Anna-Leena Riitaoja
University of Helsinki
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Globalisation, Societies and Education | 2016
Saila Poulter; Anna-Leena Riitaoja; Arniika Kuusisto
This article examines educational, political and philosophical perspectives on the concepts of worldview and religion in the context of multicultural education. Using a postcolonial and post-structural approach combined with theories that analyse the politics of secularism, we attempt to pinpoint key perspectives in the recognition of worldviews in the current discourse on liberal multiculturalism. We suggest that the liberal-secular foundation of multicultural education is blind to practices, which, while supposedly based on political neutrality, are discriminating and ‘Othering’ towards religions and non-Western worldviews. Through theoretical and contextual analysis, we aim to deconstruct the ‘Otherness’ of religious worldviews at the epistemic level.
Language and Intercultural Communication | 2014
Anna-Leena Riitaoja; Fred Dervin
Interreligious dialogue is a central objective in European and UNESCO policy and research documents, in which educational institutions are seen as central places for dialogue. In this article, we discuss this type of dialogue under the conditions of asymmetry and categorisation in two Finnish schools. Finnish education has often been lauded for its successful implementation of equity and equality by the thousands of ‘pedagogical tourists’ who visit the countrys schools to witness the so-called miracle of Finnish education due to Finlands excellent results in the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study. Through theoretically informed reading of ethnographic data, we examine how Self and Other are constructed in everyday encounters in school and how religions, religious groups and individuals become regarded as Others. We also ask whether the aims of interreligious dialogue in schools represent a viable way to learn about each other and to increase mutual understanding. The theoretical and methodological approaches derive from post-colonial, post-structural and related feminist theories as well as from recent research on intercultural education and communication.
Education inquiry | 2018
Joron Pihl; Gunilla Holm; Anna-Leena Riitaoja; Jón Ingvar Kjaran; Marie Carlson
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is analysis of discursive marginalisation through education in Nordic welfare states. What knowledge do Nordic research discourses produce about marginalisation through education in Nordic welfare states? What are the Nordic contributions to research discourses on marginalisation through education? We apply a discourse theoretical approach and analyse 109 peer-reviewed publications on marginalisation by the Nordic Centre of Excellence “Justice through education in the Nordic countries” (NCoE JustEd) between 2013 and 2017. The publications are from Finland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. Four critical Nordic research discourses reconceptualise marginalisation in relation to dominant educational discourses on marketisation, Eurocentrism, gender equity and ableism. These Nordic research discourses document discursive effects of the dominant, normalising discourses in terms of stigma, segregation and exclusion of poor, working-class students, non-white and immigrant students and descendants of immigrants, as well as sexual minorities and disabled students. Based on ethical, epistemological and methodological considerations, the critical Nordic research discourses produce knowledge about marginalisation as a relational, intersectional and interdiscursive phenomenon. The critical Nordic research discourses de- and reconstruct knowledge about marginalisation in Nordic welfare states.
International Journal of Multicultural Education | 2012
Fred Dervin; Martina Paatela-Nieminen; Kaisa Kuoppala; Anna-Leena Riitaoja
World Studies in Education | 2015
Anna-Leena Riitaoja; Heidi Layne; Haiqin Liu; Heini Paavola; Etta Kralovec; Richard Orozco
Archive | 2013
Anna-Leena Riitaoja
Archive | 2010
Anna-Leena Riitaoja
Archive | 2016
Anna-Leena Riitaoja; Fred Dervin
Archive | 2009
Anna-Leena Riitaoja
Archive | 2007
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