Arctic Five Teacher Education

Eva Alerby's research interests are relations, identity and diversity in education, as well as philosophical and existential dimensions of education, such as place and space, time and temporality, silence and tacit knowledge. Her recent publications include Silence within and beyond pedagogocal settings (2020) and The school building and the human: An intertwined relationship (2020).

E-mail: eva.alerby(at)ltu.se

Anne-Mette Bjøru lives and works in the town where she grew up. She teaches at the master’s programme in Special Education. Her research interests are high school dropout, relational skills, inclusion and adapted education, as well as policy and curriculum studies.

E-mail: anne.m.bjoru(at)uit.no

Theres Brännmark is a PhD student in Swedish and Education, at the Department of Arts, Communication and Education at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. Her research focuses on language diversity, policy and curriculum studies in a Nordic perspective, and students lived experiences of languages in formal and informal settings especially among students in the county of Norrbotten which historically is trilingual with both Finnish/Torne Valley Finnish and North Sámi as national minority languages and Swedish as the official language.

E-mail: theres.brannmark(at)ltu.se

Åsa Gardelli's main research interests are children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities. Important aspects are diversity, inclusion, participation, democracy, communication, quality of life, and health. The participant perspective and giving voice to people in vulnerable situations is central in her research.

E-mail: asa.gardelli(at)ltu.se

PhD Pigga Keskitalo works as a researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland. At the moment, she is working on an Academy of Finland funded project that aims to develop Sámi language distance education. In addition, she is involved in several development projects, including Arctic Pedagogy 2 (funded by the European Social Fund), and eLappi development of teacher competence in digital pedagogy (also funded by the European Social Fund). Keskitalo’s research interests focus broadly on the field of Sámi education and its research. For example, she has been involved in developing Indigenous research methods and has been also involved in researching children from different perspectives. Keskitalo’s PhD dissertation investigated how the Sámi curriculum in Norway is conducted at the Sámi schools.

E-mail: pigga.keskitalo(at)ulapland.fi

Research profile

Dr. Kyrö-Ämmälä works in teacher education, and she is also a Vice Dean responsible for teaching. Her research interest is in research-based teacher education, in inclusive education, and in enhancing students’ cognitive skills. She has worked in international and national projects related to those themes. She is a member of Finnish Teacher Education Forum.

Gregor’s research interests centre on child participation with an inclusion focus. He is currently working on a number of international and national research projects and has published mainly on themes related to international classification, participation, school systems, and inclusion and diversity.

E-mail: gregor.maxwell(at)uit.no

My research interests include educational history, history education and new media, conceptual and spatial history and Sámi studies. I am currently involved in several publications concerning the history of education and violence, as well as the role of history and educational history in contemporary reconciliation processes. I am also one of the editors of Nordic Journal of Educational History (NJEDH).

E-mail: bjorn.norlin(at)umu.se

Erika Sarivaara’s main research interests are language revitalization, indigenous identity, indigenous education, Sámi education and outdoor learning.

E-mail: erika.sarivaara(at)ulapland.fi

Marjatta Takala is the professor of special education at the University of Oulu in Finland and docent of special education at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests are broad: She has studied hearing-impairment and dyslexia. Currently her studies focus on the work content and frames of special teachers, on teachers’ agency, on inclusion as well as on comparative special education and on comparative curriculum studies.

E-mail: marjatta.takala(at)oulu.fi