Frédérique Brossard Børhaug on "How can the capability approach contribute to anti-racist educational research?"

Frédérique Brossard Børhaug is an associate researcher in education at NLA School of Religion, Education and Intercultural Studies. She is originally from France and has lived in Norway the last 19 years. Her field of specialization is intercultural education. She has published several articles on ethical reflections in the development of a common multicultural school; discussing these issues in the light of the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas. Her PhD thesis compares anti-racist values in French and Norwegian school curricula.

 

In her statement Brossard Børhaug describes the capability approach and relates it to anti-racist education and discusses to what extent the curriculum promotes minorities’ social and cultural capabilities. She focuses on the need to recognize and acknowledge pupil’s diverse capacities and resources in school curricula and teaching practice in order to create learning environments supporting learners’ development regardless their ethnic or religious background. Linking the capability approach to the debate on literacy, for example, leads to a clear vote for supporting the bilingual development of minority students instead of prioritizing their successful assimilation to the national majority language.

Read Brossard Børhaug's Statement

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