It certainly feels good to have published my first article: Focused Ethnographic Research on Teaching and Learning in Conflict Zones: History Education in South Sudan. The article analyzes how central features of focused ethnography produce knowledge on teaching and learning history in conflict zones. It argues how five specific challenges of research in conflict zones are addressed through the methods of video observation, ‘hanging out’, and interviews. Through empirical examples from my first period of fieldwork in South Sudan, 2014 the article illustrates how the challenges of restricted access, psychological stress, complexity, positionality of the researcher, and unpredictability might be addressed in research on teaching and learning history in a society divided by ethnic conflicts.
Access the article here: Focused Ethnographic Research on Teaching and Learning in Conflict Zones: History Education in South Sudan.
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I am getting closer to my first academic publication. It has taken a long time. I started working on the article late 2014. I presented it to colleagues in my research group UMU at HiOA, PhD student colleagues and colleagues at NATED during fall 2015. I got a lot of feedback and by October 2015 the article was submitted to the journal Forum for Development Studies. Mid May 2016, I got feedback from the peer reviewers accepting the article with minor revisions. These revisions are now done and I am in the last phase proof reading the manuscript from Taylor and Francis. Yippi!! |
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