114 research outputs found
Review of Indigenous Education and Sami Pedagogy:Key Tendencies and Notions
No full textThis chapter portrays Sami education as deeply rooted in culturally specific childrearing practices and traditional knowledge passed down from through generations, enduring across diverse institutional settings within Sami educational contexts despite historical challenges, including colonialism. Aligned with global advancements in Indigenous education, Sami education reflects ongoing efforts in cultural revitalisation and asserting cultural sovereignty. It underscores the broader objective shared by Indigenous worldwide: nurturing youth in their distinct cultures, deeply connected to the cosmology, land, and water of each Indigenous community. The chapter highlights Sami education as evolving from colonial state policies to address contemporary and future educational needs while acknowledging the ongoing risk of Sami language loss. It situates Sami educational development within the global discourse on Indigenous education, noting recent institutional enhancements driven by legal support and increased resources, which have catalysed significant changes at educational and societal levels. Challenges remain, including the enduring impact of colonialism and assimilation, underscoring the ongoing imperative to safeguard the well-being of Indigenous children, families, and communities.This chapter portrays Sami education as deeply rooted in culturally specific childrearing practices and traditional knowledge passed down from through generations, enduring across diverse institutional settings within Sami educational contexts despite historical challenges, including colonialism. Aligned with global advancements in Indigenous education, Sami education reflects ongoing efforts in cultural revitalisation and asserting cultural sovereignty. It underscores the broader objective shared by Indigenous worldwide: nurturing youth in their distinct cultures, deeply connected to the cosmology, land, and water of each Indigenous community. The chapter highlights Sami education as evolving from colonial state policies to address contemporary and future educational needs while acknowledging the ongoing risk of Sami language loss. It situates Sami educational development within the global discourse on Indigenous education, noting recent institutional enhancements driven by legal support and increased resources, which have catalysed significant changes at educational and societal levels. Challenges remain, including the enduring impact of colonialism and assimilation, underscoring the ongoing imperative to safeguard the well-being of Indigenous children, families, and communities
Introduction:Embracing Diversity in Sami Education Theory, Practice and Research
No full textSami education has travelled on a long journey since the 1600s, resulting in diversity and different logics or knowledge regimes in education.1 This edited volume Girjjohallat girjáivuođa – Embracing Diversity: Sami Education Theory, Practice and Research, emphasises the profound need to navigate Sami education contexts while celebrating and enjoying diversity. Tasks of this nature are crucial and require attention and discussion, as Sami society and educational institutions find themselves in evolving situations shaped by long-standing processes of change and ongoing educational needs among minoritised Indigenous peoples (Keskitalo & Olsen, 2021). The vast scope of this volume is to provide an all-Sami perspective of Sami education, by scholars from institutions providing teacher education in various countries with a Sami population. These include authors on Sami education from Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Russian Federation. In addition, a Māori perspective is presented. In Aotearoa, New Zealand, scholars and teachers have developed a Kura Kaupapa Māori, a ‘by Māori, for Māori’ approach to schooling (Smith, 1999).</p
Girjjohallat girjáivuođa - Embracing Diversity
No full textUnveil the dynamic world of Sami education across Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia in this book. This vital volume presents cutting-edge research from top scholars, enriching teacher education with innovative, interdisciplinary insights. Discover unique contributions through a blend of Sami and Māori perspectives, and navigate the profound impacts of history on modern educational challenges and Indigenous self-determination. Contributors are: Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Kristina Belancic, Karianne Berg, Anna-Lill Drugge, Heidi Harju-Luukkainen, Máret J. Heatta, Hanna Helander, Huia Tomlins Jahnke, Ylva Jannok Nutti, Pigga Keskitalo, Asbjørn Kolberg, David Kroik, Marikaisa Laiti, Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio, Torjer Olsen, Hanna Outakoski, Annika Pasanen, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti, Hilde Sollid, Tuija Turunen and Ekaterina Zmyvalova
Girjjohallat girjáivuođa - Embracing Diversity
No full textUnveil the dynamic world of Sami education across Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia in this book. This vital volume presents cutting-edge research from top scholars, enriching teacher education with innovative, interdisciplinary insights. Discover unique contributions through a blend of Sami and Māori perspectives, and navigate the profound impacts of history on modern educational challenges and Indigenous self-determination. Contributors are: Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Kristina Belancic, Karianne Berg, Anna-Lill Drugge, Heidi Harju-Luukkainen, Máret J. Heatta, Hanna Helander, Huia Tomlins Jahnke, Ylva Jannok Nutti, Pigga Keskitalo, Asbjørn Kolberg, David Kroik, Marikaisa Laiti, Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio, Torjer Olsen, Hanna Outakoski, Annika Pasanen, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti, Hilde Sollid, Tuija Turunen and Ekaterina Zmyvalova
Ethics in Sami Educational Research
