Month: syyskuu 2021

DUTKANSEARVI invites researchers and other experts to write articles in a special issue on Indigenous peoples’ cultural heritage, which will be published in Dutkansearvvi Dieđalaš Áigečála in the beginning of next year. From the perspective of Indigenous peoples, cultural heritage is a holistic concept, which is founded on the material, cultural, and spiritual values and includes the collective, over generationally accumulated knowledge and practices, which are expressed, shared, and (re)lived in language, livelihoods, literature and arts, ceremonies, cosmos, and nature, as well as human and non-human blessings among other things. Cultural heritage is related to the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and their near relations to the land, territories, and natural resources. The articles can deal e. g. with intellectual property and cultural heritage, repatriation and revitalization of the cultural heritage, possible abuse or misinterpretation of cultural heritage, sacred places, clothing and cultural heritage, cultural heritage in connection to traditional livelihoods and the representations of them, cultural heritage in connection to language and representations.
Please send your abstract (100-150 words, preferably in some Sámi language) latest 15.10.2021 and we’ll answer you in couple of days. Manuscript submission by 17.12.2021, after that it will be sent to peer review. This time we prefer articles in Sámi languages as so many earlier issues have been published in English. Issue will be edited by Hanna Guttorm and Irja Seurujärvi-Kari. Please send your abstract and articles to hanna.guttorm@helsinki.fi and irja.seurujarvi@gmail.com.

Ongoing writing invitation for a thematic issue focusing on didactics and teaching in Sápmi from different perspectives. Particular emphasis is placed on language and culture teaching, models, case studies, ongoing projects in schools, teaching materials and other issues related to didactics. In this context, didactics refers to a broader concept of teaching that addresses the questions WHAT, WHY and HOW. The thematic issue will include articles on both language teaching and cultural education as well as the teaching of other related content. The texts may focus on the Sámi language and its teaching, teaching in the Sámi language or teaching that deals with Sámi related content in, for example, majority schools, kindergartens, higher education institutions or, for example, vocational schools. The research association invites scientific articles for peer-review, as well as freelance blog posts that are more free-form and do not need to be peer-reviewed. The articles in the thematic issue will be published as they are completed. Possible topics are:

• models and practices of language teaching
• models and practices of cultural education
• case study in schools (e.g. language immersion and distance learning)
• teachers’ experiences
• students’ experiences
• good and worse ways of working
• new models
• indigenous didactics in Sámi schools / Sámi didactics in majority schools
• or other current topics in the field of didactics

Hanna Outakoski is responsible for the special issue. Abstracts (100-150 words) should be sent to hanna.outakoski@umu.se as soon as possible. Please write “Dutkansearvi” as the subject line of the email. We also ask you to write your contact information at the top of the abstract: author (s), institution / department / university / department, and your own email address.

You will be notified of abstract approval within a few weeks. The abstract can be written in any Sámi language, Finnish, English, Swedish or Norwegian. It would be ideal if the final version of your article would be written in Sámi, but if necessary, we also accept texts in other languages. Publications written in Sámi language about didactics are still very few, and so we encourage the articles to be written in Sámi. The authors should take care of the correcting the spelling before the article goes for peer review or the blog is published. The editor-in-chief of the journal checks the spelling of scientific articles before peer review to ensure that it corresponds to the language level of the scientific publication. For more information on formal style issues, visit the research association’s website. Completed articles and blogs should be sent to the address above.