GIRMA BERHANU

Girma Berhanu is Professor of (special) Education at the Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he teaches research method courses and special education. He is fervently engaged in discussion of equity issues in the fields of (special) education. His general areas of research interest are ‘race’, ethnicity, and special education. Of particular interest to him is also "group-based inequalities” in scholastic achievement and minority students’ learning and development in a globalized and post-colonial world. The issues he mainly works with are related to sociocultural factors (including historical aspects and institutional frameworks) that are relevant to education in general and to special education approaches and perspectives in particular. He is a member of an international consortium of equity in special education. The consortium focuses mainly on understanding the Complexities of Inclusive Education from a Comparative Perspective: How Cultural Histories Shape the Ways That Schools Respond to Multiple Forms of Diversity. His Ph.D. and M.A. is from University of Gothenburg and his B.A is from Addis Ababa University