Ida Hummelstedt-Djedou

Biographic Data

ID668953
NAMEIda Hummelstedt-Djedou
GIVEN NAMESIda
FAMILY NAMEHummelstedt-Djedou
SIGNATUREHUMMELSTEDT-DJEDOU I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Helsinki
ORCID0000-0001-8858-5442
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Responsibilities of individuals and institutions to promote antiracism in Finnish lower secondary schools

    Open AccessSaara Loukola, Maïmouna Jagne-Soreau et al.ARTICLEMulticultural Education Review2026References: 42

    This article explores the tension between antiracism as an individual responsibility and as an institutional duty in Finnish lower secondary schools. It is based on ethnography in schools, and presents interviews with teachers, principals and other school staff. We analysed the data using reflexive thematic analysis and grounded our approach in critical theories of racism and antiracism. Although Finnish school policies provide guidance on antira…

  • Racial humour in Finnish schools: Reinforcing and resisting racism, and the difficulty of intervening

    Open AccessSaara Loukola, Maïmouna Jagne-Soreau et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025References: 7

  • Refugees here and Finns there’ – categorisations of race, nationality, and gender in a Finnish classroom

    Open AccessIda Hummelstedt-Djedou, Ida Hummelstedt et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Intercultural…2021Cited by: 3References: 8

    Schools represent a central meeting place where societal inequalities are reproduced and questions of social justice become important. This study focuses on categorisations related to race, nationality, and gender in interactions in Finnish teaching environments, as well as teacher reflections on these situations. We discuss the implications of the categorisations on social justice and the role of the teacher in these situations. We conducted vid…

  • Diversity as the new normal and persistent constructions of the immigrant other – Discourses on multicultural education among teacher educators

    Open AccessIda Hummelstedt-Djedou, Gail Holm et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2021Cited by: 5References: 4

    The aim of this study was to explore the role of social justice in multicultural education taught in teacher education. The study investigated discourses on multicultural education among Finnish teacher educa-tors, and the subject positions constructed in them. Discourse theory analysis revealed six discourses on multicultural education, ranging from conservative to liberal and critical, with liberal discourses having the most articulations. Alth…

  • Diverging discourses on multicultural education in Finnish teacher education programme policies: Implications for teaching

    Ida Hummelstedt-Djedou, Harriet Zilliacus et al.ARTICLEMulticultural Education Review2018

    The necessity to include multicultural education policies and practices in schools and teacher education has been widely recognized both in Finland and internationally. However, terms such as ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multicultural education’ have contested and vague meanings in educational discourse. This paper investigates discourses on multicultural education from critical multicultural education and postcolonial theoretical perspectives. The fo…

  • The identity game: Constructing and enabling multicultural identities in a Finland–Swedish school setting

    Open AccessLiselott Forsman, Ida Hummelstedt-Djedou et al.ARTICLEBritish Educational Research…2014References: 19

    This study, building on previous studies stressing the bond between positive sense of ethnic identity and school belonging, puts at its center the very process of ethnic identity construction. Thus, identity is viewed as co‐constructed, within a social–constructionist perspective on learning. The study is two‐folded. It starts out by describing how participants in a Finland–Swedish preschool setting orient to ethnic identity in everyday interacti…