Department of Educational Anthropology

About the department

The study of educational anthropology focuses on social and cultural processes, of change and continuity in wide a range of formal and informal educational contexts throughout the world.

It is the critical, comparative and ethnographic study of educational issues and policies, of pedagogical concern, and learning processes in specific sociocultural contexts.

These vary widely, ranging from classic pedagogical and educational institutions, such as day-care, schools, colleges and universities, to religious institutions, voluntary associations, welfare interventions, families, local and international businesses and various other kinds of social collectivities.

The Department of Educational Anthropology offers two two-year Master’s programs: a Danish-language program in Educational Anthropology and an English-language program in The Anthropology of Education and Globalization.

Degree programmes

Master's degree programmes

Educational Anthropology (in Danish)
Anthropology of Education and Globalisation (in Danish)

Research

Research units

Research programmes

Future technology, Culture and Learning

Centre

Centre for Higher Education Futures

Scientific staff

Name	Job title	Email	Phone	Building
Acharya, Maya	PhD Student	msa@edu.au.dk
Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine	Associate Professor	hka@edu.au.dk	+4593508015	D, 275
Anbert, Lærke Cecilie	PhD Student	lca@edu.au.dk
Anderson, Sally	Associate Professor	saan@edu.au.dk	+4593508151	D, 279
Bach, Dil	Associate Professor	dil@edu.au.dk	+4550907032	D, 259a
Bruun, Maja Hojer	Associate Professor	mhbruun@edu.au.dk	+4521242730	1483, 527
Christensen, Tina Wilchen	Postdoc	tinc@edu.au.dk	+4528992005	D, 247
Clemensen, Nana	Associate Professor	nacl@edu.au.dk	+4593521707	D, 264
Dannesboe, Karen Ida	Associate Professor	kida@edu.au.dk	+4593521068	D, 293
Elbæk, Ida	PhD Student	ida@edu.au.dk
Esbensen, Gertrud Lynge	Postdoc	gle@edu.au.dk	+4551445730	D, 254
Gilliam, Laura	Associate Professor	lagi@edu.au.dk	+4587163784	D, 288
Gulløv, Eva	Professor with Special Responsibilities	evag@edu.au.dk	+4593508147	D, 258
Hasse, Cathrine	Professor	caha@edu.au.dk	+4523233631	D, 255
Hesselvig, Rianne H.	PhD Student	rhh@edu.au.dk
Holm, Lars	Associate Professor	larsh@edu.au.dk		D, 290
Isfeldt, Annika	PhD Student	ai@edu.au.dk
Jensen, Charlotte Sun	PhD Student	chsj@edu.au.dk
Juul-Wiese, Thilde	PhD Student	thi@edu.au.dk
Krause-Jensen, Jakob	Associate Professor	jakj@edu.au.dk	+4541599415	1483, 522
Kristensen, Steffen Bering	PhD Student	sbk@edu.au.dk
Kryger, Niels	Emeritus	kryger@edu.au.dk
Larsen, Birgitte Romme	Associate Professor	brl@edu.au.dk	+4593521750	D, 283
Martiny-Bruun, Asger	PhD Student	asma@edu.au.dk
Mogensen, Naja Dahlstrup	PhD Student	nada@edu.au.dk
Muasya, Gabriella	PhD Student	ginm@edu.au.dk
Nielsen, Gritt B.	Associate Professor	gbn@edu.au.dk	+4587159564	D, 261
Nissen, Stine Karen	PhD Student	skn@edu.au.dk		D, 268
Sierra-Jimenez, Mara Johanna	Research Assistant	masi@edu.au.dk
Steane, Natalya	PhD Student	natalyas@edu.au.dk
Olesen, Jesper	Associate Professor	jeo@edu.au.dk	+4593508149	D, 248
Valentin, Karen	Associate Professor	kava@edu.au.dk	+4587163824	D, 281
Wallace, Jamie	Associate Professor	jw@edu.au.dk	+4521653697	D, 249
Winther, Ida Wentzel	Associate Professor	idwi@edu.au.dk	+4551890434	D, 266
Wright, Susan	Professor	suwr@edu.au.dk	+4587163628	D, 260

