Hello everyone! I’m excited to share my latest publication, titled Who’s Afraid of Education? An Ethnodrama in Four Acts in the Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE).

This piece is an experimental work that blends academic writing with artistic representation of real events. The main characters, Myriam and Mahmood, embody the collective voices of seven student teachers, all of whom were in the final year of their teacher education programme at the time of the study.

The ethnodrama centres on the characters’ lived experiences, intentionally prioritising their perspectives over the researcher’s interpretations. Readers are invited to form their own understandings and critically reflect on the tension between the characters’ cultural identities and the expectations of a predominantly monocultural educational system.

By fostering deeper engagement with the research findings, the ethnodrama departs from conventional academic formats, making the research more accessible to a broader audience.

The ethnodrama is published open access.

Benediktsson, A. I. (2025). Who’s afraid of education? An ethnodrama in four acts. Nordic journal of comparative and international education (NJCIE), 9(2), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.6196