Welcome Daphne Ntiri!
We are very happy to have welcomed our new guest researcher Daphne Ntiri who will stay with us all of June. Earlier this week Daphne held a short presentation about her research and background. Read more about Daphne and her work below.
Name
Daphne W. Ntiri, PhD
Home University
Wayne State University, USA
Disciplinary background
Adult Education, African/African American Studies
Areas of expertise and research areas
Adult literacy, gender, Third World studies
Why did you choose to come to the Centre for Gender Research?
To join a community of active, scholarly researchers involved in productive, cutting edge research on gender in all its manifestations and to which I hope to contribute by way of my research, the intersection of literacy and gender among recent Somali immigrant populations in Sweden.
Shortly describe your current research project:
My research aims to identify and examine literacy proficiencies and educational levels of African female immigrants from Somalia ages 18-64 with an eye to shaping the gender discussion related to status and socio-economic advancement in their host society.
Selected publications:
2016 Adult literacy and its discontents: rethinking social justice issues in adult education. In Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal, (1) 12-17.
2015 Literacy as a gendered discourse: Engaging the voices of women in global societies. Daphne W. Ntiri (Ed.). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 203pp.
2015 Literacy of immigrant African women within the context of Transformative Learning. In Literacy as a gendered discourse: Engaging the voices of women in global societies, by Daphne W. Ntiri (Ed.). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
2014 Adult Literacy reform through a womanist lens: Unpacking the radical pedagogy of Civil Rights Era educator: Bernice V. Johnson. Journal of Black Studies. 45(1), 159-166.
2013 When minority becomes majority: Exploring discursive and racialized shifts in the adult literacy conversation. Western Journal of Black Studies. 37(1), 159-166.
2010 with Stewart, M. Recruitment challenges: Lessons learned from elderly African American living with diabetes in an urban literacy program. Educational Gerontology, 36(2), 148-154.