Publications

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Valentin, K. & Pradhan, U. (Eds.) (2023). Anthropological perspectives on education in Nepal: Educational transformations and avenues of learning. In Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Nepal: : Educational Transformations and Avenues of Learning Oxford University Press. Education and Society in South Asia

Adriansen, H. K., Juul-Wiese, T., Madsen, L. M., Saarinen, T., Spangler, V. & Waters, J. L. (2023). Emplacing English as lingua franca in international higher education: A spatial perspective on linguistic diversity. Population, Space and Place, 29(2), [e2619]. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2619

Brandt, A. (2023). Governing Like a Resilient City: Preparing a city for climate change through laboratories and adjacent spaces of governance. Aarhus Universitet.

Valentin, K. (2023). Moving to Learn: New Horizons of Nepali Education. In K. Valentin & U. Pradhan (Eds.), Anthropological perspectives on education in Nepal: Educational transformations and avenues of learning (pp. 197-219). Oxford University Press. Education and Society in South Asia

Adriansen, H. K. (2023). Nomader. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. Tænkepauser Vol. 108

Gulløv, E. & Gulløv, J. (2023). The sea, lost and found: Changes and interdependencies in a coastal community. In A. T. Kjørholt, S. Bessell, D. Devine, F. Gaini & S. Spyrou (Eds.), Valuing the past, sustaining the future? : Exploring coastal societies, childhood(s) and local knowledge in times of global transition (pp. 177-193). Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. MARE Publication Series Vol. 27 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11716-9_10

Hasse, C. (2023). Workplace Learning for Changing Social and Economic Circumstances: Socratic ignorance in processes of learning with technology. In H. Bound, A. Edwards, K. Evans & A. Chia (Eds.), Workplace Learning for Changing Social and Economic Circumstances (pp. 76-90). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003227946-7

Gilliam, L. (2022). "This society has taken me": Intensive parenting and fragile belonging among second-generation minority Danish parents. Genealogy, 6(3), [63]. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6030063

Eiras, P. R. S. & Huijser, H. (2022). A doctoral experience from a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective. In Deconstructing doctoral discourses: Stories and strategies for success (pp. 229-242). Palgrave MAcmillan. Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods

Bruun, M. H. & Larsen, E. L. (2022). Algorithmic enactments: exploring the making of an early warning algorithm. Abstract from Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies.

Bruun, M. H. (2022). Anthropological Perspectives on Housing as Welfare and Everyday Welfare Practices. In K. M. Raahauge, K. Lotz, D. Simpson & M. Søberg (Eds.), Architectures of Dismantling and Restructuring: Spaces of Danish Welfare, 1970–present (pp. 360-369). Lars Müller Publishers.

Larsen, B. R. (2022). At tage plads i andres kulturhistoriske helligdom: En "udflyttet" statslig arbejdsplads flytter ind i Nakskov Rådhus. Kulturstudier, 13(1), 62-97. https://doi.org/10.7146/ks.v13i1.132890

Gilliam, L. (2022). Being Muslim 'without a fuss': Relaxed religiosity and conditional inclusion in the Danish school and society. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45(6), 1096-1114. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1971733

Ghandchi, N. (2022). Beyond individual language brokering: Family literacy brokering. Linguistics and Education, 71, [101077]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2022.101077

Gilliam, L. & Gulløv, E. (2022). Children as Potential: A Window to Cultural Ideals, Anxieties and Conflicts. Children's Geographies, 20(3), 311-323. [5]. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2019.1648760

Hasse, C. (2022). Comment to Evolution without Inheritance: Steps to an Ecology of Learning by Tim Ingold. Current Anthropology, 63(25), 46-47. https://doi.org/10.1086/722437

Bruun, M. H. & Hasse, C. (2022). Communities, Collectives and Categories. In M. Bruun, A. Wahlberg, R. Douglas-Jones, C. Hasse, K. Høyer, D. B. Kristensen & B. R. Winthereik (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology (pp. 381-398). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_19

Nielsen, J. C., Skrubbeltrang, L., Stilling Olesen, J. & Karen, D. (2022). Cooperation between schools and elite sports: How are schools affected from engaging in athletic talent development? International Studies in Sociology of Education, 31(3), 325-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2020.1847167

Anderson, S. D. (2022). Das „verdeckte“ Curriculum. In C. Markom & J. Tosic (Eds.), Einführung in die Bildungsanthropologie: Ein Lehrbuch (pp. 205-209). new academic press.

