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Promoting research for the fragile Somali health system – : Main findings from a successful conference
Get PDFA 3-day conference was held in Garowe from the 30th of January to the 1st of February 2022 under the leadership of the Somali National Institute of Health to strengthen the foundation of health research in the country by promoting strategies for health research capacity building, sharing available evidence for action, and widening research collaborative networks. The conference was also instrumental in concretizing plans for improving the existing Somali Universities’ health research performance. It was jointly organized and supported by the National Institute of Health, the Federal Ministry of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Agency of Sweden, the Somali Swedish Researchers’ Association, and a consortium of Somali and Swedish universities. The Puntland State Ministry of Health hosted the conference. This paper summarizes topics presented at the conference and identifies gaps and opportunities for research capacity strengthening in Somalia, which would generate evidence to inform public health policies.
An Organizing Committee for the management and logistics of the conference and a Scientific Committee were established, the latter providing expertise in selecting key research topics and speakers/delegates for the conference. More than 180 participants from academic institutions and the health sector service delivery network attended the conference. Twelve panel presentations and 51 abstracts were delivered, covering health system research priorities. Of the 51 presented abstracts, 35% were on communicable diseases, 26% on reproductive maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, 24% were on the health system, and 16% on non-communicable diseases. The conference also highlighted the need to build research capacity to support researchers and institutions to strengthen their research skills, including research methodology, data analysis, interpretation, and scientific writing. Highly relevant findings were presented that had the potential to inform health policy and scale up the community-based health services towards Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goals
Flickors och pojkars lek i dockvrå och dockskåp: Normativa förväntningar och hierarkier i förskolan vid mitten av 1900-talet
Get PDFGirls’ and boys’ play in the home corner and doll house: Gendered expectations and hierarchies in Swedish preschool in the middle of the 20th century. This article examines children’s play in a gender stereotypical framing: the home corner and dollhouses in mid-1900’s Swedish preschool. Three different types of empirical material were analysed: a preschool teachers’ questionnaire, observation protocols from children’s play with dollhouses and complementary photographs of playing preschool children. By examining these, we have been able to identify the preschool teacher’s gender stereotyped expectations of girls’ and boys’ play and how gender stereotyped expectations of children were maintained. The children especially helped to uphold a dichotomy between girls’ and boys’ play. This dichotomy was confirmed by the fact that girls had a hierarchically superior role in the game when both girls and boys participated. Boys, on the other hand, had more space for action in the gender-stereotypically framed play, as they were not bound by play conventions in the same way as girls. Boys’ attempts at nurturing play with dolls, i.e. more femininely coded play, was disparaged by educators and other children
Review (English): Matts Dahlkwist, En landsbygdens skolreform? Den geografiska dimensionen i bygget av en enhetsskola
No full textReview (Swedish): Ellen Nørgaard, Det Naturlige og frie barn: Tre reformpædagogiske visioner
No full textEducation, Nation-State Formation and Religion: Comparing Ireland and Norway
Get PDFThis article compares the development of primary education in Ireland and Norway, from its establishment in the nineteenth century until present time. The aim of the article is to discuss how and to what degree nation-state formation after independence in Ireland (1922) and Norway (1905) created fundamental and persistent structures for the development of primary schooling, as well as the role that religion and nation-building played in this. Previous research on the development of Irish and Norwegian schooling and official documents and reports makes up the research material. The article demonstrates that, despite institutional secularisation around the world from the nineteenth century onwards, religious and national peculiarities in the establishment of primary education in Ireland and Norway continue to characterise, and to some extent explain, the differences in Irish and Norwegian education today
Between offshore competition and a duopoly: Gambling provision on and from the Finnish Åland Islands
