On the Shoulders of a Perfect Stranger : Knowledge Gap About the Indigenous Sámi in the Finnish Teacher Education Curriculum
Motivated by the growing discussion of the decolonial significance of teacher education (TE) and the problematic mainstream knowledge gap about Indigenous peoples, this study examines Finnish TE curriculum discourses that limit or enable attaining knowledge about and from the Sámi people (henceforth...
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ftunivtampere:oai:trepo.tuni.fi:10024/150947 2024-01-07T09:46:34+01:00 On the Shoulders of a Perfect Stranger : Knowledge Gap About the Indigenous Sámi in the Finnish Teacher Education Curriculum Mattila, Ella Lindén, Jyri Annala, Johanna Tampere University Education 2023 402647 fulltext https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/150947 https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2023.2249292 en eng RACE ETHNICITY AND EDUCATION 1361-3324 ORCID: /0000-0001-6531-9627/work/141727520 ORCID: /0000-0002-4538-6766/work/141728120 ORCID: /0000-0001-8369-3137/work/141728183 https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/150947 URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202309047923 doi:10.1080/13613324.2023.2249292 cc by 4.0 openAccess 516 Educational sciences article 2023 ftunivtampere https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2023.2249292 2023-12-14T00:09:23Z Motivated by the growing discussion of the decolonial significance of teacher education (TE) and the problematic mainstream knowledge gap about Indigenous peoples, this study examines Finnish TE curriculum discourses that limit or enable attaining knowledge about and from the Sámi people (henceforth, ‘Sámi knowledge’). The topic is approached through critical discourse analysis and Susan Dion’s theory of the ‘perfect stranger’, a subjective position impeding engagement with Indigenous-related knowledges and reforms. The findings indicate that the formal curricula of the renowned Finnish TE perpetuate future teachers’ perfect stranger position by overriding critical and Indigenous perspectives with biased narratives and liberal discourses uncommitted to social change. Contextualizing the findings within the Finnish system, this study discusses how inadequate institutional support for disrupting the perfect stranger positionality leaves the reality of Sámi knowledge unsustainably dependent on future teachers and calls into question the education system’s capacity to address the knowledge gap undermining Sámi rights in Finland. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Sámi Tampere University: Trepo Race Ethnicity and Education 1 17 |
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Motivated by the growing discussion of the decolonial significance of teacher education (TE) and the problematic mainstream knowledge gap about Indigenous peoples, this study examines Finnish TE curriculum discourses that limit or enable attaining knowledge about and from the Sámi people (henceforth, ‘Sámi knowledge’). The topic is approached through critical discourse analysis and Susan Dion’s theory of the ‘perfect stranger’, a subjective position impeding engagement with Indigenous-related knowledges and reforms. The findings indicate that the formal curricula of the renowned Finnish TE perpetuate future teachers’ perfect stranger position by overriding critical and Indigenous perspectives with biased narratives and liberal discourses uncommitted to social change. Contextualizing the findings within the Finnish system, this study discusses how inadequate institutional support for disrupting the perfect stranger positionality leaves the reality of Sámi knowledge unsustainably dependent on future teachers and calls into question the education system’s capacity to address the knowledge gap undermining Sámi rights in Finland. Peer reviewed |
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On the Shoulders of a Perfect Stranger : Knowledge Gap About the Indigenous Sámi in the Finnish Teacher Education Curriculum |
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On the Shoulders of a Perfect Stranger : Knowledge Gap About the Indigenous Sámi in the Finnish Teacher Education Curriculum |
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