Welcome to this month's bilingual newsletter from the research group Diversity in Education (DivE)! In this month's newsletter, we want to update you on our research group's latest activities. Despite the gloomy weather, we are still diving. For the past two months our researchers have, through their publications, contributed to our understanding of multicultural school events, multiculturalism in Canada, and donor-initiated literacy projects in Zambia. Read more about out newest member and Nina's visit to the University of Iceland.
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Recent Publications from DivE |
Since our last newsletter, DivE has contributed with the following publications:
DivE researcher, Thor-André Skrefsrud has published the chapter Multicultural School Events: Possibilities and Pitfalls for Refugee Students and Their Families as part of the edited volume Teaching Refugees and Displaced Students. Through the chapter, Skrefsrud identifies the risk of reducing multicultural education to exotic happenings separated from everyday activities in school. At the same time,he draws attention to the productivity of multicultural school events by presenting counter-narratives about diasporic identity, belonging, and learning.
DivE-researcher Vander Tavares published an edited volume titled Reconstructions of Canadian Identity together with Maria João Maciel Jorge. The volume examines what has changed over the past fifty years in relation to multiculturalism in Canada, highlighting the lived experiences of marginalized Canadians and offering insights into the critical work that lies ahead. The editors bring together a wide range of disciplines and perspectives to investigate inclusion and exclusion within the processes, discourses, and practices that forge and frame Canadian identity. Illustrating both the shortcomings of and possibilities for a more inclusive multiculturalism in Canada, Reconstructions of Canadian Identity invites readers to reflect on what it means to be Canadian in the twenty-first century.
DivE-researcher Jonas Yassin Iversen has published the article "Stories and early literacy education in Zambia: donor-initiated projects, educational policy and teacher beliefs" in collaboration with Juliet Munden and Margaret Nambao. In the article, the researchers examine the premise on which donor-initiated literacy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa build, namely that providing stories in local languages can significantly improve early literacy achievement. Moreover, they critically assess this premise in light of Zambian pre-service teachers' experiences with stories and literacy-related beliefs.
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Oppdatering fra CERiTE-projektet |
I slutten av oktober avholdt CERiTE-prosjektet (Critical Examination of Race and Racism in Teacher Education) et to-dagers seminar sammen med den internasjonale referansegruppa i prosjektet; professor Christine Sleeter, California State University, Monterey Bay og professor Reza Gholami, University of Birmingham. Prosjektet ledes av assosiert medlem i DivE, Prisca Bruno Massao. Under seminaret presenterte DivE-forsker Danelle du Plessis funn fra ph.d.-arbeidet sitt om rasialiserte lærere og lærerstudenter. DivE-forsker Kristin Skinstad van der Kooij la fram arbeid om samarbeidet mellom lærerutdanning og museumssektoren.
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| New member: Kristin Gregers Eriksen |
We are proud to announce that DivE has a new external member. Kristin Gregers Eriksen is an Associate Professor in Social Studies Education at the University of South-Eastern Norway. She is Head of the research group in Social Studies Education (SAMD), and convener of the NERA Network on Critical Race, Racism and Whiteness in education. Her research and teaching revolve around decolonial perspectives on knowledge and pedagogy, Sámi and indigenous knowledges in education, racism and anti-racism in education, and education for sustainable futures. We look forward to collaborating with Kristin!
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DivE-stipendiat Nina Utvær Jacobsen har denne høsten vært på et to måneders utvekslingsopphold ved School of Education - Stakkahlíð, University of Iceland. Oppholdet er hovedsaklig relatert til eget skrivearbeid, men hun har også knyttet bånd til professor Hanna Ragnarsdóttir og hennes forskergruppe «Language policies and practices of diverse immigrant families in Iceland and their implication for education». Noe av målsettingen ved oppholdet er å få innsikt i hvordan skoler i Island arbeider med å skape inkluderende praksiser for nyankomne migrantelever. I den forbindelse hadde hun et hyggelig og informativt møte med Þorbjörg Halldórsdóttir og Berglind Hansen ved Directorate of Education, hvor det også var rom for å sammenlikne og utveksle erfaringer.
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