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Review (Swedish): Emma Vikström, Skapandet av den nya människan: Eugenik och pedagogik i Ellen Keys författarskap
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Review (English): Christian Ydesen (ed.), The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education: The Formation of a Global Governing Complex
No full textEducationalising Death: The Emergence of Traffic Education in Swedish Elementary Schools
Get PDFWhen a social problem is educationalised, i.e. formulated as a responsibility for educational institutions, knowledge becomes a solution for societal ills. This article examines the history of traffic education in Swedish elementary schools as a particular form of knowledge. Focusing on the three first decades of traffic education, the ambition is to delve deeper into the issue of what constituted traffic knowledge during a period of mass motorisation. In teaching about traffic, what were the main things that had to be conveyed? What were the main challenges in teaching the essentials of traffic, and what techniques were used to make traffic possible to understand for an audience of children? Drawing on handbooks for teachers and textbooks in traffic education, the article discusses five forms of knowledge that were used in traffic education: knowledge about risk, juridical knowledge, visual knowledge, moral knowledge, and practical knowledge
Review (English): Johan Samuelsson, Läroverken och progressivismen: Perspektiv på historieundervisningens praktik och policy 1920–1950
No full textWomen survivors of female genital mutilation/cutting: A collaborative process of engaging them as ambassadors of change in Hargeisa, Somaliland
Get PDFThe overall question guiding this research was why after so many years of research and other forms of interventions to eradicate female genital mutilation, it persists. This article is about a special group of women who undergo medical surgery to repair the damage they had endured after genital mutilation/cutting (FGM) in childhood. The process describes how women are encouraged to reflect on their experiences before and after medical surgery and to engage in dialogue on how FGM can be stopped. The study builds on participatory action research aiming to generate knowledge while simultaneously attempting to change the system, or in this case, the attitudes to and reasoning around FGM. However, due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the entire process that should have lasted for at least three years, could not be implemented. This paper therefore covers only the initial process of reaching the affected women, whom we call ambassadors of change, and the organization of the first dialogue workshop. The process started with pre-dialogue mapping that involved visiting women who had received care through an NGO and interviewing them individually or in small groups about their FGM complications and their life after medical surgery. They were also invited to a dialogue workshop with other women and representatives from the government and civil society, to talk about FGM, their pains and how to stop FGM. A total of 34 women participated in the workshop where they discussed their experiences and exchanged views on how to end the practice. The use of participatory action research is discussed and the study indicates the need for using innovative methods to mobilize and engage community members and policy makers to end FGM
Kåre Hoel, Bustadnavn i Østfold 19. Eidsberg. Utgitt av Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, Universitetet i Oslo ved Tom Schmidt, Oslo: Novus Forlag 2020, ISBN 9788270999286, 711 pp. + map.
No full textCornelia Lüdecke, Germans in the Antarctic
No full textReview of: Cornelia Lüdecke, Germans in the Antarctic, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021, ISBN 9783030409234, 302 pp; eBook at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40924-1. (Translated from the German language edition Deutsche in der Antarktis, Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag GmbH 2015.
