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Exploring Anti-Semitism in the Classroom: A Case Study Among Norwegian Adolescents from Minority Backgrounds
Thomas, Paul (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08-05)This study explores high school students’ views of Jews in one minority-dominated school in Oslo, Norway. Employing a qualitative approach, semistructured interview guides and classroom-based discussions teased out attitudes ... -
In the shadow of Anglobalization national tests in English in Norway and the making of a new English underclass
Thomas, Paul; Breidlid, Anders (Journal of Multicultural Discourses;10(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-06-30)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 ... -
Managing Religion in a Global World: The United Nation's ruling against Norwegian Religious Education
Thomas, Paul (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-08-19)In 2004, after a group of parents supported by the Norwegian Humanist Association and the Norwegian Islamic Council brought litigation against the state to the United Nations (UN), the mandatory teaching of religious ... -
Norwegian-Somali parents who send their children to schools in Somalia
Thomas, Paul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09-12)The perplexing numbers of Somali children withdrawn from schools in Norway and sent to Somalia is the concern of this study.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 ... -
“Papa, Am I a Negro?” The Vexed History of the Racial Epithet in Norwegian Print Media (1970–2014)
Thomas, Paul (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09)This study explores the portrayal of blacks in Norwegian print media between 1970 and 2014 as refracted through the prism of the epithet “Negro” (neger). 4174 references covering 30 newspapers are analyzed employing a ... -
The portrayal of non-westerners in EFL textbooks in Norway
Thomas, Paul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The discourse of equity and egalitarianism has a long pedigree in Norway. However, this discourse has recently come under severe strain as evidenced by the growing segregation of schools along ethnic lines in the capital ...