TY - JOUR
T1 - Useful citizens, useful citizenship
T2 - Cultural contexts of sámi education in early twentieth-century Norway, Sweden, and Finland
AU - Kortekangas, Otso
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/3/4
Y1 - 2017/3/4
N2 - This article investigates Sámi elementary education in early twentieth-century Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The main focus lies on cultural contexts that frame and limit language use. The key analytical concepts are useful citizen and useful citizenship. Through these concepts the article probes the ways in which governmental educational authorities and Sámi teachers talked about education and citizenship. Studying these concepts and the cultural contexts behind them sheds light on the formation phase of Nordic citizenship. Fullscale citizenship was not offered to all individuals inside the nation state. Where it was, it had certain conditions that excluded cultural elements of minority populations. Sámi teachers defined citizenship mainly within the Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish nation states. However, some tendencies towards a more cross-national notion of Sámi identity can be discerned.
AB - This article investigates Sámi elementary education in early twentieth-century Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The main focus lies on cultural contexts that frame and limit language use. The key analytical concepts are useful citizen and useful citizenship. Through these concepts the article probes the ways in which governmental educational authorities and Sámi teachers talked about education and citizenship. Studying these concepts and the cultural contexts behind them sheds light on the formation phase of Nordic citizenship. Fullscale citizenship was not offered to all individuals inside the nation state. Where it was, it had certain conditions that excluded cultural elements of minority populations. Sámi teachers defined citizenship mainly within the Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish nation states. However, some tendencies towards a more cross-national notion of Sámi identity can be discerned.
KW - Citizenship
KW - Cultural contexts
KW - Educational history
KW - Indigenous history
KW - Sámi history
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85010666374&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00309230.2016.1276200
DO - 10.1080/00309230.2016.1276200
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85010666374
SN - 0030-9230
VL - 53
SP - 80
EP - 92
JO - Paedagogica Historica
JF - Paedagogica Historica
IS - 1-2
ER -