dc.contributor.author | Thomas, Paul | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-13T12:46:01Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-31T11:29:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-09-13T12:46:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-31T11:29:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-09-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Cogent Education 2016, 3:1-16 | language |
dc.identifier.issn | 2331-186X | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/4629 | |
dc.description.abstract | The perplexing numbers of Somali children withdrawn from schools in Norway
and sent to Somalia is the concern of this study. These students are often brought back
and re-enroll later as adolescents with concomitant educational challenges. The findings
are critically analyzed employing John Ogbu’s cultural ecology of minorities and a CHATbased
inquiry that approaches the Somali community and Norwegian schooling as interconnected
activities that share commonalities and yet evince several contradictions.
The findings reveal the need to engage with Somali symbolic cultural artifacts (e.g. deen
(religion), dhaqan (culture), gaal (the infidel or “Other”), and hisho (female modesty) and
arrive at interpretations/understandings that are more amenable to educational success.
It is argued that given the gravity and scale of the conundrum, both sides will have
to think creatively if the aim is to safeguard the educational integrity of Somali children. | language |
dc.language.iso | en | language |
dc.publisher | Cogent OA | language |
dc.rights | © 2016 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution
(CC-BY) 4.0 license. | language |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Academic risk | language |
dc.subject | Adolescents | language |
dc.subject | Diversity | language |
dc.title | Norwegian-Somali parents who send their children to schools in Somalia | language |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | language |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.date.updated | 2016-09-13T12:46:01Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | language |
dc.identifier.doi | http://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2016.1229520 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1380955 | |
dc.relation.projectID | Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus: Reference code: 2210, Project: 191036 | |