bd
I och II. Lund 1968 (Lic. avhandling i religionsfilosofi)
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