Merethe Skårås

Merethe Skårås is an Accosiate professor in Education at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society and holds a PhD in Educational Sciences for Teacher Education from Oslo Metropolitan University.

Bentrovato, D. & Skårås, M. (2023). Ruptured imaginings amid emerging nationhood: The unsettled narrative of “unity in resistance” in South Sudanese history textbooks, Nations and Nationalism, s. 1041 - 1056. Nations and Nationalism, ISSN: 1354-5078

Skårås, M. (2022). No Textbooks, No Peace? Historical Narratives in South Sudan, Teaching Peace and Conflict : The Multiple Roles of School Textbooks in Peacebuilding,, s. 139 - 153. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-031-04676-6

Skårås, M. & Bentrovato, D. (2022). Authoritarian cosmopolitan citizenship in the new nation of South Sudan: Insights from a secondary school textbook analysis, Citizenship Teaching and Learning, s. 399 - 414. Citizenship Teaching and Learning, ISSN: 1751-1917

Skårås, M. (2021). Teaching and learning the most recent history in divided societies emerging from conflict: A review of the literature through the lens of social justice, Journal of Peace Education, s. 282 - 308. Journal of Peace Education, ISSN: 1740-0201

Skårås, M. & Carsillo, T. & Breidlid, A. (2019). The ethnic/local, the national and the global: Global citizenship education in South Sudan, British Journal of Educational Studies, British Journal of Educational Studies, ISSN: 0007-1005

Skårås, Merethe (2019). Constructing a national narrative in civil war: History teaching and national unity in South Sudan. Comparative Education.

Skårås, Merethe (2017). Educational and Social Challenges in the Reintegration Process of Former Child Soldiers. Camp-Yeakey, Carol Marcucci, Olivia M. Elmesky, Rowhea (Red.), The Power of Resistance: Culture, Ideology and Social Reproduction in Global Contexts. Section 2. s. 243-263. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/S1479-358X20140000012012

Skårås, Merethe;Breidlid, Anders (2016). Teaching the violent past in secondary schools in new independent South Sudan. Education as Change. Vol. 20. doi: 10.17159/1947-9417/2016/1312
https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/EAC/article/view/1312/pdf_45

Skårås, Merethe (2016). Focused ethnographic research on teaching and learning in conflict zones: History education in South Sudan. Forum for Development Studies. doi: 10.1080/08039410.2016.1202316

Experience

  • –present
    PhD candidate and lecturer, Oslo Metropolitan University

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