Category: educational anthropology
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An economy of emotions and actions? Part 1 of 4
Part 1: Power or humor? In a few days, I will be starting off my field study. As you might have read in an earlier blog post (in Danish), as a part of my studies in Educational Anthropology, I am going to conduct a field work study in a ‘reception class’, or in Danish: “Modtageklasse”.…
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Is Academia really that UNIKE?
Rapidly written impressions from a first day at the conference UNIKE, Copenhagen 15-17 June 2016. My first positive surprise: I had expected long, compact, academic talks with very little audacity and thinking out of the box. And I had expected to see a homogenous crowd of scholars all focused on furthering their own career. What…
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Policy, penge og fri forskning
Hvad sker der med de gode intentioner om at skabe en bedre folkeskole når de rammer policy og penge? Jeg har netop læst et nyudgivet speciale fra RUC, og jeg har fundet stor inspiration til teoretiske og metodologiske overvejelser. Desværre bliver den teoretiske ramme og den metodologiske tilgang brugt på en skuffende måde, når det kommer…
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The Copenhagen Summer University
Now that I am about to finish my first year in Educational Anthropology, I begin to see, if not the light, so at least an end to a very busy time, and the beginning of a nice and quiet summer. My original idea was to write on this blog about what I learned while I…
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From one ivory tower to the next …. OMG WTF !!
In the beginning of April this spring, I did some career counseling on myself, and as a result of a goal clarification process, I found out that I needed to dig deeper into the field I am working with. I wanted to dedicate more time and energy to investigate what is going on between people, when they are…
Building Sound Collectives 