Department: Institute for Educational Research
Organizer: Professor Ola Stafseng
Lecturers:
Maxine Greene Professor Nancy Lesko, Teachers College, Columbia University. Profile Nancy Lesko
Professor Ola Stafseng, Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo
Dates: 16th and 17th of October
Time : 09.15- 16.00 both days
Room: Auditorium 3, the ZEB building, University of Oslo. Go to map Cost: Free
Course overview:
Youth remain an important site of social science knowledge construction and expertise. However, our settled understandings of social realities are challenged by transnational population flows, postcolonial critiques, the globalization of youth popular culture, and divestments in youth programs, among others. This course will critically examine the dominant discourses, assumptions, and perspectives in much scholarship on youth. We will consider to what degree current concepts such as hybridity or performativity intervene in the conventional approaches to studying youth. Finally, we’ll consider researchers’ own investments in youth and, specifically, the operation of nostalgia.
Assignment:
It is possible to submit full papers (maximum 10 pages) four weeks after the course. Papers shall be sent electronically to the course organizers with a copy to reseach consultant Ulf Grefsgård not later than November the 14th.
Duration: 14 hours. A course diploma will not be issued if the student attends to less than 80% of the lectures.
Credit points: 4,5 points with paper or 1,5 points without paper
Registration and deadline: To research consultant Ulf Grefsgård (
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) before Wednesday October the 10th.
