Dreaming Futures, Remembering Histories: Sámi Teachers’ Visions for Land-Based Curriculum Renewal

• In Event: Indigenous Perspectives on Knowledge that Colonialism Tries to Forget and Indigenous Peoples Seek to Remember

Abstract

Nordic schooling has long functioned as a colonial tool of assimilation, disrupting Sámi relations to language, practices, and land. These legacies still structure today’s curriculum, producing tensions and struggles over what counts as knowledge. The project Eatnama mánát (Children of the Land) collaborates with Sámi teachers to reclaim language, knowledge, and land-based practices as curriculum foundations. In this paper, we explore teachers’ actions and visions, highlighting curriculum as a contested site of colonial struggle and as a space for remembering histories, dreaming futures, reconciliation, and the reimagining of Indigenous education.

Authors

• Ylva Yannock Nutti, Sami University of Applied Sciences

• Berit-Ellen Juuso, Sami University of Applied Sciences