Discrimination as a One-Day Performance Critically Reviewing an Anti-racism Day at School

Abstract

She is a member of the Nordic center of excellence Justice through Education in the Nordic countries (JustEd). She has a teacher background. Her PhD research is a discourse analytic study of how school textbooks in history, social studies and geography portray Westerners and non-Westerners. Besides studying the discourse of West, Mikander's research interests include social science education, values in education, the concept of critical thinking as well as education about globalization and global inequality. Her publications include Globalization as Continuing Colonialism-Critical Global Citizenship Education in an Unequal World (2016), Democracy and Human Rights: A Critical Look at the Concept of Western Values in Finnish School Textbooks (2015) and together with Gunilla Holm: Constructing threats and a need for control: textbook descriptions of a growing, moving world population (2014).