Social Aspects of Learning: Sámi People in the Circumpolar North

This article addresses how, in the Arctic regions, indigenous traditional educational approaches focus on the cultural background of the people and their social learning customs in today’s context. The development of Arctic pedagogical approaches is discussed in light of experiences collected in Fin...

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Published in:International Journal of Multicultural Education
Main Authors: Laiti, Outi Kaarina, Frangou, Satu-Maarit
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Eonsei University 2019
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Online Access:http://www.ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/1728
https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v21i1.1728
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Summary:This article addresses how, in the Arctic regions, indigenous traditional educational approaches focus on the cultural background of the people and their social learning customs in today’s context. The development of Arctic pedagogical approaches is discussed in light of experiences collected in Finnish Lapland in 2017 with the Sámi people. Particularly, the significance of social interactions in indigenous pedagogies is explored. We ask how social interactions benefit technologically enhanced learning in the Sámi cultural context. The findings suggest that social interactions have the potential for improving learning even when learning with and through information and communication technologies (ICTs).