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'We Are Not Worried about Fatima!' -- Circulating Affects in Educational Guidance of Racially Minoritised Students in Danish Problematised Housing Areas
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Laerke Vildlyng – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2025
Based on empirical observations of educational guidance and interviews with students and teachers at two Danish schools, as well as critical policy analysis, this article illustrates how worry about future education for racially minoritised students in problematized housing areas is shaped in intersections of place, class, and race. Through an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, School Counselors
Sorting Shapes or Connecting Dots? Local Enactments of Globalization in Early Childhood Education in Denmark
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Hvid Thingstrup, Signe; Aabro, Christian; Prins, Karen; Christensen, Kira Saabye – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
This article explores how complex globalization processes play out in early childhood education (ECE) in Denmark. The article builds on two concepts of globalization: First, we understand globalization as the ways in which transnational educational policy discourses characterized by neoliberal pedagogical values affect national and local policies.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Early Childhood Education, Immigration, Neoliberalism
Conditional Hospitality and Coercive Concern: Countertopographies of Islamophobia in American and Danish Schools
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Shirazi, Roozbeh; Jaffe-Walter, Reva – Comparative Education, 2021
In this article, we explore how locally situated educational practices and policies aimed at inclusion and integration may contribute to racialised exclusion for students. Our analysis brings together two ethnographic studies of how minoritised Muslim youth navigate secondary schooling in Denmark and the US. Our cases illustrate how assumptions…
Descriptors: Islam, Fear, Muslims, Minority Group Students
Toppling Hierarchies? Media and Information Literacies, Ethnicity, and Performative Media Practices
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Drotner, Kirsten; Kobbernagel, Christian – Learning, Media and Technology, 2014
This article suggests how we should study media and information literacies (MIL) and do so at a time, when young people nurture these literacies through multiple media practices and across spaces of learning. Our basic argument is this: in order to gain a robust knowledge base for the development of MIL we need to study literacy practices beyond…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Information Literacy, Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups
The Nordic Council and Immigrant Education Policy.
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Johnson, Kristi Planck – 1989
Cooperation among Scandinavian nations (Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden) is important in order to develop an effective policy regarding the education of immigrants and refugees. Each of the Scandinavian countries has a definitive education policy for refugees and immigrants. However, cooperative efforts among the nations through the Nordic…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Pedagogical Problems and Symbolic Values in the Language Curriculum--The Case of the German Minority in Denmark.
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Sondergaard, Bent; Byram, Michael – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Discusses the role played by German schools in Denmark in the maintenance of the minority's identity and describes those constraints and tensions which are due to the symbolic value of German. The interrelationship of pedagogical problems and potential solutions with the perceptions fundamental to the minority group's identity are highlighted.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Problems, Educational Policy