Julie Skovgaard Sommer von Würden

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Uddannelse og professionel baggrund

• Cand. Mag. i Pædagogik (International Pædagogik og Udviklingsstudier), Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Institut for Medier, Erkendelse og Formidling, Københavns Universitet.
• Master i Afrikastudier, Det Teologiske Fakultet, Center for Afrikastudier, Københavns Universitet.              
• BA i Pædagogik, Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Institut for Medier, Erkendelse og Formidling, Københavns Universitet.      
• Studentermedarbejder i Afdelingen for Presse og Medier, Røde Kors, hovedkontoret. Studentermedarbejder i Kommunikationsafdelingen, Røde Kors, Hovedkontoret.
• Studievejleder på Det Teologiske Fakultet, Center for Afrikastudier, Københavns Universitet.                                              
• Tutor på Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Institut for Medier, Erkendelse og Formidling, Københavns Universitet.
• Medlem af Studiegruppen i Religion, Det Teologiske Fakultet, Center for Afrikastudier, Københavns Universitet.
• Næstformand i Studienævnet, Det Teologiske Fakultet, Center for Afrikastudier, Københavns Universitet.                                              

Sprog

Dansk (første sprog), engelsk (C2), fransk (B2), tysk (B2), swahili (B2), arabisk (A1)

Kort præsentation

I hold a MA in Educational Science and a MA in African Studies, University of Copenhagen. Currently, I am a PhD Fellow at the Centre of African Studies.

Research area

My main research interests is education and learning processes in African school institutions and the role of religion and culture in African education. My research draws upon inspirations from sociology of education, history of education, ethnography of education, curriculum sociology and classroom research. Central to my research are the relation between school, state, religion and culture and issues of identity politics, knowledge production and the production of youth in urban Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Current research

My current research addresses the educational content and the transformation of knowledge within state regulated schooling and more specifically within Islamic schools and secular schools in Zanzibar Town. With a focus on knowledge producing practices connected to young people and to the production of their identities, I use classroom observations, qualitative interviews, archive research and participant observations of students in their everyday life in order to explore how knowledge is “educationalized”. For instance, I look at how Islamic forms of knowledge become educational forms of knowledge and how educational forms of knowledge become Islamized.