{"id":2216,"date":"2014-08-14T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T10:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2014-08-14T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T10:41:02","slug":"sda-1-2-2009_balto-ja-ostmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/sda-1-2-2009_balto-ja-ostmo\/","title":{"rendered":"SD\u00c1 1-2-2009: Asta Mitkij\u00e1 Balto ja Liv \u00d8stmo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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M\u00e1\u014bggakultuvrrala\u0161vuo\u0111a oahpu s\u00e1m\u00e1idahttin S\u00e1mi allaskuvllas<\/h2>\n

Asta Mitkij\u00e1 Balto (S\u00e1mi allaskuvla)
\nLiv \u00d8stmo (S\u00e1mi allaskuvla)<\/h3>\n

Vie\u010d\u010da artihkkala d\u00e1s<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n

Indigenising the study of Multicultural Understanding at the S\u00e1mi University College
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In this article, we examine our experiences of carrying out \u2013 and teaching for about ten years \u2013 a course called Multicultural Understanding (in Sami m\u00e1\u014bggakultuvrrala\u0161 \u00e1ddejupmi, MK\u00c1) in the S\u00e1mi University College. We focus on the way of working in the course in which the emphasis is on the position and the telling of stories. We also analyze how this method has contributed to the students learning process. Furthermore, we assess how this way of working influences the conditions of learning and look at how we can change and improve the education.<\/p>\n

The article shows that the enhancing of cultural sensitivity and an analytic way of thinking are central elements of the course on multicultural understanding. It also shows that this approach makes the experiences and feelings of the students themselves visible, because \u2013 compared with ordinary courses \u2013 the course gives them \u2018more room\u2019. This way of working entails that the students can express their experiences through stories. The stories have provided content for the course and connected it with relevant and topical discussions in society. Often, they have also served as a beginning for the papers that students have written in connection with more comprehensive project work. Narration plays, of course, a central role in Sami heritage and this article also examines whether, through the approach of the course and the provision of a learning opportunity, we have created a Sami learning environment, or \u201ca shared room\u201d, which contributes to human selfimprovement, analytical cultural understanding and good reflective skills in the students.<\/p>\n

While reflecting on this education, we realized that the course needs to have an even stronger indigenous perspective, which deals with power relations and the effect of colonisation but also focuses on recovery. The education could be reformed to include the learning process of decolonisation, for which indigenous researchers have developed methodologies. It may contain elements that could be used in our course on multicultural understanding, to promote the empowerment of the Sami and other indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M\u00e1\u014bggakultuvrrala\u0161vuo\u0111a oahpu s\u00e1m\u00e1idahttin S\u00e1mi allaskuvllas Asta Mitkij\u00e1 Balto (S\u00e1mi allaskuvla) Liv \u00d8stmo (S\u00e1mi allaskuvla) Vie\u010d\u010da artihkkala d\u00e1s (pdf). Indigenising the study of Multicultural Understanding at the S\u00e1mi University College In this article, we examine our experiences of carrying out \u2013 … Les videre →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[149,102,148,150],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artihkkalat","tag-manggakultuvrralasvuohta","tag-oahpahus","tag-pedagogihkka","tag-samaidahttin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/aigecala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}