Girma Berhanu - a brief presentation
Title: PhD
Unit: Special Education
Phone: +46 (0)31-786 2325
E-mail: Girma.Berhanu@ped.gu.se
Research interests:
The issues I primarily work with involve sociocultural factors (including historical aspects and institutional frameworks) that are of relevance to the field of education in general and in particular from a special education point of view and perspective. Of special interest to me are also “group-based inequalities in scholastic achievement” and the learning and development of minority students in a globalized and post-colonial world. How people view phenomena like inclusion-exclusion, normality-deviation, etc. in the research field of special education is an area that is of great interest to me and can easily be tied into my own field of interest.
Teaching interests:
I teach and supervise regarding ethnicity and education, cognitive anthropology, and “educational ethnography.” I am interested in question touching on the field of research methods in special education. I am course director for Research Field 2 (FF2) in full-time and half-time variants in the special education programme, which is an advanced course in undergraduate teacher education.
Keywords:
ethnicity, special education, minority students, social/education, inclusion-exclusion, international education, intercultural-education/communication
Selected publications:
Berhanu, G. (2005) Normality, Deviance, Identity, Cultural Tracking and School achievement: The case of Ethiopian Jews in Israel in Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, Volume 49, No. 1, February 2005, pp. 51–82.
Berhanu, G. (2006). Parenting (parental attitude), child development, and modalities of child-parent interactions: Sayings, proverbs, and maxims of Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, Volume 5 No. 3, pp. 266–287.
Berhanu, G. (2005). Indigenous Conception of Intelligence, Ideal Child, and Ideal Parenting among Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, vol. 5,
number 1, pp. 47–71 June 2005.
Berhanu, G. (2003).The Monroe Doctrine (Model) in the swedish context. Evaluation of ’Quadriceps School programme’. 2003:02 104 (IPD-reports). University of Gothenburg, Department of Education.
Berhanu, G. (2001). Learning - In - Context. An Ethnographic Investigation of Mediated Learning Experiences among Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Gothenburg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, Gothenburg studies in educational sciences 166.