Merethe Skårås

Associate Professor

Education
Merethe.Skaras@mf.no
Office: 326
Phone number: 22590598

Professional competence areas:

Citizenship education
Education in emergencies
International education and development
Teacher education

My scholarly work focuses on education in emergencies, the relationship between education and citizenship. My work also include the themes eduction and reconciliation, national identity , social cohesion, child soldiers and are mainly located in Sudan and South Sudan. My PhD work focuses on history education in newly independence South Sudan.

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Latest academic publications

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Holmarsdottir, H. B. & Baily, S. & Skårås, M. & Ramos, K. & Ege, A. M. & Heggernes, S. L. (2023). Exploring the Power of Internationalization in Teacher Education, Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE), Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE), ISSN: 2535-4051
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, M. (2019). Constructing a national narrative in civil war: history teaching and national unity in South Sudan, Comparative Education, s. 517 - 535. Comparative Education, ISSN: 0305-0068
Skårås, M. (2018). Focused ethnographic research on teaching and learning in conflict zones: History education in South Sudan, Forum for Development Studies, s. 217 - 238. Forum for Development Studies, ISSN: 0803-9410
Skårås, M. (2017). Educational and Social Challenges in the Reintegration Process of Former Child Soldiers, The Power of Resistance: Culture, Ideology and Social Reproduction in Global Contexts,, s. 243 - 263. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISBN: 978-1-78350-461-9
Skårås, M. & Breidlid, A. (2016). Teaching the violent past in secondary schools in new independent South Sudan, Education as Change (EAC), s. 98 - 118. Education as Change (EAC), ISSN: 1682-3206
Androga Said, A. & Breidlid, A. & Skårås, M. (2009). 49. Androga, A. S. ; Breidlid., A. and M. Skårås. (forthcoming 2023). The need to replace Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with Teacher Professional Development (TPD) in the conflict affected South Sudan. In Sayed, Y. ; Pesambili. J. and M. Singh (eds.) Continuing professional teacher development in sub-Saharan Africa: Transforming governance, process, and outcome. Bloomsbury/Bristol University Press. , Analysing networked learning practices in higher education and continuing professional development,, Brill|Sense, ISBN: 9789460910050

Research projects

History teaching in multicultural society - challenges and models

Education and practice

2019 - d.d.
Førsteamanuensis i pedagogikk, MF

2018 - 2019
Universitetslektor, OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet

2018 - 2019
Lærer, Svendstuen barneskole

2018
Gjesteforsker, OpenGATE fellowship -Georg Mason University (GMU), Virginia, USA

2017
Gjesteforsker, Center for International Teacher education (CITE), Cape Penisula University of Technology (CPUT),

2013 - 2019
PhD, Utdanningsvitenskap for lærerutdanning

2007 - 2009
Master i flerkulturell og internasjonal utdanning, Høgskolen i Oslo

2004 - 2014
Lærer, Huseby barneskole

2003 - 2004
Musikk, Concordia College, MN, USA

2000 - 2004
Almennlærerutdanning, Hamar lærerhøgskole

Voluntary position

2016 - 2018
Web koordinator, CANDE, CIES http://www.cies-cande.org/

2015 - 2016
Medlem av Stipendiatforum, Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus

2014 - 2015
Stipendiatcoordinator, Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus