Maria Helming Gustavsson

Maria Helming Gustavsson research interest is reading and more specifically reading engagement when fiction reading within the school subject Swedish grade 7-9 and secondary school. Previously she has been a primary school teacher in Swedish and Swedish as a second language grade 7-9 from which she has more than 20 years of experience. This includes several projects about school development about reading as a head teacher and central head teacher and as a school librarian. Reading and students reading development has been at focus for Maria during many years in her teaching practice, within in-service training among the teacher collegue, in her studies which also has lead to her current research project.