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Leadership Transforming the Past and Present Educational Landscape in Sápmi
No full textThis chapter examines the influence of Sámi educational leadership on societal and institutional development within the educational landscape, drawing from research conducted about Sámi education schools, early childhood education, higher education, and their broader societal significance. Anchored in the principles of justice, sustainability, and well-being, leadership in the Indigenous educational context involves the roles of teachers, educational leaders, and policymakers. These leaders are dedicated to shaping the educational landscape for youth and educational institutions in a decolonial situation. They face unique challenges, such as preserving the Sámi language and culture, ensuring equitable access to educational resources, and integrating traditional Sámi knowledge into contemporary teaching practices. Their leadership is crucial in advocating for culturally responsive policies and fostering environments where students can thrive both academically and culturally. The focus is on how these leaders navigate the preservation of Indigenous culture and Sámi language in education while integrating into broader national and local educational frameworks
Samifying Archival Practices and Digitising Sami Duojár Archives with the Slow Archive Method
No full textThis chapter discusses the archive digitisation process, from donor agreements to database registration and digital access, of the Ája archive at Ájtte—the Swedish Mountain and Sámi Museum—in Jokkmokk, Sweden, and of the Sami Archives in Inari, Finland. The theoretical frame of the chapter is critical archive studies, which focuses on the efforts of archive institutions to bring about change through decolonisation and exploration of archives, archive documents and archive management. The digitisation project also sought a dissolution of the role of the institution as sole expert and manager by ensuring the inclusion of duodji makers and artists in the archival digitisation processes
Blending boundaries:A thorough exploration of systems-oriented design and service design integration
Get PDFThis chapter investigates the relationship between service and systems-oriented design through a mingled scoping and systematic literature review (SSLR). Both have much in common, and lately service design has adopted systems perspectives to tackle larger societal challenges that emerge in services. We employed thematic analysis to identify co-occurring consistent themes. The aim was to explore overlapping areas between service and systems-oriented design. The SSLR results were also exposed and discussed in two focus groups with experts in the field. Results show that both have much in common but also areas that are different. This chapter also discusses future research areas and suggests systems-oriented service design as a perspective to tackle complexities and wicked problems in services both in the public and private sector
Historical reindeer corrals in northern boreal forests reveal divergent post-disturbance reorganization by forest type
Get PDFCurrent theoretical frameworks on alternative ecosystem states in boreal forests do not contain a clear prediction on how the sensitivity for state transitions depends on site productivity, which forms a major gap in understanding how disturbances impact these ecosystems. Here, we compared 26 historical reindeer (Rangifer tarandus L.) corrals used in animal husbandry between the late 1800s and early 1960s with reference forests in the northern boreal forest zone in Finland. We found that mesic forests experienced strong forest reorganization that involved shifts in both tree species composition and density. Sub-xeric forests were most commonly on a trajectory toward the pre-disturbance state due to strong self-thinning. No state transitions in understory vegetation occurred. There was little difference in understory vegetation recovery between mesic and sub-xeric forests; however, disturbance increased spatial heterogeneity in understory vegetation. These findings from historical sites support a high resilience of northern boreal forests to disturbances. They also indicate that disturbances may more likely induce reorganization in more productive mesic sites. Although stronger environmental constraints in less productive sub-xeric sites may slow down recovery, they also direct post-disturbance trajectories toward the pre-disturbance state
Toimijuus ja toiveikkuus taloudellisen pärjäämisen ja köyhyyden tematiikassa
No full textYhä useampi suomalainen kamppailee taloudellisen pärjäämisen kanssa, mikä rapauttaa toimijuutta, kaventaa osallisuutta ja heikentää sosiaalista toimintakykyä. Tässä artikkelissa taloudellisen pärjäämisen ja köyhyyden tarkastelussa ja niihin liittyvien ongelmien käsittelyssä nojaudutaan yhteiskuntatieteelliseen makro-, meso- ja mikrotasojen tarkasteluun eli yhteiskuntaan, sosiaalialan työhön ja yksilön ja perheen kokemukseen köyhyydestä
Käytännönläheinen soveltamisopas eurooppalaisesta tilivarojen turvaamismenettelystä:Kyriakides, Nicolas - Huhtamäki, Heikki H. ja Mouttotos, Nicholas (eds): European account preservation order – a multijurisdictional guide with commentary. Bruylant 2024
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Paws and reflect:Defining an assistance dog task
Get PDFDefinitions of assistance dogs rest on the performance of tasks that mitigate a human’s disabilities. However, the specific elements that constitute assistance dog tasks – those that effectively and consistently mitigate disabilities – remain undefined. As the assistance dog concept expands into new domains, the lack of a clear definition for an assistance dog task poses significant challenges for multispecies stakeholders. Based on the author’s professional experience educating and assessing assistance dog teams, as well as exchanges from a workshop with assistance dog professionals and individuals living with qualified assistance dogs, this article proposes nine criteria to address the question: what needs to be established to define an assistance dog task that considers the well-being, welfare, and working success of dog and human? The aim is for this definition to act as i) a guideline to further refine the assistance dog concept, ii) a resource for assistance dog professionals and their clients when developing a novel task, and iii) a framework for stakeholders to assess an individual’s need for an assistance dog task. In so doing, it situates assistance dog tasks as interdependent, caring acts on behalf of both dog and human that have been designed with the interests, well-being, and welfare of both at the forefront. Ultimately, this paper was written with an intention to support meaningful change within the assistance dog sector that can benefit assistance dogs, humans, the public, and further stakeholders
Introduction:The Benefits of the Cold and Domestication
No full textThe areas on our planet with extreme environments are increasing in the current time of a changing climate. The capacity for living organisms to not just survive, but flourish in an extreme environment becomes even more important in such a situation, which leads us to emphasize the contribution of the cold for the evolvement of a diversity of ecological relations on this planet. This introduction sets the theoretical scene for a “cold” view on domestication and adaptation that is the focus of this volume. We revisit the theoretical development in this field of human-animal relations in recent decades, showing how linear models of domestication from trust to domination were overcome. Several theoretical advances, some of which further developed by the chapters in this volume, show evidence of the partnership element and the reciprocity of domestication which is conceived as a process rather than a state, fluent along a gradient of familiarity between humans and animals. Such an approach to ecological relations bears further lessons for contemporary sustainability politics: the human being is not a master of the world any more, in subduing, controlling reproduction and conservation of other species. Rather, humans are entangled in life holding relative power and responsibility.</p