No full textIn this chapter, we discuss the ethical considerations in Sami educational research. The Sami live in four countries with diverse educational systems and research-related conditions and rules, so there are different kinds of guidelines as well as national rules and processes to be taken into account. In addition, there are implications of Indigenous rights which need to be considered in each particular research project concerning also research ethics. In this chapter, we look at the differences and commonalities that national practices and demands create for research that involves Sami topics in humanities and, more specifically, in educational research. This research has implications for the Indigenous research context. To build a just and sustain research process is a commonly shared challenge among Indigenous peoples globally. Additionally, historical consequences, power relations and challenges faced by Indigenous peoples all affect how research and research studies are viewed in Indigenous societies. We bring forth what currently needs to be done to conduct ethically safe and responsible educational research, if involving minors and Indigenous people. We also explore how to gain trust, and how to conduct research that benefits Indigenous society.In this chapter, we discuss the ethical considerations in Sami educational research. The Sami live in four countries with diverse educational systems and research-related conditions and rules, so there are different kinds of guidelines as well as national rules and processes to be taken into account. In addition, there are implications of Indigenous rights which need to be considered in each particular research project concerning also research ethics. In this chapter, we look at the differences and commonalities that national practices and demands create for research that involves Sami topics in humanities and, more specifically, in educational research. This research has implications for the Indigenous research context. To build a just and sustain research process is a commonly shared challenge among Indigenous peoples globally. Additionally, historical consequences, power relations and challenges faced by Indigenous peoples all affect how research and research studies are viewed in Indigenous societies. We bring forth what currently needs to be done to conduct ethically safe and responsible educational research, if involving minors and Indigenous people. We also explore how to gain trust, and how to conduct research that benefits Indigenous society
Girjjohallat girjáivuođa - embracing diversity : Sami education theory, practice and research
No full textUnveil the dynamic world of Sami education across Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia in this book. This vital volume presents cutting-edge research from top scholars, enriching teacher education with innovative, interdisciplinary insights. Discover unique contributions through a blend of Sami and Māori perspectives, and navigate the profound impacts of history on modern educational challenges and Indigenous self-determination.Contributors are: Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Kristina Belancic, Karianne Berg, Anna-Lill Drugge, Heidi Harju-Luukkainen, Máret J. Heatta, Hanna Helander, Huia Tomlins Jahnke, Ylva Jannok Nutti, Pigga Keskitalo, Asbjørn Kolberg, David Kroik, Marikaisa Laiti, Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio, Torjer Olsen, Hanna Outakoski, Annika Pasanen, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti, Hilde Sollid, Tuija Turunen and Ekaterina Zmyvalova.</p
Contemporary Indigenous research within Sámi and global Indigenous studies contexts
No full textThis chapter addresses the genealogy of Indigenous studies, and how it is conceptualized and practised in the Sámi context. It discusses the inclusion of Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous ways of doing research in academia, as well as the role of Indigenous research methodologies in this effort. We link our chapter to larger academic Indigenous discussions on the concepts of ‘knowledge’, ‘decolonization’, ‘research’ and ‘indigenization’. At the theoretical and practical levels these processes and initiatives have enabled researchers to shed light on Indigenous views on the past, the present, and the future, first of all in Indigenous societies, but also in academia. This chapter also addresses the challenges of moving between local and global levels. Indigenous research contexts are diverse and dynamic, and the key to creating dialogues, bridges, and collaboration, lies in this very diversity, complexity, and multivocality of Indigenous societies
From Nature to iNature. Articulating a Sami Christian Identity Online
No full textThe article discusses the activities of both indigenous people and religion online, and introduces the pair of concepts indigeneity-online/online-indigeneity as a means of analysing this activity. This concept is new, and leans heavily on the pair of concepts religion-online/online-religion that is used in religious studies. The second part of the article consists of an analysis of the website www.osko.no, a site for the Christian education of Sami children and youth. I treat this as an expression of, or a medium for, the contemporary formation of Sami identity, and argue that it can be seen as an indigenous website. The Church of Norway, as an institution with a strong history of colonization and Norwegianization, has developed into an institution that seeks to integrate, implement and strengthen the Sami voices and traditions to such extent thatSami Christians use it as platform for the communication of a Sami kind of Christianity. www.osko.no is an example of a certain articulation of Sami identity. What seems to be the preferred or idealized Saminess is related to nature and a particular past, and is distant to modernity, urban culture and Norwegian culture
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