Anders Breidlid

• Ph D
• Professor at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

In this article, we contend that Cuba's civic education system is highly ideological, and the Cuban Communist Party's ideology strongly permeates citizens' social obligations towards the state, as imparted through civic education. The research demonstrates that the Cuban education system embodies a form of inclusive nationalism that offers a clear...

The article aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on quality education with regard to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. The authors suggest that heterogeneity and plurality of epistemologies in Sub-Saharan African classrooms are not drawbacks, but important resources with regard to both student learning and sustainable development. The major...

The link between education and psychosocial wellbeing is important, but complex. This study seeks to explore stakeholder’s views on the role of school education in the psychosocial support and wellbeing of children in the context of Sudan and South Sudan. Qualitative interviews were conducted among teachers, parents, counsellors, and NGO staff who...

This article explores local, national and global aspects of the new national curriculum in South Sudan as reflected in the lived experiences of secondary school teachers. We draw on analyses of the curriculum, semi-structured interviews with 21 secondary school teachers, and classroom observations. We emphasize the need for critical global citizens...

This article analyses the teaching and learning of South Sudan history from 1955–2005 in secondary schools in South Sudan with a specific focus on national unity. The article draws on two periods of focused ethnography, from September to December 2014 and July to September 2015, including classroom observation and interviews with teachers, student...

The focus of this chapter is the hegemonic role of Western epistemology, and in particular the domination of what I call the global architecture of education globally. I argue that this hegemony in the education systems means a dislocation of home and indigenous languages, epistemologies and cultures with negative academic consequences in the ‘glob...

The chapter looks at the potential of indigenous knowledges as a counterhegemonic force within mainstream educational settings. Taking an anticolonial perspective, the concept of indigenous knowledges is historically situated within a global context of colonial relations, as well as in current national struggles of indigenous people in the educatio...

This study argues that the recent ‘English revolution’ in Norway conflates with the growing standardization of education in the European Union (EU; e.g. the 1999 Bologna Treaty). This proliferation of English at the supranational level has knock-on-effects at the national level. Using documents from Statistics Norway, The Directorate of Education,...

AIDS is one of the most destructive pandemics in history and, according to UNAIDS (2011), more than 30 million people have died since 1981. In Africa more than 15 million people have lost their lives due to the pandemic. In 2011, 1.7 million died of AIDS (UNAIDS, 2012).

This volume is the result of academic cooperation between scholars in Norway, Sudan, Zambia, and South Africa linked to a master’s program in international education and development. It draws upon studies carried out in Sudan, Zambia, Namibia, and South Africa. Most of the chapters deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic in various ways. Because youth are...

The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies. Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western epistemology has had a major impact on the epistemolo...

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 9 January 2005 between the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) gave expectations to a population which for too long had been suffering during a civil war that had lasted, with certain intermissions, for 50 years.

This article addresses the role that education plays in conflict, with specific reference to the civil war in Sudan. It analyses the ideological basis of the Sudanese government (GoS) during the civil war, with special reference to the role of religion and ethnicity. It shows how the primary education system was based on the Islamist ideology of th...

The article’s focus is the relationship between culture, indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), sustainable development and education in Africa. It analyzes the concept of sustainability with particular reference to education and indigenous knowledge systems. In particular the article analyzes the documents from the World Summit in Johannesburg in 200...

This article focuses on the Cuban education system, which is well known for its focus on inclusion and equality of opportunity, but also for its focus on political and ideological conformity. The economic crisis in Cuba has led to an educational crisis as well, both in terms of teacher shortages and a decrease in quality and in political/ideologica...

Incl. abstract, bib. This article examines the educational discourse in the part of the Sudan administered by the Government of the Sudan. It first analyses the value system upon which the Sudanese education is based by focusing on the nature of Islamism. Such a discussion is necessary because the dominant discourse is a discourse where power and I...

Incl. abstract, bibl. This article examines the situation of the internally displaced persons from Southern Sudan living in and around the capital and their experience with the dominant Islamic discourse, and particularly the educational discourse of the ruling National Congress (NC). Based on qualitative field data, the article explores the opposi...

As a prominent member of the South African Communist Party (CPSA) and the South African Coloured People's Organization (SACPO), the chairman of the African National Congress (ANC) branch in London and the ANC representative in the Carribean (Cuba), Alex La Guma's contribution to the liberation struggle in South Africa was indisputably significant....

In this paper we argue that research in HIV/AIDS within the education sector is largely influenced by dominant discourses within economics, medicine and epidemiology sectors which, by and large, fail to take into consideration the social and cultural embeddedness of the disease. Through a critique of the current research conducted in the last ten y...