Ida Marie Lyså

• Professor (Associate) at Norwegian University of Science and Technology

New media, such as virtual technologies (VR), are increasingly used with the aim of providing more immersive experiences in learning in schools and universities, including the nurturing of empathy, which is considered important for strengthening democracy, tolerance and social justice. In this article, we explore how students in higher education in...

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Nordic journal Barn, we conducted a systematic literature review of all articles published in the journal, starting from the very first issue in 1983. In this article, we focus on the intersection between childhoods published in the coded articles and the politics of knowledge production at play in Nordic ch...

In this editorial, we explore the Cardamom Law through a postcolonial lens—scrutinising its convoluted origins, connotations and associations—to show how childhoods in the Nordic region are globally entangled.

This paper uses a case study to critically reflect on contemporary discourses in Norway connected to ethnic minority childhoods and children’s rights to education and work. Based on a narrative interview with an ethnic minority girl, Sadja (aged 16), who is in state custody and lives with a foster family, we use a decolonial lens to explore the ten...

Everyday racism is a peculiar and complicated area of meaning-making in the context of Norway. On the one hand, there are many examples of how minority groups have experienced racism in everyday settings, but on the other, such experiences does not resonate with the self-image of the majority population, who see themselves as non-racist and good pe...

Based on life history interviews with ten international adoptees from Asia and South America, the following analysis explores how this group of young adults struggle to access “Norwegian-ness”. The adoptees have different life experiences, but their shared experiences of “looking different” is a recurring theme in the interviews. Theoretical perspe...

This year, 2023, our journal Barn – forskning om barn og barndom i Norden celebrates its 40th anniversary! On August 16–17, the Anniversary Conference At Critical Crossroads in Nordic Childhood Studies will be held in Trondheim, Norway to celebrate our birthday. Looking back, we are proud to see the wide variety of research that has been published...

This special issue contributes insights into ongoing debates on the politics and ethics of knowledge production in “global” childhood studies by decentering dominant, northern-centric models of childhood and using southern epistemologies. We contest the ways in which most of the world’s children have their experiences and contexts interpreted throu...

In this article, we draw on a case study where the Norwegian Child Welfare services placed an ethnic minority girl, Amara, into foster care. Her sensemaking around being moved into foster care is used as entry point to explore tensions between Amara, her family, and Child Welfare services. Amara’s responsibilities within the family conflict with th...

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Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies

Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies

I denne prøveforelesningen1vil jeg på ingen måte gi en fullstendig oversikt over foreliggende forskning på (barne)institusjoner, men heller vise til et mindre utvalg forskning på feltet fra skandinavisk/nordisk kontekst, for slik å åpne opp for diskusjon rundt vekselvirkninger mellom produksjon av kunnskap, forskningsfokus og forståelser av barn og...