Naja Berg Hougaard

A doctoral student of Human Development

Pursuing my doctoral degree in the field of human development with an emphasis on the cultural historical activity theory tradition. My doctoral dissertation is a critical educational ethnography of how history of Danish participation in the Transatlantic Slave Trade is being taught in a predominantly ethnically Danish public high school. In my work I interrogate the meaning of this history through the lens of the concept of Nordic Exceptionalism as well as the paradigm of Global Citizenship Education.

Contact

917-656-0554

Publications

Vianna, E., Hougaard, N.B. & Stetsenko, A. (2014, forthcoming). The dialectics of collective and individual transformation. In Blunden, A. (Ed.), Collaborative Projects – an Interdisciplinary Study (45-64). Boston, MA: Brill.

Hougaard, N.B. (2013). Making sense of the community college – interrogating belongingness. Outlines, Invited paper in special issue entitled ‘Transformative Social Practice and Socio-Critical Knowledge’, 14 (2), 29-53.

Positions

Writing Fellow, Faculty Development and Instructional Technology, CUNY School of Professional Studies

Education

M.Phil. | The Graduate Center, CUNY (2013)

M.A. Psychology | The Graduate Center, CUNY (2012)

B.A. Psychology | University of Copenhagen (2008)