Johannes Westberg received his PhD (2008) and habilitation (2014) at Uppsala University, Sweden, and is full professor of theory and history of education at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He served as senior lecturer at the Department of Education, Uppsala University, 2012-2016, and as full professor of education at Örebro University, Sweden, 2016–2020.
Westberg promotes the use of historical perspectives and methods in educational research, working in the intersection between the history of education, educational policy studies, curriculum studies, the economics of education and comparative and international education.
He has a particular interest in questions regarding the how’s and why’s of educational expansion, not the least the rise of mass schooling during the 19th century and the expansion of ECCE since the 1960s. He has also a methodological interest, which has resulted in papers on, e.g., the usefulness of historical research in education; meta-analyses; and historical methods in education.
Links to my research
Short CV and Publication List
My webpage at University of Groningen
My page on Researchgate
Contact
b.a.j.westberg@rug.nl
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Updated: May 10, 2026
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