Andersen, R. S., Hoybye, M. T. & Bruun, M. H. (2022). Drømmen om murstensløse hospitaler. Dagens Medicin.

Nielsen, G. B. & Mangor, I. G. (2022). Economies of Coworking: Sharing, Exchanging, and Buying as Acts of Commoning. Anthropology of Work Review, 43(1), 16-25. http://10.1111/awr.12232

Bruun, M. H. & Larsen, E. L. (2022). Explainability and interdisciplinarity. Translational roles in AI anthropology and the case of an early warning system.. Abstract from Royal Anthropological Institute 2022: Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society.

Eiras, P. R. S. & Huijser, H. (2022). Exploring spaces in-between: reimagining the transnational student in a transnational university in China. In R. Brooks & S. O'Shea (Eds.), Reimagining the Higher Education Student: Constructing and Contesting Identities (pp. 205-222). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367854171

Schilhab, T., Esbensen, G. L. & Crety, C. R. (2022). Fire-I tilgangen: en embodied cognition teori om læring . In J. Bjerre & P. Fibæk Laursen (Eds.), Pædagogikhåndbogen (pp. 305-326). Hans Reitzels Forlag.

Waltorp, K. & Bruun, M. H. (2022). Flying drones as a gendered matter of concern. In D. Lanzeni, K. Waltorp, S. Pink & R. C. Smith (Eds.), An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies (pp. 122-137). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003084471-9

Gilliam, L. (2022). Forsker: Giv drenge en 'second chance', hvis de sakker bagud i folkeskolen. Altinget. https://www.altinget.dk/uddannelse/artikel/forsker-giv-drenge-en-second-chance-hvis-de-sakker-bagud-i-folkeskolen

Larsen, B. R. (2022). Forsker: I mange lokalsamfund er flygtninge ikke bare flygtninge. De er eftertragtede tilflyttere. Altinget. https://www.altinget.dk/civilsamfund/artikel/forsker-i-mange-lokalsamfund-er-flygtninge-ikke-bare-flygtninge-de-er-eftertragtede-tilflyttere

Anderson, S. D. (2022). Gemeinschaft. In C. Markom & J. Tosic (Eds.), Einführung in die Bildungsanthropologie: Ein Lehrbuch (pp. 230-236). new academic press.

Møhl, P., Krause-Jensen, J. & Skårup, B. (2022). Grøn omstilling i Det blå Danmark: Værdier og normer for handling. Aarhus Universitet. https://projekter.au.dk/fileadmin/projekter/Teknologi_i_det_blaa_Danmark/AU_Rapp_Groen_Omstill_FINAL.pdf

Hasse, C. (2022). Humanism, Posthumanism, and New Humanism: How Robots Challenge the Anthropological Object. In The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology (pp. 145-164). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_7

Bruun, M. H. & Krause-Jensen, J. (2022). Inside Technology Organisations: Imaginaries of Digitalisation at Work. In M. Bruun, A. Wahlberg, R. Douglas-Jones, C. Hasse, K. Høyer, D. B. Kristensen & B. R. Winthereik (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology (pp. 485-505).

