Language, citizenship, and Sami education in the Nordic North, 1900-1940 / Otso Kortekangas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kortekangas, Otso, 1987- author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sami (European people)--Education.

Sami (European people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 149 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In the making of the modern Nordic states in the first half of the twentieth century, elementary education was paramount in creating a notion of citizenship that was universal and equal for all citizens. Yet these elementary education policies ignored, in most cases, the language, culture, wishes, and needs of minorities such as the indigenous Sámi.Presenting the Sámi as an active, transnational population in early twentieth-century northern Europe, Otso Kortekangas examines how educational policies affected the Sámi people residing in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. In this detailed study, Kortekangas explores what the arguments were for the lack of Sámi language in schools, how Sámi teachers have promoted the use of their mother tongue within the school systems, and how the history of the Sámi compares to other indigenous and minority populations globally.Timely in its focus on educational policies in multiethnic societies, and ambitious in its scope, the book provides essential information for educators, policy-makers, and academics, as well as anyone interested in the history of education, and the relationship between large-scale government policies and indigenous peoples.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Table and Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Sámi Language in Sámi Lands?

The Sámi: Historical Background

Sweden

Finland

Norway

Language, Citizenship, and Sámi Education in the Nordic North, 1900–1940

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228006442

0228006449

9780228006435

0228006430

OCLC:

1198433208