Full Description
This open access book addresses the key educational challenges faced by marginalized communities in Norway, advocating for inclusive and equitable learning environments with a focus on decolonization and empowerment. Drawing on case studies and examples from across Norway's diverse cultural landscape, the book highlights the importance of integrating various cultural narratives into education, enhancing students' understanding of their own identities and histories. It covers issues and topics including whiteness, Jewish and Muslim education, Norwegian history, climate justice, AI, gender, the manosphere and trumpism, critical pedagogy and mass testing. The book offers actionable insights and strategies for researchers, educators and policy makers to implement decolonized and socially just practices in their classrooms and educational systems.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of South-Eastern Norway and Oslo Metropolitan University.
Contents
Introduction
Part I
1. The Feminization of Education?
2. The Paradox of The "Identity Synthesis"
3. Engaging Boys Beyond Trump's Manosphere
4. The Burden of Representation
5. Empowered Identities: Muslim Girls Redefining Norm
Part II
6. Protecting Critical Thinking: Norway's U.S. Warning
7. The Neoliberal Reconfiguration of Knowledge
8. Rethinking Education: More Than Just Stem
9. Cultivating Intrinsic Motivation Over High-Stakes Testing
10. Challenging Norms: Critical Thinking in Norwegian Education
Part III
11. Decolonizing Literary Texts
12. Decolonizing The Memory of Norwegian History
13. DeCO2olonizing Our Climate: The Racism in Climate Change
14. Beyond The Matrix: Algorithms, Bias, and Decolonization
Part IV
15. The Handshake: A Democratic Dilemma in Norway
16. Tensions of Democracy and Muslim Schools in Norway
17. Jewish and Muslim Synergy Via Democratic Education
18. Whiteness and the Boundaries of Democracy
19. Defining Norwegian Identity: A Democracy in Transition
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
