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From Seminar to University: Dismantling an Old and Constructing a New Teacher Education in Finland and Sweden, 1946–1979
Get PDFIn the 1970s, Sweden and Finland abandoned the system of seminars for folk school teachers and incorporated all teacher education into the system of higher education. The visions behind the new education, as well as the original plans for its structure, were similar in both countries, but the outcomes were different. Finland managed to a greater extent to implement an academic teacher education located at universities, while the Swedish solution was deemed unsatisfactory by many actors, leading to several new reforms in the following decades. This can be explained by the different nature of the conflicts surrounding the reforms in Sweden and Finland. In Finland, the early 1970s was a period of intense left-right polarisation, followed by attempts to depoliticise teacher education. In Sweden, the vision of an academic teacher education met successful resistance from regional actors, resulting in the preservation of much of the old seminar system under the guise of small teacher education colleges
Gerd Braune, Die Arktis. Porträt einer Weltregion, Berlin: Chr. Links Verlag 2016, ISBN 9783861538677, 248 pp.
No full textMaori Health, Colonization and Post-Colonization: Aotearoa New Zealand, from 1769
Get PDFThe Māori of Aotearoa New Zealand are a case-study of the negative impacts of colonization on the health of precursor peoples, such as indigenous peoples in Australia, the Americas, and northern Eurasia. But, colonization has such effects regardless of whether colonized peoples eventually become “independent,” or are swamped demographically and politically by a settler population. Indigenous peoples still suffer “internal colonialism” after their country becomes independent (from the United Kingdom for Aotearoa), even in social democracies, simply because majorities, through benign neglect or paternalism, often fail to meet the particular needs of indigenous citizens. Incidentally, “independent” ex-colonies do not escape post-colonialism, because they are subject to interventions by powerful international and bi-lateral agencies, such as structural adjustment policies imposed by the World Bank.
This paper uses the epidemiological transition framework, but questions its application to colonized peoples, who often, contrary to the paradigm’s deterministic principle of progress, may suffer “regression” as their very survival is threatened by newly introduced diseases to which they have no immunity. Some, not Māori, even go through demographic collapses.” The eventual Māori transition did follow the conventional framework, but in its “delayed” form.
Finally the paper shifts from theoretical dimensions into praxis: health services. It identifies stages in the evolution of these as they affect indigenous people. This is a more detailed overview than the conventional view: a shift from social determinants of health change to the impacts of public health interventions, and from the domination of communicable diseases to non-communicable
Roger Andersson (ed.), Birgittas texter på fornsvenska. Birgittas Uppenbarelser, vol. I, Stockholm: Sällskapet Runica et Mediævalia 2014 (Sällskapet Runica et Mediævalia. Editiones 6), ISBN 978-91-88568-62-5, 285 pp.
No full textLennart Hagåsen, Sveriges ortnamn. Ortnamnen i Hälsingland, vol. 2:2. Hudiksvalls kommun. Hudiksvallsområdet.
No full textReview of: Lennart Hagåsen, Sveriges ortnamn. Ortnamnen i Hälsingland, vol. 2:2. Hudiksvalls kommun. Hudiksvallsområdet. Bebyggelsenamn, Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen 2014 (Skrifter utg. av Institutet för språk och folkminnen. Namnarkivet i Uppsala. Serie A. Sveriges ortnamn), ISBN 978-91-86959-18-0, 320 pp
Kåre Hoel, Bustadnavn i Østfold. 13 Hvaler. Utgitt av Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, Universitetet i Oslo ved Tom Schmidt, Oslo: Novus Forlag 2014, ISBN 978-82-7099-765-7, 319 pp. + map.
No full textHåkan Jorikson, I skuggan av Andrée och Nordenskiöld. Polarresenären och zoologen Axel Ohlin. En biografi, Stockholm: Carlssons Bokförlag 2015, ISBN 978-91-7331-791-7, 207 pp., ill.
No full textMarion Lerner, Von der ödesten und traurigsten Gegend zur Insel der Träume. Islandreisebücher im touristischen Kontext (Münchner Nordistische Studien 22), München: Herbert Utz Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-8316-4483-4, 325 pp.
No full textMobility Practices and Gender Contracts: Changes in Gender Relations in Coastal Areas of Norway's High North
Get PDFThis article addresses the relationship between gender contracts and mobility practices in fishery communities of Norway’s High North, mainly Skarsvåg, Finnmark. By combining perspectives from gender research, anthropology and geography, the aim of this article is to contribute to a greater understanding of the interrelations between structural, material, and cultural changes in the context of a small-scale coastal fishing environment. My main question is whether changes in mobility practices, related to restructuring of the fisheries by means of a quota-system, Norway’s agreement with the European Union (EEA) and other changes in the Norwegian context, have had impacts on gender contracts and in what way. Emphasis lies on the period after World War II and until today. The data collection are based on a lifelong engagement on gender questions in fishery villages, reading newspapers and using registers as well as interviews and participant observation through several research projects
Whose Gender Equality Counts?: The Case of Russian Migrant Couples in Norway
Get PDFThe article addresses the problem of “normalizing” migrants within a nation state by means of a gender system. The example of Russian immigrants in Norway shows how crossing a physical border moves people across different gender systems. In this transition migrants (re-)negotiate their gender identities and understandings of gender equality. At the same time, trying to integrate into the host society, they problematize the normalizing power of gender systems functioning in a particular society. The article is arranged in three parts starting with an overview of Russian migrants in Norway as a group. The second part describes different gender systems, which Russian immigrant couples cross. The third part shows how Soviet, Post-Soviet and Norwegian gender systems affect the experiences and expectations of Russian migrants in Norway and how gender intersects with nationality and a nation-state gender system. In conclusion, the potential for changing a nation-state gender system and integrating diversity is discussed