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“I am all of this thing, but I am also having mother once, and she is loving me.”: Using Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala to discuss human rights violations in upper secondary education.
Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science.
Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science.
2023 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

As the ages of gang criminality lower, the need for other perspectives is necessary. This study poses the question “why and how should literature featuring child soldiers be used to discuss human rights violations in the classroom in upper secondary school?” and deconstructs the binaries childhood-innocence and victim-perpetrator in the novel Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala. This study utilises Paolo Freire and bell hooks’ radical pedagogical theory to bridge the gap between child soldiers in other countries and those that are involved in criminality in Sweden. The agency of child soldiers in their victimisation of civilians and other combatants is something that requires further nuance as well as the assumption that child soldiers have lost their innocence and childhood upon entering combat, without consideration for the violence that might have occurred before combat. Thus, further nuance is required in order to engage in fruitful discussions concerning child soldiers worldwide.

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2023. , p. 35
Keywords [en]
Child soldiers, upper secondary education, deconstruction, trauma, childhood
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-50643OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-50643DiVA, id: diva2:1766009
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English
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Subject Teacher Education for Secondary School
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Available from: 2023-06-12 Created: 2023-06-12 Last updated: 2023-06-13Bibliographically approved

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