Arctic Five Teacher Education

The Arctic universities University of Lapland, University of Oulu, Luleå University of Technology, Umeå University, and UiT The Arctic University of Norway (the Arctic Five) contribute to better understanding of the contextual and cultural issues of the Nordic educational features via engagement with local communities, indigenous and minority populations, and through institutional and research collaborations. The co-operation in the field of teacher education is part of the UArctic Thematic Network Arctic Teacher Education in Social Justice and Equality activities, and strategic Arctic Five co-operation with Nordic Arctic cities and universities. Read more about Arctic Five strategic university collaboration here.

The network objectives are:

• building a concept for collaboration in teacher education, as part of the global Arctic context
• mapping the expertise of each partner institution
• sharing the expertise and best practices
• transferring the knowledge between partner collaboration and curriculua

Long-term goal is to establish a virtual resource centre and curriculum development towards common Nordic Master programme.

The project Arctic Five - Arctic Teacher Education for Social Justice and Equality aims to develop a joint online master study course (10 ECTS) in the field of teacher education. Also, during the process of developing project the research activities are occurring concerning teaching methods, contents, and students’ learning processes. Experts from each Arctic Five university will participate in the project. The project starts a brand new collaboration under the Arctic Five network, and it is a significant starting point for the concrete, collaborative actions of the parties. It will strengthen the Nordic cooperation espeacially in Arctic education through networking and joint teaching.

The project period is from August, 2019 to June, 2020. The project is coordinated by the University of Lapland, Finland and funded by the Nordplus Higher Education Programme. The project is continuing the work started in first project period (2018-19).

The goals of the project:

1. to establish a joint online master study course “Arctic Inclusive Pedagogy Master Study Course” (10 ECTS) in the field of teacher education
2. to strengthen the Nordic cooperation in Arctic education through networking and joint teaching
3. to share expertise within each institutions, and to develop teaching online teaching methods
4. to create possibility for student teachers to achieve optimal learning results, opportunities, networking and achieve broad Nordic approach in field of educational research

Project meetings and worshops:

The project is diveded to five work packages (WP) for developing the joint online course. The WPs includes three workshops to be organized in Oulu, Finland, Umeå, Sweden and Tromso, Norway, and a webinar before each workshop. Project schedule:

• Two online meetings August-September (planning the upcoming webinars)
• First Workshop, Oulu October 29-20, 2019
• Second Workshop, Umeå February 2020
• Third Workshop, Tromso May 2020
  

Project coordination:

Outi Kyrö-Ämmälä, University Lecturer (Coordinator 8/2019-6/2020)
Faculty of Education, University of Lapland
outi.kyro-ammala@ulapland.fi

Erika Sarivaara, University Lecturer 
Faculty of Education, University of Lapland
erika.sarivaara@ulapland.fi

Jaana Severidt, Director
Internationalisation Services, University of Lapland
jaana.severidt@ulapland.fi