Get PDFThis paper explores the legal and social status of the Åland-based gambling company Paf. Gambling and the gambling industry have increasingly moved online. Online provision has had implications for policy particularly due to increased competition in domestic markets from offshore gambling. In offshore gambling, unlicensed operators do not follow predetermined legal rules. Yet, there has been little research addressing the definition of offshore provision. Paf is an excellent example of a company that operates several roles: it is a monopoly on Åland, a licensed operator in some European jurisdictions, and an offshore operator in Mainland Finland. This paper uses key informant interviews (N=5) and legislative texts to study the social and legal implications of Paf's offshore operation. The findings show that offshore provision is heterogeneous and legally complex. A company such as Paf can at the same time operate within the legal framework and provide offshore gambling. This possibility has made Paf very profitable for and socially accepted on the Åland Islands
Review (Swedish): Åsa Broberg, Viveca Lindberg & Gun-Britt Wärvik (eds.), Kunskapstraditioner och yrkeskunnande: Kvinnors yrkesutbildning i historisk belysning
No full textDoes Curriculum Fail Indigenous Political Aspirations? Sovereignty and Australian History and Social Studies Curriculum
Get PDFThrough analysis of curricular materials (syllabus documents and supplementary readers) from the late-nineteenth century to the present, this article explores the role of school curriculum in shaping understandings of Indigenous political aspirations in the Australian context. It juxtaposes curricular materials with significant occasions of Indigenous political activism in Australia since the late-nineteenth century: the Coranderrk campaign of the 1870-80s, the Wave Hill Walk Off in 1966, the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972, and the Bicentenary protests of 1988. From this analysis, five narrative sub-themes were developed—Invisibility, Benevolence, Obfuscation, Innocence, and Acknowledgement—which captured the ways that Indigenous sovereignty, nationhood, and political legitimacy had been represented. In drawing out some continuities and changes to curricular representations of First Nations’ and settler sovereignty, nationhood, and political legitimacy over a one hundred year period, this article highlights the uneven ways that curriculum has, and continues to, represent political possibilities on the Australian continent. This article offers insights for Nordic contexts where there are also contests about legacies of colonialism in the public sphere, including in education
Empowering vulnerable Somali Girls and Women - a narrative on the role of education for health and development
Get PDFPromoting the education of girls and young women is a powerful strategy for empowering them in societies influenced by traditional patriarchal cultural norms. Hawa Aden Mohamed, a Somali educator, has been urging action on women's rights for over twenty years. Following years of exile during civil unrest, she returned to her homeland in 1999 and established the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development, a non-government organisation committed to strengthening the capacity of girls and women to advocate for fundamental human rights such as gender equality in education and health, and protection from abusive practices such as female genital mutilation.
Within this narrative, the voices of Mama Hawa, current and former students and their mothers, school officials and local government representatives connect to tell the compelling story of this inspirational Somali-based Centre.
This may serve as a catalyst for nurturing girls’ education and create an enabling environment for pivotal engagement in Somalia’s national development and the pursuit of human rights. Somali leaders at all tiers of governance, civil society organisations, educational institutions, the private sector, the wider communities, and international partners are urged to work to make gender equality and the empowerment of girls and women through education, a central theme for achieving all the Sustainable Development Goals
Att öka samiskt inflytande och återaktualisera traditionella kunskaper – Sák96 och den samiska utbildningsambitionen i relation till Lpo94
Get PDFTo increase Sámi influence and re-actualize traditional knowledge. Sák96 and the Sámi educational ambition in relation to Lpo94. Throughout history, Sámi education has been governed by a Swedish state perspective through legislation and curricula. On one single occasion, an education directive has been published in Sweden based on a Sámi perspective, namely the Sámi syllabi 1996 (Sák96). Sák96 was formed for Sámi education and worked as a complement to the curriculum for the compulsory Swedish school system in 1994 (Lpo94). This study is based on thematic analysis of Sák96 and Lpo94. The purpose is to analyse the educational ambitions in Sák96 in relation to Lpo94 as well as in relation to Sámi identities expressed in the educational ambitions. The analysis is anchored in Gert Biesta’s theories about educational domains and ambitions of education as well as concepts about identification and imagined communities. The study shows that the main ambition with Sák96 was to protect and develop Sámi culture and language in a more detailed way than Lpo94. Sák96 also included additional historical perspectives on the Swedish society’s encroachment on traditional Sámi land, more detailed knowledge of Sámi society and Sámi knowledge traditions, and a desire to create conditions for increased Sámi influence. The Sámi community appears to be closely connected to reindeer husbandry communities according to Sák96. The Sámi communities are also presented as a people divided in four countries (northern Norway, Sweden, Finland as well as Kola Peninsula, Russia) with differentiated livelihood and conditions