Intersectional Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Norwegian Higher Education
Highlighting how systemic inequities in Norwegian higher education are perpetuated through colonial legacies, monocultures of knowledge, and a lack of critical engagement, this book offers an intersectional analysis that identifies issues and complexities in the domains of pedagogy, epistemology, re...
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| author | Eriksen, Kristin Gregers | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8240-2163 Mezzanotti, Gabriela | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7801-8903 Håndlykken-Luz, Åsne Llort, Sonia Muñoz Faria Nunes, Deise | https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8475-6349 |
| author_browse | Eriksen, Kristin Gregers | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8240-2163 Faria Nunes, Deise | https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8475-6349 Håndlykken-Luz, Åsne Llort, Sonia Muñoz Mezzanotti, Gabriela | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7801-8903 |
| author_facet | Eriksen, Kristin Gregers | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8240-2163 Mezzanotti, Gabriela | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7801-8903 Håndlykken-Luz, Åsne Llort, Sonia Muñoz Faria Nunes, Deise | https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8475-6349 |
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| description | Highlighting how systemic inequities in Norwegian higher education are perpetuated through colonial legacies, monocultures of knowledge, and a lack of critical engagement, this book offers an intersectional analysis that identifies issues and complexities in the domains of pedagogy, epistemology, research, curriculum, and support services. Foregrounding the voices of researchers, teacher educators, and student teachers through a variety of methodological approaches, the volume examines and critiques interconnected barriers rooted in experiences and ideologies of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, body, language, literacy, and religion that marginalize students and scholars, particularly those with multiple minority identities. Chapters identify persistent gaps in policy and practice in the experiences of students and scholars, including those from the Global South, despite growing equity, diversity, and inclusion mandates and discourses promoted by Norwegian higher education. To address such challenges, this volume advocates for decolonization, pluriversality, and systemic changes in higher education and academic practices through intersectionality to create a more inclusive and equitable higher education landscape. Advocating for the need to ethically humanize, diversify and decolonize Norwegian higher education, this book will be of interest to researchers, scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of higher education, multicultural education, and sociology of education. Policymakers and administrators may also benefit from the volume. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1731832026-06-03T07:59:39Z Intersectional Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Norwegian Higher Education Eriksen, Kristin Gregers | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8240-2163 Mezzanotti, Gabriela | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7801-8903 Håndlykken-Luz, Åsne Llort, Sonia Muñoz Faria Nunes, Deise | https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8475-6349 Tavares, Vander Decolonial theory Academic monocultures Equity policy analysis Marginalised identities Teacher education reform Qualitative educational research Intersectionality in Nordic academia International students Colonial Race Racialization Queer Epistemological monocultures Intersectionality Higher education Diversity Equity Pedagogy White feminisms Epistemic violence Inclusion Minority groups Pedagogies Norway Faculty of Colour Intersectional Education policy Norwegian Antiracism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy::JNFK Educational strategies and policy: inclusion Highlighting how systemic inequities in Norwegian higher education are perpetuated through colonial legacies, monocultures of knowledge, and a lack of critical engagement, this book offers an intersectional analysis that identifies issues and complexities in the domains of pedagogy, epistemology, research, curriculum, and support services. Foregrounding the voices of researchers, teacher educators, and student teachers through a variety of methodological approaches, the volume examines and critiques interconnected barriers rooted in experiences and ideologies of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, body, language, literacy, and religion that marginalize students and scholars, particularly those with multiple minority identities. Chapters identify persistent gaps in policy and practice in the experiences of students and scholars, including those from the Global South, despite growing equity, diversity, and inclusion mandates and discourses promoted by Norwegian higher education. To address such challenges, this volume advocates for decolonization, pluriversality, and systemic changes in higher education and academic practices through intersectionality to create a more inclusive and equitable higher education landscape. Advocating for the need to ethically humanize, diversify and decolonize Norwegian higher education, this book will be of interest to researchers, scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of higher education, multicultural education, and sociology of education. Policymakers and administrators may also benefit from the volume. 2026-03-01T07:45:55Z 2026-03-01T07:45:55Z 2026-02-28T20:26:41Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110415 9781003528647 9781032853710 9781032866758 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173183 eng Routledge Research in Higher Education open access Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003528647 10.4324/9781003528647 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781003528647 9781032853710 9781032866758 Routledge 1 London open access |
| spellingShingle | Decolonial theory Academic monocultures Equity policy analysis Marginalised identities Teacher education reform Qualitative educational research Intersectionality in Nordic academia International students Colonial Race Racialization Queer Epistemological monocultures Intersectionality Higher education Diversity Equity Pedagogy White feminisms Epistemic violence Inclusion Minority groups Pedagogies Norway Faculty of Colour Intersectional Education policy Norwegian Antiracism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy::JNFK Educational strategies and policy: inclusion Eriksen, Kristin Gregers | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8240-2163 Mezzanotti, Gabriela | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7801-8903 Håndlykken-Luz, Åsne Llort, Sonia Muñoz Faria Nunes, Deise | https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8475-6349 Intersectional Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Norwegian Higher Education |
| title | Intersectional Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Norwegian Higher Education |
| title_full | Intersectional Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Norwegian Higher Education |
| title_fullStr | Intersectional Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Norwegian Higher Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intersectional Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Norwegian Higher Education |
| title_short | Intersectional Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Norwegian Higher Education |
| title_sort | intersectional perspectives on equality and social justice in norwegian higher education |
| topic | Decolonial theory Academic monocultures Equity policy analysis Marginalised identities Teacher education reform Qualitative educational research Intersectionality in Nordic academia International students Colonial Race Racialization Queer Epistemological monocultures Intersectionality Higher education Diversity Equity Pedagogy White feminisms Epistemic violence Inclusion Minority groups Pedagogies Norway Faculty of Colour Intersectional Education policy Norwegian Antiracism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy::JNFK Educational strategies and policy: inclusion |
| topic_facet | Decolonial theory Academic monocultures Equity policy analysis Marginalised identities Teacher education reform Qualitative educational research Intersectionality in Nordic academia International students Colonial Race Racialization Queer Epistemological monocultures Intersectionality Higher education Diversity Equity Pedagogy White feminisms Epistemic violence Inclusion Minority groups Pedagogies Norway Faculty of Colour Intersectional Education policy Norwegian Antiracism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy::JNFK Educational strategies and policy: inclusion |
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