Sámi Educational History in a Comparative International Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Otso Kortekangas, Pigga Keskitalo, Jukka Nyyssönen, Andrej Kotljarchuk, David Sjögren, Merja Paksuniemi

   Pages 1-11

3. Sámi Schools, Female Enrolment, and the Teaching Trade: Sámi Women’s Involvement in Education in Early Modern Sweden

   • Daniel Lindmark

   Pages 13-26

4. Out of the “Pagan Darkness”: Christian Education in Finnish Lapland

   • Ritva Kylli

   Pages 27-45

5. Narratives of Sámi School History in Finland: Assimilation and Empowerment

   • Jukka Nyyssönen

   Pages 47-62

6. Indigenous People, Vulnerability and the Security Dilemma: Sámi School Education on the Kola Peninsula, 1917–1991

   • Andrej Kotljarchuk

   Pages 63-82

7. The Perspective of Former Pupils: Indigenous Children and Boarding Schools on the Kola Peninsula, 1960s to 1980s

   • Lukas Allemann

   Pages 83-104

8. The Development of Sámi Children’s Right to Learn Sámi in the Russian School Context

   • Ekaterina Zmyvalova, Hanna Outakoski

   Pages 105-123

9. Sámi Issues in Norwegian Curricula: A Historical Overview

   • Torjer A. Olsen

   Pages 125-141

10. The History of the Sámi Upper Secondary School in Guovdageaidnu: Language Policy Development

    • Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio

    Pages 143-160

11. Christian Morality and Enlightenment to the Natural Child: Third-Sector Education in a Children’s Home in Northern Finland (1907–1947)

    • Merja Paksuniemi, Pigga Keskitalo

    Pages 161-185

12. History of Early Childhood Education in the Sámi Language in Finland

    • Marikaisa Laiti

    Pages 187-206

13. A Historical Perspective of Indigenous Education Policy in Japan: The Case of Ainu Schools

    • Yoko Tanabe

    Pages 207-224

14. Indigenous in Japan? The Reluctance of the Japanese State to Acknowledge Indigenous Peoples and Their Need for Education

    • Madoka Hammine

    Pages 225-245

15. School Histories in Amazonia: Education and Schooling in Apurinã Lands

    • Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Francisco Apurinã

    Pages 247-264

16. Revitalization of Oral History in Wixárika Community-Based Schools and Museums: Working Towards Decolonisation of Art Education Among the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico

    • Lea Kantonen

    Pages 265-282

17. A Community of Ako, 1987–1995: Teaching and Learning in the ELTU and Po Ako, Auckland, Aotearoa NZ

    • Mere Kepa

    Pages 283-298

18. Education for Assimilation: A Brief History of Aboriginal Education in Western Australia

    • Elizabeth Jackson-Barrett, Libby Lee-Hammond

    Pages 299-316

19. Conclusion: Promising Prospects—Reflections on Research on Sámi Education Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    • Otso Kortekangas

    Pages 317-325

20. Back Matter

    Pages 327-331

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of Sámi education in a historical and internationally comparative perspective. Despite the cross-national character of the Sámi population, academic literature on Sámi education has so far been published within the different nation states in the Sámi area, and rarely in English. Exploring indigenous educational history around the world, this collection spans from Asia to Oceania to Sápmi and the Americas. The chapters frame Sámi school history within an international context of indigenous and minority education. In doing so, two narrative threads are established: both traditional history of education, and perspectives on the decolonisation of education. This pioneering book will appeal to students and scholars of Sámi education, as well as indigenous education around the world.

• Sami education
• Education in the Arctic
• Indigenous education
• Decolonizing education
• Residential schools
• Nomadic schools

• Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  Otso Kortekangas

• Department of History, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

  Otso Kortekangas

• Department of Education, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

  Pigga Keskitalo, Merja Paksuniemi

• The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

  Jukka Nyyssönen

• Department of History, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden

  Andrej Kotljarchuk

• Department of Education, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  David Sjögren

Otso Kortekangas teaches Sámi history at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is also Researcher at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
 
Pigga Keskitalo is  Associate Professor at Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Norway and Title of Docent at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is also a part-time University Researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland.
 
Jukka Nyyssönen is Researcher at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway.
 
Andrej Kotljarchuk is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, Sweden.
 
Merja Paksuniemi is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Lapland, Finland.
 
David Sjögren is Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies at the Department of Education, Uppsala University, Sweden.

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