Wright, S. (2022). Internationalisation and De-internationalisation in Danish university governance reforms. European Journal of Education, 57(1), 96-108. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12487

Thit, N., Krause-Jensen, J. & Skårup, B. (2022). Kan Det Blå Danmark Blive Grønt? Otte anbefalinger der understøtter den grøn omstilling. DPU, Aarhus Universitet. https://projekter.au.dk/fileadmin/projekter/Teknologi_i_det_blaa_Danmark/Kan_Det_Bla___Danmark_blive_Groent.pdf

Hasse, C. (2022). Language and Robots: from Relations to Processes of Relations. Technology and Language, 3(1), 127-135. https://doi.org/10.48417/technolang.2022.01.12

Hasse, C. (2022). Learning with Potentials. In T. Ingold (Ed.), Knowing from the Inside: Cross-Disciplinary Experiments with Matters of pedagogy (pp. 21-40). Bloomsbury Academic. Alternative | Education

Larsen, B. R. (2022). Mellem decentralisering og centralisering: en statslig arbejdsplads flytter fra København til Nakskov . Dansk Sociologi, 33(2), 55-77.

Anderson, S. D. (2022). Modul - Kulturelle produktion. In C. Markom & J. Tosic (Eds.), Einführung in die Bildungsanthropologie: Ein Lehrbuch (pp. 345-351). New Academic Press.

Anderson, S. D. (2022). Modul - Sozialität. In C. Markom & J. Tosic (Eds.), Einführung in die Bildungsanthropologie: Ein Lehrbuch (pp. 351-356). New Academic Press.

Anderson, S. D., Banzhaf, E., Grandin, G., Hardiman, R., Jensen, A., Jones, L. M., Knopp, J., Levin, G., Russel, D., Wu, W., Yang, J. & Zandersen, M. (2022). Peopleshed: A crucial element in urban-rural dependencies and opportunities to design NBS for resilience in Europe and China. Abstract from IAPS - 27th International Association People-Environment Studies
, Lisbon, Portugal. https://iaps2022.mundiconvenius.pt/#/abstract/20819

Holm, L. & Ahrenkiel, A. (2022). Places of heteroglossia in everyday interaction. 1-12. Abstract from RECE 2022 - Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, Canada.

Bach, D. (2022). Psykiatriseringen af forældres syn på deres børns udvikling. Kognition og Pædagogik, 124(Marts 2022), 18-28.

Wright, S., Gulløv, E. & Gilliam, L. (2022). Regeringen tager fejl: etårige kandidatuddannelser er en utrolig dårlig ide: Den gør os kun dummere. Politiken. https://politiken.dk/del/369TC3AA2f-A

Anderson, S. D. (2022). Sozialität. In C. Markom & J. Tosic (Eds.), Einführung in die Bildungsanthropologie: Ein Lehrbuch (pp. 293-298). new academic press.

Holm, L. (2022). Sproglig evaluering af flersprogede - på tværs. Abstract from Nordand 15: Den femtende konference om Nordens sprog som andetsprog, Reykjavik. https://vigdis.hi.is/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/abstrakter-25.-maj.-kl.-9.50-11.45.pdf

Balling, G., Schilhab, T. & Esbensen, G. L. (2022). Technology, participation and bodily interactions in nature: The potential of mobile technology in situated learning. Conjunctions : transdisciplinary journal of cultural participation, 9(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.2478/tjcp-2022-0010

Bruun, M. H. & Wahlberg, A. (2022). The Anthropology of Technology: The Formation of a Field. In The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology (pp. 1-33). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_1

Skrubbeltrang, L. S., Stilling Olesen, J. & Nielsen, J. C. (2022). The Coach as Gatekeeper, distributor of Resources and Partner for Sports Talents. Sports Coaching Review, 11(2), 233-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2021.1978730

Anderson, S. D. (2022). The Educated Person. In Einführung in die Bildungsanthropologie: Ein Lehrbuch (pp. 299-303). New Academic Press.

Bruun, M. H., Wahlberg, A., Douglas-Jones, R., Hasse, C., Høyer, K. L., Kristensen, D. B. & Winthereik, B. R. (Eds.) (2022). The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology. Palgrave Macmillan.

Nielsen, G. B. (2022). The ethics of radical student activism: Social justice, democracy and engagement across difference. In A. Sevelsted & J. Toubøl (Eds.), The Power of Morality in Movements: Civic Engagement in Climate Justice, Human Rights, and Democracy (pp. 193–210). Springer. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies (NCSS) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98798-5_9

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Danish School of Education

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Department of Educational Anthropology

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