TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pigga Keskitalo
AU  - Kaarina Määttä
AU  - Satu Uusiautti
PY  - 2013
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653019759
TI  - Sámi Education
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-01975-9
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046248
N2  - This book is a pioneering work. It discusses special characteristics of the education of Sámi people, an indigenous people living in Northern Europe. The book provides a comprehensive study of indigenous school research and special features of Sámi education including problems and opportunities that teachers and pupils confront daily. The purpose of this book is to support the realization of indigenous peoples’ education based on their own cultural premises. New, reformative pedagogical models and culturally sensitive teaching arrangements that could enhance Sámi education are the focus of the book. It is aimed at everyone who is interested in indigenous peoples’ educational conditions and is based on the authors’ research cooperation in the field of Sámi education.
KW  - language education, indigenous studies, language revitalization, School ethnography
LA  - English
ER  -