Panelists

Kajsa Kemi Gjerpe

Presentation title: From indigenous education to indigenising mainstream education

Kajsa Kemi Gjerpe is a phd candidate at the Centre for Sami Studies, UiT the Arctic University of Norway.  She is doing her phd on Sami education in Norway, looking specifically at Sami content in curricula and textbooks.

Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä

Presentation title: Language nest pedagogy in Sámi early childhood education

Rauni is also an M.A. from the University of Lapland, class 2007. Last fifteen years she has been working as a class teacher and a sámi language teacher in Sompio primary school, in Sodankylä. Currently she is working as a principal in Sompio school. Sodankylä is her hometown, where she lives with her family. She is a mother of two children.

As a sámi herself she is interested in her society educational developing. Especially learning materials in the sámi language classes and in the sámi education for generally. Rauni is a member of steering group in a primary school sámi as a foreign language studies learning material called GEA 1- Gollemeahcci.

Pigga Keskitalo (Chair)

Doctor Pigga Keskitalo is a University Researcher at University of Lapland. She is a Title of Docent at University of Helsinki.

Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio

Presentation title: Sámi language, linguistic landscape and Sámi education

Ph.D. Senior Officer Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio, Sámi Archives (National Archives of Finland). Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio is a Senior Officer in the Sámi Archives in Finland. She has worked as an Associate Professor in Sámi University of Applied Sciences (Norway) in the Faculty of Sámi Teachers’ Education and Indigenous Journalism 2017 – 2019. She graduated from the University of Helsinki 1996 with Master degree in Finno-Ugric linguistics and received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Education in the University of Lapland 2014. Her Ph.D  research title was The Sámi Scool’s Linguistic Landscape: An ethnographical study on the Sámi language in an upper secondary education institute. Her current research interests are Linguistic landscape, Sámi secondary education, Sámi educational history, Language policy and language attitudes in Sámi education.

Hanna Guttorm

Presentation title: Be(com)ing Indigenous (Education)

PhD Hanna Guttorm is widely interested in life and its’ possibilities on our planet. She is especially inspired on Indigenous ontologies as well as post theories, with which she investigates, how we could do and write research in order to make a change towards a more ecological, social and cultural sustainability and solidarity. She has a position as an associate professor in Sámi teacher education at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences and works currently as a postdoctoral researcher in Indigenous studies and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) at the University of Helsinki.