Truth and reconciliation commissions tend to show that education was part of assimilation and must be part of reconciliation. In this seminar, we open for a discussion about what this can mean.
Truth commissions are putting pressure on the education systems in the circumpolar north and at the same time offering windows of change and opportunities to rethink how teacher training is organised and how pedagogies could be reconfigured accordingly. In this seminar, we share experiences from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Australia. From this, we invite to a conversation about what can the role of teacher education in what comes next. How can Sámi, Kven, and majority community be part of reconciliation through teacher education?
Introduction to the topic and perspectives from Norway: Torjer A. Olsen, UiT
Perspectives from Sweden: Anna-Lill Drugge and Björn Norlin, University of Umeå
Perspectives from Finland: Pigga Keskitalo, University of Lapland
Perspectives from Australia: Matthew Keynes, University of Melbourne
Conversation
When: 11.09.25 kl 10.00–12.00
Where:
Rom A204, Loppa
Location / Campus: Alta
Zielgruppe: Ansatte, Studenten
Contact: Torjer Olsen
E-mail: torjer.olsen@uit.no