Anders Breidlid Research projects R & D fields of interest Working areas/ Teaching Network participation Curriculum Vitae Publications Other issues

Anders Breidlid  Professor, PhD  Master programme in Multicultural and International Education  Anders.Breidlid@lui.hio.no  Oslo University College  Faculty of Education and International Studies  Visiting Address: Pilestredet 40, office T311  Postal address: P.O.Box 4, St. Olavs Plass, N-0130 Oslo  Tel. +47 2245 2160

Research projects:

• Headed the research project: “Schooling  and Cultural Values in Africa.” Funding from the Norwegian Research Council (2001-2004).

• Headed with Jean Baxen the research project:.“Schooling, Cultural Values and HIV/AIDS in South Africa.” Funding from the Norwegian Research Council and the National Research Foundation, South Africa (2002-2005). 
  

• From 2008 heading the research project: “Culture and Gender in Education.” Funded through NUCOOP.

Research and development interests:

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Opponent/examiner of PhD dissertations:

Network participation:

Curriculum Vitae:

• Professor, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo University College

• Previous Dean of Faculty of  Education and Rector of  Bislet University College

• PhD. School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

Selected publications:

• Breidlid, A. 2002. “Schooling, tradition and modernity in South Africa.” UWC Papers in Education, December, Volume 2, Cape Town, 37-50
• Breidlid, A., 2002. Resistance and Consciousness in Kenya and South Africa. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 391 p.
• Breidlid, A. 2003. “Ideology, cultural values and education: The case   of Curriculum 2005 in South Africa,” Perspectives in Education, Vol. 21, no. 2, June, 83-103.
• Breidlid, A. 2004. “Sustainable Development, Indigenous Knowledge Systems  and Education in South Africa.” Journal of Teacher Education and Training., Vol 4 , 3-18
• Breidlid, A. 2004. “Det norske Trustfondet for utdanning i Afrika og Verdensbanken - et problematisk partnerskap.” Norsk Pedagogisk Tidsskrift. 88, 173-190.
• Baxen, J. and A. Breidlid. 2004.  “Researching HIV/AIDS and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Examining the gaps and challenges.”Journal of Education, no 34, 9-29.
• Breidlid, A. 2005. ”Ngugi’s Matigari, a non-materialist discourse and post-modernism.” QUODLIBET: The Australian Journal of Trans-national Writing, Adelaide, 13 p.
• Breidlid, A. 2005. “Sudanese migrants in the Khartoum area and education. ” International Journal of Educational Development, 25, 253-268.
• Breidlid, A. 2005.  ”Education in the Sudan: The privileging of an Islamic discourse.” Compare, 35 (3), 247-263.
• Breidlid, A. 2005. “HIV/AIDS, cultural constraints and education.”  UWC Papers in Education, vol. 3, June 2005, 50-57
• Breidlid, A. 2006. “Resistance  and education – counter-hegemonic struggle in  Southern Sudan Nordisk Pedagogik .Vol. 26,  16-29
• Breidlid, Anders. 2006. ”Verdensbanken  og norsk bistand til utdanning i Afrika – en kritisk kommentar.” I Brock-Utne, B og Bøyesen, L. (red.) Å greie seg i utdanningssystemet i nord og sør. Innføring i flerkulturell og komparativ pedagogikk, utdanning og utvikling. Bergen, Fagbokforlaget, 253-270.
• Breidlid, A. 2007. “Schooling and Cultural Values in South Africa: building cultural capital?”. In D. Stephens, Culture in Education and Development: Principles, Practice and Policy. Symposium Books. Oxford
• Breidlid, A. 2007. “Education in Cuba- an alternative educational discourse: lessons to be learned?” Compare 37(5), October, 617-634
• Breidlid, A.; Brøgger, F. Chr.; Gulliksen, Ø.T.; Sirevåg, T. (eds.) 2008. American Culture. Routledge: London and New York.
• Breidlid, A. (2009). "Culture, indigenous knowledge systems and sustainable development: A critical view of education in an African context." International Journal of Educational Development 2009 ;Volum 29.(2),140-149
• Breidlid, A. (2009). "HIV/AIDS, Cultural Constraints and Educational Intervention Strategies." In: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the Implications of Culture and Context. Cape Town: UCT Press an imprint of Juta & Company Ltd.,21-35
• Baxen, J. and Breidlid, A. (Eds.) (2009). HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the Implications of Culture and Context. Cape Town: UCT Press an imprint of Juta & Company Ltd 2009, 144 pp.
• Baxen, J. and Breidlid, A. (2009). "Introduction". In: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the Implications of Culture and Context. Cape Town: UCT Press an imprint of Juta & Company Ltd., xii-xvii
• Baxen, J. and Breidlid, A. (2009). "Researching HIV/AIDS and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Examining the Gaps and Challenges (revised version)." In: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the Implications of Culture and Context. Cape Town: UCT Press an imprint of Juta & Company Ltd., 3-15
• Baxen, J. and Breidlid, A. (2009). "Towards a Hermeneutic Understanding of HIV/AIDS in South Africa." In: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the Implications of Culture and Context. Cape Town: UCT Press an imprint of Juta & Company Ltd.,  117-121 
•  Breidlid, A. (2009).” Education, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development in an African Context. In: Brock-Utne, Birgit and Gunnar Garbo (eds) . LANGUAGE AND POWER. Implications of Language for Peace and Development. Dar es Salaam:Mkuki na Nyota. Oxford:ABC, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 232-242
•  Breidlid, A. (2009). “The HIV/AIDS Pandemic in South Africa: Cultural Constraints and Education.” In: Halla B. Holmarsdottir and Mina O’Dowd (eds.) Nordic Voices: Teaching and researching comparative and international education in the Nordic countries.Rotterdam,  Sense Publishers, 205-221.
• Breidlid, A. (2010). “Sudanese Images of the Other: Education and Conflict in Sudan”. Comparative Education Review.November 2010, Vol. 54, No. 4: 555-579
• Breidlid, A. with A.K Breidlid and Avelino Androga Said (eds.) (2010). A Concise History of South Sudan. Fountain Publishers. Kampala  

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