Controlling the “Wilderness” Through a Rationalised Reindeer Husbandry : The Establishment of the Sámi Nomad School in Sweden, 1906–1917
This article discusses the Swedish nomad school system (nomadskola, 1913–1962), targeting the children of the reindeer herding Sámi, in an environmental history perspective. Earlier research has highlighted demographics (especially social Darwinism), national economy, and reform pedagogy as the ideo...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-205608 2023-10-09T21:49:05+02:00 Controlling the “Wilderness” Through a Rationalised Reindeer Husbandry : The Establishment of the Sámi Nomad School in Sweden, 1906–1917 Kortekangas, Otso 2023 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-205608 https://doi.org/10.36368/njedh.v10i1.274 eng eng Åbo Akademi University, Finland Umeå : Umeå University Library Nordic Journal of Educational History, 2001-7766, 2023, 10:1, s. 27-39 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-205608 doi:10.36368/njedh.v10i1.274 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Sámi history nomad school environmental history Pedagogy Pedagogik History Historia Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2023 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.36368/njedh.v10i1.274 2023-09-22T13:57:05Z This article discusses the Swedish nomad school system (nomadskola, 1913–1962), targeting the children of the reindeer herding Sámi, in an environmental history perspective. Earlier research has highlighted demographics (especially social Darwinism), national economy, and reform pedagogy as the ideological foundation of the nomad school system. This article shows that the fixing of a frontier between society and wilderness was at the confluence of all of these ideas. Reindeer as a vehicle for domesticating Arctic “wilderness,” furthering economic goals in peripheries, and modernising indigenous livelihoods has been noted in the North American and Russian/Soviet contexts, as well as in Scandinavia for the second half of the 20th century. This connection has not been explicitly made in the research concerning the early years of the nomad school system. The article concludes that the Swedish government did not have the expertise to control and economically exploit the “wilderness” of the high Scandes, but the reindeer-herding Sámi did. Swedish educational authorities launched the nomad school system in order to harness this expertise and make the reindeer herding livelihood more suitable to the needs of the Swedish economy. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic reindeer husbandry Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Arctic Nordic Journal of Educational History 10 1 27 39 |
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This article discusses the Swedish nomad school system (nomadskola, 1913–1962), targeting the children of the reindeer herding Sámi, in an environmental history perspective. Earlier research has highlighted demographics (especially social Darwinism), national economy, and reform pedagogy as the ideological foundation of the nomad school system. This article shows that the fixing of a frontier between society and wilderness was at the confluence of all of these ideas. Reindeer as a vehicle for domesticating Arctic “wilderness,” furthering economic goals in peripheries, and modernising indigenous livelihoods has been noted in the North American and Russian/Soviet contexts, as well as in Scandinavia for the second half of the 20th century. This connection has not been explicitly made in the research concerning the early years of the nomad school system. The article concludes that the Swedish government did not have the expertise to control and economically exploit the “wilderness” of the high Scandes, but the reindeer-herding Sámi did. Swedish educational authorities launched the nomad school system in order to harness this expertise and make the reindeer herding livelihood more suitable to the needs of the Swedish economy. |
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Controlling the “Wilderness” Through a Rationalised Reindeer Husbandry : The Establishment of the Sámi Nomad School in Sweden, 1906–1917 |
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Controlling the “Wilderness” Through a Rationalised Reindeer Husbandry : The Establishment of the Sámi Nomad School in Sweden, 1906–1917 |
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Controlling the “Wilderness” Through a Rationalised Reindeer Husbandry : The Establishment of the Sámi Nomad School in Sweden, 1906–1917 |
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Controlling the “Wilderness” Through a Rationalised Reindeer Husbandry : The Establishment of the Sámi Nomad School in Sweden, 1906–1917 |
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Controlling the “Wilderness” Through a Rationalised Reindeer Husbandry : The Establishment of the Sámi Nomad School in Sweden, 1906–1917 |
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